Mental Well-Being

Sometimes you may also see quality-of-life (QOL) data collected for your clinical trial. Quality-of-life data are collected to measure the overall physical and mental well-being of a patient. These data are usually collected with a multiple-question patient questionnaire and may be summed up into an aggregate patient score for analysis. Some commonly used quality-of-life questionnaires are the SF-36 and SF-12 Health Survey, but there are quite a few disease-specific QOL questionnaires available to clinical researchers. 

Neurological Effects. Severe zinc deficiency is known to affect mental well-being, with varying degrees of confusion and depression being consistent with zinc enzymes having important activity in brain development and function. The history of zinc in relation to the brain and possible relevance to hmnan disease has been reviewed. 

Quality of life includes many issues occurring in a person s life, such as health status, job satisfaction, family issues, and overall well-being.Since these are nonspecific, this measurement may not be the best indicator of positive or negative pharmacotherapeutic interventions made by a clinical pharmacist. Health-related quality-of-life assesses those aspects of a patient s life specifically related to physical and mental well-being. Hard data such as treadmill time in patients with heart failure may be of interest to clinicians, but is of little value to the patients. Frequently, hard data correlate poorly with the patient s actual functional status. An additional reason to add HRQL instruments to clinical outcomes measurements pertains to the phenomenon that patients with the same medical condition often respond differently to therapy. HRQL is a complementary method of meas-... 

Despite the controversy over whether these products should be held to the same safety and efficacy standards as "conventional medicines," the DSHEA currently allows herbal labeling to carry claims about the product s ability to affect the structure or function of the human body or to promote general wellbeing (Kurtzweil, 1999). For example, a St. John s wort label may state, "Helps enhance general mental well-being," but it cannot state, "Cures depression." Likewise, a claim such as, "Improves memory and concentration" would be allowed on a ginkgo biloba product, but "Cures Alzheimer s disease" would not be allowed. For consumers, some structure/function claims may be difficult to distinguish from claims of disease treatment/prevention. For example, would most consumers understand that "Supports cardiovascular health" is not synonymous with "Prevents coronary artery disease" More study is needed in this area. 

Viinamaki H, Kumpusalo E, Myllykangas M, et al The Chernobyl accident and mental well-being—a population study. Acta Psychiatr Scand 91 396-401,1995... 

Leonard, C. et al. (1998). The effect of fatigue, sleep deprivation and onerous working hours on the physical and mental well-being of pre-registration house officers. Irish Journal of Medical Sciences 167 22-5. 

The benefits of participation in sport extend from physical and mental well-being to economic impact and crime reduction. Sport participation in the United Kingdom, among the adult population, rose by 4.1% during April 2012-2013 when compared to the period of October 2005-2006 (Source Sport England Active People Survey (APS)/Q2 April 2012-2013). It is very likely that this boost is linked to the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics games held during the summer period. A study... 

Safety - the protection of people from physical injury. The borderline between health and safety is ill-defined and the two words are normally used together to indicate concern for the physical and mental well-being of the individual at the place of work. 

Personal injury includes any disease or any impairment of a person s physical or mental well-being. 

The early nutrition of children has major effects on the physical and mental well-being in later years. Furthermore, each young person develops important habits of food selection and consumption as he or she progresses from infancy to adolescence and adulthood. Therefore, nutrition during both childhood and adolescence is covered in this article since these stages of physical, mental, and emotional growth usually occur within the same family setting. 

A pollutant is defined by the World Health Organisation as anything which may affect Man s physical and mental well-being. This implies the establishment of tolerance levels for a wide variety of physical, chemical and biological contaminants which, if exceeded, result in pollution. Within this context of pollution can be included pollution of the air, ground and water supplies, and other forms of pollution, such as noise. 

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