Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis: Treatment and Support Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis: Treatment and Support
Numerous unresolved questions surround PPF treatment and support.Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - September 19, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pulmonary Medicine News Source Type: news

Drug Trials Snapshot: LYBALVI
To treat schizophrenia and certain aspects of bipolar I disorder
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - September 19, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news

Screening for cannabis use disorder among young adults: sensitivity, specificity, and item-level performance of the Cannabis Use Disorders Identification Test - Revised - Coelho SG, Hendershot CS, Quilty LC, Wardell JD.
The Cannabis Use Disorders Identification Test Revised (CUDIT-R) is a widely used screening tool. However, its utility in screening for cannabis use disorder (CUD) among young adults requires further investigation. The current study evaluated the accuracy ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Young Adults Source Type: news

Behavioral and neurocognitive factors distinguishing post-traumatic stress comorbidity in substance use disorders - Houghton DC, Spratt HM, Keyser-Marcus L, Bjork JM, Neigh GN, Cunningham KA, Ramey T, Moeller FG.
Significant trauma histories and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are common in persons with substance use disorders (SUD) and often associate with increased SUD severity and poorer response to SUD treatment. As such, this sub-population has been asso...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Attention to the needs of women and girls in WASH: an analysis of WASH policies in selected sub-Saharan African countries - Dogoli MA, Nunbogu AM, Elliott SJ.
There has been a push for understanding gendered violence in WASH in recent times. Attention is therefore shifting to how these issues are conceptualised, considering their embeddedness in context. One step primarily is to understand how existing policies ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Identification of opioid use disorder using electronic health records: beyond diagnostic codes - Poulsen MN, Nordberg CM, Troiani V, Berrettini W, Asdell PB, Schwartz BS.
BACKGROUND: We used structured and unstructured electronic health record (EHR) data to develop and validate an approach to identify moderate/severe opioid use disorder (OUD) that includes individuals without prescription opioid use or chronic pain, an unde...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Improving function through primary care treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder study outcomes: a randomized controlled trial of prolonged exposure for primary care in veterans - Rauch SAM, Kim HM, Acierno R, Ragin C, Wangelin B, Blitch K, Muzzy W, Hart S, Zivin K.
INTRODUCTION: Despite high cost and wide prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in veteran populations, and Veterans Health Administration (VA)-wide mental health provider training in evidence-based treatments for PTSD, most veterans with PTSD ...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Secondary undertriage of pediatric trauma patients across the United States emergency departments - Scaife JH, Bryce JR, Iantorno SE, Yang M, McCrum ML, Bucher BT.
INTRODUCTION: The American College of Surgeons has developed evidence-based guidelines to triage the care of severely injured children to Level 1 and 2 trauma centers. Undertriage is the treatment of patients at facilities not equipped to treat the patient...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Psychosocial stress and methamphetamine use: a mixed-methods study of intersectional stigma and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander methamphetamine use - Sivak L, Reilly R, Lockton J, Treloar C, Roe Y, McKetin R, Butt J, Ezard N, Winkenweder H, Ward J.
BACKGROUND: Regular methamphetamine use can cause a range of physical, psychological and social harms. Stigma is one factor that impacts engagement and successful completion of treatment. In Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who regul...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Suicide-related care among patients who have experienced an opioid-involved overdose - Yarborough BJH, Stumbo SP, Coleman MJ, Ling Grant DS, Hulsey J, Shaw JL, Ahmedani BK, Bruschke C, Carson CPA, Cooper R, Firemark A, Hulst D, Massimino S, Miller-Matero LR, Swanson JR, Leonard A, Westphal J, Coleman KJ.
OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to describe suicide prevention care for individuals prescribed opioids or with opioid use disorder (OUD) and identify opportunities for improving this care. METHODS: Adult patients (n  = 65) from four health systems with...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Alcohol and Other Drugs Source Type: news

Associations between streetscape characteristics at Chinese adolescents' activity places and active travel patterns on weekdays and weekends - Wang X, Liu Y, Yao Y, Zhou S, Zhu Q, Liu M, Luo W, Helbich M.
Background Adolescents' daily active travel (AT) has positive health effects. However, previous studies had paid little attention on the differences between the streetscape characteristics-AT relationship on the weekdays and weekends, and most of them onl...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Research letter: TBI severity moderates the association between subjective and objective attention in older veterans - Rantins P, Ly M, Clark AL, Weigand AJ, Alshaheri Durazo A, Merritt VC, Bangen KJ, Thomas KR.
This study examined the moderating effect of traumatic brain injury (TBI) history on subjective and objective cognition across multiple cognitive domains. SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, AND DESIGN: Participants included 242 Vietnam-era veterans with a h...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news

Child friendliness of rural school travel road: improvement strategies based on rural children's perception - Ding X, Ao Y, Bahmani H.
Introduction In the process of building child-friendly cities, scholars have conducted extensive research on the appropriateness of urban facilities for children in urban regions, while less attention has been paid to rural areas with large numbers of chi...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Domestic violence - the position of the child in violence suffered by the parent as a victim -
Domestic violence, regardless of how it is manifested, represents a phenomenon which has recently attracted more and more significant doctrinal and media attention and it is a very complex problem. There are numerous questions about domestic violence to wh...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news

Behavioral and psychological treatments for NREM parasomnias: a systematic review - Mundt JM, Schuiling MD, Warlick C, Dietch JR, Wescott AB, Hagenaars M, Furst A, Khorramdel K, Baron KG.
BACKGROUND: Non-rapid eye movement (NREM) parasomnias are often benign and transient, requiring no formal treatment. However, parasomnias can also be chronic, disrupt sleep quality, and pose a significant risk of harm to the patient or others. Numerous beh...
Source: SafetyLit - September 19, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

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