Meeting the Moment: Addressing the Challenges to Advance Solutions for Mental Health Clinical Trial Recruitment

• By: Suzanne Harris SubjectWell
• January 19th, 2026
• behavioral health research, clinical trials, mental health, operational challenges, participant recruitment, patient burden, retention strategies, stigma, Winter 2026 Issue
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Mental health has become one of the most urgent and complex public health challenges of our era. Today, more than 1 billion people globally live with some form of a mental health disorder.1 Among young people, the situation is equally concerning: 1 in 7 adolescents experience a mental health...

Symptoms, Risk Factors, and Treatment Options for Eating Disorders

• By: | The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
• February 28th, 2024
• anorexia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, bulimia nervosa, clinical trials, eating disorders, NIMH research
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There is a commonly held misconception that eating disorders are a lifestyle choice. Eating disorders are actually serious and often fatal illnesses that are associated with severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions. Preoccupation with food, body weight,...