Browsing by Subject "behavioral health"

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    An economic evaluation of a police mental-health co-response program: Data from a pragmatic randomized controlled trial
    (2024) Hofer, Meret; Lu, Thanh; Bailey, Katie; Aldridge, Arnie; Grommon, Eric; Lowder, Evan; Ray, Bradley
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    Behavioral Health Disparities in Indiana
    (Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, 2016-02) Tao, Ling; Greene, Marion
    The burden of illness, premature death, and disability is distributed unequally throughout the nation, leading to vast differences in health status or outcomes between specific groups. Such health disparities are persistent and occur across a wide range of physical and behavioral conditions.
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    Community Behavioral Health Needs Assessment for Howard County
    (Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, 2023-09) Greene, Marion; Sanner, Lindsey; King, Hannah
    This report describes the need for behavioral health services in Howard County and identifies the gaps that exist between service needs and service availability. Based on the findings, Community Fairbanks Behavioral Health – Howard will strategize on how to address these needs and gaps.
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    Development of an animal-assisted activity program on a pediatric behavioral health unit
    (Elsevier, 2019-08) Fodstad, Jill C.; Bauers, Jodi; Sexton, Melissa; Butler, Melissa; Karlsson, Cassie; Neff, Mallery; Psychiatry, School of Medicine
    Animal-assisted activities (AAA), a form of animal-assisted interaction, have the potential to improve positive coping for youth with significant psychiatric symptoms admitted to acute behavioral health units. However, little is known regarding the appropriateness of an AAA program in short-term mental health hospital settings. The goal of this investigation is to describe and report on the feasibility and acceptability of embedding a canine-AAA program within the therapeutic programming of a pediatric behavioral health unit. Both patient participants and unit staff completed quantitative and qualitative measures. Outcomes yielded preliminary data suggesting AAA was feasible and acceptable to patients and unit staff. Initial efficacy outcomes demonstrated decreases in subjective distress. Qualitative data provided areas for further refinement of the AAA program.
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    Improving Integration of Behavioral Health Into Primary Care for Adolescents and Young Adults
    (Elsevier, 2020-08) Pitts, Brian; Aalsma, Matthew C.; Brooks, Merrian; Galagali, Preti; McKinney, Robert, Jr.; McManus, Peggy; Pinto, Melissa; Radovich, Ana; Richardson, Laura; Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    Problems related to mood, substance use, anxiety, body image issues, post-traumatic stress, and suicidality are common in adolescence and become even more common in young adulthood. Integrated behavioral health (IBH) in primary care has shown great promise in identifying and treating adolescents and young adults who have these problems. Treatment outcomes in IBH settings outperform those in usual primary care settings where a primary care provider may identify behavioral health problems and refer youth to colocated or outside behavioral health specialists. Despite the success of IBH care systems, limited training opportunities and inadequate financial compensation for these services jeopardize the wide scale expansion and universal adoption of IBH. To optimize patient care, providers from all disciplines in adolescent primary care settings should have dedicated professional training in IBH. This should include incorporating IBH professional competencies into each discipline's formal training program and building interprofessional, multidisciplinary IBH training settings. Likewise, payers should work with primary care systems to create and implement reimbursement models for IBH services. Efforts to expand the footprint of IBH would pay off significantly by building more worldwide BH systems with increased efficacy at identifying and treating adolescents with BH conditions.
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    Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) training for nurses in acute care settings: Lessons Learned
    (Elsevier, 2019-08) Schwindt, Rhonda; Agley, Jon; Newhouse, Robin; Ferren, Melora; School of Nursing
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    Social Worker Integrated Care Competencies Scale (SICCS): Assessing Social Worker Clinical Competencies for Health Care Settings
    (Taylor & Francis, 2019) Davis, Tamara S.; Reno, Rebecca; Guada, Joe; Swenson, Staci; Peck, Adriane; Saunders-Adams, Stacey; Haas-Gehres, Lauren; School of Social Work
    Integrating physical and behavioral health services has the potential to reduce health disparities and service inequities among persons most at risk. However, clinical social workers in integrated health settings must possess relevant knowledge and skills to provide quality care to diverse populations. The Social Worker Integrated Care Competency Scale (SWICCS), developed to complement the Integrated and Culturally Relevant Care (ICRC) field education curriculum, measures students’ self-perceptions of knowledge and skills associated with providing behavioral health care. Three student cohorts (n = 38) completed the SWICCS three times during an integrated care field practicum. Results indicated a statistically significant increase in student knowledge and skills at each time point, with a large effect size (r = −.87). The SWICCS demonstrated utility in measuring and tracking social work student acquisition of knowledge and skills required for practice in integrated care environments.
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    The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Behavioral Health in Indiana
    (Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, 2021) Kooreman, Harold; Gutta, Jyotsna; Bandali, Elhaam; Greene, Marion
    The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by a novel, highly contagious virus called SARS-CoV-2. The first cases of COVID-19 were identified in Wuhan, China, in December of 2019, but the disease quickly spread to other parts of the world. On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic. As of January 2021, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center has confirmed more than 20 million SARS-CoV-2 cases and over 350,000 deaths in the United States alone and 100 million cases and more than 2 million deaths globally.