MFP/ANA e-Newsletter: June 27, 2025

MENTAL HEALTH, SUBSTANCE USE, AND NURSING ARTICLES

The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people (opens new window)

Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially for young people. Many worry about what the future holds, and a daily grind of climate anxiety and distress can lead to sleeplessness, an inability to focus and worse. Some young people wonder whether it’s moral to bring children into the world. Many people grieve for the natural world. Read more (opens new window)

Real risk to youth mental health is ‘addictive use,’ not screen time alone, study finds (opens new window)

Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves. As Americans scramble to respond to rising rates of suicidal behavior among youth, many policymakers have locked in on an alarming metric: the number of hours a day that American children spend glued to a glowing screen. Read more (opens new window)

Compass Pathways Successfully Achieves Primary Endpoint in First Phase 3 Trial Evaluating COMP360 Psilocybin for Treatment-Resistant Depression (opens new window)

Compass Pathways plc (Nasdaq: CMPS), a biotechnology company dedicated to accelerating patient access to evidence-based innovation, announced today the successful achievement of the primary endpoint in the ongoing Phase 3 COMP005 trial, the first of two Phase 3 trials evaluating COMP360, a synthetic, proprietary formulation of psilocybin, for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). The primary endpoint is the difference in change from baseline in the Montgomery-Åsberg Depression Rating Scale (MADRS) scores between the active treatment group and the placebo group at week 6.  Read more (opens new window)

Autism Rates Have Increased 60-Fold. I Played a Role in That (opens new window)

Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves. As Americans scramble to respond to rising rates of suicidal behavior among youth, many policymakers have locked in on an alarming metric: the number of hours a day that American children spend glued to a glowing screen. Read more (opens new window)

Updated USPSTF Guidelines on Screening for Intimate Partner Violence and Caregiver Abuse (opens new window)

Domestic abuse, including both intimate partner violence (IPV) and caregiver abuse of an older or vulnerable adult, is heartbreakingly common. Approximately 47% of women in the US report experiencing sexual violence, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner over their lifetime. Read more (opens new window)  (opens new window)

UI researcher finds faster decline in cognitive ability for those living without healthy food (opens new window)

When University of Iowa researcher and assistant professor Boeun Kim worked as a nurse, some of the older adults she treated would have problems that no health care professional can solve — low income, a small or nonexistent support network and less access to healthy food. Read more (opens new window)

Mental health questions that drove physicians to suicide (opens new window)

For decades, the health care system has operated under the cruel irony that the people dedicated to healing others were being punished for seeking healing themselves. Doctors, nurses, and health care workers have been forced to choose between getting mental health treatment and keeping their careers, creating a toxic culture where the people we depend on for our health were suffering in silence. Read more (opens new window)

Yoga in a Zimbabwe tavern is the latest mental health outreach in a struggling country (opens new window)

It's before sunrise on a Saturday and a small group has gathered at Socialite Bar in on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital. Instead of nursing hangovers, they sit with eyes closed and bodies in meditative poses on the bare floor. It’s an unlikely setting for a yoga class. In Zimbabwe, the practice is rare and mostly found in the wealthy suburbs. Yet it is quietly taking root here in a beer tavern in Chitungwiza, a low-income town 30 kilometers (18 miles) outside the capital, Harare. Read more (opens new window)

HOTLINE RESOURCES

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (opens new window) or 1-800-273-TALK (8255) 

The Substance and Mental Health Services Administration (opens new window) provides COVID-19 guidance and resources to assist individuals, providers, communities and sates across the country. The website is updated daily.

The National CLAS Standards

The National CLAS Standards are a set of 15 action steps intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help eliminate health care disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically appropriate services. View the standards here (opens new window)