ArticleCommunity mental health journal2017
Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining and Emergent Cases of Psychological Disorder in Kentucky.
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- Systematic review of quantitative studies assessing the relationship between environment and mental health in rural areas.The Australian journal of rural health · 2022Pooled it
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- Is solastalgia associated with mental health problems? A scoping review.BMJ mental health · 2025Article
- Environmental Distress Among Dutch Young Adults: Worried Minds or Indifferent Hearts?EcoHealth · 2025Article
- The factors affecting the performance of the tunnel wall drilling task and their priority.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- [Nature and immune mechanisms of mental illnesses].Der Nervenarzt · 2023Review
- Effect of Coal Mining on Health Outcomes Between Male and Female Miners in Southern West Virginia: A Brief Report.Cureus · 2023Article
- Exposure to coal ash and depression in children aged 6-14 years old.Environmental research · 2022Article
- A Changing Home: A Cross-Sectional Study on Environmental Degradation, Resettlement and Psychological Distress in a Western German Coal-Mining Region.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Mapping the Solastalgia Literature: A Scoping Review Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Although mountaintop removal (MTR) coal extraction techniques have been employed in Appalachia for decades, relatively little research has examined its potential psychological impact on people living in close proximity to MTR activity. The current study taps the State Emergency Department Database (Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Kentucky State Emergency Department Database, 2008) to examine the relative risk for diagnoses of depressive, substance use, and anxiety disorders originating in areas with and without MTR activity. Logistical regression analyses, controlling for ethnicity, rurality, mean income, and gender, indicated that MTR independently predicts greater risk for depressive (OR 1.37) and substance use disorders (OR 1.41), but not anxiety disorders. Overall, these findings have public health policy implications, build on other evidence of increased risk of negative mental health outcomes related to MTR, and lend some support to the validity of solastalgia related to environmental change.
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