- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Poisoning and overdose treatments
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Sleep and related disorders
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
Franciscan Hospital for Children
2019-2022
There is concern that the COVID-19 pandemic may cause increased risk of suicide. In current study, we tested whether suicidal thinking has during and such was predicted by feelings social isolation. a sample 55 individuals recently hospitalized for or behaviors participating in 6-month intensive longitudinal smartphone monitoring examined isolation before after declared national emergency United States. We found significantly among adults (odds ratio [ OR] = 4.01, 95% confidence interval...
Wearable physiological monitoring devices enable the continuous measurement of human behavior and psychophysiology in real world. Although such monitors are promising, their availability does not guarantee that participants will continuously wear interact with them, especially during times psychological distress.This study aimed to evaluate feasibility acceptability using a wearable behavioral monitor, Empatica E4, assess group suicidal adolescent inpatients.Participants (n=50 inpatients)...
This study presents the impact of chaplain-provided mindfulness meditation (MM) groups on state-anxiety in adolescent inpatients an acute psychiatric unit, understudied topic that warrants further research given anxiety is a demonstrated predictor suicide attempts adolescents and elevated risk this population. A total 53 patients, age 13–19, attended optional 30-minute MM while hospitalized for inpatient care. State-anxiety was assessed immediately before after each session, symptom severity...
Abstract Objective The purpose of this study was to examine implicit affect toward suicide (i.e., how good/bad is perceived). Some people might be more likely think about/choose because they perceive it as a good option (to gain relief) relative available alternatives. Method Implicit among adults ( N = 72) and adolescents 174) with without suicidal thoughts examined using first‐person (FP) perspective pictures in the misattribution procedure (AMP). Results Suicidal adults’ positive...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Wearable physiological monitoring devices enable the continuous measurement of human behavior and psychophysiology in real world. Although such monitors are promising, their availability does not guarantee that participants will continuously wear interact with them, especially during times psychological distress. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study aimed to evaluate feasibility acceptability using a wearable behavioral monitor, Empatica E4, assess group...
This study presents the impact of chaplain-provided mindfulness meditation (MM) groups on state-anxiety in adolescent inpatients an acute psychiatric unit, understudied topic that warrants further research given anxiety is a demonstrated predictor suicide attempts adolescents and elevated risk this population. 53 patients, age 13-19, attended optional 30-minute MM while hospitalized for inpatient care. State-anxiety was assessed immediately before after each session, symptom severity upon...
Objective: Cross-sectional studies and prospective with long follow-up periods (e.g., years) have shown that lower levels of social support are associated nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents. This study examined how short-term changes in may contribute to NSSI behavior whether different sources friends, family members) provide differential protective effects against NSSI. Methods: We fluctuations perceived from multiple a sample 118 high-risk adolescents hospitalized for serious...