Physician wellness: Managing stress and preventing burnout.

Physician burnout is increasing, but navigating its prevention involves a complex intersection of physical, psychological, social, and organizational strategies.

Gamers' and non-gamers' perspectives on the development of problematic video game play.

Gaming Disorder was recently included in the 11 Edition of the and Internet Gaming Disorder may be introduced in the sixth edition of . Much is not understood about how problems with video games develop. This qualitative study aimed to better understand the development of problematic gaming through focus groups.

Birth Outcomes Related to Distance in Rural and Frontier Kansas.

Introduction: Women from rural communities must travel greater distances to secure obstetrical care. This study sought the extent to which distance traveled by mothers for obstetrical services affects birth outcomes in rural and frontier counties of Kansas.

Methods: Medical students invited women over the age of 18 to participate in a recall survey regarding their children under three years old.

Providing addiction services during a pandemic: Lessons learned from COVID-19.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing measures have made in-person mutual help groups inaccessible to many individuals struggling with substance use disorders (SUDs). Prior to the pandemic, stakeholders in our community had sponsored a program to train volunteers to facilitate local Self-Management and Recovery Training (SMART Recovery) groups. As a result, the community established seven weekly SMART Recovery groups, which more than 200 community members attended.

Mental Health and Psychosocial Needs of Patients Being Treated for Opioid Use Disorder in a Primary Care Residency Clinic.

Primary care is an ideal setting to deliver efficacious treatments for opioid use disorder (OUD). Primary care providers need to be aware of other concerns patients with OUD might have in order to provide comprehensive care. This study describes the prevalence of mental health, comorbid substance use, and psychosocial concerns of patients seeking treatment for OUD in primary care and their relation to 6-month treatment retention.

Insecure attachment and addiction: Testing the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in four potentially addictive behaviors.

Insecure attachment has been associated with an array of addictive behaviors. However, the mechanism by which insecure attachment leads to addictive behaviors remains largely unknown. In the present research we tested whether emotion dysregulation mediated the relationship between insecure attachment (anxious, avoidant) in substance use (alcohol, marijuana) and DSM-5 (Internet gaming) and non-DSM-5 (texting) behavioral dependencies.

The Self-perception of Text-message Dependency Scale (STDS): Psychometric update based on a United States sample.

Background: Some have suggested that text messaging is an addictive behavior. However, this characterization is uncertain, partly due to lack of well-validated measures of text messaging attitudes and behaviors. One standard instrument for measuring text messaging attitudes and behaviors is the Self-perception of Text-message Dependency Scale (STDS), though the psychometric properties of this scale have only been examined with a sample of Japanese youth.

College student marijuana involvement: Perceptions, use, and consequences across 11 college campuses.

Background: Marijuana is currently the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States, and with the movement toward legalization of recreational marijuana, the country faces numerous issues regarding policy, prevention, and treatment of marijuana use. The present study examines the prevalence of marijuana use and consequences and compares users and non-users on a wide range of other marijuana-related constructs among college students across 11 universities.

Method: Participants included 8141 college students recruited from the psychology department participant pools of 11 universities throughout the US, including four major regions of the US (West, South, Midwest, Northeast) and states with varying policies regarding the legality of marijuana use.

Failing to diagnose and failing to treat an addicted client: Two potentially life-threatening clinical errors.

Psychotherapists risk making 2 types of errors with clients who struggle with addictive behaviors: failure to addictive behaviors and failure to effectively addictive behaviors. Given the high prevalence of addictive behaviors in clinical populations, therapists are in a unique position to assist individuals with these problems. It is assumed that therapists possess general diagnostic and treatment skills and yet many do not diagnose or do not treat addictive behaviors.

Concept mapping: A supervision strategy for introducing case conceptualization skills to novice therapists.

Case conceptualization, a term synonymous with case formulation, is an essential psychotherapy skill. Novice therapists enter into the practice of psychotherapy with limited case conceptualization skills. Hence, an important goal when supervising novice therapists is to effectively teach these skills.

A controlled trial of bupropion added to nicotine patch and behavioral therapy for smoking cessation in adults with unipolar depressive disorders.

Although there is a strong relationship between depression and smoking, most nicotine dependence treatment trials exclude depressed smokers. Our objective was to determine whether bupropion improves abstinence rates and abstinence-associated depressive symptoms when added to transdermal nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) and group cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in smokers with unipolar depressive disorder (UDD). Adult smokers with current (n = 90) or past (n = 109) UDD were randomly assigned to receive bupropion or placebo added to NRT and CBT for 13 weeks.