Publications by authors named "N K Huff"

Article Synopsis
  • The review aims to identify factors affecting young people's help-seeking and use of mental health services, focusing on individuals aged 0-30, through evidence gathered from multiple high-quality systematic reviews.
  • Key factors influencing mental healthcare access include trust in professionals, support from close relationships, treatment costs, service availability, and insurance policies, with stigma being a significant concern across many reviews.
  • The study highlights the need for tailored interventions that address specific community and demographic needs while promoting stigma reduction and improving trust, affordability, anonymity, and mental health awareness among young people.
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Adults' judgments of children's behaviors play a critical role in assessment and treatment of childhood psychopathology. Judgments of children's psychiatric symptoms are likely influenced by racial biases, but little is known about the specific racial biases adults hold about children's psychiatric symptoms, which could play a critical role in childhood mental health disparities. This study examined one form of such biases, racial stereotypes, to determine if White and Black adults hold implicit and explicit racial stereotypes about common childhood psychopathology symptoms, and if these stereotypes vary by child gender and disorder type.

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Study Objective: Patients with psychiatric conditions and/or substance use disorders (SUDs) frequently seek care in emergency departments (EDs), where providing care for these populations can involve considerable challenges. This study aimed to develop a comprehensive data-driven model of the complex challenges and unique dynamics associated with caring for these populations in the ED, as well as the effect on patient care quality.

Methods: We conducted a preplanned topical analysis of grounded theory data obtained from semistructured interviews with 86 ED physicians and nurses from 8 hospitals in the Northeastern USA.

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Background: As the COVID-19 pandemic began, frontline nurses experienced many emotions as they faced risks relevant to both patients (e.g., making errors resulting in patient harm) and themselves (e.

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