Publications by authors named "E C Prom-Wormley"

Prescription Produce Programs (PPPs) are increasingly being used to address food insecurity and healthy diets. Yet, limited evidence exists on the effectiveness of integrating lifestyle counseling within a PPP to promote dietary and health behaviors. To describe the implementation of a 6- or 12-week PPP integrating lifestyle counseling to low-income adults.

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  • The study examined how symptoms of mental disorders co-occur with substance use in U.S. adults, using data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study across three waves.
  • Four latent classes were identified in the first wave: low symptom (most participants), internalizing, externalizing, and comorbid (least participants), with similar patterns observed in subsequent waves but some shifts in class composition.
  • Overall, individuals often moved into the low symptom class over time, indicating that as participants aged, the relationships between substance use and mental health symptoms might evolve, and the severity of psychiatric comorbidity may vary based on demographic factors.
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Introduction: Differences in the prevalence of psychiatric conditions such as psychosis as well as patterns of comorbidity for psychosis have been reported between racial and ethnic groups. It is unclear whether those differences are consistent for comorbid psychosis.

Methods: Self-reported diagnostic data from American adults ages 18-99 participating in the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Surveys (CPES) (N ~ 11,844) were used to test the association between four racial and ethnic group categories (White, Asian, Hispanic, Black) and comorbid psychosis.

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Genetic factors impact alcohol consumption and use disorder (AUD), with large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identifying numerous associated variants. Aggregate genetic methods in combination with important environmental factors (e.g.

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