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PLoS One
January 2025
Kaiser Permanente San Jose Psychiatry, San Jose, California, United States of America.
The COVID-19 pandemic created unprecedented challenges for social connectivity and mental health, especially during mandated shelter-in-place periods. For patients engaged in mental health treatment, the social impact of their shelter-in-place experience remains an area of active investigation. This is particularly relevant in the context of social prescribing, a growing area of clinical intervention where healthcare providers actively refer patients to local social resources or activities to enhance mental health and wellbeing.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Dev Behav Pediatr
January 2025
Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
Objective: Wearable technology has potential benefits for clinical measurement with children who have neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs). However, this cohort may experience sensory processing disorder, behavioral dysregulation, and cognitive challenges. For effective and considerate implementation, the experiences and views of parents of children with NDDs on this topic need in-depth investigation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhys Ther
January 2025
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States.
Objective: This study aimed to describe the monitoring of treatment fidelity in a pragmatic pediatric rehabilitation trial using the National Institutes of Health Behavior Change Consortium framework, and to identify child and therapist factors that influence treatment fidelity.
Methods: Therapists (n = 28) were trained in the key ingredients (1-on-1, functional, goal-directed, motor learning intervention) and study protocol for a comparative effectiveness trial titled: A Comparison: High Intensity periodic vs. Every week therapy in children with cerebral palsy (ACHIEVE) for children ages 2 to 8 years with cerebral palsy.
J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev
January 2025
From the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Foot and Ankle Research and Innovation Laboratory (FARIL), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Flaherty, Ghandour, Mirochnik, Lucaciu, Nassour, Kwon, and Ashkani-Esfahani); the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Kwon, Harris, and Ashkani-Esfahani); and the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Division Foot and Ankle, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (Kwon and Ashkani-Esfahani).
Background: Approximately 25% of children in the United States experience child abuse or neglect, 18% of whom are physically abused. Physicians are often in a position to differentiate accidental trauma from physical child abuse. Therefore, the aim of this study was to review recent literature for risk factors associated with physical child abuse.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Manag Care Spec Pharm
January 2025
Joslin Diabetes Center, Sequel Med Tech, Boston, MA.
Background: Type 2 diabetes (T2D) causes increased health care resource utilization (HCRU) and costs in the United States. People with T2D are more likely to have atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), which is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Medical associations recommend cardioprotective antidiabetic medications, including sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) and glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RAs), to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in patients with T2D with established, or a high risk of, ASCVD, but not all eligible patients receive these medications.
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