Smartphone applications supporting self-management programme for adults with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Scoping Review.

Introduction: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) significantly impacts on both the quality and quantity of life for patients due to frequent exacerbations requiring hospital admissions resulting in increased morbidity and mortality. A self-management programme purpose is to increase one's knowledge, confidence, and skills to self-manage their chronic illness such as COPD.

Objective: The objective of this review will therefore answer the following research question: What is the current literature pertaining to the use of a smartphone app in supporting a comprehensive self-management programme among COPD patients? A preliminary search was conducted in, Medline, Embase and CINAHL databases to ascertain index terms and keywords.

Telehealth and Rural-Urban Differences in Receipt of Pain Care in the Veterans Health Administration.

Objective: Examine changes in specialty pain utilization in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) after establishing a virtual interdisciplinary pain team (TelePain).

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: A single VHA healthcare system, 2015-2019.

Bringing chronic-pain care to rural veterans: A telehealth pilot program description.

Opioid-related harms disproportionately affect rural communities. Recent research-based policy changes have called for reductions in opioid prescribing and substitution of safe and effective alternatives to opioids for treating chronic pain, but such alternatives are often difficult to access in rural areas. Telehealth services can help address this disparity by bringing evidence-based, biopsychosocial chronic-pain services to rural and underserved patients with chronic pain.

A randomized controlled trial to influence client language in substance use disorder treatment.

Background: Client language is hypothesized to be a mechanism of action in motivational interviewing (MI). Despite the association of change and sustain talk with substance treatment outcomes, it not known whether providers can intentionally influence this language as hypothesized.

Objective: This is a randomized controlled trial to investigate whether substance use providers can be trained to influence client language.

Methadone "callbacks" within a veterans affairs opioid treatment program: Detecting methadone misuse.

Background And Objectives: A "callback" requires patients to bring in take-home methadone doses for inspection. An opioid treatment program (OTP) quality-improvement project examined random versus "for-cause" callbacks.

Method: Eighty-two random callbacks and 60 for-cause callbacks were conducted among patients enrolled in an OTP (N = 183).

Intensive care nurses' opinions and current practice in relation to delirium in the intensive care setting.

Background: Delirium is a frequently encountered syndrome that negatively impacts on the well-being of the critically ill patient. Although international guidelines promote delirium monitoring, little is known regarding Irish intensive care (ICU) nurses' opinions and current practice in relation to delirium monitoring.

Aim: To ascertain ICU nurses' opinions on delirium among the critically ill and establish if delirium monitoring is part of current practice in the Republic of Ireland.

A Guide for Starting a Specialty Training Clinic: An Alcohol Treatment Program as an Example.

Since the Boulder conference more than 50 years ago, clinical psychology has been moving towards empirically based techniques and methods. Considerable research has been conducted and a multitude of studies have documented support for empirically supported treatments (ESTs). However, the literature on implementing ESTs in real-world settings is relatively limited.

CACTI: free, open-source software for the sequential coding of behavioral interactions.

The sequential analysis of client and clinician speech in psychotherapy sessions can help to identify and characterize potential mechanisms of treatment and behavior change. Previous studies required coding systems that were time-consuming, expensive, and error-prone. Existing software can be expensive and inflexible, and furthermore, no single package allows for pre-parsing, sequential coding, and assignment of global ratings.

Chasing change talk: the clinician's role in evoking client language about change.

Client "change talk," or language in favor of changing a target behavior, is a hypothesized active ingredient of motivational interviewing that can predict actual behavioral change. This study isolated and manipulated change talk in a context resembling a psychotherapeutic encounter, comparing its prevalence in two conditions: change talk evocation (CT) and functional analysis (FA). Using a single-baseline (ABAB) design, clinicians alternated between CT and FA, consequating change talk only in the CT condition.

Brief Interventions for Tobacco Users: Using the Internet to Train Healthcare Providers.

One fifth of Americans smoke; many have no plans to quit. Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an effective approach to intervention with precontemplative smokers, yet a substantial number of healthcare practitioners lack training in this approach. Two interactive online tutorials were developed to teach practitioners to deliver brief tobacco cessation interventions grounded in the MI approach.