Publications by authors named "J L Meek"

Background: Healthcare workers face an elevated risk of chronic stress and burnout, for which resiliency interventions are needed.

Methods: The Stress Management and Resiliency Training Program (SMART-3RP; 8 weekly 90-minute sessions) was offered to 254 hospital employees between 2/2021 and 1/2024. Participants were surveyed pre- and post-intervention for measures of resiliency, stress coping, positive affect, perceived stress, anxiety, and depression.

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In 2006, human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine was first recommended in the United States to prevent cancers and other diseases caused by HPV; vaccination coverage increased steadily through 2021, and increasing numbers of young women had received HPV vaccine as children or adolescents. Since 2008, CDC has monitored incidence of precancerous lesions (cervical intraepithelial neoplasia [CIN] grades 2-3 and adenocarcinoma in situ [AIS], collectively CIN2+), which are detected through cervical cancer screening and can be used as an intermediate outcome for monitoring vaccination impact, via the five-site Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Impact Monitoring Project. This analysis describes trends in incidence of CIN2+ and CIN3+ (i.

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Importance: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection can cause severe illness in adults. However, there is considerable uncertainty in the burden of RSV-associated hospitalizations among adults prior to RSV vaccine introduction.

Objective: To describe the demographic characteristics of adults hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed RSV and to estimate annual rates and numbers of RSV-associated hospitalizations, intensive care unit (ICU) admissions, and in-hospital deaths.

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Background: While the estimated number of U.S. influenza-associated deaths is reported annually, detailed data on the epidemiology of influenza-associated deaths, including the burden of in-hospital versus post-hospital discharge deaths are limited.

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