ReviewGeneral psychiatry2021
Are climate change and mental health correlated?
Review in General psychiatry, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 55 citations in OpenAlex.
- A systematic review on the impact of climate change on occupational mental health: a focus on vulnerable industries.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Pooled it
- The Impact of Climate Change on Health Services in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematised Review and Thematic Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Pooled it
- Knowledge Gaps and Research Priorities on the Health Effects of Heatwaves: A Systematic Review of Reviews.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Climate change worry, awareness and general anxiety in medical students: a multicentre cross-sectional study with implications for medical curricula.BMC medical education · 2026Article
- Global burden, risk factors and projections of self-harm mortality in adults aged 65+ years: A 60-year trend analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021.General psychiatry · 2026Article
- Association between climate change awareness-related psychological distress and mental health in people with psychiatric diagnoses or subclinical symptoms: a scoping review.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026Article
- Conceptualizing Young People's Experiences of Climate Change Awareness: A Narrative Review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Perceptions Towards Climate Change and Environmental Resilience Among Adults Living With Mental Illness: A Qualitative Study.International journal of mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Eco-Anxiety and Mental Health: Correlates of Climate Change Distress.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
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- The Communities Organizing for Power Through Empathy (COPE) Community-Based Intervention to Improve Adult Mental Health During Disasters and Crises: Protocol for a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Mapping climate change interaction with human health through DPSIR framework: Qatar perspective.Heliyon · 2025Review
- Predecessor and contemporary nursing: what is your legacy to future generations?Revista brasileira de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Climate change trauma and collective dissociation: Unraveling the impact on mental health and advocating for collective action.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2025Article
- Environment and Public Health: How the Environment Affects Children's Health and Quality of Life.Cureus · 2025Review
- Greening vision: balancing clinical excellence and ecological sustainability in eye health.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Climate change and daily wellbeing: The role of environmental, governmental, and commute-related stressors.Cogent mental health · 2025Article
- Noncommunicable Diseases and Global Health Security: Scaling up Action in Humanitarian Crises for Sustainable Recovery.Annals of global health · 2025Article
- Mental health amid climate crisis: A narrative review.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- Gender Inequities in the Impact of Climate Change on Health: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
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Abstract
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time and is likely to affect human beings in substantial ways. Recently, researchers started paying more attention to the changes in climate and their subsequent impact on the social, environmental and economic determinants of health, and the role they play in causing or exacerbating mental health problems. The effects of climate change-related events on mental well-being could be classified into direct and indirect effects. The direct effects of climate change mostly occur after acute weather events and include post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, substance abuse disorder, depression and even suicidal ideation. The indirect effects include economic losses, displacement and forced migration, competition over scarce resources and collective violence. The risk factors for developing those mental health issues include young age, female gender, low socioeconomic status, loss or injury of a loved one, being a member of immigrant groups or indigenous people, pre-existing mental illness and inadequate social support. However, in some individuals, especially those undisturbed by any directly observable effects of climate change, abstract awareness and acknowledgement of the ongoing climate crisis can induce negative emotions that can be intense enough to cause mental health illness. Coping strategies should be provided to the affected communities to protect their mental health from collapse in the face of climate disasters. Awareness of the mental health impacts of climate change should be raised, especially in the high-risk groups. Social and global attention to the climate crisis and its detrimental effects on mental health are crucial. This paper was written with the aim of trying to understand the currently, scientifically proven impact of climate change-related disasters on mental health and understanding the different methods of solving the problem at the corporate level, by trying to decrease greenhouse gas emissions to zero, and at the individual level by learning how to cope with the impacts of those disasters.
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