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PURPOSE: We sought to identify trends and characteristics associated with the availability of tailored mental health services for individuals involved in the criminal justice system and ordered to treatment by a court, nationally in the US and by state. METHODS: We used National Mental Health Services Survey to identify outpatient mental health treatment facilities in the US (2016 n = 4744; 2018 n = 4626; 2020 n = 4869). We used clustered multiple logistic regression to identify changes over time as well as facility- and state-level factors associated with the availability of specialty court-ordered services. RESULTS: Slightly more than half of the outpatient mental health treatment facilities offered specialized services for individuals ordered to treatment by a court, with wide variation between states. Nationally, there was a significant increase in the odds of offering court-ordered treatment in 2020 compared to 2016 (aOR = 1.16, 95% CI = 1.06-1.27, p < 0.01). Notable associations included offering integrated substance use treatment (versus none, aOR = 2.95, 95% CI = 2.70-3.22, p < 0.0001) and offering trauma therapy (versus none, aOR = 2.05, 95% CI = 1.85-2.27, p < 0.0001). CONCLUSION: The availability of mental health services for individuals ordered to treatment by a court is growing nationally but several states are lagging behind. Court ordered treatment is a promising strategy to improve health and reduce reliance on the carceral system as a healthcare provider. At the same time, we express caution around disparities within behavioral health courts and advocate for equity in access to incarceration alternatives.
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Mental health and health promotion research and practice have consistently revealed the social and structural inequities that boys and men of color (BMoC) face. Moreover, scholarship highlights the importance of gender, especially the concepts of masculinity and manhood, in understanding inequities that are experienced. Providers and community leaders are finding culturally relevant ways to foster healing and restoration while addressing racial trauma and the adverse community environments tied to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). This article introduces the restorative integral support (RIS) model to promote connectivity through networks and to acknowledge the contextual differences BMoC experience when suffering from trauma and adversities. RIS is a framework used to address adversities and trauma while increasing societal awareness and advancing equity. This community-based, multidimensional approach is offered to enhance individual, agency, community, and policymaking leadership, raising awareness of mental health concerns and trauma while offering a flexible guide to developing safe spaces and support for recovery from ACEs and trauma. This article offers an in-depth appreciation of the real-life contexts within which BMoC overcome histories of adversity and trauma, demonstrating how the RIS model is applied to advance structural transformation while fostering community resilience.
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PURPOSE: Little is known about factors affecting HIV care engagement and retention among rural people with HIV (PWH) in the South. About half of PWH in Arkansas reside in rural areas. The purpose of this study was to explore factors affecting engagement and retention in HIV care among PWH in rural areas of Arkansas. METHODS: We conducted an exploratory qualitative study in 2020 and completed individual interviews (N = 11) with PWH in rural counties in Arkansas. FINDINGS: Content analysis revealed the following themes: (1) Barriers to HIV care included long distances to the nearest HIV clinic and transportation issues along with anticipating and/or experiencing HIV-related stigma; (2) facilitators of HIV care included having a helpful HIV care provider and Ryan White case manager and a social support network that aided them in prioritizing their own health; (3) participants had the most favorable reactions to Ryan White case management, peer navigators, and telemedicine for HIV treatment/care; and (4) participants demonstrated resilience overcoming various obstacles as they worked toward being healthy mentally and physically while living with HIV. CONCLUSION: Interventions need to address multilevel factors, including hiring PWH as peer navigators and/or caseworkers and offering HIV care via telemedicine, to improve HIV care engagement and retention among rural populations.
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Infecções por HIV , Acessibilidade aos Serviços de Saúde , Humanos , Infecções por HIV/epidemiologia , Infecções por HIV/terapia , Arkansas/epidemiologia , População Rural , Pesquisa QualitativaRESUMO
Individuals involved in the criminal justice (CJ) system continue to be at disproportionate risk for HIV infection, and often have a greater prevalence of substance use and sexual related risk behaviors relative to their non-CJ involved peers. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a once daily antiretroviral medicine, is an evidence-based approach for reducing the risk of contracting HIV but limited data exist regarding the use of PrEP among CJ populations, especially in the U.S. South. This study was conducted at the Pulaski County Regional Detention Facility (PCRDF) in Little Rock, Arkansas (AR), the largest county jail in the state. We explored knowledge about PrEP and HIV, perceptions about PrEP feasibility in both the jail and community settings and barriers to PrEP program implementation, through in-depth qualitative interviews with 21 jail detainees. We purposively sampled individuals based on specific self-reported risk behavior, including sexual risk (both heterosexual and same-sex) and drug related risk (e.g. IDU), among all eligible individuals. We identified five primary themes from the interviews: 1) accessing healthcare during community reentry was a low priority; 2) perception of risk and interaction with people with HIV was low; 3) there are many barriers to disclosing HIV risk behaviors in jail settings; 4) knowledge of PrEP is low but willingness to use is high; and 5) multiple barriers exist to PrEP uptake post-release. Our findings are contextually unique and therefore have important implications for future implementation of PrEP access either within jail settings or linkage to PrEP post release.
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Infecções por HIV/prevenção & controle , Profilaxia Pré-Exposição/métodos , Prisioneiros/psicologia , Adulto , Antirretrovirais/uso terapêutico , Feminino , Infecções por HIV/patologia , Humanos , Entrevistas como Assunto , Conhecimento , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Avaliação de Programas e Projetos de Saúde , Assunção de Riscos , Autorrelato , Adulto JovemAssuntos
Hepatite Viral Humana/diagnóstico , Infecções por Vírus Respiratório Sincicial/diagnóstico , Vírus Sinciciais Respiratórios/isolamento & purificação , Dor Abdominal/diagnóstico , Diagnóstico Diferencial , Dispneia/diagnóstico , Feminino , Hepatite Viral Humana/terapia , Hepatite Viral Humana/virologia , Humanos , Lactente , Infecções por Vírus Respiratório Sincicial/terapia , Infecções por Vírus Respiratório Sincicial/virologiaRESUMO
Visual illusions allow for strong tests of perceptual functioning. Perceptual impairments can produce superior task performance on certain tasks (i.e., more veridical perception), thereby avoiding generalized deficit confounds while tapping mechanisms that are largely outside of conscious control. Using a task based on the Ebbinghaus illusion, a perceptual phenomenon where the perceived size of a central target object is affected by the size of surrounding inducers, we tested hypotheses related to visual integration in deaf (n = 31) and hearing (n = 34) patients with schizophrenia. In past studies, psychiatrically healthy samples displayed increased visual integration relative to schizophrenia samples and thus were less able to correctly judge target sizes. Deafness, and especially the use of sign language, leads to heightened sensitivity to peripheral visual cues and increased sensitivity to visual context. Therefore, relative to hearing subjects, deaf subjects were expected to display increased context sensitivity (ie, a more normal illusion effect as evidenced by a decreased ability to correctly judge central target sizes). Confirming the hypothesis, deaf signers were significantly more sensitive to the illusion than nonsigning hearing patients. Moreover, an earlier age of sign language acquisition, higher levels of linguistic ability, and shorter illness duration were significantly related to increased context sensitivity. As predicted, disorganization was associated with reduced context sensitivity for all subjects. The primary implications of these data are that perceptual organization impairment in schizophrenia is plastic and that it is related to a broader failure in coordinating cognitive activity.
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Atenção , Julgamento , Ilusões Ópticas , Reconhecimento Visual de Modelos , Transtornos da Percepção/diagnóstico , Esquizofrenia Hebefrênica/diagnóstico , Esquizofrenia Hebefrênica/psicologia , Percepção de Tamanho , Adulto , Idoso , Escalas de Graduação Psiquiátrica Breve , Surdez/psicologia , Surdez/reabilitação , Discriminação Psicológica , Feminino , Área de Dependência-Independência , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Orientação , Transtornos da Percepção/psicologia , Transtornos da Percepção/reabilitação , Esquizofrenia Hebefrênica/reabilitação , Limiar Sensorial , Língua de SinaisRESUMO
Muscle LIM protein (MLP) can be found at the Z-disk of sarcomeres where it is hypothesized to be involved in sensing muscle stretch. Loss of murine MLP results in dilated cardiomyopathy, and mutations in human MLP lead to cardiac hypertrophy, indicating a critical role for MLP in maintaining normal cardiac function. Loss of MLP in Drosophila (mlp84B) also leads to muscle dysfunction, providing a model system to examine MLP's mechanism of action. Mlp84B-null flies that survive to adulthood are not able to fly or beat their wings. Transgenic expression of the mlp84B gene in the Mlp84B-null background rescues flight ability and restores wing beating ability. Mechanical analysis of skinned flight muscle fibers showed a 30% decrease in oscillatory power production and a slight increase in the frequency at which maximum power is generated for fibers lacking Mlp84B compared with rescued fibers. Mlp84B-null muscle fibers displayed a 25% decrease in passive, active, and rigor stiffness compared with rescued fibers, but no significant decrease in isometric tension generation was observed. Muscle ultrastructure of Mlp84B-null muscle fibers is grossly normal; however, the null fibers have a slight decrease, 11%, in thick filament number per unit cross-sectional area. Our data indicate that MLP contributes to muscle stiffness and is necessary for maximum work and power generation.
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Proteínas de Drosophila/deficiência , Drosophila/metabolismo , Voo Animal , Deleção de Genes , Contração Isométrica , Fibras Musculares Esqueléticas/metabolismo , Proteínas Musculares/deficiência , Força Muscular , Asas de Animais/metabolismo , Análise de Variância , Animais , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Drosophila/genética , Drosophila/ultraestrutura , Proteínas de Drosophila/genética , Genótipo , Proteínas com Domínio LIM , Microscopia Eletrônica de Transmissão , Fibras Musculares Esqueléticas/ultraestrutura , Proteínas Musculares/genética , Fenótipo , Asas de Animais/ultraestruturaRESUMO
INTRODUCTION: There has been a relative lack of research on deaf people with schizophrenia, and no data exist regarding symptom structure in this population. Thus, we determined the factor structure of the 24-item Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS) in deaf (n = 34) and hearing (n = 31) people with schizophrenia and compared it to a standard four-factor solution. METHOD: An obliquely rotated factor analysis produced a solution for the BPRS that resembled others in the literature. Symptom clusters were additionally compared to cognitive and social-cognitive abilities. RESULTS: Activity and disorganised symptoms were the most consistent correlates of visual- and thought and language-related skills for deaf and hearing subjects respectively. Affective symptoms and facial affect processing were positively correlated among deaf but not hearing subjects. CONCLUSIONS: The data suggest that current symptom models of schizophrenia are valid in both hearing and deaf patients. However, relations between symptoms, cognition, and outcome from the general (hearing) literature cannot be generalised to deaf patients. Findings are broadly consistent with pathophysiologic models of schizophrenia suggesting a fundamental cortical processing algorithm operating across several domains of neural activity including vision, and thought and language. Support is provided for recent advances in social-cognitive interventions for people with schizophrenia.
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Surdez/complicações , Surdez/psicologia , Escalas de Graduação Psiquiátrica , Esquizofrenia/complicações , Psicologia do Esquizofrênico , Adulto , Idoso , Cognição/fisiologia , Surdez/fisiopatologia , Feminino , Humanos , Idioma , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Modelos Psicológicos , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatologia , Língua de Sinais , Comportamento Social , Teoria da Mente/fisiologia , Percepção Visual/fisiologia , Adulto JovemAssuntos
Controle de Doenças Transmissíveis/organização & administração , Epidemias/prevenção & controle , Planejamento em Saúde/legislação & jurisprudência , Política de Saúde/legislação & jurisprudência , Vírus da Influenza A Subtipo H1N1 , Influenza Humana/prevenção & controle , Controle de Doenças Transmissíveis/legislação & jurisprudência , Humanos , Influenza Humana/epidemiologia , Estados Unidos/epidemiologiaRESUMO
Cognition has become prominent in the study of schizophrenia because of its importance for understanding the etiology of the illness and its consequences for living independently. For people with schizophrenia who are also deaf, investigations of cognition and schizophrenia are infrequent. This study examines the role of linguistic ability in relation to cognition, social cognition, and functional outcome among deaf adults with schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder. The primary finding is that linguistic ability is positively and significantly associated with functional outcome above and beyond the contribution of cognition and social cognition. A younger age of sign language acquisition is significantly associated with superior linguistic ability, but did not moderate the effect of linguistic ability on other domains. Opportunities for deaf mental health consumers to participate in sign language enrichment programs and communicate with other skilled signers may be useful additions to standard psychiatric rehabilitation programming. More research is needed to clarify the consequences of deafness with regards to schizophrenia especially as it relates to language, vision, and symptoms.
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Surdez/complicações , Idioma , Saúde Mental , Esquizofrenia/complicações , Adulto , Idoso , Cognição , Surdez/psicologia , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Esquizofrenia/reabilitação , Psicologia do Esquizofrênico , Percepção Social , Resultado do TratamentoRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: To determine the best technique for measuring mesial-distal tooth widths on digital models. METHODS: The individual mesial-distal tooth widths were measured (first molar to first molar, maxillary and mandibular) on 32 stone casts and corresponding digital models (emodels, GeoDigm, Chanhassen, Minn). The digital models were measured using five different techniques: occlusal aspect, occlusal aspect zooming in on each individual tooth, facial aspect rotating as needed, facial aspect from three standard positions (R buccal, facial, and L buccal), and qualitatively rotating the model in any position deemed necessary. Measurements were repeated three times at least 1 week apart. The operator time needed to complete each set of measurements was recorded. RESULTS: Four of five digital measurement techniques (except for the facial aspect from three standard positions) showed a slight positive bias (overestimation in measured width) compared with stone cast measurements. Measuring from the occlusal aspect resulted in the greatest Pearson correlation (98.509%), the least Altman-Bland standard deviation of differences value (1.881 mm), and the second fastest measuring time (2 minutes 3 seconds). Qualitatively rotating the model had similar Pearson correlation and Altman-Bland values to the Occlusal technique but took the longest time to measure (7 minutes 1 second). CONCLUSIONS: The Occlusal measurement technique for digital models was the best combination of accuracy, repeatability, and speed of measurement.
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Simulação por Computador , Modelos Dentários , Odontometria/métodos , Ortodontia/métodos , Dente/anatomia & histologia , Intervalos de Confiança , Humanos , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Software , Estatística como Assunto , Estatísticas não ParamétricasRESUMO
It has been suggested in the research literature that facial affect processing (FAP) and theory of mind (ToM) are both potential mediators of the well-established relationship between cognition and functional outcome among people with schizophrenia. The current project tests the mediating potency of these two domains of social cognition among deaf and hearing people with schizophrenia. Sixty-five people (34 deaf, 31 hearing) were assessed using measures of verbal and visual memory, attention, visual processing, FAP, and ToM. The results suggest that each domain of cognition, save vigilance, exerts an effect on functional outcome indirectly through its influence on social cognition. The patterns of mediation varied when the samples were broken down by hearing status and analyzed separately. Namely, the cognitive tasks directly involving linguistic ability (early visual processing [EVP] and word memory) were best mediated by social cognition for hearing subjects. For deaf subjects, the nonlinguistic cognitive tasks (e.g., visual-spatial memory-recall and copy [VSM-recall and VSM-copy]) were best mediated by social cognition. While FAP and ToM were equally effective as mediators for hearing subjects, FAP was a more potent mediator than ToM for deaf subjects. This study extends prior work in the area of social cognition and schizophrenia and indicates that the development of cognitive rehabilitation strategies should include not only interventions targeting specific cognitive abilities, such as attention and memory, but should include an emphasis on social-cognitive domains, including FAP and ToM. Further, deaf and hearing subjects may benefit from interventions addressing aspects of cognition that support linguistic ability, especially as they relate to social cognition.
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Transtornos Cognitivos/diagnóstico , Surdez/psicologia , Audição , Esquizofrenia/diagnóstico , Psicologia do Esquizofrênico , Percepção Social , Atenção , Transtornos Cognitivos/epidemiologia , Transtornos Cognitivos/reabilitação , Comorbidade , Surdez/epidemiologia , Emoções , Expressão Facial , Feminino , Humanos , Linguística , Masculino , Memória , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Testes Neuropsicológicos/estatística & dados numéricos , Reconhecimento Psicológico , Esquizofrenia/epidemiologia , Esquizofrenia/reabilitação , Língua de Sinais , Ajustamento Social , Percepção Espacial , Comportamento VerbalRESUMO
The objectives of this study were to determine the effects of chronic angiotensin II (ANG II) infusions on ANG II content and angiotensinogen expression in the mouse kidney and the role of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor (AT(1)R) in mediating these changes. C57BL/6J male mice were subjected to ANG II infusions at doses of 400 or 1,000 ng.kg(-1).min(-1) either alone or with an AT(1)R blocker (olmesartan; 3 mg.kg(-1).day(-1)) for 12 days. Systolic and mean arterial pressures were determined by tail-cuff plethysmography and radiotelemetry. On day 13, blood and kidneys were collected for ANG II determinations by radioimmunoanalysis and intrarenal angiotensinogen expression studies by quantitative RT-PCR, Western blotting, and immunohistochemistry. ANG II infusions at the low dose elicited progressive increases in systolic blood pressure (135 +/- 2.5 mmHg). In contrast, the high dose induced a rapid increase (152 +/- 2.5, P < 0.05 vs. controls, 109 +/- 2.8). Renal ANG II content was increased by ANG II infusions at the low dose (1,203 +/- 253 fmol/g) and the high dose (1,258 +/- 173) vs. controls (499 +/- 40, P < 0.05). Kidney angiotensinogen mRNA and protein were increased only by the low dose to 1.13 +/- 0.02 and 1.26 +/- 0.10, respectively, over controls (1.00, P < 0.05). These effects were not observed in mice infused at the high dose and those receiving olmesartan. The results indicate that chronic ANG II infusions augment mouse intrarenal ANG II content with AT(1)R-dependent uptake occurring at both doses, but only the low dose of infusion, which elicited a slow progressive response, causes an AT(1)R-dependent increase in intrarenal angiotensinogen expression.
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Angiotensina II/metabolismo , Angiotensinogênio/metabolismo , Hipertensão/metabolismo , Rim/metabolismo , Receptor Tipo 1 de Angiotensina/metabolismo , Angiotensina II/administração & dosagem , Angiotensina II/sangue , Animais , Pressão Sanguínea , Peso Corporal , Hipertensão/induzido quimicamente , Hipertensão/patologia , Rim/patologia , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos C57BL , Tamanho do Órgão , Renina/sangue , Renina/metabolismoRESUMO
Recent research has highlighted the relationships between impairments in cognitive functioning and poorer functional outcomes among people with schizophrenia (PWS). The purpose of this study was to replicate and extend this work by testing the relationships between cognition and functional outcome among deaf adults with schizophrenia. Empirical findings from deafness-oriented research reveals enhanced abilities in certain aspects of visual-spatial processing compared to hearing people. Sixty-five PWS (34 deaf, 31 hearing) were assessed using measures of verbal and visual memory, attention, and visual processing. The first hypothesis tested whether cognition predicted functional outcome in a similar fashion for both deaf and hearing subjects (n=63). For all subjects, higher levels of cognitive ability were associated with higher levels of functional outcome, and the strongest predictors of outcome were verbal memory and visual-spatial memory (recall condition) (VSM recall). However, the deaf and hearing groups did show different patterns of relationships between cognition and functioning when all cognitive variables were examined. The second hypothesis was that deaf subjects would display superior performance in early visual processing, visual-spatial memory (copy condition) (VSM copy), and VSM recall. Deaf subjects displayed superior performance on each task; however, no significant differences emerged. Deaf subjects outperformed hearing subjects in an unexpected domain (word memory/recognition). This study extends prior work in the area of cognition and schizophrenia and indicates that deaf and hearing subjects may benefit from interventions that address different domains of cognition.
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Transtornos Cognitivos/epidemiologia , Surdez/epidemiologia , Audição , Esquizofrenia/epidemiologia , Transtornos Cognitivos/diagnóstico , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Transtornos da Memória/diagnóstico , Transtornos da Memória/epidemiologia , Rememoração Mental , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Prevalência , Reconhecimento Psicológico , Esquizofrenia/diagnóstico , Índice de Gravidade de Doença , Comportamento Social , Percepção Espacial , Percepção VisualRESUMO
Diet-fed low density lipoprotein receptor-deficient/apolipoprotein A-I-deficient (LDLr-/-, apoA-I-/-) mice accumulate a 10-fold greater mass of cholesterol in their skin despite a 1.5- to 2-fold lower plasma cholesterol concentration compared with diet-fed LDLr-/- mice. The accumulation of cholesterol predominantly in the skin has been shown to occur in a growing number of other hypercholesterolemic double knockout mouse models sharing deficits in genes regulating cellular cholesterol homeostasis. Exploring the relationship between cholesterol balance and inflammation, we have examined the time course of cholesterol accumulation in a number of extrahepatic tissues and correlated with the onset of inflammation in diet-fed LDLr-/-, apoA-I-/- mice. After 4 weeks of diet, LDLr-/-, apoA-I-/- mice showed a significant increase in skin cholesterol mass compared with LDLr-/- mice. In addition, after 4 weeks on the diet, cholesterol accumulation in the skin was also found to be associated with macrophage infiltration and accompanied by increases in tumor necrosis factor-alpha, cyclooxygenase-2, and langerin mRNA, which were not seen in the liver. Overall, these data suggest that as early as 4 weeks after starting the diet, the accumulation of skin cholesterol and the onset of inflammation occur concurrently. In summary, the use of hypercholesterolemic LDLr-/-, apoA-I-/- mice may provide a useful tool to investigate the role that apoA-I plays in maintaining cholesterol homeostasis and its relationship to inflammation.
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Apolipoproteína A-I/deficiência , Colesterol/metabolismo , Inflamação/genética , Inflamação/fisiopatologia , Receptores de LDL/deficiência , Pele/metabolismo , Animais , Apolipoproteína A-I/genética , Apolipoproteína A-I/fisiologia , Bile/metabolismo , Colesterol na Dieta/metabolismo , Homeostase , Absorção Intestinal , Lipídeos/fisiologia , Macrófagos Peritoneais/metabolismo , Camundongos , Camundongos Knockout , RNA/genética , RNA/isolamento & purificação , Receptores de LDL/genética , Receptores de LDL/fisiologia , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Via Transcriptase Reversa , Tolerância a Antígenos Próprios/genética , Pele/fisiopatologiaRESUMO
Statutory authority for public health surveillance is necessarily broad as previously uncharacterized diseases are regularly discovered. This article provides specific information about general disease reporting provisions in each state. The intent of these reporting laws and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule is to support this critical disease surveillance function for the benefit of the entire population.