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. […]
INTERVENTION SETTING
A Physician’s Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care
A Physician’s Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care is a self-directed training course designed for physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners. With growing concerns about racial and ethnic disparities in health and about the need for health care systems to accommodate increasingly diverse patient populations, cultural competence has become more and more a matter of national […]
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 […]
The NO MÁS Study: Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault in the U.S. Latin@ Community
Hispanics are more likely than the general U.S. population to discuss domestic violence and sexual assault and more likely to intervene to help victims, a report commissioned by the Avon Foundation for Women for Casa de Esperanza: National Latin@ Network and NO MORE finds. Based on a survey of Latina/o adults, The NO MÁS Study: […]
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 […]