Faculty Bibliography
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Sleep Health Among Sexual and Gender Minorities
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
pp. ?-
ISBN: 9780190930448
CID: 5403962
Estimating the Health Status of Privately Insured Gender Minority Children and Adults
PMID: 31314674
ISSN: 2325-8306
CID: 5724052
Suicide prevention by emergency nurses: perceived self-efficacy in assessment, management and referral at Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya
BACKGROUND:Emergency Departments are underutilized settings for suicide prevention and management as patients with occult (camouflaged) suicides and suicidal ideation are rarely screened by nurses and other health workers in these sites. The under-detection rates could be a result of lack of suicide assessment and management confidence among the hospital staff. The aim of the study was to find out the perceived self-efficacy in suicide risk assessment, management and referral among nurses working in an emergency department within a lower income country. METHOD/METHODS:The Risk Assessment and Management Self-Efficacy Scale (RAMSES) was administered among nurses in an emergency department (ED) within an urban region in a descriptive study. The risk assessment, management and referral domains among 64 respondents were evaluated using mean and standard deviation calculations in SPSS v 21. RESULTS:The total RAMSES composite score in risk assessment, management and referral was 6.19 (SD 2.107) with risk assessment having the lowest mean score of 6.09 (SD 2.08), while risk referral process mean score was the highest at 6.55 (SD 2.36). The nurses had the least confidence in developing a written risk management plan 5.68 (SD 2.51) as well as using screening instruments to assess risk 5.90 (SD 2.15). FINDINGS/RESULTS:Nurses in emergency department have below average self-efficacy in suicide assessment and management necessitating training as well as integration of protocols that could enhance effective utilization of emergency departments as suicide prevention and management settings.
PMCID:6710859
PMID: 31462903
ISSN: 1744-859x
CID: 5831882
Contextual factors influencing the implementation of culturally adapted evidence-based hypertension control strategies in Asian American-serving community sites in the New York/New Jersey area [Meeting Abstract]
ISI:000584552900150
ISSN: 1748-5908
CID: 5265962
Financial Hardship, Motivation to Quit and Post-Quit Spending Plans among Low-Income Smokers Enrolled in a Smoking Cessation Trial
Background/UNASSIGNED:Tobacco spending may exacerbate financial hardship in low-income populations by using funds that could go toward essentials. This study examined post-quit spending plans among low-income smokers and whether financial hardship was positively associated with motivation to quit in the sample. Methods/UNASSIGNED:= 410). Linear regression was used to examine the relationship between financial distress, food insecurity, smoking-induced deprivation (SID) and motivation to quit (measured on a 0-10 scale). We performed summative content analyses of open-ended survey questions to identify the most common plans among participants with and without SID for how to use their tobacco money after quitting. Results/UNASSIGNED:The top three spending plans among participants with and without SID were travel, clothing and savings. There were three needs-based spending plans unique to a small number of participants with SID: housing, health care and education. Conclusions/UNASSIGNED:Financial distress and food insecurity did not enhance overall motivation to quit, while smokers with SID were less motivated to quit. Most low-income smokers, including those with SID, did not plan to use their tobacco money on household essentials after quitting.
PMCID:6785910
PMID: 31636481
ISSN: 1178-2218
CID: 4153522
National and Subnational Politics of Health Systems' Origins and Change
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
pp. 122-131
ISBN: 9781138238596
CID: 5300922
PROTOCOLIZED URINE SAMPLING REDUCES CAUTI RATES [Meeting Abstract]
ISI:000498593400576
ISSN: 0090-3493
CID: 4227692
Smoking patterns and preferences for technology assisted smoking cessation interventions among adults with opioid and alcohol use disorders
Background/UNASSIGNED:Smoking remains a major public health burden among persons with opioid and/or alcohol use disorder. Methods/UNASSIGNED:A 49-item semi-structured survey was conducted among urban, inpatient detoxification program patients eliciting demographic and clinical characteristics, smoking profile, technology use patterns, and preferences for adopting technology-based smoking cessation interventions. Multivariate logistic regression models further evaluated the association between participant demographic and clinical characteristics and technology preferences. Results/UNASSIGNED:Participants were mostly male (91%), and admitted for detoxification for alcohol (47%), heroin (31%), or both alcohol and heroin (22%). Past 30-day smoking was reported by 78% of the sample. Mobile phone ownership was common (89%); with an average past-year turnover of 3 mobile phones and 3 phone numbers. Computer ownership was low (28%) and one third reported daily internet use (34%). Telephone (41%) and text message-based interventions (40%) were the most popular platforms to facilitate smoking cessation. Conclusions/UNASSIGNED:Despite concurrent AUD-OUD, most respondents had attempted to quit smoking in the last year and preferred telephone- and text message-based interventions to facilitate smoking cessation. High turnover of mobile phones, phone numbers, and limited access to computers pose barriers to dissemination of technology-based smoking cessation interventions in this vulnerable population.
PMCID:7500477
PMID: 32952442
ISSN: 1465-9891
CID: 4605342
Altered dynamics of visual contextual interactions in Parkinson's disease
Over the last decades, psychophysical and electrophysiological studies in patients and animal models of Parkinson's disease (PD), have consistently revealed a number of visual abnormalities. In particular, specific alterations of contrast sensitivity curves, electroretinogram (ERG), and visual-evoked potentials (VEP), have been attributed to dopaminergic retinal depletion. However, fundamental mechanisms of cortical visual processing, such as normalization or "gain control" computations, have not yet been examined in PD patients. Here, we measured electrophysiological indices of gain control in both space (surround suppression) and time (sensory adaptation) in PD patients based on steady-state VEP (ssVEP). Compared with controls, patients exhibited a significantly higher initial ssVEP amplitude that quickly decayed over time, and greater relative suppression of ssVEP amplitude as a function of surrounding stimulus contrast. Meanwhile, EEG frequency spectra were broadly elevated in patients relative to controls. Thus, contrary to what might be expected given the reduced contrast sensitivity often reported in PD, visual neural responses are not weaker; rather, they are initially larger but undergo an exaggerated degree of spatial and temporal gain control and are embedded within a greater background noise level. These differences may reflect cortical mechanisms that compensate for dysfunctional center-surround interactions at the retinal level.
PMCID:6609710
PMID: 31286057
ISSN: 2373-8057
CID: 4090962
Multimodal Hippocampal Subfield Grading For Alzheimer's Disease Classification
ISI:000487586600036
ISSN: 2045-2322
CID: 4155602
