Mental Health and Illness

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Nearly a Quarter of New York Veterans Face Mental Health Challenges — Jan 26, 2011

Military veterans from New York state who served in Iraq and Afghanistan are at high risk for mental health problems. Outreach to connect veterans with services and better coordination among government and community agencies is needed.

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Developing Medical Record-Based Performance Indicators to Measure the Quality of Mental Healthcare — Jan 15, 2011

This paper presents the methodology used to develop a comprehensive set of performance indicators in a national evaluation of the mental healthcare delivered by the Veterans Health Administration.

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Helping Families Raise Healthy Children — Jan 6, 2011

The RAND Health project "Helping Families Raise Healthy Children" seeks to improve identification and services for families who have a risk of experiencing caregiver depression and early childhood developmental delays.

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Childhood and Adult Socioeconomic Position, Cumulative Lead Levels, and Pessimism in Later Life: The VA Normative Aging Study — Jan 1, 2011

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Incremental Benefits and Cost of Coordinated Anxiety Learning and Management for Anxiety Treatment in Primary Care — Jan 1, 2011

An approach to anxiety treatment in primary care integrates research interventions into real-world practice settings. Patients benefit but costs are modestly increased.

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Behavioral Health and Social Normative Influence: Correlates of Concurrent Sexual Partnering Among Heterosexually-Active Homeless Men — Jan 1, 2011

Sexual concurrency poses significant HIV/STI transmission risk.

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Partnered Evaluation of a Community Engagement Intervention: Use of a Kickoff Conference in a Randomized Trial for Depression Care Improvement in Underserved Communities — Jan 1, 2011

This article evaluates a community engagement strategy employed in the Community Partners in Care (CPIC) study, the first randomized controlled trial of the role of community engagement in adapting and implementing evidence-based depression care.

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The Patient-Centered Medical Home, Practice Patterns, and Functional Outcomes for Children with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder — Jan 1, 2011

For children with ADHD, receiving care in a PCMH is associated with practice pattern change and better outcomes.

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Maladaptive Schemas and Depression: Tests of Stress Generation and Diathesis-Stress Models — Jan 1, 2011

There is strong evidence that life stress is associated with vulnerability to depression; however, the specific mechanism of this effect is unclear.

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Invisible Wounds, Visible Savings? Using Microsimulation to Estimate the Costs and Savings Associated with Providing Evidence-Based Treatment for PTSD and Depression to Veterans of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom — Jan 1, 2011

This study simulated the social costs and savings of providing universal access to care for depression and PTSD to troops returning from Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom.

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Training Addiction Counselors to Implement CBT for Depression — Jan 1, 2011

Training addiction counselors to deliver group therapy can bring effective mental treatment to depressed individuals who are also substance abusers.

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Mediators of Maternal Depression and Family Structure on Child BMI: Parenting Quality and Risk Factors for Child Overweight — Jan 1, 2011

Family environment—including parenting quality—is an important factor in influencing children's leisure activities, and thus interventions for child obesity may be more successful if they focus on family environment and its effect on children's active and sedentary behaviors.

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Psychosocial Resources, Threat, and the Perception of Distance and Height: Support for the Resources and Perception Model — Jan 1, 2011

Psychosocial resources (such as optimism, coping style, sense of mastery or personal control) can moderate perception of threats, and different resources have similar effects.

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Suicide Risk Management: Development and Analysis of a Telephone-Based Approach to Patient Safety — Jan 1, 2011

A telephone screener for suicide risk can be used during data collection interviews with depressed patients to identify those who need clinical intervention.

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Depression and the Health Care Experiences of Medicare Beneficiaries — Jan 1, 2011

Depressed patients report poorer health care experiences and have less confidence that they can recognize their need for care.

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Telephone-based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Latino Patients Living in Rural Areas: A Randomized Pilot Study — Jan 1, 2011

Results of a pilot study suggest that telephone-based cognitive behavioral therapy has the potential to enhance access to psychotherapy in an underserved Latino population with little access to mental health services.

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A Closer Look at Depression and Its Relationship to HIV Antiretroviral Adherence — Jan 1, 2011

Cognitive depressive symptoms and severe depression appear to pose strong challenges to adherence and highlight the need for early detection and treatment of depression.

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Behavioral Health Insurance Parity: Does Oregon's Experience Presage the National Experience with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act? — Jan 1, 2011

Analysis of Oregon's state parity law suggests that behavioral health insurance parity rules restricting how plans manage mental health and substance abuse services can improve insurance protections without substantial increases in total costs.

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Classes of Conduct Disorder Symptoms and Their Life Course Correlates in a US National Sample — Jan 1, 2011

Conduct disorder symptoms tend to occur in a partially ordered set of classes in the general population. Prognostically meaningful distinctions can be drawn between classes, but only at low levels of symptoms.

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Depression in the Pathway of HIV Antiretroviral Effects on Sexual Risk Behavior Among Patients in Uganda — Jan 1, 2011

A controlled study of HIV antiretroviral therapy (ART) in sub-Saharan Africa found that ART increase sexual activity and condom use, but depression undercuts the prevention benefits of ART, highlighting the need to integrate mental health services into HIV care.

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