Nurse Corps' impact on increasing registered nurse staffing in critical shortage areas and facilities, 2017 to 2022.

Background: The registered nurse (RN) workforce experienced critical pre-pandemic and pandemic shortages of labor in some areas in the United States. People living in these health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) may have less access to health services. The Bureau of Health Workforce within the Health Resources and Services Administration administers Nurse Corps scholarship and loan repayment programs to increase healthcare access by increasing the supply and distribution of RNs, nurse practitioners, and nurse faculty to HPSAs.

The Health Resources and Services Administration diversity data collection.

The Health Resources and Services Administration maintains a strong emphasis on increasing the diversity of the health-care workforce through its grant programs. Increasing the diversity of the workforce is important for reducing health disparities in the population caused by socioeconomic, geographic, and race/ethnicity factors because evidence suggests that minority health professionals are more likely to serve in areas with a high proportion of underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups. The data show success in increasing the diversity of enrollees in five nursing programs.

The effect of patient age on perceived resuscitation outcomes by practitioners.

Background: When health care practitioners assist patients with decisions about advance directives, the risks and benefits of resuscitation options are often discussed. Whether practitioners have accurate perceptions about in-hospital resuscitation success rates is not known, nor is the effect of patient age on these perceptions. Age on its own has not been definitively associated with decreased inpatient survival after resuscitation.

Internal consistency and discriminant validity of a delay-discounting task with an adult self-reported ADHD sample.

Objective: The purpose of this research was to evaluate the reliability and discriminant validity of a behavioral task of impulsivity, the delay-discounting task.

Method: Young adults were asked to report ADHD diagnostic status and to complete the delay-discounting task. The internal consistency of the task was determined, task performances of individuals with and without self-reported ADHD were compared, and the ability of this task to discriminate between participants with and without self-reported ADHD was assessed.

Factor structure and psychometric properties of the Children's Negative Cognitive Error Questionnaire with a clinically depressed adolescent sample.

The factor structure and psychometric properties of the Children's Negative Cognitive Error Questionnaire (CNCEQ) were examined with 427 adolescents ages 12 to 18 (193 boys) with current major depressive disorder. Results of confirmatory factor analysis supported a four-factor model comprised of three content area factors (i.e.

Family characteristics of anxious ADHD children: preliminary results.

Objective: To investigate the family environments of children in a community sample with ADHD and co-occurring anxiety.

Method: Family Environment Scale, Behavioral Assessment System for Children, and Structured Clinical Interview are administered to parents of children with ADHD with and without anxiety.

Results: ADHD families are uniformly less cohesive and expressive and possess more conflict than families representing the community sample.

Co-occurring psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome.

More than half of all children and adolescents with Tourette syndrome show evidence of psychiatric comorbidity, exhibiting symptoms of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder, and other anxiety and mood disorders. Although the prevalence of co-occurring conditions varies depending on the clinical setting, it is crucial for clinicians to be familiar with these disorders because they are often more impairing than tics and can influence the initial treatment choice. Left untreated, these conditions can negatively affect important developmental outcomes, such as academic and social functioning.

Anxiety and depression symptoms in psychometrically identified schizotypy.

The neurodevelopmental vulnerability for schizophrenia appears to be expressed across a dynamic continuum of adjustment referred to as schizotypy. This model suggests that nonpsychotic schizotypic individuals should exhibit mild and transient forms of symptoms seen in full-blown schizophrenia. Given that depression and anxiety are reported to be comorbid with schizophrenia, the present study examined the relationship of psychometrically defined schizotypy with symptoms of depression and anxiety in a college student sample (n=1258).