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Emotions play an important role in overeating, yet there is little research looking at practical strategies to reduce overeating in response to a negative mood. In three different experimental studies, we tested if exposure to music can reduce food consumption in a negative mood. Female undergraduates (N = 120-121 in each study) completed a measure of emotional eating and reported baseline hunger.

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Unlabelled: U.S. public health statistics report dismal Black infant and maternal mortality rates.

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Article Synopsis
  • Drug overdoses are a big problem in the U.S., especially in New Hampshire, affecting emergency responders a lot.
  • This study talked to 36 emergency workers, like doctors and police, about how they feel when helping people who overdose on drugs.
  • Some workers showed a lot of care for those using opioids, while others had negative views, and the researchers think more needs to be understood about these mixed feelings.
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Objective: Cognitive remediation approaches for early course schizophrenia are promising interventions for improving social adjustment. Premorbid sociality is a potentially important moderator of social adjustment response to cognitive remediation and may serve to personalize such interventions.

Method: Eighty-eight early course schizophrenia outpatients with premorbid sociality scores were included in this preliminary investigation.

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Background: While prior research has informed how cigarette smokers understand and apply the term addiction, little is known about how this term is used by cigarillo smokers. This is an important area of study given the decline in cigarette use and increase in cigar product consumption.

Purpose/objectives: This paper examines how cigarillo smokers self-identify in terms of addiction and the association of this identification with tobacco use, quitting experiences, and level of nicotine dependence.

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We explore if there is potential to embed psychosocial well-being impact in global challenges research where the primary aims are not mental health related. We are interested in the use of material practices to deliver impact through routine project activities of working with concrete things together. The UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) gateway to research was searched for information on Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) grants from 2015 to May 2020.

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As federal agencies support the development of data systems for adult protective services (APS), researchers and practitioners are increasingly using administrative data to study types of adult maltreatment, including self-neglect, and the systems that respond to them. To date, however, APS has worked with little guidance about how best to use these data. This situation has contributed to inconsistent findings and uneven quality of research.

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Objectives: Discrimination is a major contributor to health disparities between Black and White older adults. Although the health effects of discrimination are well established, less is known about factors that may intervene in the discrimination-health connection, such as coping strategies. The study aim was to determine whether John Henryism (JH; high-effort coping) moderates the association between racial discrimination and hypertension in nationally representative samples of older African Americans and Caribbean Blacks.

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To determine whether sleep disturbance (SD) and vascular-risk interact to promote Alzheimer's disease (AD) stage-progression in normal, community-dwelling older adults and evaluate their combined risk beyond that of established AD biomarkers. Longitudinal data from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center Uniform-Dataset. SD data (i.

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Examining differences in retention on medication for opioid use disorder: An analysis of Ohio Medicaid data.

J Subst Abuse Treat

May 2022

Division of Adolescent Medicine, Nationwide Children's Hospital, United States of America; Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, United States of America.

Background: Medications for opioid use disorder (MOUDs), including methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, are associated with lower death rates and improved quality of life for people in recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD). Less is known about each MOUD modality's association with treatment retention and the contribution of behavioral health therapy (BHT). The objectives of the current study were to estimate the association between MOUD type and treatment retention and determine whether BHT was associated with length of time retained.

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Obesity and Diet Predict Attitudes towards Health Promotion in Pre-Registered Nurses and Midwives.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

December 2021

Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, School of Applied Social Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK.

Nurses and midwives are integral to public health promotion; in the UK, they are advised to act as role models by their governing body, but overweight or obesity rates are high. We explored whether obesity and dietary habits are related to attitudes towards healthy role modelling and health promotion practice. A total of 346 pre-registered UK nurses and midwives (92.

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Confederates influence eating behaviour. Systematic reviews and meta-analyses have been conducted on this topic, however, the majority have examined adults, or a combination of adults and children, therefore, an up-to-date meta-analysis is needed to examine the impact of confederate peers on children's food intake. We systematically reviewed and meta-analysed the influence of confederate peers on children's food intake in research using present and remote-confederates.

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Central to the conceptual spaces framework is the thought that concepts can be studied mathematically, by geometrical and topological means. Various applications of the framework have already been subjected to empirical testing, mostly with excellent results, demonstrating the framework's usefulness. So far untested is the suggestion that conceptual spaces may help explain certain inferences people are willing to make.

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Background: Individual behaviour changes, such as hand hygiene and physical distancing, are required on a population scale to reduce transmission of infectious diseases such as COVID-19. However, little is known about effective methods of communicating risk reducing information, and how populations might respond.

Objective: To synthesise evidence relating to what (1) characterises effective public health messages for managing risk and preventing infectious disease and (2) influences people's responses to messages.

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Preschool blood lead levels, language competency, and substance use in adolescence.

Environ Res

April 2022

Departments of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Psychological Sciences, Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University, United States.

Background: Elevated lead levels in children are a persistent public health problem, particularly in urban areas in the United States, yet few prospective studies have examined the association of childhood lead levels with substance use in adolescence.

Objectives: To determine the association of early lead levels with adolescent substance use and whether childhood IQ, language skills, and externalizing (aggressive and disruptive) behavior mediate the association, controlling for confounding biological and environmental factors.

Methods: The participants (N = 265) were a subsample of a prospective birth cohort study on the developmental effects of prenatal cocaine exposure in the Midwest United States.

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Cumulative Exposure to Neighborhood Conditions and Substance Use Initiation among Low-Income Latinx and African American Adolescents.

Int J Environ Res Public Health

October 2021

College of Social Science, Michigan State University, 509 East Circle Drive, 224 Berkey Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.

Purpose: While previous research underscores the important role that neighborhood contexts play for child and adolescent health and well-being, how these neighborhood contexts influence substance use initiation among adolescents from low-income and ethnic minority families has been understudied.

Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of data from the a retrospective survey that uses a natural experiment aimed at assessing neighborhood effects on developmental outcomes of Latinx and African American adolescents (N = 736). Cox cause-specific hazards models were estimated to test: (1) the effects of cumulative exposure to neighborhood social disorder, neighborhood violent and property crime rates, and neighborhood social capital during preadolescence (ages 8-11) on the likelihood of initiating alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use during adolescence (ages 12-18), after controlling for youth, caregiver, and household factors; and (2) whether the effects of these cumulative neighborhood factors vary by Latinx and African American ethnicity.

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Objective: This pilot study tested the acceptability and short-term outcomes of a culturally specific mobile health (mHealth) intervention () in a sample of economically disadvantaged African American adults. We hypothesized that would demonstrate greater acceptability, biochemically verified abstinence, and promote nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) use compared with a standard text-messaging program.

Method: In a 2-arm pilot randomized trial, adults who sought to quit smoking ( = 119) received either or the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) SmokefreeTXT, both combined with a brief behavioral counseling session plus 2 weeks of NRT.

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This study explored experiences of intimate relationships, stigma, social support and treatment adherence among HIV-positive adolescents in Chiredzi district, Zimbabwe. The study adopted an interpretive qualitative methodology to explore the intricacies of living with HIV as an adolescent. Thirty ( = 30) adolescents aged between 13 and 19 years participated in this study.

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Background And Objectives: Studies generally show that negative social interactions are detrimental to mental health for older adults. Furthermore, empirical evidence suggests that negative interactions may function differently in relation to mental health across racial/ethnic groups given their unique life circumstances and social conditions. This study examines whether the association between negative family interactions and mental health outcomes varies by race and ethnicity.

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Objective: Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, US Veterans Health Administration (VHA) employee occupational health (EOH) providers were tasked with assuming a central role in coordinating employee COVID-19 screening and clearance for duty, representing entirely novel EOH responsibilities. In a rapid qualitative needs assessment, we aimed to identify learnings from the field to support the vastly expanding role of EOH providers in a national healthcare system.

Methods: We employed rapid qualitative analysis of key informant interviews in a maximal variation sample on the parameters of job type, rural versus urban and provider gender.

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Children whose parents have mental illnesses are among the most vulnerable in our communities. There is however, much that can be done to prevent or mitigate the impact of a parent's illness on children. Notwithstanding the availability of several evidence-based interventions, efforts to support these children have been limited by a lack of adequate support structures.

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Confirmatory Efficacy of Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for Early Schizophrenia: Results From a Multisite Randomized Trial.

Psychiatr Serv

May 2022

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (Wojtalik); Massachusetts Mental Health Center Public Psychiatry Division of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston (Mesholam-Gately, Sandoval, Shashidhar, Keshavan); Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston (Mesholam-Gately, Sandoval, Guimond, Keshavan); Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh (Hogarty, Greenwald, Litschge, Eack); Department of Psychoeducation and Psychology, Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada (Guimond); School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (Eack).

Objective: Cognitive enhancement therapy (CET) is an 18-month comprehensive cognitive remediation intervention designed to improve cognition and functioning among patients with schizophrenia. The current study sought to confirm previously observed benefits of CET on cognitive and behavioral outcomes in the early course of the condition in a large multisite trial.

Methods: Overall, 102 outpatients with early-course schizophrenia were randomly assigned to 18 months of CET (N=58) or enriched supportive therapy (EST; N=44).

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Article Synopsis
  • Disruptions in Medicaid coverage negatively impact service usage and outcomes for individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI), with only 36% maintaining continuous enrollment over the study period from 2007 to 2010.
  • Those diagnosed with schizophrenia were found to be 19% more likely to experience multiple coverage disruptions compared to those with depression.
  • These disruptions led to significantly lower outpatient service days and reduced likelihood of using acute care services, highlighting the need for further research on ensuring Medicaid stability and improving access to mental health services.
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Opportunities to improve behavioral health crisis response: Results of a large urban county's community status assessment.

J Community Psychol

March 2022

Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

A comprehensive community status assessment of an Ohio urban county's crisis response (CR) system explored the experiences of its behavioral health services' clients and providers to surface themes characterizing the system's responsiveness and identifying opportunities for improvements. Forty-eight focus groups and two online surveys were conducted. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis and descriptive statistics.

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Dimensions of Caregiver Burden between Compound and Noncompound Caregivers of Adults with Autism.

J Gerontol Soc Work

April 2022

Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

The expanding population of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) will increase the number of aging parents who often assume the role of primary caregivers. Among aging caregivers of adults with ASD, compound caregiving (caring for additional family members) has become an increasingly common scenario. However, limited research has examined the burden of compound caregivers and little is known about the specific dimensions of burden among this population.

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