ArticleEcoHealth2023
Australian Youth Mental Health and Climate Change Concern After the Black Summer Bushfires.
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- Resilience of adolescents and young adults towards climate-related stressors - a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Effect of Natural Disasters on Youth Mental Health: A Systematic Review.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2026Article
- The Mental Health Impacts of Wildfire Exposure: A Scoping Review of the Quantitative Evidence.Current environmental health reports · 2026Article
- Mental health after compounding natural hazard exposure in New South Wales from 2019 to 2023: a cross-sectional study in Australian youth.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Compounding Disasters and Australian Youth Mental Health: A Time of Significant (di)stress.Early intervention in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Conceptualizing Young People's Experiences of Climate Change Awareness: A Narrative Review.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
- Association Between Climate Change Awareness and Depression & Anxiety: Findings from a U.S. Sample.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Maintaining Resilience and Well-Being in the Era of Climate Change: Protocol of an Acceptability and Feasibility Pilot of the Bee Well Program for Treating Eco-Anxiety in Rural Children Exposed to Natural Hazards.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Detecting and classifying eco-anxiety: development of clinical cut-off scores for the climate change anxiety scale.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Effect of wildfire on the prevalence of opioid misuse through anxiety among young adults in the United States: a modeling study.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Climate Change Perception and Mental Health. Results from a Systematic Review of the Literature.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2024Review
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Abstract
Climate change and its effects present notable challenges for mental health, particularly for vulnerable populations, including young people. Immediately following the unprecedented Black Summer bushfire season of 2019/2020, 746 Australians (aged 16-25 years) completed measures of mental health and perceptions of climate change. Results indicated greater presentations of depression, anxiety, stress, adjustment disorder symptoms, substance abuse, and climate change distress and concern, as well as lower psychological resilience and perceived distance to climate change, in participants with direct exposure to these bushfires. Findings highlight significant vulnerabilities of concern for youth mental health as climate change advances.
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