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Full-Text Articles in Psychiatry
Comparing Two Telehealth Approaches For Treating Psychiatric Disorders In Primary Care, Research Dissemination Committee, Maine, Usa
Comparing Two Telehealth Approaches For Treating Psychiatric Disorders In Primary Care, Research Dissemination Committee, Maine, Usa
REACH: Research Evidence-to-Action for Community Health
Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are community clinics that provide primary care in rural and other underserved areas. FQHCs often don’t have enough mental health specialists to treat patients with complex mental health conditions.
Pathways To Care Of Maine Youth With Psychosis, Elizabeth M. Mutina, Rebecca Jaynes, Dave Weiss, Elizabeth Bernier, Kristen A. Woodberry
Pathways To Care Of Maine Youth With Psychosis, Elizabeth M. Mutina, Rebecca Jaynes, Dave Weiss, Elizabeth Bernier, Kristen A. Woodberry
Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat 2023
Study clinicians conducted semi-structured interviews to identify the timing and steps of each person’s Pathway to Care (PtC).
Ideographic Modeling And Data Visualization Of Sleep, Affect, And Psychotic Symptoms: A Case Example, D M. Weiss, E Aslinger, W L. Cook, K A. Johnson, K M. Elacqua, R I. Mesholam-Gately, K A. Woodberry
Ideographic Modeling And Data Visualization Of Sleep, Affect, And Psychotic Symptoms: A Case Example, D M. Weiss, E Aslinger, W L. Cook, K A. Johnson, K M. Elacqua, R I. Mesholam-Gately, K A. Woodberry
Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat 2021
Background:
1. Psychotic disorders are heterogeneous.
2. Current diagnostic categorizations are unable to capture individuals’ unique symptom experiences.
3. Newly-developed ideographic analyses and data visualization tools may be useful in assessing individuals’ symptom experiences and stimulating data informed care.
Process Evaluation Of A Smoking Cessation Group For Adults With Serious Mental Illness, David M. Weiss, Thomas Styron
Process Evaluation Of A Smoking Cessation Group For Adults With Serious Mental Illness, David M. Weiss, Thomas Styron
Costas T. Lambrew Research Retreat 2021
Tobacco cessation strategies are needed to improve health outcomes among individuals with serious mental illness
A Phantom Of The Past: Withdrawal From Meprobamate Presenting With Focal Seizures., Thomas M. Zink, John E. Erickson
A Phantom Of The Past: Withdrawal From Meprobamate Presenting With Focal Seizures., Thomas M. Zink, John E. Erickson
Journal of Maine Medical Center
Introduction: Meprobamate (Miltown, Equinil) is a sedative-hypnotic medication that first gained popularity as an anxiolytic and later as a muscle relaxant. It is a major metabolite of the more commonly used muscle relaxant carisoprodol (Soma). In vitro and electroencephalogram studies demonstrated that meprobamate modulates gama-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors, similar to barbiturates. Withdrawal from meprobamate manifests in symptoms ranging from mild anxiety to severe autonomic instability and death. Meprobamate is rarely prescribed, but is still given to a small subset of elderly patients.
Clinical findings: In this case of meprobamate withdrawal, the patient initially displayed altered mental status and recurrent seizures …
Treating Substance Use Disorders: Enhancing Attendance At The Weekly Inpatient Medication Assisted Treatment Group, Devon Gillis, Jayne Weisberg, Dena Whitesell, Amy Mcauliffe, Amy Sparks, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik
Treating Substance Use Disorders: Enhancing Attendance At The Weekly Inpatient Medication Assisted Treatment Group, Devon Gillis, Jayne Weisberg, Dena Whitesell, Amy Mcauliffe, Amy Sparks, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman, Stephen Tyzik
Operational Transformation
At a large academic tertiary medical center, an Integrated Medication Assisted Treatment (IMAT) program has been established for those medically stable inpatients with an addiction diagnosis. Over a four month period, this program had experienced a decline in attendance and a quality improvement project was initiated is to better understand the barriers to attendance and institute a process that would reverse the decline.
A goal was established to improve attendance by medically stable patients that have consented to participate to a minimum of 50%.
A root cause analysis outlined numerous causes for low attendance and several countermeasures were established to …
Social Influence And Moment-To-Moment Changes In Young Adults’ Mood And Psychotic Symptoms, K Powers, K A. Johnson, M Graham, A Cloutier, K Stewart, S Lynch, D Robbins, R Mesholm-Gately, K A. Woodberry
Social Influence And Moment-To-Moment Changes In Young Adults’ Mood And Psychotic Symptoms, K Powers, K A. Johnson, M Graham, A Cloutier, K Stewart, S Lynch, D Robbins, R Mesholm-Gately, K A. Woodberry
Maine Medical Center
Background:
• Social situations can have a significant impact on young people’s mood and mental experiences.
• More specifically, we want to know how someone’s perceived social influence in social situations relates to their mood and psychotic symptoms.
• Past studies have found connections between lower perceived social status (rank, comparison, and related concepts) and psychotic symptoms anxiety, depression, and other mood related psychopathology.
• We use experience sampling methods to capture moment-to-moment changes in mood and psychotic symptoms in a variety of social settings.
Identifying Youth At Clinical High Risk: What’S The Emotional Impact?, K A. Woodberry, K S. Powers, C Bryant, D Downing, M Verdi, L Kennedy, D I. Shapiro, R Girgis, G Brucato, D Huang, F M. Crump, C M. Corcoran, L I. Seidman, B Link, W R. Mcfarlane, L Yang
Identifying Youth At Clinical High Risk: What’S The Emotional Impact?, K A. Woodberry, K S. Powers, C Bryant, D Downing, M Verdi, L Kennedy, D I. Shapiro, R Girgis, G Brucato, D Huang, F M. Crump, C M. Corcoran, L I. Seidman, B Link, W R. Mcfarlane, L Yang
Maine Medical Center
Background:
Early intervention in major mental illness promises to improve the lives of those identified.
• But could identifying youth as at clinical high risk (CHR) for psychosis also do harm given that the majority never develop a psychotic disorder?
• Could telling someone they are at risk for psychosis activate internalized stigma that has been associated with increased emotional distress, social withdrawal, non-engagement in treatment, and suicide risk in CHR youth?
• Within the context of a larger study of stigma in CHR, we compared emotional responses to the CHR concept assessed before and after clinical feedback by study …
Reducing Length Of Stay For Mental Health Patients, Faye Collins, Nancijean Goudey
Reducing Length Of Stay For Mental Health Patients, Faye Collins, Nancijean Goudey
Maine Medical Center
Background:
Our facility sees an average of over 200 mental health patients every month, with limited community resources. The length of stay (LOS) for these patients had slowly risen to unacceptable levels; the number of patients whose LOS was greater than 24 hours increased in fiscal year (FY) 2017, from 633 patients to 1145. Patients in crisis require expedited transfer to appropriate care locations. Our goal was to decrease the overall length of stay for mental health patients in the Emergency Department.
Delirium Reduction Strategies For The Critically Ill, June Chaves, Sam Canonico, Will Cheney, Tammy Corey, Gil Fraser, Alex Kowalewski, Jen Low, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Haley Pelletier, Cathy Palleschi, Stephen Tyzik, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman
Delirium Reduction Strategies For The Critically Ill, June Chaves, Sam Canonico, Will Cheney, Tammy Corey, Gil Fraser, Alex Kowalewski, Jen Low, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Haley Pelletier, Cathy Palleschi, Stephen Tyzik, Suneela Nayak, Ruth Hanselman
Maine Medical Center
Delirium, an acute and fluctuating disturbance of consciousness and cognition, is a common manifestation of acute brain dysfunction in critically ill patients. Patients with delirium have longer hospital stays and a lower 6-month survival rate than do patients without delirium. Preliminary research suggests that delirium may be associated with cognitive impairment that persists months to years after discharge.
In a large acute care hospital, the cardiac intensive care staff became interested in mitigating their unit’s high delirium rate of ventilated patients. At baseline, many members of the healthcare team did not believe that delirium could be prevented and the predominant …
Identification Strategies For The Very High Fall Risk Patient In An Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, P6 Inpatient Geri-Med Psychiatry, Haley Pelletier, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Ruth Hanselman
Identification Strategies For The Very High Fall Risk Patient In An Acute Inpatient Psychiatric Unit, P6 Inpatient Geri-Med Psychiatry, Haley Pelletier, Suneela Nayak, Stephen Tyzik, Ruth Hanselman
Maine Medical Center
Patients falling as a result of geriatric and psychiatric impairments are at a much higher risk than the average patient population. An acute care inpatient psychiatric team used baseline metrics to demonstrate increasing fall rates per month that surpassed the unit’s target number. As a result, a quality improvement project around falls was felt to be warranted.
The overall goal of this study was to improve patient safety by reducing falls for their very high risk fall population. A root cause analysis determined that this population was not being properly identified and several tools were developed and employed to better …
Can Creating A Behavioral Task Force On The Medical And Surgical Floor Increase Staff Satisfaction Rates?, Amy Lee
Interprofessional Research and Innovations Council
Can creating a Behavioral Task Force on the medical and surgical floor increase staff satisfaction rates?
Amy Lee, RN
Abstract
Background. The medical and surgical units within Maine Medical Center have seen an influx of patients with behavioral disturbances. Staff voice concerns regarding lack of knowledge and lack of support while treating patients with a medical condition and dual diagnosis of a psychiatric disorder with behavioral disturbances.
Purpose (PICOT). In adult patients on R5 with behavioral disturbances, how does the implementation of a Behavioral Task Force compared to the current practice affect staff knowledge and satisfaction?
Method. This quality improvement …