Determinants of experience & satisfaction in telehealth psychiatry during the COVID-19 pandemic for patients & providers.

Introduction: The objective of this study was to characterize the experiences and overall satisfaction of patients and providers with the March 2020 transition to telehealth in a psychiatric setting (telepsychiatry). The study also investigated how socio-demographic and clinical characteristics impact an individual's experiences and satisfaction with telepsychiatry.

Methods: Responses were collected from 604 patients and 154 providers engaged in clinical care at one of three participating Johns Hopkins Medicine outpatient psychiatric clinics between January 2020-March 2021.

Mental Health of Staff at Correctional Facilities in the United States During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: Although United States (US) correctional workers (correctional officers and health care workers at correctional institutions) have experienced unprecedented stress during the COVID-19 pandemic, to date, there are no systematic data on the mental health impact of COVID-19 on correctional workers.

Objective: To determine the perceived mental health burden of the COVID-19 pandemic on correctional workers and to explore the relationship between workers' mental health, social demographics, and environmental/work factors. In particular, the study sought to examine if occupational role (correctional officers vs.

Healthcare Worker Mental Health After the Initial Peak of the COVID-19 Pandemic: a US Medical Center Cross-Sectional Survey.

Background: There is a paucity of data on the mental health impact of the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on United States (US) healthcare workers (HCWs) after the first surge in the spring of 2020.

Objective: To determine the impact of the pandemic on HCWs, and the relationship between HCW mental health and demographics, occupational factors, and COVID-19 concerns.

Design: Cross-sectional survey in an urban medical center (September-November 2020) in Baltimore, MD, in the United States.

Psychological First Aid Well-Being Support Rounds for Frontline Healthcare Workers During COVID-19.

Frontline healthcare workers face unprecedented stress from the current SARS COV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. Hospital systems need to develop support programs to help frontline staff deal with this stress. The purpose of this article is to describe a support program for front line healthcare workers.

Provider perceived barriers and facilitators to integrating routine outcome monitoring into practice in an urban community psychiatry clinic: A mixed-methods quality improvement project.

Background And Aims: Although mental health clinics are under increasing pressure to demonstrate value and routine outcome monitoring (ROM) has become a mandated component of care, providers have been slow to adopt ROM into practice, with some estimating that less than 20% of mental health clinicians use it consistently in the United States. This article explores perceived barriers and facilitators to integrating ROM into practice among clinicians and administrators in a large urban US community psychiatry clinic.

Method: One hundred and thirty-eight clinical and administrative staff were administered an anonymous web-based survey to elicit attitudes towards ROM.

Measuring the time course of selection during visual search.

In visual search tasks, observers can guide their attention towards items in the visual field that share features with the target item. In this series of studies, we examined the time course of guidance toward a subset of items that have the same color as the target item. Landolt Cs were placed on 16 colored disks.

Measuring stigma affecting sex workers (SW) and men who have sex with men (MSM): A systematic review.

Background: Stigma involves discrediting a person or group based on a perceived attribute, behaviour or reputation associated with them. Sex workers (SW) and men who have sex with men (MSM) are key populations who are often at increased risk for the acquisition and transmission of HIV and who are affected by stigma that can negatively impact their health and well-being. Although stigma was included as an indicator in the US National HIV/AIDS Strategic Plan and there have been consultations focused on adding a stigma indicator within PEPFAR and the Global Fund in relation to potentiating HIV risks among key populations, there remains limited consensus on the appropriate measurement of SW- or MSM-associated stigma.

Mobile technology for medication adherence in people with mood disorders: A systematic review.

Background: Medication non-adherence is a critical challenge for many patients diagnosed with mood disorders (Goodwin and Jamison, 1990). There is a need for alternative strategies that improve adherence among patients with mood disorders that are cost-effective, able to reach large patient populations, easy to implement, and that allow for communication with patients outside of in-person visits. Technology-based approaches to promote medication adherence are increasingly being explored to address this need.

Implementing and Evaluating a Counseling Program in Partnership With a Community-based Domestic Violence Service Provider.

Background: Given the burden of intimate partner violence (IPV), effective counseling interventions that are accessible to women in their own communities are needed.

Objectives: To describe the collaborative process of implement ing and evaluating a new counseling program for IPV-the Women's Initiative for Safety and Health (WISH)-in a community setting and present results of its Thrst pilot test.

Methods: WISH is a stage-tailored, eight-session counseling program based on the transtheoretical model.

Academic physicians' and medical students' perceived barriers toward bystander administered naloxone as an overdose prevention strategy.

Aims: To identify perceived barriers to the prescription of naloxone to third-party contacts of opiate users.

Design: Qualitative descriptive study.

Setting: Two academic hospitals in Baltimore, MD, USA.

Addressing spirituality within the care of patients at the end of life: perspectives of patients with advanced cancer, oncologists, and oncology nurses.

Purpose: Attention to patients' religious and spiritual needs is included in national guidelines for quality end-of-life care, but little data exist to guide spiritual care.

Patients And Methods: The Religion and Spirituality in Cancer Care Study is a multi-institution, quantitative-qualitative study of 75 patients with advanced cancer and 339 cancer physicians and nurses. Patients underwent semistructured interviews, and care providers completed a Web-based survey exploring their perspectives on the routine provision of spiritual care by physicians and nurses.

Varying target prevalence reveals two dissociable decision criteria in visual search.

Target prevalence powerfully influences visual search behavior. In most visual search experiments, targets appear on at least 50% of trials [1-3]. However, when targets are rare (as in medical or airport screening), observers shift response criteria, leading to elevated miss error rates [4, 5].

Even in correctable search, some types of rare targets are frequently missed.

Socially important visual search tasks, such as airport baggage screening and tumor detection, place observers in situations where the targets are rare and the consequences of failed detection are substantial. Recent laboratory studies have demonstrated that low target prevalence yields substantially higher miss errors than do high-prevalence conditions, in which the same targets appear frequently (Wolfe, Horowitz, & Kenner, 2005; Wolfe et al., 2007).

In visual search, guidance by surface type is different than classic guidance.

Visual search for targets among distractors is more efficient if attention can be guided to targets by attributes like color. In real-world search, we guide attention using information about surfaces (e.g.

Why do we miss rare targets? Exploring the boundaries of the low prevalence effect.

Observers tend to miss a disproportionate number of targets in visual search tasks with rare targets. This 'prevalence effect' may have practical significance since many screening tasks (e.g.

Low target prevalence is a stubborn source of errors in visual search tasks.

In visual search tasks, observers look for targets in displays containing distractors. Likelihood that targets will be missed varies with target prevalence, the frequency with which targets are presented across trials. Miss error rates are much higher at low target prevalence (1%-2%) than at high prevalence (50%).