Rakhi Karwa and colleagues discuss a program in which peer navigators support care for people with HIV at a Kenyan hospital.
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BMC Public Health
June 2024
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Background: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) represents a significantly costly and increasingly prevalent disease, with treatment focused on lifestyle intervention. Integrating education and behavioral health into clinical care offers opportunities to engage and empower patients to prevent progression of liver disease. We describe the design and implementation of Behavioral Resources and Intervention through Digital Group Education (BRIDGE), a 6-session group telehealth program led by advanced practice providers (APPs) in 90-min shared medical appointments (SMAs) with small groups of MASLD patients in an academic outpatient hepatology clinic.
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April 2024
Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Introduction: Injection drug networks may influence their network members' health-seeking behaviours. Using data from a sociometric injecting partner network of people who inject drugs (PWID) in New Delhi, India, we assessed the role of injecting partner (alter) behaviours on individual engagement in HIV prevention services.
Methods: We enumerated injecting partner linkages among 2512 PWID using coupon referrals and biometric data from November 2017 to March 2020.
BMC Health Serv Res
August 2023
Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), Nairobi, Kenya.
Background: Hypertension is the leading cause of death and disability. Clinical care for patients with hypertension in Kenya leverages referral networks to provide basic and specialized healthcare services. However, referrals are characterized by non-adherence and delays in completion.
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August 2023
Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address:
Emotion regulation is particularly important for adolescents as they undergo normative developmental changes in affective systems and experience heightened risk for psychopathology. Despite a high need for emotion regulation during adolescence, commonly studied emotion regulation strategies like cognitive reappraisal are less beneficial for adolescents than adults because they rely on neural regions that are still developing during this period (i.e.
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