A5008386224- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Healthcare Decision-Making and Restraints
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Community Health and Development
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Medication Adherence and Compliance
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Pharmaceutical studies and practices
- Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors Study
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
University of Technology Sydney
2024
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
2023-2024
Boramae Medical Center
2024
Reynolds American (United States)
2023
Research Applications (United States)
2021-2022
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
2010-2022
Duke Medical Center
2004-2021
Centre de recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations
2021
California State University, Long Beach
2020-2021
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2005-2020
Background: Medication adherence is suboptimal, and clinicians researchers struggle with identifying nonadherent patients. Various measures of medication exist, but there controversy regarding which provide acceptable data how nonadherence should be defined. Objective: To assess agreement among patient self-report, pharmacy refill, electronic compare the sensitivity specificity different cut-points for defining nonadherence. Methods: Data were analyzed from 2 similarly designed randomized...
People with serious mental illness have higher mortality rates than the general population, and this difference is not explained by such causes as suicide or accidents. This study therefore examined access barriers to medical care among persons illness.Using a nationally representative sample, authors individuals reporting psychotic mood disorders. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) NHIS-Disability Component for 1994 1995 were merged provide sample of 156,475 people over age 18....
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Objective: Studies show a high potential demand for psychiatric advance directives but low completion rates. The authors conducted randomized study of structured, manualized intervention to facilitate directives. Method: A total 469 patients with severe mental illness were randomly assigned facilitated directive session or control group that received written information about and referral resources in the public health system. Completion an directive, its structure content, short-term...
This study examined the impact of physical and sexual trauma on a sample 239 homeless men. Study participants completed self-administered survey that collected data demographics, exposure to psychological trauma, health mental problems, substance use or misuse. Binomial logistic regression analyses were used examine relative significance demographic factors four types associated with three outcomes: health, abuse, problems. The authors found history was significantly more problems but not...
Abstract To facilitate the recovery of people with mental illness (consumers health services), social workers must be strengths-focused and believe in potential for consumer growth improvement. Unfortunately, often share negative, stigmatizing view held by much general population. In this article, authors describe a facilitated dialogue process between consumers master's level work students that had goal positively shifting students' attitudes towards consumers. Pre/post-tests using...
The stressful experiences that Latino immigrants face throughout the migration process to United States put them at increased risk for poor mental health. Latinas are heightened due stigma, limited access health resources, domestic violence, and gender role expectations. In addition, those who live in new immigrant settlement areas, such as Southeast, these disparities magnified by even fewer culturally appropriate services social support. This study evaluates impact of ALMA ( Amigas...
Community–academic research partnerships aim to build stakeholder trust in order improve the reach and translation of health research, but there is limited empirical regarding effective ways trust. This multisite study was launched identify similarities differences among stakeholders’ perspectives antecedents partnerships. In 2013-2014, we conducted a mixed-methods concept mapping with participants from three major groups who identified rated importance different on 5-point Likert-type...
Historically, marital status has been associated with lower mortality and transitions into marriage were generally accompanied by improved health status. Conversely, divorce increased mortality, possibly mediated changes in behaviors. This study uses data from a prospective cohort of 79,094 postmenopausal women participating the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study (WHI-OS) to examine relationship between transition indicators (blood pressure, waist circumference, body mass index...
Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are legal tools that allow competent individuals to declare preferences for future mental health treatment when they may not be capable of doing so as a result psychiatric crisis. PADs maintain self–determination during times most vulnerable loss autonomy and in need assistance make their known honored. This article describes the content twenty–eight open–ended, semi–structured qualitative interviews adults with who have experienced crises. The analysis...
Concepts of culture and diversity are necessary considerations in the scientific application theory generation developmental processes preventive interventions; yet, and/or often overlooked until later stages (e.g., adaptation [T3] dissemination [T4]) translational science process. Here, we present a conceptual framework focused on seamless incorporation throughout various process (T1–T5). Informed by community-engaged research approach, this guides integration cultural at each phase with...
OBJECTIVES: Psychiatric advance directives allow competent persons to document instructions or designate a health care agent communicate their preferences for future mental treatment in the event of an incapacitating crisis. Although laws authorizing psychiatric have proliferated, little is known about clinicians' understanding and perceptions these legal tools. METHODS: A total 597 professionals (psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers) completed survey attitudes toward decision making...
In Brief Objectives: Authors hypothesized that building safe hospital systems to improve value-based surgical outcomes is predicated on workflow redesign for dynamic risk stratification, coupled with "real-time" mitigation of risk. We developed a comanagement model hospitalized cohort, and determined whether this iterative process surgery will be adaptable disparate beneficial combined medical/surgical adult inpatients. Context: Concerns about preventable harm in patients have generated...
Importance Many epidemiologic studies have suggested that low levels of plasma leptin, a major adipokine, are associated with increased risk Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia and cognitive decline. Nevertheless, the mechanistic pathway linking leptin AD-related decline is not yet fully understood. Objective To examine association in vivo AD pathologies, including amyloid-beta (Aβ) tau deposition, through both cross-sectional longitudinal approaches among cognitively unimpaired older adults....
Background: High proportions of homeless individuals have mental illness and substance use disorders. Few these engage in consistent treatment, although they are likely to benefit from it. Shelter-based interventions help this population treatment not been studied a rigorous manner. Objectives: We sought evaluate the effectiveness shelter-based intervention, including intensive outreach by psychiatric social worker availability weekly psychiatrist visits with continuity care problems....