https://revistas.ponteditora.org/index.php/jim/issue/feedJournal of Medical Research (JIM)2024-12-10T11:21:42-06:00Diego Viana Gomes (Ph.D.), Elton Bicalho de Souza (Ph.D.)jim@ponteditora.orgOpen Journal Systems<p>The <strong>Journal of Medical Research (JIM)</strong> is a biannual journal dedicated to the research, development, application, and dissemination of expressions, practices, and representations of the health research. NAUS spans various areas of scientific knowledge, adopting a convergent, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, pluridisciplinary, and multidisciplinary approach around the concepts of health. <strong>JIM </strong>primarily publishes in Portuguese and English but accepts contributions in other languages when justified by the content. <strong>JIM </strong>welcomes submissions in Portuguese prior to the Orthographic Agreement (AO) and according to the AO, in compliance and respect for the authors’ expressed intentions as indicated in a statement attached to the submitted manuscripts.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Anthropology; Arts; Culture; Sport and Similar Activities; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Statistics; Philosophy; Governance; Linguistics; New Technologies; Policies; Positive Psychology; Health Psychology; Neuropsychology; Sociology; Urbanism.</p>https://revistas.ponteditora.org/index.php/jim/article/view/957Do we need positive mental health literacy? First explorations of broadening the scope of mental health literacy2024-11-18T16:07:52-06:00Mariana Maia de Carvalhomarianaportoccarrero@hotmail.comMaria da Luz Vale-Diasvaledias@fpce.uc.ptCorey Keyesckeyes@emory.eduErnst Bohlmeijere.t.bohlmeijer@utwente.nl<p>Background — Mental well-being is widely accepted as a fundamental part of mental health, and conceptualized as distinct from mental illness. However, mental health literacy (MHL) has overwhelmingly focused on mental illness, and less on mental well-being.</p> <p>Methods — In this position paper, we argue that MHL, as an evolving concept, would benefit from including literacy on mental well-being.</p> <p>Results — Though it is suggested that MHL is an important factor for mental illness prevention and mental health promotion, there is still room for improvement in MHL research and practice. It is argued that the actual definitions of MHL, so as its measures and interventions leave out mental well-being, ignoring an important dimension of mental health.</p> <p>Conclusions — A new concept, positive mental health literacy is proposed in order to achieve a complete mental health literacy approach. Integrating mental illness and positive mental health literacy may reflect different yet complementary aspects of mental health, facilitate help-seeking and mental health de-stigmatization. Expanding MHL by including both mental illness and positive mental health literacy may result in improved mental health indicators, such as less psychological symptoms and more mental well-being.</p>2024-12-10T00:00:00-06:00Copyright (c) 2024 Journal of Medical Research (JIM)