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Rural Remote Health
January 2025
Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
Introduction: Perceived social support is a psychological construct that is used to describe the 'perception of adequacy' of the support being provided by a person's social network. Higher perceived social support has been linked to multiple benefits across numerous studies over the past several decades and among multiple populations. The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) is a 12-item scale to assess the construct of perceived social support.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMJ Open Ophthalmol
December 2024
Ophthalmology, Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, UK.
Background: Very premature infants screened for retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) that do not develop ROP still experience serious visual developmental challenges, and while it is recommended that all children in the UK are offered preschool visual screening, we aimed to explore whether this vulnerable group requires dedicated follow-up.
Methods: We performed a real-world retrospective observational cohort study of children previously screened for ROP in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (Scotland) between 2013 and 2015. We excluded those with any severity of ROP identified during screening.
Drug Alcohol Depend
January 2025
British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, 1045 Howe St Suite 400, Vancouver, British Columbia V6Z 2A9, Canada; Interdepartmental Division of Addiction Medicine, St. Paul's Hospital, 1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6Z 1Y6.
Background: People exposed to fentanyl may report that the dose of methadone in the commonly accepted therapeutic range feels too low. We examined self-reported methadone dose adequacy.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of individuals prescribed methadone at a dose of at least 60mg daily using data from three community-recruited prospective cohort studies of people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada from December 2016 through March 2020.
Psychol Assess
January 2025
Maastricht University, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Department of Clinical Psychological Science.
Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) collects real-time data in daily life, enhancing ecological validity and reducing recall bias. An EMA questionnaire that measures symptoms and transdiagnostic factors was recently developed with network modeling purposes. This study examines this EMA protocol's (a) subjective experience (e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Opioid Manag
January 2025
Western University of Health Sciences, Lebanon, Oregon.
Objective: The present opioid crisis has raised concern regarding the prescribing practices of physicians. However, the training of resident physicians has not been sufficiently evaluated. The proposed objective of this study was to evaluate how residents across different specialties perceived the adequacy of their training in the prescribing of opioid-based anal-gesics.
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