Fear and depression during the COVID-19 outbreak in Cameroon: a nation-wide observational study.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been associated with significant psychological and social distress worldwide. We investigated fear and depression among adults in Cameroon during different phases of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Methods: An online survey was conducted in Cameroon from June-December 2020 using a structured questionnaire.

COVID-19 Preventive Behaviours in Cameroon: A Six-Month Online National Survey.

Since March 2020, the Cameroonian government implemented nationwide measures to stall COVID-19 transmission. However, little is known about how well these unprecedented measures are being observed as the pandemic evolves. We conducted a six-month online survey to assess the preventive behaviour of Cameroonian adults during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Retrospective analysis of the prevalence of and factors associated with condom use among young HIV-infected women in Cameroon.

Objectives: Young women are more likely to be infected with HIV globally, in sub-Saharan Africa, and in Cameroon. Despite its clear clinical and public health benefits, condom use among HIV-infected women continues to be low. The objective of this study was to describe the prevalence of inconsistent condom use among HIV-infected women in Cameroon and the factors associated with it.

Factors associated with inconsistent condom use in adolescents with negative or unknown HIV status in Northwest Cameroon.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the association between utilization of HIV testing and condom use amongst Cameroonian youths/adolescents who are not known to be HIV-infected. Worldwide, HIV is spreading most quickly amongst youths/adolescents. Between 44% and 82% of sexually active youths in Cameroon report inconsistent condom use.

Implementing a low-cost web-based clinical trial management system for community studies: a case study.

Background: Clinical trials with multiple intervention locations and a single research coordinating center can be logistically difficult to implement. Increasingly, web-based systems are used to provide clinical trial support with many commercial, open source, and proprietary systems in use. New web-based tools are available which can be customized without programming expertise to deliver web-based clinical trial management and data collection functions.

Research in child and adolescent telemental health.

Over the past decade telepsychiatry, and more broadly telemental health (TMH), services with children and adolescents have been implemented with diverse populations in many geographic areas across the United States. The feasibility and acceptability of child and adolescent TMH have been well demonstrated, but little research exists on the efficacy and effectiveness of TMH in improving the mental health care and outcomes for underserved youth. This article summarizes the state of research in child and adolescent telemental health TMH and examines studies in other areas of telemedicine that may inspire and guide child and adolescent telepsychiatrists to collect data on the process and outcomes of their own work.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and telemental health.

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most prevalent psychiatric disorders diagnosed in children and adolescents (youth). ADHD is equally distributed geographically, but services are not. Access to expert evaluation and treatment remains limited for youth with ADHD living in rural areas, as well as for ethnic and racial minority youth.

Child and adolescent telepsychiatry: variations in utilization, referral patterns and practice trends.

Seattle Children's Hospital is a tertiary referral hospital that has provided telepsychiatry to seven partner sites in the north-west since 2001. Service utilization data, patient demographics and diagnoses were collected for the period from the service inception in October 2001 until November 2007. During the study period, 701 patients were treated with a mean of 2.

Psychiatric diagnoses in a sample of HIV-infected people of color in methadone treatment.

Little diagnostic information is available for those who represent a significant part of the HIV epidemic: substance-using members of racial and ethnic minority communities. Our paper describes the rates of psychiatric diagnoses in a convenience sample of HIV-positive, African American and Hispanic clients in methadone treatment in the Bronx, NY. Out of 139 HIV-positive volunteers, 99 subjects had diagnoses in addition to opioid dependence on agonist therapy.

"Let's talk about sex, baby": community-based HIV prevention work and the problem of sex.

Talking about sex and sexuality has been integral to HIV/AIDS prevention work in the United States since the beginning of the epidemic. Early prevention workers, who were primarily gay men, developed a "sex-positive" approach to prevention, involving frank discussions of sex and sexuality, with the idea of helping to end the epidemic by protecting oneself and one's sex partners from the disease. This article examines early prevention work at AIDS Action Committee (ACC) in Boston, Massachusetts, and details subsequent challenges to this approach, primarily from Bostonians outside of the gay community, but also from within AAC.

Psychiatric and social barriers to HIV medication adherence in a triply diagnosed methadone population.

Although antiretrovirals can prolong life, medication adherence also poses a constant challenge for HIV-infected individuals because the success of antiretroviral regimens demands nearly perfect adherence to medications. This paper describes the psychiatric and social barriers to adherence in a convenience sample of HIV-positive clients in methadone treatment in the Bronx, New York. The study sample was part of a national study of HIV treatment adherence and health care utilization among triply diagnosed populations, the HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence Health Outcomes and Cost Study.