Pilot of a text messaging system to monitor caregivers' and children's mental health recovery after pediatric traumatic injury.

Objective: Pediatric traumatic injury (PTI) is associated with a high risk for psychiatric sequelae. Most trauma centers do not adequately address the emotional needs of children and their caregivers. Technology-based programs offer a low-cost and low-burden opportunity to track and potentially enhance families' emotional recovery following PTI.

Current Research on Matching Trauma-Focused Therapies to Veterans: A Scoping Review.

Introduction: Trauma-focused (psycho)therapies (TFTs) are often used to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) of (military) veterans, including prolonged exposure (PE), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing. However, research thus far has not conclusively determined predictors of TFTs' success in this population. This scoping review's objectives are 1) to explore whether it is possible, based on currently available evidence, to match TFTs to veterans to maximize their outcomes, (2) to identify possible contraindications and adaptations of TFTs for this population, and (3) to identify gaps in the literature to guide future research.

Quantitative sensory testing for assessment of somatosensory function in children and adolescents: a scoping review.

Quantitative sensory testing (QST) refers to a group of noninvasive psychophysical tests that examine responses to a range of calibrated mechanical and thermal stimuli. Quantitative sensory testing has been used extensively in adult pain research and has more recently been applied to pediatric pain research. The aims of this scoping review were to map the current state of the field, to identify gaps in the literature, and to inform directions for future research.

Implementation of a Stepped Care Program to Address Emotional Recovery among Traumatic Injury Patients.

Background: Annually, over 600,000 adults served in US trauma centers (≥20%) develop posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or depression in the first year after injury. American College of Surgeons guidelines include screening and addressing mental health recovery in trauma centers. Yet, many trauma centers do not monitor and address mental health recovery, and it is a priority to learn how to implement evidence-informed mental health programs in trauma centers.

Behavioral Health Screening and Follow-Up Services in Pediatric Trauma Centers Across the United States.

Objective: Over 120,000 U.S. children are hospitalized for traumatic injury annually, a major risk factor for behavioral health problems such as acute/posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression.

Implementation of a stepped care program to address posttraumatic stress disorder and depression in a Level II trauma center.

Background: The Trauma Resilience and Recovery Program (TRRP) is a technology enhanced model of care that includes education, screening, and service referrals to address posttraumatic stress disorder and depression following traumatic injury. TRRP has shown high rates of engagement at a Level I trauma center, but Level II centers have fewer resources and face more challenges to addressing patients' mental health needs.

Methods: We utilized clinical administrative data to examine engagement in TRRP in a Level II trauma center with 816 adult trauma activation patients.

Barriers Associated with the Implementation of Homework in Youth Mental Health Treatment and Potential Mobile Health Solutions.

Background: Homework, or between-session practice of skills learned during therapy, is integral to effective youth mental health TREATMENTS. However, homework is often under-utilized by providers and patients due to many barriers, which might be mitigated via Health solutions.

Methods: Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with nationally certified trainers in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT; =21) and youth TF-CBT patients ages 8-17 (=15) and their caregivers (=12) to examine barriers to the successful implementation of homework in youth mental health treatment and potential Health solutions to those barriers.

Barriers and facilitators to the availability of efficacious self-directed digital health tools for adults living with cancer and their caregivers: A systematic literature review and author survey study.

Objective: This study aimed to examine barriers and facilitators to the dissemination of efficacious self-directed digital health tools for adults affected by cancer, and quantify funding used to develop and evaluate these digital health tools.

Methods: We conducted: (1) a systematic literature review to identify efficacious self-directed digital health tools for adults affected by cancer, published between 2009 and 2019 and (2) an author survey to identify barriers and facilitators to dissemination of those tools, grant funding and the user centredness of their design (UCD) process.

Results: Of 1314 screened articles, 29 articles describing 26 tools met the inclusion criteria.

Child catastrophizing about parent chronic pain: A potential child vulnerability factor.

Objective Robust evidence suggests children's catastrophizing about their own pain is a risk factor for poor child pain-related outcomes. In children of parents with chronic pain, child catastrophizing about their parents' pain might be a unique predictor of child pain-related outcomes given their increased exposure to parental chronic pain and disability. The objective of this study was to examine associations between child and parent catastrophizing about their own and each other's pain and child and parent pain-related outcomes.

Testing the intergenerational model of transmission of risk for chronic pain from parents to their children: an empirical investigation of social transmission pathways.

Children of parents with chronic pain have higher rates of pain and internalizing (eg, anxiety and depressive) symptoms than children of parents without chronic pain. Parental modeling of pain behaviour and reinforcement of child pain have been hypothesized to underlie these relationships. These mechanisms were tested in a sample of 72 parents with chronic pain and their children (aged 8-15 years).

Availability of researcher-led eHealth tools for pain assessment and management: barriers, facilitators, costs, and design.

Introduction: Numerous eHealth tools for pain assessment and management have been developed and evaluated with promising results regarding psychometric properties, efficacy, and effectiveness. Although considerable resources are spent on developing and evaluating these tools with the aim of increasing access to care, current evidence suggests they are not made available to end users, reducing their impact and creating potential research waste.

Methods: This study consisted of 2 components: (1) a systematic review of eHealth tools for pediatric pain assessment and/or management published in the past 10 years, and (2) an online survey, completed by the authors of identified tools, of tool availability, perceived barriers or facilitators to availability, grant funding used, and a validated measure of user-centeredness of the design process (UCD-11).

A scoping review on the study of siblings in pediatric pain.

: Sibling relationships are longstanding across an individual's life and are influential in children's development. The study of siblings in pediatric pain is, although in early stages, a growing field. : This scoping review sought to summarize and map the type of research available examining siblings and pediatric pain to identify gaps and directions for future research.

Women's Experiences With Flap Failure After Autologous Breast Reconstruction: A Qualitative Analysis.

Clinical experience suggests that flap failure after autologous breast reconstruction can be a devastating experience for women. Previous research has examined women's experiences with autologous breast reconstruction with and without complications, and patients' experiences with suboptimal outcomes from other medical procedures. The authors aimed to examine the psychosocial experience of flap failure from the patient's perspective.

Offspring of parents with chronic pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis of pain, health, psychological, and family outcomes.

Offspring of parents with chronic pain may be at risk for poorer outcomes than offspring of healthy parents. The objective of this research was to provide a comprehensive mixed-methods systematic synthesis of all available research on outcomes in offspring of parents with chronic pain. A systematic search was conducted for published articles in English examining pain, health, psychological, or family outcomes in offspring of parents with chronic pain.

Extent of pathologic extracapsular extension and outcomes in patients with nonoropharyngeal head and neck cancer treated with initial surgical resection.

Background: Lymph node extracapsular extension (ECE) is a known adverse prognostic factor in head and neck cancer and is an indication for adjuvant chemoradiation (CRT). However, the extent of ECE may provide additional prognostic information in the setting of adjuvant CRT.

Methods: This study included 350 patients with oral cavity cancer (72.

A longitudinal investigation of pain-related social support preferences in a chronic pain treatment sample.

Objectives: Chronic pain patients' pain-related social support preferences have received little clinical or research attention. However, recent research utilizing the Pain Response Preference Questionnaire (PRPQ) has indicated that such preferences are related to pain-related disability. This study investigated whether pain-related social support preferences: (1) were related to disability levels, (2) predicted changes in pain and disability following a group-based treatment program, and (3) changed from pretreatment to posttreatment.

Associations between pain conditions and borderline personality disorder symptoms: findings from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication.

Objectives: Associations between 4 forms of pain (ie, arthritis, severe/frequent headaches, chronic spinal pain, and other chronic pain) and borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms were investigated in the general population.

Methods: Data from part II of the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (N=5692) were used. Pain conditions were assessed with self-reports.

Cystic fibrosis presenting with dermatitis.

Background: Patients with cystic fibrosis classically present with evidence of pulmonary disease, exocrine pancreatic insufficiency, and high sweat chloride concentrations. Dermatitis as an initial manifestation of the disease is uncommon and has been attributed to multiple nutritional deficiencies.

Observation: We describe the case of a 3-month-old female infant with cystic fibrosis presenting with dermatitis in the setting of protein-energy malnutrition.

Adverse events from systemic therapies for psoriasis are common in clinical practice.

Background: Patients with moderate-to-severe psoriasis frequently require systemic treatment and these medications may be associated with adverse effects. Little is known about the frequency of these events when systemic agents are used in true clinical practice.

Objective: To determine the frequency of adverse events associated with various systemic psoriasis therapies.

The comorbid state of psoriasis patients in a university dermatology practice.

Background: Psoriasis treatment is frequently complicated by the various types and severities of disease as well as the large number of therapies available. Another critical consideration in treatment planning is the presence of comorbid diseases.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relative prevalence of major comorbid disease states in patients with psoriasis and to identify significant predictors of these concurrent diseases in such patients.