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Drug Alcohol Depend ; 256: 111121, 2024 Mar 01.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38367537

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: Hazardous drinking has been associated with chronic pain in community and medical samples. The purpose of this study was to develop a novel, integrated mobile health intervention that improves pain management and reduces hazardous drinking that may be implemented in primary care settings. METHODS: Forty-eight participants with moderate or greater chronic pain and hazardous drinking were recruited from primary care clinics and through social media sites. Following baseline assessment, participants were randomized to a counselor-supported smartphone app intervention (INTV) or a counselor delivered treatment-as-usual control condition (CTL). RESULTS: Results supported the feasibility and acceptability of the smartphone app intervention. Participants found it easy to use, reported high levels of satisfaction, and showed high levels of engagement with the app. Between-group effect size estimates at follow-up showed small effects for the intervention on pain ratings. However, using clinically meaningful change thresholds of 30% and 50% improvement in pain scores, 38% and 25% respectively of those in the INTV condition showed reductions compared to 20% and 12.5% respectively in the CTL condition. Effect size estimates did not indicate intervention superiority on alcohol outcomes as participants in both conditions showed considerable reductions in drinking over the course of the study. CONCLUSIONS: Results supported the view that a mobile health intervention delivered via smartphone with electronic coaching is a feasible and acceptable method of addressing chronic pain among those who engage in hazardous drinking. Future work should test the efficacy of this approach in a fully powered trial.


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Chronic Pain , Counselors , Telemedicine , Humans , Chronic Pain/therapy , Ethanol , Pilot Projects
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PLoS One ; 18(12): e0294331, 2023.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38060545

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BACKGROUND: Treatment trials for borderline personality disorder (BPD) have consistently demonstrated that approaches that are diagnostically tailored are superior to those which are not. Currently, gold standard treatments for BPD are highly intensive, lengthy, and specialized, leading to a critical gap between the supply and demand of effective, evidence-based treatment for patients who receive a diagnosis of BPD. Psychoeducation, which is a common component of most treatments known to be effective, is a low-cost, low-burden intervention proven to relieve symptoms. The present study builds on psychoeducation research, assessing online video prescriptions as a means of disseminating information patients need to know about their diagnosis and care. METHODS: This article presents the study protocol for a safety, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy trial of psychoeducational video prescriptions and online assessment with feedback for newly diagnosed individuals with BPD. We aim to recruit 100 adults recently diagnosed with BPD to be randomly assigned to receive videos about BPD or videos about non-BPD mental health topics that are matched in length in the first step of the study. All participants will complete daily surveys about their emotions, interpersonal interactions, and behaviors, as well as self-report assessments and cognitive tests at 4 different time points. Half of the participants in the intervention group will receive feedback on their symptom ratings and cognitive test performance to assess whether there is incremental value in tailoring this online set of interventions with individualized feedback unique to each participant. This study aims to assess the effects of BPD-focused psychoeducational videos with and without personalized feedback, on BPD and depressive symptom severity as well as core mechanisms of the disorder such as loneliness, rejection sensitivity, cognitive control difficulties, and self-clarity. Results will inform efforts to progress to a larger, more definitive trial. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Clinical trials registration: The protocol is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05358925.


Subject(s)
Borderline Personality Disorder , Adult , Humans , Borderline Personality Disorder/diagnosis , Borderline Personality Disorder/therapy , Borderline Personality Disorder/psychology , Pilot Projects , Treatment Outcome , Interpersonal Relations , Self Report , Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
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Alcohol ; 120: 35-40, 2023 Dec 14.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38101524

ABSTRACT

BACKGROUND: HIV transmission remains a significant health concern for men who have sex with men (MSM) in the United States. Heavy episodic drinking (HED) is related to increased rates of condomless anal intercourse (CAI) among MSM, though evidence suggests that this association may vary by individual difference factors. The present secondary analysis tested whether sexual alcohol expectancies (SAEs) moderate the associations between frequency of HED and anal intercourse (AI) with and without a condom among moderate-to-heavy drinking HIV- MSM. METHODS: Two hundred and forty-eight moderate-to-heavy drinking MSM completed self-report questionnaires including the Sexual Behavior Questionnaire, the Modified Daily Drinking Questionnaire, and the Sexual Alcohol Expectancies Questionnaire. RESULTS: Negative binomial regressions indicated that SAEs moderated the association between frequency of HED and AI with a condom, but not between the frequency of HED and condomless AI (CAI). CONCLUSIONS: These results suggest that stronger SAEs play a role in alcohol-related sexual behavior among MSM, but do not provide evidence that SAEs are associated with increased risk for HIV transmission through CAI.

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PLoS One ; 18(9): e0291513, 2023.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37703305

ABSTRACT

Research supports abnormal inhibitory visual motion processing in adults with remitted and current depression, but all studies to date have used paradigms with simple grating stimuli. Global motion processing, where multiple motion signals must be integrated, has not been explored in depression, nor have inhibitory processes within that domain. Depressed participants (n = 46) and healthy controls (n = 28) completed a direction discrimination task featuring a random dot pattern stimulus. Various signal (rightward or leftward dots) to noise (dots with randomly assigned directions) ratios modulated task difficulty. Metrics of global center surround suppression and facilitation were calculated. Accuracy in the baseline condition (i.e., no surrounding annulus) was not significantly different between depressed and healthy participants. Global center surround suppression and facilitation were not significantly different between healthy and depressed participants overall. When limiting the sample to unmedicated individuals, depressed participants (n = 27) showed a reduced global center surround suppression effect compared to controls, and there was no difference in global center surround facilitation. While global motion processing is intact in depression, abnormal center surround suppression effects in depression do extend to global motion stimuli. These alterations may be mitigated by the psychotropic medications taken by some subjects in our depressed sample. Future studies should explore the mechanisms underlying these effects.


Subject(s)
Benchmarking , Depression , Adult , Humans , Health Status , Healthy Volunteers , Motion
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Front Psychol ; 12: 667359, 2021.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34335378

ABSTRACT

Face recognition is impaired in autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), but the reason for this remains unclear. One possibility is that impairments in the ability to visually detect faces might be a factor. As a preliminary study in this vein, we measured face detection ability as a function of visual contrast level in 13 individuals with ASD, aged 13-18, and 18 neurotypical controls (NCs) in the same age range. We also measured contrast sensitivity, using sinusoidal grating stimuli, as a control task. Individuals with ASD did not differ from controls in face detection (p > 0.9) or contrast detection (p > 0.2) ability. Performance on contrast and face detection was significantly correlated in ASD but not in NC. Results suggest that the ability to visually detect faces is not altered in ASD overall, but that alterations in basic visual processing may affect face detection ability in some individuals with ASD.

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