A Helping Hand Out of the River: Refugee Perspectives for Provider Engagement.

Purpose: A growing number of refugee groups are seeking care within the U.S. health care system for medical, psychological, and social needs.

Viability of the World Health Organization quality of life measure to assess changes in quality of life following treatment for alcohol use disorder.

Purpose: Quality of life is an outcome often examined in treatment research contexts such as biomedical trials, but has been studied less often in alcohol use disorder (AUD) treatment. The importance of considering QoL in substance use treatment research has recently been voiced, and measures of QoL have been administered in large AUD treatment trials. Yet, the viability of popular QoL measures has never been evaluated in AUD treatment samples.

Social support attenuates the harmful effects of stress in healthy adult women.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that social support buffers the effects of perceived stress on physical symptoms in healthy women.

Methods: The study was conducted in the Southwest United States and data were collected from 2006 to 2010. Participants were 52 healthy adult women who completed a baseline questionnaire and a 21-day daily diary.