An initiative to add social workers to rural primary care teams increases social work encounters among veterans and reduces hospital admissions and emergency department visits among high-risk patients.
The AMA called for alterations for insurers, including terminating cost-sharing and prior authorization for chronic pain and OUD medications and removing restrictions on Medicaid preferred drug lists.
Researchers examined how the associations of life event stress with impulsivity, anxiety, and depressed mood change in the presence of sleep disturbance.
Focused prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases may reduce the burden of multimorbidity in people living with HIV who have mood disorders and multimorbidity.
A study of Chinese healthcare workers may foreshadow the mental health burden placed upon physicians, nurses, and other professionals as COVID-19 strains the medical system in the United States.
A number of barriers prevent identification of depression in primary care settings, including time constraints of providers and a lack of established screening and diagnostic protocols.
The COVID-19 epidemic has underscored potential gaps in mental health services during emergencies, while also testing the resilience of healthcare workers and medical systems.
Among patients with obesity and migraine, weight loss is associated with reduction of migraine frequency, pain severity, and attack duration and disability.
Overall, in all patients with MDD, sleep ultradian cycle number was positively associated with REMS percentage, REMS duration, and REMS/NREMS ratio and negatively associated with REM latency.
The findings point to major concerns about high dropout rates and study bias in the field of research on smartphone apps for depressive symptom treatment.
Mindfulness and decentering training (MDT) can be introduced into a physician assistant curriculum to improve overall life satisfaction and perceived stress.
The stresses and sleep disturbances of shift work can lead to major mental health issues, as well as workplace challenges, including safety concerns and poor on-the-job performance.
