Biol Psychiatry Cogn Neurosci Neuroimaging
December 2024
Mindfulness has gained widespread recognition for its benefits to mental health, cognitive performance, and wellbeing. However, the multifaceted nature of mindfulness, encompassing elements like attentional focus, emotional regulation, and present-moment awareness, complicates its definition and measurement. A key component that may underlie its broad benefits is equanimity - the ability to maintain an open and non-reactive attitude toward all sensory experiences.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Childhood cancer survivors are at increased lifetime risk of morbidity and mortality, but adherence to periodic surveillance is suboptimal. One of the reasons that adult survivors of childhood cancer do not complete the recommended surveillance is that their parents may not have disclosed their cancer history to them. We sought to identify key barriers and enablers to talking to children about their cancer history.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe aimed to characterize parents' perspectives on the value of and opportunities to improve conferences between parents of critically ill infants and the health care team. The parent perspective on the value of family conferences in the intensive care unit is not well characterized. In this descriptive qualitative study, parents of infants with neurological conditions in the intensive care unit at a U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Each year in England, 450,000 children and young people (CYP) under 18 years of age are transported by ambulance to emergency departments. Approximately 20% of these suffer acute pain caused by illness or injury. Pain is a highly complex sensory and emotional experience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCollaborative care management (CoCM) is an evidenced based approach to psychiatric treatment in primary care, yet literature examining factors associated with program adherence is lacking. This study analyzed predictors of adherence to a CoCM model of psychopharmacological treatment of depression and anxiety in primary care by conducting a retrospective cohort analysis on Veterans referred to a large VA Medical Center's CoCM program over an 18-month period. Baseline characteristics, symptomatic assessments, and covariates of interest were collected.
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