Purpose: Using a community-engaged approach, we adapted a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention smartphone app, Transpire, to meet the HIV and sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention needs of transgender men and other transmasculine people. We conducted a pilot study to assess the feasibility and acceptability of the app among participants in two cities in the southeastern United States.
Methods: Participants were recruited online and through community partners.
Background: Ketamine is known for its rapid antidepressant effect, but its impact on affective information processing (including attentional bias, a putative cognitive mechanism of depression), remains largely unexplored. We leveraged a novel measurement of attentional bias and sought to: (1) establish adequate test-retest reliability and validity among depressed participants prior to ketamine treatment; and (2) harness a single dose of ketamine to assess mechanistic shifts in attentional bias and their relation to antidepressant efficacy.
Methods: A novel dual probe video task was used to index attentional bias toward sad film clips.
Affect-biased attention is the phenomenon of prioritizing attention to emotionally salient stimuli and away from goal-directed stimuli. It is thought that affect-biased attention to emotional stimuli is a driving factor in the development of depression. This effect has been well-studied in adults, but research shows that this is also true during adolescence, when the severity of depressive symptoms are correlated with the magnitude of affect-biased attention to negative emotional stimuli.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Patient experience metrics are gaining prominence in health care. We introduce the CAPABLE survey to assess postoperative experiences of Mohs surgery patients.
Objective: We sought to determine whether CAPABLE scores aligned with overall patient satisfaction in Mohs surgery.