Publications by authors named "M Swarbrick"
Purpose: In response to the need to support health care professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic, an innovative, peer-led discussion group program for medical school faculty, called CIRCLE (Colleague Involved in Reaching Colleagues through Listening and Empathy), was developed at Rutgers Health. This article describes results of a qualitative analysis of the participants' experiences, explores virtual communication platform use during this peer support program, and identifies the program's beneficial elements.
Method: CIRCLE was inaugurated in October 2020 at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School using evidence-informed topics.
Objective: Many people receiving services for psychiatric disorders live on low incomes, navigate complex financial situations, and have limited economic security. The authors sought to determine whether a financial wellness intervention delivered virtually by peers would increase financial literacy, reduce economic strain, and improve financial competency.
Methods: One hundred participants receiving services for psychiatric disorders were recruited from community programs and via social media and were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive either an intervention called Building Financial Wellness (N=51) or services as usual (N=49).
Objective: Wellness has been associated with various general medical and mental health outcomes; however, few empirically supported measures capture the breadth of the wellness construct. The first author had previously developed the Wellness Inventory through an iterative process with key stakeholders to establish face and content validity and examined the psychometric properties of the Wellness Inventory as a tool for assessing wellness across eight dimensions.
Methods: The authors assessed the Wellness Inventory by using data from self-report online surveys in three samples of data collected from two groups of respondents: students and faculty members in a public university and behavioral health providers (N=3,446; 50% White and 43% female).
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- Adrenal vein sampling (AVS) is the preferred method for identifying unilateral subtypes of primary aldosteronism (PA), which can be treated with surgery for a potential cure.
- The procedure is technically demanding and often performed by specialized interventional radiologists, but variations in protocols can affect its success and patient care.
- To standardize AVS practices and improve outcomes, an Australian and New Zealand AVS Working Group was formed to create expert consensus recommendations that can be utilized by all healthcare professionals involved in PA management.
Peer support models have existed for decades in behavioral health care and are being developed for health care professionals to help address high rates of burnout and stress in the health care environment. Such models typically involve individuals from the same profession. With the concurrent increase of interprofessional integrated behavioral health care models, interprofessional peer support seems a viable model.
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