Community-Engaged Insights: Understanding the Housing Needs of Rural Caregivers During Hospital Treatment.

Purpose: This study explored the experiences of rural caregivers who require temporary housing during hospital treatment when healthcare is not available in their home communities. Understanding these experiences can identify challenges and inform solutions for improving rural access to healthcare.

Methods: We conducted a community-engaged qualitative study using semi-structured interviews with caregivers who stayed at a healthcare hospitality house in Charlotte, NC.

Cannabis Use Associations with Adverse Psychosocial Functioning among North American College Students.

: Adolescent-onset cannabis use (CU) (before age 18) is associated with multiple adverse psychosocial outcomes, but rates of CU peak between the ages of 18 and 22, coinciding with college matriculation. Whether CU among college-enrolled young adults is associated with similar psychosocial outcomes is poorly understood. In the present study, we examined relationships between CU and multiple psychosocial outcomes in North American college students.

Graduate student burnout: Substance use, mental health, and the moderating role of advisor satisfaction.

Substance use and mental health problems are associated with academic difficulties among high school and undergraduate students, but little research has been conducted on these relationships among graduate students. The sample consisted of 2,683 graduate students attending two large, public universities. Standard measures were used to collect data on demographic and program characteristics, mental health, substance use, advisor satisfaction, and burnout (i.

Pathways from health beliefs to treatment utilization for severe depression.

Background: Untreated depression is associated with negative behavioral, psychosocial, and physical outcomes leading to socioeconomic costs, disability, and premature mortality. Research has not yet fully developed intervention models to increase the utilization of mental health treatments. The objective of the current study was to characterize the pathways linking health beliefs to treatment utilization among depressed young adults.

Substance use and mental health problems among graduate students: Individual and program-level correlates.

Objective: This study evaluated variation in substance use and mental health among graduate student subgroups.

Participants: A sample of 2,683 master's and doctoral students completed an online survey in October 2017.

Methods: Subgroup variation in behavioral health by demographic and program characteristics, particularly degree type and academic discipline, was explored.

Graduate degree completion: Associations with alcohol and marijuana use before and after enrollment.

Research has shown that alcohol and marijuana use are associated with academic performance difficulties, but the relationship to completion of a graduate degree has not been explored. Undergraduate students ( = 1253) were assessed during their first year of college and annually thereafter until age 29. Among the subset of the original sample who enrolled in graduate school ( = 520), measures of alcohol and marijuana use were averaged separately for the time periods before and after graduate school enrollment.

Absence of a Link Between Childhood Parental Military Service on Depression and Anxiety Disorders Among College Students.

Background: Current prevalence estimates are 15% for depression and 20% for anxiety disorders among college students. These disorders are known to negatively impact academic achievement and persistence. It is important to understand the effects of parental military service on the mental health of children across development.

Stroke survivors with severe mental illness: Are they at-risk for increased non-psychiatric hospitalizations?

Background: This study examined outcomes for two groups of stroke survivors treated in Veteran Health Administration (VHA) hospitals, those with a severe mental illness (SMI) and those without prior psychiatric diagnoses, to examine risk of non-psychiatric medical hospitalizations over five years after initial stroke.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 523 veterans who survived an initial stroke hospitalization in a VHA medical center during fiscal year 2003. The survivors were followed using administrative data documenting inpatient stroke treatment, patient demographics, disease comorbidities, and VHA hospital admissions.

Family history and risk of hair loss.

Introduction: The genetic basis of androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is well accepted in the medical community and among the general population. However, rigorous studies investigating the familial basis of AGA are lacking. The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between family history and expression of AGA in a sample of men from the general community.