Risk factors and digital interventions for anxiety disorders in college students:Stakeholder perspectives

The worldwide prevalence of anxiety disorders among college students is high,which negatively affects countries,schools,families,and individual students to varying degrees.This paper reviews the relevant literature regarding risk factors and digital interventions for anxiety disorders among college students from the perspectives of different stakeholders.Risk factors at the national and societal levels include class differences and the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic.College-level risk factors include the indoor environment design of the college environment,peer relationships,student satisfaction with college culture,and school functional levels.Family-level risk factors include parenting style,family relationship,and parental level of education.Individual-level risk factors include biological factors,lifestyle,and personality.Among the intervention options for college students'anxiety disorders,in addition to traditional cognitive behavioral therapy,mindfulness-based interventions,psychological counseling,and group counseling,digital mental health interventions are increasingly popular due to their low cost,positive effect,and convenient diagnostics and treatment.To better apply digital intervention to the prevention and treatment of college students'anxiety,this paper suggests that the different stakeholders form a synergy among themselves.The nation and society should provide necessary policy guarantees,financial support,and moral and ethical supervision for the prevention and treatment of college students'anxiety disorders.Colleges should actively participate in the screening and intervention of college students'anxiety disorders.Families should increase their awareness of college students'anxiety disorders and take the initiative to study and understand various digital intervention methods.College students with anxiety disorders should actively seek psychological assistance and actively accept and participate in digital intervention projects and services.We believe that in the future,the application of methods such as big data and artificial intelligence to improve digital interventions and provide individualized treatment plans will become the primary means of preventing and treating anxiety disorders among college students.

Digital interventions empowering mental health reconstruction among students after the COVID-19 pandemic

With the gradual end of the coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)pandemic,the reconstruction of students’mental health is urgently necessary.Digital interventions offer advantages such as high accessibility,anonymity,and accurate identification,which can promote the reconstruction of students’mental health through the provision of psychological support platforms,psychological assessment tools,and online mental health activities.However,we recognize that digital interventions must undergo many adjustments,and corresponding ethical norms require further clarification.It is crucial for different stakeholders to collaborate and work toward maximizing the effectiveness of digital interventions for the reconstruction of mental health after the COVID-19 pandemic.

Delivering substance use prevention interventions for adolescents in educational settings:A scoping review

Currently,a proportion of adolescents use alcohol,tobacco,and illicit drugs,which inevitably harms their health and academic progress.Adolescence is a peak period for substance use initiation and a critical time for preventing substance use problems.Various entities,such as families,schools,and communities,have implemented a variety of interventions to alleviate adolescent substance use problems,and schools play a unique role.To explore the types,characteristics,and effectiveness of substance use interventions in educational settings for adolescents,we conducted a scoping review and identified 32 studies after screening.We divided the 32 studies according to intervention type,including curriculum interventions focusing on cognitive-behavioral skill enhancement,exercise interventions,peer interventions and family-school cooperation,and electronic interventions.Except for the mixed results on electronic interventions,the results showed that the other interventions were beneficial to different extents in alleviating adolescent substance use problems.In addition,we analyzed and summarized the advantages and challenges of intervening in adolescent substance use in educational settings.Schools can use equipment and human resources to provide adolescents with various types of intervention measures,but they also face challenges such as stigmatization,ineffective coordination among multiple resources,and poor implementation effects.In the future,school-based intervention measures can fully utilize big data and artificial intelligence technology and collaborate with families and communities to intervene appropriately while paying attention to the comorbidity risks of substance use disorders and psychological health issues.

Effectiveness of digital psychotherapeutic intervention among perinatal women:A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

BACKGROUND The perinatal period is a challenging time of substantial emotional,physiological,social,and relational changes.Depression,anxiety,and stress symptoms are common,and co-exist in the perinatal period.Digital technology continues to grow at an unprecedented pace with wide application,including psychotherapeutic intervention.A growing number of meta-analyses supported the application of digital psychotherapeutic intervention across different populations,but relatively few meta-and meta-regression analyses have concentrated on perinatal women.AIM To evaluate the effectiveness of digital psychotherapeutic intervention on improving psychological outcomes among perinatal women and identify its essential features.METHODS Randomized controlled trials(RCTs)were obtained from eight databases,including Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature,Cochrane Library,Embase,Scopus,PsycINFO,PubMed,Web of Science,and ProQuest Dissertation and Theses from inception up until November 24,2020.Comprehensive Meta-analysis 3.0 software was used to conduct meta-and metaregression analyses.The Cochrane risk-of-bias tool and the Grading of the Recommendation,Assessment,Development,and Evaluation system were adopted to assess the individual and overall qualities of the evidence,respectively.RESULTS A total of 25 RCTs that included 3239 women were identified.Meta-analyses revealed that intervention significantly improved depression(Hedges’s g=0.49),anxiety(g=0.25),and stress(g=0.47)symptoms compared to the control.Subgroup analyses demonstrated that a website platform with≥eight therapistguided sessions using the theoretical principle of cognitive behavioral therapy was more effective than other treatments in improving depression symptoms in postnatal women.Meta-regression analyses observed that the age of perinatal women and the type of psychotherapy also had statistically significant effects on depression symptoms.Egger’s regression asymmetry tests suggested that no publication biases occurred,but the overall quality of the evidence was very low.CONCLUSION This review suggests that digital psychotherapeutic intervention may be a potential solution to reduce psychological problems in perinatal women.Further high-quality RCTs with large sample sizes are needed.