Browsing by Author "Fortenberry, James D."

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    Cancer worry and its impact on self-reported depressive symptoms among adult males and females in the US: a nationwide sample study
    (Springer Nature, 2024-01-08) Mamudu, Lohuwa; Li, Jinyi; McEligot, Archana J.; Wood, Michele; Rusmevichientong, Pimbucha; Tetteh‑Bator, Erasmus; Soale, Abdul‑Nasah; Fortenberry, James D.; Williams, Faustine; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Objective: With cancer the second deadliest disease in the world, worry about cancer can have mental health or psychiatric implications. This study examines the prevalence, differences, and influence of cancer worry (CW), its interaction effect with age, and other confounders on self-reported depressive symptoms (SRDS) among adult males and females in the US. Methods: We utilized a nationally representative sample data of 2,950 individuals (males = 1,276; females = 1,674) from Cycle 4 of the Health Information National Trends Survey 5 (HINTS 5) 2020. Using frequencies, bivariate chi-square test, and multivariate logistic regression, we examined the prevalence, difference, and association of CW with SRDS, adjusting for confounders. Results: The prevalence rate of SRDS was found to be 32% among females and 23.5% among males. Among individuals with CW, females had a higher prevalence of SRDS compared to males (40.5% vs. 35.1%). However, there was a significant difference in the likelihood of experiencing SRDS between males and females with CW, with males having 84% increased risk compared to females. Across all age groups, the multivariate analysis of the relationship between CW and SRDS revealed that both males and females showed a significantly decreased likelihood of SRDS compared to those aged 18-34 years. However, males aged 35 years or older exhibited an even more pronounced decrease in likelihood compared to females in the same age group. Nonetheless, when examining the interaction of age and CW, we observed a significantly increased likelihood of SRDS across all age groups. Males, in particular, had a higher increased likelihood of SRDS compared to females across all ages, except for those aged 75 years and older. Conclusion: The findings of this study highlight the significant influence of CW on individuals' SRDS and the modifying effect of age, particularly among males. These results are important for a better understanding of the risk of CW on mental health, which can be a preventive strategy or control mechanism.
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    Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in children receiving haematopoietic cell transplantation and immune effector cell therapy: an international and multidisciplinary consensus statement
    (Elsevier, 2022) Di Nardo, Matteo; Ahmad, Ali H.; Merli, Pietro; Zinter, Matthew S.; Lehman, Leslie E.; Rowan, Courtney M.; Steiner, Marie E.; Hingorani, Sangeeta; Angelo, Joseph R.; Abdel-Azim, Hisham; Khazal, Sajad J.; Shoberu, Basirat; McArthur, Jennifer; Bajwa, Rajinder; Ghafoor, Saad; Shah, Samir H.; Sandhu, Hitesh; Moody, Karen; Brown, Brandon D.; Mireles, Maria E.; Steppan, Diana; Olson, Taylor; Raman, Lakshmi; Bridges, Brian; Duncan, Christine N.; Choi, Sung Won; Swinford, Rita; Paden, Matt; Fortenberry, James D.; Peek, Giles; Tissieres, Pierre; De Luca, Daniele; Locatelli, Franco; Corbacioglu, Selim; Kneyber, Martin; Franceschini, Alessio; Nadel, Simon; Kumpf, Matthias; Loreti, Alessandra; Wösten-Van Asperen, Roelie; Gawronski, Orsola; Brierley, Joe; MacLaren, Graeme; Mahadeo, Kris M.; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in children receiving hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) and/or Immune Effector Cells (IEC) remains controversial and evidence-based guidelines are lacking. Remarkable advancements in HCT and IEC therapies have changed expectations around reversibility of organ dysfunction and life-expectancy for affected patients. Herein, members of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO), Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network- (HCT and Cancer Immunotherapy Subgroup), the Pediatric Diseases Working Party of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT), the supportive care committee of the Pediatric Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Consortium (PTCTC) and the Pediatric Intensive Care Oncology Kids in Europe Research (POKER) group of the European Society of Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) provide consensus recommendations on the use of ECMO in children receiving HCT-IEC. These are the first international, multi-disciplinary consensus-based recommendations on the use of ECMO in HCT-IEC pediatric patients. This manuscript may serve as a clinical decision support tool for pediatric hematologists, oncologists, and critical care physicians during the difficult decision-making process of ECMO candidacy and management. These recommendations may represent a base for future research studies focused on ECMO selection criteria and bedside management.
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    The feasibility of cell phone based electronic diaries for STI/HIV research
    (Springer Nature, 2012-06-12) Hensel, Devon J.; Fortenberry, James D.; Harezlak, Jaroslaw; Craig, Dorothy; Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
    Background: Self-reports of sensitive, socially stigmatized or illegal behavior are common in STI/HIV research, but can raise challenges in terms of data reliability and validity. The use of electronic data collection tools, including ecological momentary assessment (EMA), can increase the accuracy of this information by allowing a participant to self-administer a survey or diary entry, in their own environment, as close to the occurrence of the behavior as possible. In this paper, we evaluate the feasibility of using cell phone-based EMA as a tool for understanding sexual risk and STI among adult men and women. Methods: As part of a larger prospective clinical study on sexual risk behavior and incident STI in clinically recruited adult men and women, using study-provided cell phones, participants (N = 243) completed thrice-daily EMA diaries monitoring individual and partner-specific emotional attributes, non-sexual activities, non-coital or coital sexual behaviors, and contraceptive behaviors. Using these data, we assess feasibility in terms of participant compliance, behavior reactivity, general method acceptability and method efficacy for capturing behaviors. Results: Participants were highly compliant with diary entry protocol and schedule: over the entire 12 study weeks, participants submitted 89.7% (54,914/61,236) of the expected diary entries, with an average of 18.86 of the 21 expected diaries (85.7%) each week. Submission did not differ substantially across gender, race/ethnicity and baseline sexually transmitted infection status. A sufficient volume and range of sexual behaviors were captured, with reporting trends in different legal and illegal behaviors showing small variation over time. Participants found the methodology to be acceptable, enjoyed and felt comfortable participating in the study. Conclusion: Achieving the correct medium of data collection can drastically improve, or degrade, the timeliness and quality of an individual's self-reported sexual risk behavior, which in turn, is a key factor in the success of intervention or education programs relying on this information. Our findings demonstrate that completion of electronic diaries via cellular phone is feasible way to describe STI/HIV risk among clinically recruited adult men and women.