Self-managing symptoms of Long COVID: an education and strategies research protocol.

Post-acute sequelae of SARS-COV-2 (PASC) is growing in prevalence, and involves symptoms originating from the central neurological, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, autonomic nervous, or immune systems. There are non-specific symptoms such as fatigue, headaches, and brain fog, which cannot be ascribed to a single system. PASC places a notable strain on our healthcare system, which is already laden with a large number of acute-COVID-19 patients.

"Don't Just Study our Distress, Do Something": Implementing and Evaluating a Modified Stepped-Care Model for Health Care Worker Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objective: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been concerns about the mental health of health care workers (HCW). Although numerous studies have investigated the level of distress among HCW, few studies have explored programs to improve their mental well-being. In this paper, we describe the implementation and evaluation of a program to support the mental health of HCW at University Health Network (UHN), Canada's largest healthcare network.

Cognitive behavior therapy after acquired brain injury: maintenance of therapeutic benefits at 6 months posttreatment.

Objectives: To examine whether 6-month posttreatment acquired brain injury (ABI) patients receiving cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) adapted for ABI would demonstrate (1) maintenance of psychological benefits, (2) better community integration, and (3) commensurate benefits for both teletherapy and face-to-face group therapy. A secondary objective was to examine the relationship between coping strategies and mood and community integration.

Participants: Seventeen chronic ABI patients with elevated psychological distress.

The efficacy of cognitive behavior therapy in the treatment of emotional distress after acquired brain injury.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), adapted to meet the unique needs of individuals with acquired brain injury (ABI), and modified for both group and telephone delivery.

Design: Matched-controlled trial, with multiple measurements across participants, including pretreatment baseline assessment plus posttreatment and 1-month follow-up.

Setting: Outpatient community brain injury center.

Depression and neurocognitive functioning in mild traumatic brain injury patients referred for assessment.

The relationship between depression and performance on selected neurocognitive tests was examined in two mild head injury samples (n1 = 72, n2 = 50). A series of hierarchical regression analyses showed that scores on depression-related scales of both the MCMI-II (Millon Clinical Multi-Axial Inventory; Millon, 1987) and MMPI-2 (Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory; Hathaway & McKinley, 1989) were largely independent of cognitive performance. Depression may be prevalent in mild injury, but it is unlikely to mediate deficits observed on commonly used measures of problem solving, visual-motor speed, prose and figural recall.