Rapport Building in Written Crisis Services: Qualitative Content Analysis.

Background: Building therapeutic relationships and social presence are challenging in digital services and maybe even more difficult in written services. Despite these difficulties, in-person care may not be feasible or accessible in all situations.

Objective: This study aims to categorize crisis counselors' efforts to build rapport in written conversations by using deidentified conversation transcripts from the text and chat arms of the National Child Abuse Hotline.

In their own words: Child and adolescent perceptions of caregiver stress during early COVID-19.

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exacerbated multiple stressors for caregivers of children in the United States, raising concern for increased family conflict, harsh parenting, and child maltreatment. Little is known regarding children's perceptions and experiences of caregiver stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To examine how children and adolescents identify and experience caregiver stress during the early COVID-19 pandemic.

Erector Spinae Plane Block versus Continuous Perineural Local Anesthetic Infusion for Postoperative Pain Control After Supraclavicular Decompression for Neurogenic Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: A Matched Case-Control Comparison.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if single injection erector spinae plane blocks are associated with improved pain control, opioid use, numbness, length of stay, or patient satisfaction compared to intraoperatively placed continuous perineural infusion of local anesthetic after decompression of neurogenic thoracic outlet syndrome.

Methods: This is a retrospective cohort study at a tertiary academic center of eighty patients that underwent supraclavicular decompression for thoracic outlet syndrome between May 2019 and January 2020. Forty consecutive patients treated with single-injection preoperative erector spinae plane blocks were retrospectively compared to 40 age- and gender-matched controls treated with continuous perineural infusion.

"The Stay at Home Order is Causing Things to Get Heated Up": Family Conflict Dynamics During COVID-19 From The Perspectives of Youth Calling a National Child Abuse Hotline.

The purpose of this study was to identify changes in family conflict and abuse dynamics during COVID-19 stay-at-home orders from the perspectives of youth calling a national child abuse hotline. We analyzed text and chat transcripts from Childhelp's National Child Abuse Hotline from May-June 2020 that were flagged as coming from a child with a COVID-19-related concern (N = 105). Thematic analysis was used to identify COVID-19 related influences of family conflict as well as how COVID-19 constraints influenced coping and survival for youth reporting distress or maltreatment to the hotline.

Assessing Child Abuse Hotline Inquiries in the Wake of COVID-19: Answering the Call.

This cross-sectional study assesses inquiries to a child distress hotline during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with inquiries during the same period the previous year.