Mental Health and Service Impacts During COVID-19 for Individuals with Serious Mental Illnesses Recently Released from Prison and Jail.
COVID-19; Prison and jail reentry; Serious mental illnesses; Services
Individuals recently released from jail or prison with serious mental illnesses may be vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic. This study aims to understand how they experienced the pandemic during initial stay-at-home orders in New York City. Structured surveys and in-depth semi-structured interviews examined the impact of the pandemic on participants. Survey responses are presented as percentages. Thematic analysis was used to code and analyze in-depth interviews. All participants (N = 5) knew about the coronavirus pandemic, and most took steps to minimize risk. Participants experienced changes to their services, including suspensions of some supportive services. They also reported an increase in psychiatric symptoms but utilized a variety of coping mechanisms in response. Community reintegration was essentially on hold as supportive services were suspended. Comprehensive reentry services may need to be adapted during the pandemic to address the multiple needs of individuals and to facilitate community reintegration.
Barrenger SL; Bond L
The Journal Of Behavioral Health Services & Research
2021
2021-05-13
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1007/s11414-021-09759-z" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1007/s11414-021-09759-z</a>
Brief Report: Parent Report About Health Care Use: Relationship To Child's And Parent's Psychosocial Problems
behavior problems; depression; disorder; family assessment device; health care utilization; inventory; management; parent; primary care; Psychology; psychopathology; psychosocial problems; reliability; report; services; validity
Objective: To investigate the potential utility of: asking parents about health care utilization as a means of identifying individuals at risk for psychosocial problems. Method: Parents of 366 children ages 2 to 16 completed questionnaires about their own, their child's, and their family's psychosocial functioning and health care utilization. Results: Children and parents with high health care utilization were more likely to have psychosocial problems than those with low health care utilization. Sensitivity and specificity of health care utilization as a marker for psychosocial problems ranged from 43.8% to 68.8%. Conclusions: Although high rates of child health care utilization are related to the presence of psychosocial problems, use of this measure alone could result in many false-positive and false-negative identifications. Rather, use of health care utilization data in conjunction with other screening measures may be useful for alerting physicians to the possibility of both child and parent psychosocial problems.
Kinsman A M; Wildman B G; Smucker W D
Journal of Pediatric Psychology
1999
1999-10
Journal Article or Conference Abstract Publication
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/24.5.435" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1093/jpepsy/24.5.435</a>
Preventive care in the emergency department: Should emergency departments institute a falls prevention program for elder patients? A systematic review
accidental falls; aged; community; elders; Emergency Medicine; emergency services; exercise; ficsit trials; fractures; frailty; hospital; injuries; medicine; practice guideline; preventive services; randomized controlled-trial; services; systematic review
Objective: To perform a systematic review of the emergency medicine literature to assess the appropriateness of an intervention to identify, counsel, and refer emergency department (ED) patients > 64 years old who are at high risk for falls. Methods: The systematic review was facilitated through the use of a structured template, a companion explanatory piece, and a grading and methodological scoring system based on published criteria for critical appraisal. A reference librarian did two PubMed searches using the following: ED visits, patients > 64 years old, falls, high risk, and effectiveness of intervention. Emergency Medical Abstracts, Science Citation Index, and the Cochrane Collaboration database were searched. Two team members reviewed the abstracts and selected pertinent articles. References were screened for additional pertinent articles. Results: Twenty-six articles were reviewed. None were ED-based primary or secondary falls prevention in older patients. One randomized controlled trial of an intervention to decrease subsequent falls in elder community-dwelling patients who presented with a fall showed a structured interdisciplinary approach significantly reducing the number of falls. Two ED-based studies showed it was possible to identify ED patients at risk for falls. Conclusions: Based on one randomized controlled trial demonstrating a significant reduction in the risk of further falls, the burden of suffering caused by falls, and other studies demonstrating the value of interventions to reduce the risk of falling, the authors recommend that EDs conduct research to evaluate the effectiveness of clinical interventions to identify, counsel, and refer ED patients > 64 years old who are at high risk for an unintentional fall.
Weigand J V; Gerson L W
Academic Emergency Medicine
2001
2001-08
Journal Article
<a href="http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb00214.x" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1111/j.1553-2712.2001.tb00214.x</a>