The SBIRT App for Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for substance use provides users with detailed steps to complete an SBIRT intervention with patients or clients. The app is designed for use by physicians, other health workers, and mental health professionals and can be used with patients and clients 12 years and older. […]
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Check-in With You: The Older Adult Hopelessness Screening Program
Check-in With You: The Older Adult Hopelessness Screening Program (OAHS), developed by Tulare County Health and Human Services Agency, assesses levels of hopelessness in older adults and provides early intervention services to reduce suicide risk, improve quality of care, and prevent the onset of serious mental illness. All adults 55+ receiving primary health care services […]
Emergency Department Utilization among American Indian Adolescents who Made a Suicide Attempt: A Screening Opportunity
A study of White Mountain Apache adolescents who had attempted suicide found that 82 percent had visited an emergency department (ED) within a year before the attempt. Only a minority of these young people had visited the ED because of suicidal thoughts or self-harm (7 percent) or psychiatric problems (26 percent). The authors suggest that […]
Website and Curriculum Guide Support LGBT Youth in the Juvenile Justice System
The Equity Project has launched a new website and online training curriculum guide to help juvenile justice practitioners support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth. The user-friendly website and guide provide resources, policy information, and interactive lessons to increase awareness of youth sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression issues within the juvenile justice […]
Prompting Discussions of Youth Violence Using Electronic Previsit Questionnaires in Primary Care
This study aimed to determine the efficacy of an electronic previsit questionnaire (PVQ) in prompting youth violence (YV) discussions. The authors found that, overall, 30 percent of adolescents reported some YV involvement. Sixty-five percent of the intervention group and 42 percent of the control group reported discussing YV during their visit. Thirty-one percent of adolescents […]
Prognostic Significance of Depression in African Americans With Heart Failure
Depression seems to increase the risk of hospitalization and death in black heart failure patients, a new study finds. Researchers assessed depression symptoms — such as difficulty with concentration, a lack of energy and feelings of hopelessness or helplessness — in nearly 750 black patients with heart failure. About one-third of them had symptoms of […]