7 results match your criteria: "University of Utah Intermountain Healthcare Department of Population Health Sciences[Affiliation]"
Potential parental determinants of the pace of evidence-based practice change in children's mental health care.
Fam Syst Health
March 2024
University of Utah Intermountain Healthcare Department of Population Health Sciences, Division of Health System Innovation and Research, Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, University of Utah.
Article Synopsis
- The study explores how caregivers prioritize the pace of implementing mental health programs for children, using the DART framework.
- Caregivers showed the highest urgency for programs recommended by providers and perceived as necessary, while concerns about costs decreased preference for quick implementation.
- Results indicate that factors like demand, effectiveness, and costs significantly impact caregivers' decisions regarding mental health interventions for their kids.
Reproductive risk factors for breast cancer and association with novel breast density measurements among Hispanic, Black, and White women.
Breast Cancer Res Treat
April 2024
Department of Population Health Sciences, Weill Cornell Medical, New York, NY, USA.
Purpose: There are differences in the distributions of breast cancer incidence and risk factors by race and ethnicity. Given the strong association between breast density and breast cancer, it is of interest describe racial and ethnic variation in the determinants of breast density.
Methods: We characterized racial and ethnic variation in reproductive history and several measures of breast density for Hispanic (n = 286), non-Hispanic Black (n = 255), and non-Hispanic White (n = 1694) women imaged at a single hospital.
Parents' Psychological and Decision-Making Outcomes following Prenatal Diagnosis with Complex Congenital Heart Defect: An Exploratory Study.
MDM Policy Pract
October 2023
University of Utah Intermountain Healthcare Department of Population Health Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Article Synopsis
- - The study focused on parents of fetuses diagnosed with complex congenital heart defects and assessed their psychological outcomes based on treatment choices (surgery vs. comfort care) and the survival status of their children.
- - Parents who opted for comfort-directed care experienced significantly higher levels of distress, perinatal grief, depression, regret, and decisional conflict compared to those who chose surgery, regardless of whether the child survived.
- - Among parents whose child survived after surgery, there was notably lower grief reported compared to those whose child did not survive, highlighting the emotional impact of the treatment decisions.
Are people with diabetes getting the support they need? Deficits between support desired and received from family and friends relates to poorer health.
Patient Educ Couns
May 2023
College of Nursing, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA; Division of Endocrinology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.
Objective: To determine the mismatch of desired support versus support received and to evaluate the impact of these mismatches on health outcomes of people with diabetes.
Methods: This cross-sectional study is a secondary data analysis of medical record and survey data of participants with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes from a diabetes care and education program. Biophysical metrics included HbA1c, body mass index, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, and high- and low-density lipoproteins.
Parents' quality of life and health after treatment decision for a fetus with severe congenital heart defect.
J Pediatr Nurs
May 2023
University of Utah Intermountain Healthcare Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah Health, Salt Lake City, USA; Salt Lake City VA Informatics Decision-Enhancement and Analytic Sciences (IDEAS) Center for Innovation, Salt Lake City, USA. Electronic address:
Purpose: This exploratory study examines differences in parents' quality of life by treatment decision and the child's survival outcome in the context of life-threatening congenital heart disease (CHD).
Design And Methods: Parents of a fetus or neonate diagnosed with severe CHD enrolled in the observational control group of a clinical trial (NCT04437069) and completed quality of life (i.e.
Pathways to ovarian cancer diagnosis: a qualitative study.
BMC Womens Health
November 2022
Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah, 2000 Cir of Hope Dr, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112, USA.
Article Synopsis
- Ovarian cancer is frequently diagnosed late, making survival challenging; understanding patient experiences can help find ways to detect it earlier.* -
- A study involving 14 patients and 11 healthcare providers revealed that the average time from first symptoms to treatment is 2.8 months, with major delays stemming from symptom management and seeking medical help.* -
- Key factors impacting delays included vague symptoms, perceptions of health, coping strategies, and access to healthcare, highlighting the urgent need for interventions to improve early diagnostic processes.*
Two Specialists, Two Recommendations: Discordance Between Urologists' & Radiation Oncologists' Prostate Cancer Treatment Recommendations.
Urology
November 2022
University of Utah Intermountain Healthcare Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; Salt Lake City VA Center for Informatics Decision Enhancement and Surveillance. Electronic address:
Objective: To examine the treatment recommendation patterns among urologists and radiation oncologists, the level of concordance or discordance between physician recommendations, and the association between physician recommendations and the treatment that patients received.
Method: The study was a secondary analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial conducted November 2010 to April 2014 (NCT02053389). Eligible participants were patients from the trial who saw both specialists.