New Mothers With Postpartum Depression: A Qualitative Exploration of Healthcare Decision-Making.

Postpartum depression (PPD) is a significant health issue for many new mothers in the weeks and months following a child's birth. Quantitative data suggest that a mother's PPD negatively impacts healthcare decision-making for the child via routine well-baby visits and pediatric care. However, little is known from a qualitative perspective about the factors that challenge or facilitate these healthcare decisions.

The Experiences of Skilled Nursing Staff in Memory Care Units During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background And Objectives: The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) resulted in the need for multiple mitigation strategies. The impacts of these safety measures were felt more extremely by healthcare providers. This qualitative study focused on the experiences of staff in skilled nursing facilities, specifically in locked memory care units, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Perceptions of the caregiver-pediatric physical therapist relationship1.

Purpose: Collaboration between physical therapists and caregivers of children who receive physical therapy is integral to providing family-centered care. Successful collaboration depends upon the therapeutic relationship built within the caregiver-therapist dyad. However, the nature of these relationships is not well understood.

Telerehabilitation Use With Spinal Cord Injury: Occupational Therapists' Perspective.

Importance: Telerehabilitation provides people with spinal cord injury (SCI) an alternative mode of accessing specialized health care. Further research on occupational therapy practitioners' perspectives of telerehabilitation may provide additional evidence for clinical practice implementation.

Objective: To explore urban occupational therapists' perspectives on the benefits of and barriers to telerehabilitation use with SCI.

Soft skills and implications for future professional practice: Qualitative findings of a nursing education escape room.

Background: Educational escape rooms have been shown to improve student content knowledge; however, research about other skills developed during escape rooms is lacking.

Objectives: To explore baccalaureate nursing students' perceptions of a cardiovascular-themed educational escape room. During the data analysis, researchers uncovered unique findings related to participant soft skill development and implications for participant future professional practice.

Examining body dissatisfaction in college men through the exploration of appearance anxiety and internalization of the mesomorphic ideal.

Although research has explained various psychological factors leading to body dissatisfaction in male, limited research has examined the potential mediating effect of the anxiety male experience to align with societal conceptions of masculine appearance. In this study, conducted spring semester of 2018, we examined the relationships between internalization of the mesomorphic ideal, appearance anxiety, and body dissatisfaction, as well as the potential mediating effect of appearance anxiety on body dissatisfaction in college-aged male. In a convenience sample of college-aged male, data were collected using self-reported questionnaires measuring internalization, appearance anxiety, and body dissatisfaction.

A realist review of shared medical appointments: How, for whom, and under what circumstances do they work?

Background: Shared medical appointments (SMAs) are doctor-patient visits in which groups of patients are seen by one or more health care providers in a concurrent session. There is a growing interest in understanding the potential benefits of SMAs in various contexts to improve clinical outcomes and reduce healthcare costs. This study builds upon the existing evidence base that suggests SMAs are indeed effective.

A Health Assessment Survey of Veteran Students: Utilizing a Community College-Veterans Affairs Medical Center Partnership.

Objective: To assess health status among student veterans at a community college utilizing a partnership between a Veterans Affairs Medical Center and a community college.

Participants: Student veterans at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, in January to April 2013.

Methods: A health assessment survey was sent to 978 veteran students.

Understanding the Health Needs and Barriers to Seeking Health Care of Veteran Students in the Community.

Objectives: Access to care at Veterans Affairs facilities may be limited by long wait times; however, additional barriers may prevent US military veterans from seeking help at all. We sought to understand the health needs of veterans in the community to identify possible barriers to health-seeking behavior.

Methods: Focus groups were conducted with veteran students at a community college until thematic saturation was reached.

A comparison of lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual college undergraduate women on selected mental health issues.

Objective: To investigate selected mental health characteristics of lesbians and bisexual undergraduate college women as compared with heterosexual college women.

Participants: Self-identified lesbians and bisexual and heterosexual female college students who took part in the American College Health Association National College Health Assessment II (ACHA-NCHA-II) in Fall 2008, Spring 2009, and Fall 2009.

Methods: A secondary analysis of the ACHA-NCHA-II data set for 3 semesters was conducted.