Building Financial Wellness: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Financial Education and Support Intervention.

Objective: Many people receiving services for psychiatric disorders live on low incomes, navigate complex financial situations, and have limited economic security. The authors sought to determine whether a financial wellness intervention delivered virtually by peers would increase financial literacy, reduce economic strain, and improve financial competency.

Methods: One hundred participants receiving services for psychiatric disorders were recruited from community programs and via social media and were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive either an intervention called Building Financial Wellness (N=51) or services as usual (N=49).

Ultrafast and accurate prediction of polycrystalline hafnium oxide phase-field ferroelectric hysteresis using graph neural networks.

Polycrystalline hafnium oxide emerges as a promising material for the future of nanoelectronic devices. While phase-field modeling stands as a primary choice tool for forecasting domain structure evolution and electromechanical properties of ferroelectric materials, it suffers from a high computational cost, which impedes its applicability to real-size systems. Here, we propose a Graph Neural Network (GNN) machine-learning framework to predict the ferroelectric hysteresis of polycrystalline hafnium oxide, with the goal of significantly accelerating computations in contrast to high-fidelity phase-field methods.

Investigation of clinical characteristics and genome associations in the 'UK Lipoedema' cohort.

Lipoedema is a chronic adipose tissue disorder mainly affecting women, causing excess subcutaneous fat deposition on the lower limbs with pain and tenderness. There is often a family history of lipoedema, suggesting a genetic origin, but the contribution of genetics is currently unclear. A tightly phenotyped cohort of 200 lipoedema patients was recruited from two UK specialist clinics.

A Welcoming Space to Manage Crisis: The Wellness Respite Program.

The need for behavioral health care prevention, treatment, and recovery supports, including crisis alternatives, has grown and is now receiving federal support through enhanced funding. When a person experiences severe emotional distress, crisis alternatives are a viable option instead of inpatient hospitalization to address the distress and restore balance. Peer respite programs are voluntary, short-term, crisis alternatives for people experiencing mental distress.

The importance of employment to workers with preexisting behavioral health disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: Little is known about the employment experiences of people with preexisting behavioral health conditions during the coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, despite the recognized importance of work for this group.

Method: Two hundred and seventy two adults with behavioral health conditions, recruited through statewide mental health networks in NJ and NY, completed an online survey in April-May 2020. Multivariable analysis examined the effects of sleep and dietary changes, COVID-19 exposure, anxiety (Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2), and depressive symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire-2) on employment status and job changes.