Analysis of implementation processes in a hybrid effectiveness-implementation trial of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) for major depressive disorder in prisons: Training, supervision, and recommendations.

Background: There are 10 million admissions to U.S. prisons and jails each year.

Charitable Pharmacies as Catalysts for Coordinated Care: Pharmacist Management of Blood Glucose Among Under-Resourced Patients With Type 2 Diabetes.

This community-academic-pharmacy partnership evaluated the impact of a pharmacist-led approach to diabetes management in under-resourced charitable pharmacy patients. Charitable pharmacies serve a large volume of under-resourced patients; pharmacist involvement may improve blood glucose management due to the frequency with which patients access the pharmacy for medications. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of a pharmacist-led approach to diabetes management (measured by blood glucose levels) by providing medication therapy management (MTM) and leveraging communication between the pharmacist and patients' primary care providers (PCPs).

Readiness to Change: A Pathway to the Adoption of Trauma-Sensitive Teaching.

Creating a trauma-sensitive classroom requires a shift in perspective from viewing a student's problematic behavior as a function of poor character to considering it contextually. However, a trauma-sensitive perspective may be insufficient for school staff to implement trauma-sensitive practices. Theoretically, motivation, or readiness to change (R2C), is needed to adopt any new behavior.

Belonging to Something Greater Than Self: Flint Women Giving Back to the Community.

Background: Having meaning in life promotes happiness and well-being across the lifespan.

Methods: A community-based participatory qualitative study was conducted to understand meaning in life, having a voice and the different ways women give back to their community by serving others. Interviews were held with participants (n = 100) who were community residents, people serving women, or both.

Mental health services for all: Factors influencing desire for mental health services among underresourced adults during COVID-19.

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has substantially impacted psychological health in the U.S and has disproportionately impacted underresourced individuals. Despite the higher need for mental health services during this time, service availability and access were disrupted due to increased demand, social distancing recommendations, and stay-at-home orders.

Developing and maintaining intergenerational relationships in an economically vulnerable community: findings from the Flint women's study.

Few studies describe how community disadvantage impacts intergenerational relationships. Using interviews with women and service providers (n = 100), we explored benefits and challenges of intergenerational relationships in Flint, Michigan, an economically vulnerable community. Women valued relationships that increased social connections and generativity; however, few community resources promoted such relationships.

Neighborhood disadvantage, household chaos, and personal stressors: exploring early-life contextual factors and current mental health symptoms in college students.

Objective: Using Bronfenbrenner's socio-ecological model as a frame, we explored the impact of neighborhood disadvantage, household chaos, and personal stressors on current mental health symptoms in college students.

Participants: 144 students at a large, public university in the southern U.S.

Bitten by the System that Cared for them: Towards a Trauma-Informed Understanding of Patients' Healthcare Engagement.

The BITTEN theoretical framework of trauma-informed healthcare proposes that each patient presents to a healthcare encounter with a baseline level of historical institutional etrayal and trauma exposure that interacts with their ndicator for healthcare engagement to potentially rigger trauma symptoms, impacting patients' rust in healthcare providers and shaping their current and future xpectations of and eeds for healthcare. The current study sought to test and extend components of the BITTEN theoretical framework to better understand the link between trauma exposure (childhood trauma and institutional betrayal) and healthcare engagement. Results largely supported the propositions of the BITTEN theoretical framework: childhood trauma was directly related to healthcare avoidance behaviors.

The Flint women's study: community perspectives on contraception and family planning, sexuality education and barriers to reproductive health.

Teenage pregnancy can have adverse social and health outcomes, and rates are high in Flint, Michigan as compared to the rest of the state and the USA. It is important to understand contributing factors to adolescent pregnancy to be able to better address this issue. This study examined qualitative data from interviews with 100 community members who participated in the Flint Women's Study, a study designed to better understand the hopes, dreams and needs of women in Flint, and their suggestions for how to address identified needs.

Intersectionality, special populations, needs and suggestions: the Flint Women's study.

Background: Equitable access to services that promote health and wellbeing is an important component of social justice. A community-engaged participatory qualitative study was conducted in Flint, Michigan, USA, to understand the needs of special populations (young women, perinatal women and new mothers, older women, women with disabilities, and LGBTQIA women) and elicit their ideas about solutions.

Methods: In-depth interviews (n = 100) were conducted.

Mixed Methods Analysis of Implementation of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for Major Depressive Disorder in Prisons in a Hybrid Type I Randomized Trial.

This article describes a mixed methods evaluation of implementation of interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) in the first fully-powered trial of any treatment for major depressive disorder in an incarcerated population. Assessments in this Hybrid Type I trial included surveys of prison providers and administrators (n = 71), measures of feasibility and acceptability to prison patients (n = 90), and a planned document review (n = 460) to assess potential determinants of implementation. Quantitative and qualitative results indicated that IPT was a good fit for prisoners, and that prisoners and providers were enthusiastic about IPT.

Trauma, Power, and Intimate Relationships Among Women in Prison.

The present study, which included four focus groups of women ( = 21) in four New England prisons, aimed to understand how power impacted women's relationships, exposure to violence, and health. Women described power in three ways: (a) power as control over their sexuality and their sexual partners, (b) power emerging from emotional strength, and (c) power referring to a process of empowerment. Women's perceptions and experiences of power were informed by their trauma histories and influenced their sexual behavior and health.

Preliminary efficacy and mediators of interpersonal psychotherapy for reducing posttraumatic stress symptoms in an incarcerated population.

Incarcerated individuals have high rates of trauma exposure. IPT reduces posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in non-incarcerated adults, but has not been examined in prison populations. Moreover, little is known about the mechanisms through which IPT reduces PTSD symptoms.

Correlates of alcoholics anonymous affiliation among justice-involved women.

Background: Alcohol use disorder (AUD) constitutes a major public health problem and is associated with a substantial amount of disability and premature death worldwide. Several treatment and self-help options including Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meetings are available. Nevertheless, factors associated with AA affiliation in some disadvantaged groups such as justice-involved women are not well understood.