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Below is a listing of recent Sheps Center journal articles.  Search PubMed to find more Sheps Center articles.

  • Sheps Center publications from PubMed

    Changes in the Proportion of Office-Based Child and Adolescent Physician Visits Addressing Mental Health, 2005-2019
    - Alex Gertner

    CONCLUSIONS: Office-based physicians increasingly address mental health concerns, reflecting the increasing demand among children and adolescents. Psychiatric diagnoses at office-based physician visits differ by patients' sex and race-ethnicity. Many primary care physicians provide mental health care, highlighting the need for rigorous mental health training for pediatricians. [...]

    Homicide Mortality in Formerly Incarcerated People Compared to the General Population in North Carolina, 2000 to 2020
    - Kate Vinita Fitch

    CONCLUSIONS: Formerly incarcerated people are at high risk of homicide death both immediately after release and for at least five years after. The extreme racialized disparities in post-release homicide mortality warrant targeted intervention, particularly to reduce immediate-term homicide death among Black males. [...]

    Feasibility and Acceptability of an 8-Week Supportive Care Intervention for Cancer Caregivers Adapted for Rural Settings
    - Erin E Kent

    CONCLUSIONS: This one-on-one caregiver coaching program is feasible and acceptable for rural cancer caregivers, and it appears to be a promising intervention suitable for efficacy testing in future larger studies. [...]

    What's Keeping the U.S. From Better Population Health?
    - Seth A Berkowitz

    The "dual problem" of U.S. population health is that population health is poor, while health care spending is high. These issues are interrelated, but only partly so. Poor population health does increase the need for health care services, which tends to increase spending. But the more important roots of poor population health lie in social policy rather than in health care-particularly an inadequate social insurance system that leads to many people being denied the income needed for health. [...]

    Perspectives on meaningful dementia treatment and care from those with lived experience
    - Walter Moczygemba

    The ongoing conversations surrounding the importance of minimal clinically important differences and descriptions of meaningful impacts must include the voices of those living with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. To provide this perspective, members of the Alzheimer's Association Early Stage Advisory Group were asked to describe what matters most to them, their experiences with treatment, how they define meaningful care, and what would provide them with feelings of progress and hope. [...]