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A focus on contraceptive preferences is essential to the provision of person-centered care. Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in the WHO African Region experience disparities in contraceptive access and use and reproductive health outcomes. Despite increasing recognition of AGYW needs as unique, their preferences are understudied, limiting strategies to improve contraceptive care access and quality among marginalized youth populations.
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January 2025
Department of Educational Psychology (Rudecindo, Tao, Imel) and Huntsman Mental Health Institute, Department of Education, Culture, & Society, and Ethnic Studies Program (Smith), University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Kuo).
Racial microaggressions and cultural ruptures have a significant impact on mental health care for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities. This article reviews the application of the multicultural counseling orientation framework in psychiatry to address these challenges and improve therapeutic outcomes. The authors outline strategies to integrate cultural humility into psychiatric practice, with an emphasis on self-reflection, feedback, and the recognition of microaggressions.
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January 2025
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
Purpose: Cancer survivors in a state with no legal access to cannabis may be hesitant to discuss their cannabis use with providers, particularly in light of legal consequences which disproportionately affect certain racial groups. This study examined potential racial disparities in the relationship of cannabis use status with patient-provider discussions of and attitudes toward cannabis in a state where there is no legal cannabis marketplace.
Methods: Survivors of cancer (N = 1003, M = 62.
Biomedicines
December 2024
UCT/MRC Genomic and Precision Medicine Research Unit, Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pathology, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, and Affiliated Hospitals, Cape Town 7704, South Africa.
: Although genetic testing has improved our ability to diagnose Lynch syndrome (LS), there is still limited information on the extent of variations in the clinical and genetic landscape among LS variant heterozygotes (LSVH) in Africa. We sought to investigate the cancer spectrum, cumulative risk, and survival outcomes of LSVH with pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (P/LPVs) in the and genes using a LS registry in South Africa over the last 30 years. : A retrospective study was conducted to retrieve demographic, clinical, and genetic data of all LSVH with P/LPVs in the and genes from our LS registry.
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December 2024
Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269, USA.
Family conflict has been demonstrated as a risk factor impacting children's mental health and behaviors; however, the mechanisms underlying these connections are unclear. Focusing on 1622 children from low-income families (51.4% boys, 38.
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