Publications by authors named "Sin-Ying Lin"

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  • Many patients with major depressive disorder feel they have benefited from treatment, even if not classified as "responders" based on traditional symptom severity measures.
  • In a study involving 854 patients, less than 40% were deemed responders based solely on depression symptoms, but about two-thirds reported improvements in their overall well-being.
  • Findings indicate a need for patient-centered evaluation methods that consider various aspects of recovery, suggesting that treatment impacts go beyond just symptom reduction.
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Background & Problems: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is an intervention that replaces cardiopulmonary function temporarily to reduce injury to vital organs. As important members of the ECMO medical team, intensive care unit nurses must be well trained and alert to possible critical events. Failure to troubleshoot and manage ECMO promptly and correctly significantly increases the risk of mortality.

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The emphasis on symptom resolution in depression treatment research is at variance with the recommendations of official treatment guidelines and the results of surveys of depressed patients' views of the most important treatment goals. In the present study, we examined the interrelationship between response rates on various outcome domains and whether response on each domain was associated with patients' global rating of improvement (PGI) reported upon treatment completion. We also examined whether the PGI was associated with the number of domains on which the patients had achieved responder status and which domains were independent predictors of PGI response.

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  • In depression treatment studies, success is often measured by a 50% reduction in symptom severity, but many patients prioritize improved functioning and quality of life instead.
  • A study involving 844 patients with major depressive disorder used a questionnaire to evaluate how patients assess treatment outcomes beyond just symptom relief.
  • Even patients labeled as nonresponders in terms of symptom reduction showed significant improvements in nonsymptom areas, with about one-third achieving positive results in at least one of those domains.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted numerous people?s mental health and created new barriers to services. To address the unknown effects of the pandemic on accessibility and equality issues in mental health care, this study aimed to investigate gender and racial/ethnic disparities in mental health and treatment use in undergraduate and graduate students amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The study was conducted based on a largescale online survey (N = 1,415) administered during the weeks following a pandemic-related university-wide campus closure in March 2020.

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A vast array of family processes is linked to child mental development, among which (1) low parental acceptance and (2) high family conflict are known as transdiagnostic risk factors for child internalizing and externalizing psychopathology. In contrast to most prior research adopting cross-sectional or lagged designs, the current study applied fine-grained multilevel modeling to elucidate the complex relationships among parental acceptance, family conflict, and child psychopathology, considering the nesting structure of children within families and longitudinal changes within children. We focused on preadolescents from the two-wave Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study (N = 4,953; aged 9-12) and accounted for parental psychopathology and sex differences.

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Mounting evidence highlights the link between screen time and adolescent mood problems. However, there are several shortcomings to the extant literature: (1) this link is underexplored in preadolescents, (2) most existing studies look at mood problems using categorical diagnoses rather than from a symptom-level perspective, despite the heterogeneity within mood disorders, (3) few studies have simultaneously examined the links of mood symptoms with different types of screen time, and (4) family/child-level factors that have shown links to youth psychopathology are not typically considered. This study, for the first time, examined the relationships of mood symptoms with different types of screen time, while accounting for theoretically important factors-parental monitoring and the behavioral inhibition/activation systems (BIS/BAS)-in preadolescents aged 9 to 10 from 9986 families participating in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study.

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A growing body of evidence highlights the role of life stress as a risk factor for the development and relapse of substance use disorders (SUDs), but the relationship of life stress with the interactions among SUD symptoms is overlooked. The current study investigated the role of life stress in symptom networks of 3 different SUDs-alcohol, tobacco, and drug use-using the U.S.

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