COVID-19 in Patients With Hematologic-Oncologic Risk Factors: Complications in Three Patients.

The novel COVID-19 infection has demonstrated a spectrum of complications involving vascular, inflammatory, infectious, and metabolic conditions. These complications range from mild loss of smell to more severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Patients with more severe complications often require sedation and mechanical ventilation.

Carers' and service users' experiences of early intervention in psychosis services: implications for care partnerships.

Aim: To explore carers' and service users' experiences of UK Early Intervention Services following referral for first-episode psychosis.

Methods: Thirty-two semi-structured interviews (16 interviews with service users and 16 corresponding interviews with their carers) were completed and analysed.

Results: Carers spoke retrospectively and prospectively by framing their accounts into the periods before and since their engagement with Early Intervention Services.

Posttraumatic stress disorder and one-year outcome in methadone maintenance treatment.

Background: Although opiate use may be associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), it is not clear whether PTSD is associated with retention in methadone maintenance.

Objectives: To evaluate among those receiving methadone maintenance at an urban methadone maintenance clinic the frequency of life-time traumatic experiences, the predictors and prevalence of current PTSD, and whether PTSD affects retention at 1 year.

Methods: Eighty-nine people participated in the study.

Feasibility of telephone-based cognitive behavioral therapy targeting major depression among urban dwelling African-American people with co-occurring HIV.

Given the burden of depression among those with HIV, and the impact of HIV on urban minority communities there is an urgent need to assess innovative treatment interventions that not only treat depression but do so in a way that allows for increased access to mental health care. This single site, uncontrolled, pilot study sought to determine the feasibility and depression outcomes of an 11-session telephone-based cognitive behavioral therapy intervention delivered over 14 weeks targeting low-income, urban-dwelling, HIV-infected African-American people with major depression. The diagnosis of major depression was made using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview.

Media and internet ownership and use among mental health outpatients with serious mental illness.

Objective: To determine whether people with serious mental illness (SMI) and substance use disorder (SUD) use the Internet to receive health information.

Methods: One hundred people with SMI were surveyed in community mental health clinics.

Results: Participants with SUD were significantly less likely to use the Internet compared to those who without SUD (.