Patient Voices: Lived Experiences of Decision-Making Process in Long-Term Antipsychotic Medication Treatment.

This research explores patients' perspectives on the decision-making process for long-term antipsychotic treatment. Twenty individuals on non-compulsory antipsychotic medications were interviewed, and their responses were analyzed using grounded theory. The analysis revealed three interconnected themes that suggest a cyclical process potentially eroding patient autonomy: According to participants' accounts, they often received limited information about dependence, withdrawal symptoms, or expected treatment duration before starting medication.

Using machine learning methods to identify trajectories of change and predict responders and non-responders to short-term dynamic therapy.

Objectives: Predicting therapy responders can significantly improve clinical outcomes. This study aims to identify predictors of response to short-term dynamic therapy.

Methods: Data from 95 patients who underwent 16-session therapy were analyzed using machine learning.

Impact of a polysidpersed fuel distribution on the ignition characteristic.

Determining the thermal profile of ignition is important because the desired ignition behavior varies with the objective. For example, extended ignition prolongs the time that the engine runs; however, fast ignition offers a higher power gain. The pollution caused by undesirable chemical reactions, as determined by the ignition profile, is another important aspect.

Patient racism toward nurses in a divided society: The case of Jews and Arabs in Israel.

Aim: This study examines whether racism exists among Jewish and Arab patients in Israel, as reflected in patient preference for receiving treatment from a nurse with the same ethnic background.

Background: We examine the relationship between racism and the level of trust in a nurse from a different ethnic group than the patient, as well as the preferred level of social distance, in the context of ongoing conflicts between the Jewish majority and the Arab minority in Israel.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted using a unique study questionnaire that asked 534 Jewish and 478 Arab respondents to express their preference for an Arab and a Jewish nurse.

Who do you Prefer to Take Care of you: A Jewish or an Arab Nurse? Nationality and Religion Preferences in Israeli Hospitals.

Studies show that there are patients who refuse treatment or demand that treatment be provided by a professional belonging to their ethnic group. We investigated whether patients have preferences for nationality and religion of nurses (PFNR), and which factors impact these preferences. The study included 1012 Jews and Arabs.

Empirical examination of long-term and intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy for severely disturbed patients.

This study examines the effectiveness and efficiency of intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy for severely impaired patients. 104 patients in four public mental health centers underwent intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy. The number and duration of psychiatric hospitalizations were monitored for these patients from one year before therapy to eight years after.

Changes in clients' relational patterns with parents and therapist during psychodynamic psychotherapy: Their association and relation to treatment outcome.

Objective: The study aimed to explore how changes in clients' relational patterns during psychodynamic psychotherapy relate to treatment outcomes and therapy effectiveness.

Method: Seventy clients receiving psychodynamic psychotherapy in a university counseling center were interviewed three times and filled out the OQ-45 questionnaire five times during therapy. We used the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) to study clients' relational patterns.

Trajectories of change among highly challenging patients in intensive long-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Objectives: This study aimed to identify and describe trajectories of change in distress among highly challenging patients who had received long and intensive psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Methods: The longitudinal version of the K-means algorithm was applied to the outcome measures data of 74 patients treated in four public mental health centers. The patients were measured five times at 6-month intervals for three outcome measures.

Masking important information to assess the robustness of a multimodal classifier for emotion recognition.

Deep neural networks have been proven effective in classifying human interactions into emotions, especially by encoding multiple input modalities. In this work, we assess the robustness of a transformer-based multimodal audio-text classifier for emotion recognition, by perturbing the input at inference time using attacks which we design specifically to corrupt information deemed important for emotion recognition. To measure the impact of the attacks on the classifier, we compare between the accuracy of the classifier on the perturbed input and on the original, unperturbed input.

Association between objective measures and parent-reported measures of child tobacco smoke exposure: A secondary data analysis of four trials.

Introduction: Tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) harms children and adults. Studies of childhood TSE exposure often relies on parental reports, but may benefit from objective measures. The objective of our study was to study the relationship between reported and objective measures of TSE.

Home Advantage Perceptions in Elite Handball: A Comparison Among Fans, Athletes, Coaches, and Officials.

Home advantage in sports has been extensively researched in the academic literature over the past five decades. A review of the literature reveals several factors that consistently underly this phenomenon. One of the most documented is the home crowd effect.

The combined effect of psychodynamic psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy on healthcare cost.

Objective: Previous studies have established a connection between therapy and healthcare cost: an increase in cost prior to therapy and a maintained decrease post therapy. There is, however, a lack of studies examining the combined effects of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy on healthcare cost.

Method: Healthcare cost was examined quarterly in 1,213 patients (28,776 observations) in a naturalistic longitudinal design.

Morphological characteristics of spoken language in schizophrenia patients - an exploratory study.

Psychosis is diagnosed based on disruptions in the structure and use of language, including reduced syntactic complexity, derailment, and tangentiality. With the development of computational analysis, natural language processing (NLP) techniques are used in many areas of life to make evaluations and inferences regarding people's thoughts, feelings and behavior. The present study explores morphological characteristic of schizophrenia inpatients using NLP.

Does the League Table Lie? The Development and Validation of the Perceived Performance in Team Sports Questionnaire (PPTSQ).

Objective performance measures are vastly used in sport psychology despite their inherent limitations (e.g., unaccounted baseline differences).

Patient Self-worth and Communication Barriers to Trust of Israeli Patients in Acute-Care Physicians at Public General Hospitals.

Patient trust is positively related to health outcomes, but there remain barriers to patient trust in physicians. This narrative study analyzed patient experiences and highlights barriers to patient trust underlying communication with physicians in acute care. Snowball sampling was used.

The use of analytic hierarchy process for measuring the complexity of medical diagnosis.

Diagnostic complexity is an important contextual factor affecting a variety of medical outcomes. Existing measurements of diagnosis complexity either rely on crude proxies or use fine-grained measures that employ indicators from proprietary data that are not readily available. Hence, the study of this important construct in fields such as medical informatics has been hampered by the difficulty of measuring diagnostic complexity.

Exploring trajectories of emergency department visits using a laboratory-based indicator of serious illness.

Repeated emergency department visits have become a serious challenge worldwide. Despite prior research indicating that laboratory results may provide early alerts about such patients on their upcoming adverse events, few studies have examined their role as a critical indicator of the stability of a patient's medical condition over time. We model and analyze the developmental trajectories of patients' creatinine levels, a key laboratory marker of serious illness, as a potential risk stratification mechanism across many emergency department visits.

Top-Down Prioritization of Salient Items May Produce the So-Called Stimulus-Driven Capture.

The current study proposes that top-down attentional prioritization of salient items may produce the so-called stimulus-driven capture. To test this proposal, the "" was designed on the basis of a visual search task. In Experiment 1, a task-irrelevant singleton frame was presented at the same location in 70% of the trials.

"I Swear I Will Never Betray You": Factors Reported by Spouses as Helping Them Resist Extramarital Sex in Relation to Gender, Marriage Length, and Religiosity.

Studies suggest that married people frequently engage in intimate relationships with people other than their spouses, and the literature has extensively examined motives for doing so. However, less is known about what factors prevent spouses from engaging in extramarital sex. While investment theory, interdependence theory, and moral theories offer insights into this question, they have not been subject to much empirical research.

Facebook's Contribution to Well-being among Adolescent and Young Adults as a Function of Mental Resilience.

Studies of correlations between general internet use and psychological well-being have shown mixed results. The present study aimed to elucidate the relationship between Facebook use and psychological well-being, with mental resilience expected to moderate the relationship. Two hundred Israeli adolescents and young adults completed questionnaires assessing their Facebook use, mental resilience, and psychological well-being.

Attention and memory protection: Interactions between retrospective attention cueing and interference.

Visual working memory (VWM) and attention have a number of features in common, but despite extensive research it is still unclear how the two interact. Can focused attention improve VWM precision? Can it protect VWM from interference? Here we used a partial-report, continuous-response orientation memory task to examine how attention and interference affect different aspects of VWM and how they interact with one another. Both attention and interference were orthogonally manipulated during the retention interval.

Is there time discounting for risk premium?

Individuals with a higher subjective discount rate concentrate more on the present and delay is more significant for them. However, when a risky asset is delayed, not only is the outcome delayed but also the risk. In this paper, we suggest a new, two-stage experimental method with real monetary incentives that allows us to distinguish between the effect of the risk and the effect of the time when pricing a risky asset.