Van Alphen, Manjola U Lim, Carol Freudenreich, Oliver
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Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
People with serious mental illness are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 but face barriers to vaccinations. The authors describe the implementation of a mobile vaccine clinic at an outpatient mental health clinic for patients and health care workers to increase vaccination rates. In late 2021, mobile vaccine clinics were held in collaboration wit...
Wittink, Marsha Chan, Aubrey C Padrino, Susan Silverstein, Steven M
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Binder, Renee L Gandhi, Tanuja Menon, Meera Audu, Alexandra Nesbit, Ariana Ridout, Kathryn K Campbell, Jorien Garayalde, Stephanie Dike, Charles C
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Emotional support animals (ESAs) are different from service animals, therapy animals, and other disability-related assistance animals. Although pet ownership may confer psychological benefits, limited research has supported the use of ESAs to realize such benefits. If clinicians are asked to write a letter of support for use of an ESA, they need to...
Park, Sena Cubillos, Leonardo Martinez-Camblor, Pablo Bartels, Sophia M Torrey, William C John, Deepak T Cepeda, Magda Bell, Kathleen Castro, Sergio Suárez-Obando, Fernando
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Evaluation of the effectiveness of integration of depression and alcohol use disorder care into primary health care in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is limited. The authors aimed to quantify the effectiveness of integrating mental health care into primary care by examining depression and alcohol use disorder outcomes. The study updates a...
Jones, Nev Callejas, Linda Brown, Marie Colder Carras, Michelle Croft, Bevin Pagdon, Shannon Sheehan, Lindsay Oluwoye, Oladunni Zisman-Ilani, Yaara
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Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
A growing consensus has emerged regarding the importance of stakeholder involvement in mental health services research. To identify barriers to and the extent of stakeholder involvement in participatory research, the authors undertook a mixed-methods study of researchers and community members who reported participation in such research. Eight consu...
Brown, Jonathan D Stewart, Kate A Miller, Rachel L Dehus, Eric Rose, Tyler DeWitt, Kathryn Chapman, Richard Wishon, Allison Breslau, Joshua Dey, Judith
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The Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration is designed to increase access to comprehensive ambulatory care and crisis services, which may reduce emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations. This study examined whether the demonstration had an impact on ED visits and hospitalizations in Missouri, Oklahoma, and P...
Sanchez, Amanda L Cliggitt, Lauren Pilar Dallard, Natalie L Irby, Deborah Harper, Mikaila Schaffer, Emily Lane-Fall, Meghan Beidas, Rinad S
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This Open Forum explores how implementation research and practice may sustain White supremacist ideas, perpetuate unequal power dynamics, and maintain mental health care inequities. The following questions were considered: What information is valued and considered evidence? and How do power differentials within implementation research and practice ...
Chen, Yen-Ling Kraus, Shane W Freeman, Megan J Freeman, Andrew J
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The authors used a machine-learning approach to model clinician decision making regarding psychiatric hospitalization of children and youths in crisis and to identify factors associated with the decision to hospitalize. Data consisted of 4,786 mobile crisis response team assessments of children and youths, ages 4.0-19.5 years (mean±SD=14.0±2.7 year...
Wetzler, Scott Counts, Nathaniel Schwartz, Bruce Patel, Urvashi Holcombe, Samantha
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Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.)
The Affordable Care Act established Medicaid health homes to provide care management and coordination for high-need individuals, including many with serious mental illness. The authors used data from the Medicaid Data Warehouse to examine health care utilization over 3 years among 10,193 individuals who enrolled in a New York State health home and ...
Kandula, Sasikiran Higgins, Johnathan Goldstein, Alena Gould, Madelyn S Olfson, Mark Keyes, Katherine M Shaman, Jeffrey
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Utilization of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (Lifeline; formerly called the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline) was analyzed in relation to suicide deaths in U.S. states between 2007 and 2020 to identify states with potential unmet need for mental health crisis hotline services. Annual state call rates were calculated from calls routed to t...
