Telehealth among substance using justice-involved persons on community supervision: Benefits, challenges, and suggestions for future use.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to understand the uses of telehealth with justice-involved adults under community supervision with substance use problems, including their experiences during the pandemic.

Methods: Structured interviews were administered among 17 justice-involved adults under community supervision about their experiences with telehealth services to treat substance use disorders. Thematic coding was used for the analysis.

Willingness to work among males on parole: A quantitative and qualitative analysis.

This study investigated employment attitudes of adult males who were recently released from prison and onto parole. The study investigated the role of willingness to work entry-level jobs, an understudied variable in career development of justice-involved persons. We hypothesized that criminal thinking and perception of barriers would each have a direct effect on job search self-efficacy and a direct and indirect effect on willingness to work entry-level jobs, through job search self-efficacy.

Path to a Profession: How a Physician Assistant Becomes a Physician Assistant.

This pilot study, through the application of phenomenological methodology, considered the physician assistant (PA) profession as a "lived experience" in an attempt to understand how these medical practitioners end up on the PA path and what keeps them there. Additionally, the researchers focused on understanding why specific individuals gravitate towards the PA education option. Major themes that developed during the interviews with eight PAs included personal unfamiliarity with the PA profession during the first two decades of life, the decision to pursue PA training while in undergraduate studies, assuming roles often considered MD/DO specific and the subsequent patient confusion with the difference between a PA and an MD/DO, and significant work satisfaction resulting in the lack of desire to change profession.