A Creative Action Plan for Mental Wellness: Tools for Primary Care in Rural and Underserved Settings.

Primary care settings have many opportunities to support patients who have anxiety and/or depression, but resources are often scarce. Our faculty team developed an education tool to support mental health awareness and provide suggested wellness activities. Health-care professionals from various disciplines and settings have demonstrated eagerness to use this tool with patients and with health-care students to improve resilience and mental wellness.

Assessing the Mental Health of Refugees Using the Refugee Health Screener-15.

In 2017, 352 refugees were relocated to the Kansas City, Kansas area. As part of the relocation process, newly arrived refugees receive physical and mental health screenings. This study is a retrospective analysis of the results of 92 Refugee Health Screener-15 (RHS-15) surveys collected from February to December 2017 and interviews with the healthcare providers who administered the surveys in a primary care clinic.

Using Implementation Science to Further the Adoption and Implementation of Advance Care Planning in Rural Primary Care.

Purpose: To analyze the literature on advance care planning (ACP) in primary care through the lens of implementation science, with a focus on implications for rural settings.

Design: Scoping review of the literature.

Methods: The Cumulative Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Medline, PsycINFO, and the Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection databases were searched for studies related to ACP adoption and implementation in primary care.