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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/gps-6046/) The phenotype of delirium based on a close reading of diagnostic criteria
Jan 30th 2024, 14:56

Abstract
Objective
Although delirium is well known to acute care clinicians, the features required for its diagnosis and how to understand and operationalize them remain sticking points in the field. To clarify the delirium phenotype, we present a close reading of past and current sets of delirium diagnostic criteria.
Methods
We first differentiate the delirium syndrome (i.e., features evaluated at bedside) from additional criteria required for diagnosis. Next, we align related features across diagnostic systems and examine them in context to determine intent. Where criteria are ambiguous, we review common delirium instruments to illustrate how they have been interpreted.
Results
An acute disturbance in attention is universally attested across diagnostic systems. A second core feature denotes confusion and has been included across systems as disturbance in awareness, impaired consciousness, and thought disorganization. This feature may be better understood as a disturbance in thought clarity and operationalized in terms of neuropsychological domains thereby clearly linking it to global neurocognitive disturbance. Altered level of activity describes a third core feature, including motor and sleep/wake cycle disturbances. Excluding stupor (wherein mental content cannot be assessed due to reduced arousal) from delirium, as in DSM-5-TR, is appropriate for a psychiatric diagnosis, but the brain injury exclusion in ICD-11 is unjustified.
Conclusions
The delirium phenotype involves a disturbance in attention, qualitative thought clarity, and quantitative activity level, including in relation to expected sleep/wake cycles. Future diagnostic systems should include a severity threshold and specify that delirium diagnosis refers to a 24-h period.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/jmcd-12290-2/) A study exploring the compounded effects of racial trauma across the lifespan of DAEUS citizens and surviving COVID‐19
Jan 30th 2024, 13:57

Abstract
Neglecting the compounded effects of racial trauma among senior Black Americans is to ignore the inequitable weight of surviving COVID-19 after a lifetime in the southern United States (US). This phenomenological study explored the lived experiences of Descendants of Africans Enslaved in the US and how racial trauma across the lifespan affected their well-being prior to COVID-19 vaccine availability. Grounded in Critical Race Theory, findings and future research directions for counseling are discussed.
Resumen
Descuidar los efectos acumulativos del trauma racial en los ancianos afroamericanos es ignorar el peso inequitativo de sobrevivir al COVID-19 después de una vida en el sur de los Estados Unidos (EE. UU.). Este estudio fenomenológico exploró las experiencias vividas de los Descendientes de Africanos Esclavizados en EE. UU. (DAEUS) y cómo el trauma racial a lo largo de la vida afectó su bienestar antes de la disponibilidad de la vacuna contra el COVID-19. Basado en la Teoría Crítica de la Raza (CRT), se discuten los hallazgos y las futuras direcciones de investigación para el asesoramiento o terapia de apoyo.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/meta-analyses-systematic-reviews/00302228231223270/) A Two-Phase Qualitative Enquiry Into Storytelling’s Potential to Support Palliative Care Patient-Led Change, Using a Systematic Review Approach
Jan 30th 2024, 12:58

OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, Ahead of Print. A terminal diagnosis can diminish an individual’s sense of agency and identity. Leading change appears to restore a sense of agential self. The first phase of this literature review explores factors influencing patient-led change across the palliative care ecosystem. The second phase illuminates how storytelling can support palliative care patients in leading ecosystem-wide change. 35 studies were identified in Phase 1 and 36 in Phase 2. This research highlights the need to situate patient leadership activity within a palliative care ecosystem to understand factors likely to support or hinder patient leadership activity within it. The evidence indicates the potential use of storytelling to support patients with a life-limiting illness to lead change across the palliative care ecosystem. This challenges current conceptualisations of such patients and offers them instead as an additional source of palliative care support.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/ruso-12518/) The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile
Jan 30th 2024, 12:51

Abstract
This article seeks to challenge essentialist comprehensions of rural Indigenous communities through examining one particular Mapuche community who were the recipients of a land subsidy. Mapuche people are the largest Indigenous group in Chile. Since the 1990s, the Chilean government, responding to calls for social justice, has purchased land and relocated Mapuche people, mostly landless or almost landless smallholder Indigenous peasants, to areas where they could own land. This study draws on qualitative data gathered from one Mapuche community throughout 2020 and early 2021. It examines the process by which these Mapuche Indigenous people became landowners, and the meanings of this transition for the rural community and households in terms of class differentiation. To this end, the article reflects on key aspects of rural everyday life, such as access to land and machinery. Firstly, it pays attention to the story behind the creation of a new Indigenous community, through analyzing the engagement of its members with the institutional path that was created by the Chilean State as a means of addressing Indigenous land struggles. This, in turn, shows how Indigenous communities can also be made while highlighting the disruptions triggered within such communities when engaging with these public schemes. Secondly, the article reflects on how the members of this new Indigenous community regard certain means of production, especially a communal tractor that was acquired through a Chilean State subsidy. In this respect, it shows how agrarian class formation is associated with these rural households’ perceptions regarding their co-owned tractor. Through investigating shifting notions of rural Indigenous communities, it is concluded that dynamics of agrarian class differentiation led to community development, as well as demarking the contours of individual rural households within each community.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/workers-want-unions-but-the-latest-data-point-to-obstacles-in-their-path/) Workers want unions, but the latest data point to obstacles in their path
Jan 30th 2024, 12:49

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/00110000231219767/) Perceived Impact of the Parental Rights in Education Act (“Don’t Say Gay”) on LGBTQ+ Parents in Florida
Jan 30th 2024, 12:08

The Counseling Psychologist, Ahead of Print. Prior studies indicate that anti-LGBTQ+ legislation has negative consequences for the well-being of LGBTQ+ people, their families, and their communities. In July of 2022, Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, also called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, was signed into law. The law aimed to limit K–3 instruction and discussion related to sexuality and gender, encompassing LGBTQ+ identities. The present study surveyed 113 LGBTQ+ parents in Florida about their experiences and perceptions related to the Parental Rights in Education Act. Qualitative content analysis revealed five major themes and 14 subthemes, including: (a) living in Florida: pros and cons; (b) initial reactions to the law; (c) feelings over time; (d) coping with worries; and (e) beyond “coping”: considering the future and possibility of relocation. Recommendations center on the need for counseling psychologists to use their privilege and training to advocate on behalf of LGBTQ+ parents, families and others impacted by this legislation.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/monographs-edited-collections/the-women-of-the-far-right-social-media-influencers-and-online-radicalization/) The Women of the Far Right: Social Media Influencers and Online Radicalization
Jan 30th 2024, 11:56

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/1475-6773-14269-2/) State home and community‐based services expenditures and unmet care needs in the United States: Has everyone benefitted equally?
Jan 30th 2024, 11:51

Abstract
Objective
To test whether the impacts of Medicaid’s Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) expenditures have been equitable.
Data Sources and Study Setting
This is a secondary data analysis. We linked annual data on state-level Medicaid HCBS expenditures with individual data from U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS; 2006–2016).
Study Design
We evaluated the association between state-level HCBS expenditure quartiles and the risk of experiencing challenges in basic or instrumental activities of daily living (I/ADLs) without assistance (unmet needs for care). We fitted generalized estimating equations (GEE) with a Poisson distribution, log link function, and an unstructured covariance matrix. We controlled demographics, time, and place-based fixed effects and estimated models stratified by race and ethnicity, gender, and urbanicity. We tested the robustness of results with negative controls.
Data Collection/Extraction Methods
Our analytic sample included HRS Medicaid beneficiaries, aged 55+, who had difficulty with ≥1 I/ADL (n = 2607 unique respondents contributing 4719 person-wave observations).
Principal Findings
Among adults with IADL difficulty, higher quartiles of HCBS expenditure (vs. the lowest quartile) were associated with a lower overall prevalence of unmet needs for care (e.g., Prevalence Ratio [PR], Q4 vs. Q1: 0.91, 95% CI: 0.84–0.98). This protective association was concentrated among non-Hispanic white respondents (Q4 vs. Q1: 0.82, 95% CI: 0.73–0.93); estimates were imprecise for Hispanic individuals and largely null for non-Hispanic Black participants. We found no evidence of heterogeneity by gender or urbanicity. Negative control robustness checks indicated that higher quartiles of HCBS expenditure were not associated with (1) the risk of reporting I/ADL difficulty among 55+ Medicaid beneficiaries, and (2) the risk of unmet care needs among non-Medicaid beneficiaries.
Conclusion
The returns to higher state-level HCBS expenditures under Medicaid for older adults with I/ADL disability do not appear to have been equitable by race and ethnicity.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/open-access-journal-articles/mental-health-symptoms-when-abortion-access-is-restricted/) Mental Health Symptoms When Abortion Access Is Restricted
Jan 30th 2024, 11:28

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/hequ-12491/) The relationship between experienced and observed harassment: The role of organizational identification and perceived justice in a higher educational context
Jan 30th 2024, 11:02

Abstract
Building on cognitive schema theory, this study investigates the relationship between experienced and observed harassment in a university setting. It also examines two moderators—organizational identification and perceived justice. Using a cross sectional survey, data were gathered from 276 academics and staff in a private university with approximately 9000 students located in the southeastern United States. The results suggest that employees who personally experience workplace harassment are more likely to observe others as being targets of harassment. They also suggest that organizational identification and perceptions of organizational justice moderate the relationship between experienced harassment and observed harassment. Overall, the findings support the important role of schemas in understanding how pre-organized cognitive templates can impact perceptions of observed harassment in an academic context, and also stress the central roles of organizational identification and perceived justice in managing harassment. With respect to practical implications for higher educational institutions, human resource managers must work hard at making sure that faculty, staff and students perceive their universities to have fair systems in place so they can have trust in their institutions, thus increasing the likelihood that individuals will more likely disassociate their own negative experiences from the harassment schema. Managers should also implement programmes to build positive organizational cultures or school spirit.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/podcasts/rules-with-swethaa-ballakrishnen/) Rules, with Swethaa Ballakrishnen
Jan 30th 2024, 10:43

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/video/chronobiology-human-sleep-and-circadian-disorders-american-academy-of-sleep-medicine-4-6k-views10404-what-is-opioid-use-disorder-indiana-university-research-1-1k-views202-the-l/) Chronobiology: Human Sleep and Circadian Disorders American Academy of Sleep Medicine • 4.6K views1:04:04 What is Opioid Use Disorder Indiana University Research • 1.1K views2:02 The link between circadian rhythms and your health: Scripps Research scientist explains Scripps Research • 868 views3:03 Ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal tells her story about Donald Trump CNN • 8.6M views56:50 What is Opioid Use Disorder? | APA American Psychiatric Association • 1.7K views2:28 No Sex Marriage – Masturbation, Loneliness, Cheating and Shame | Maureen McGrath | TEDxStanleyPark TEDx Talks • 33M views21:52   1:31 / 1:31   The Relationship Between Sleep, Circadian Rhythms, and Opioid Use Disorder
Jan 30th 2024, 10:37

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/guidelines-plus/safer-internet-day-2024-free-advice-for-parents-and-carers/) Safer Internet Day 2024: free advice for parents and carers
Jan 30th 2024, 10:29

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/records-show-publix-opioid-sales-grew-even-as-addiction-crisis-prompted-other-chains-pullback/) Records Show Publix Opioid Sales Grew Even as Addiction Crisis Prompted Other Chains’ Pullback
Jan 30th 2024, 10:08

A Tampa Bay Times analysis of recently released U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration data shows that Publix overtook CVS to become the second-largest dispenser of opioids in Florida in 2019. The Lakeland-based company ramped up sales of painkillers like oxycodone while other pharmacy chains were restricting the flow of opioids in response to litigation surrounding the opioid crisis. 
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/09637214231211542/) Does Too Much Closeness Dampen Desire? On the Balance of Closeness and Otherness for the Maintenance of Sexual Desire in Romantic Relationships
Jan 30th 2024, 10:04

Current Directions in Psychological Science, Ahead of Print. Sexual desire for a partner is a unique feature that distinguishes romantic relationships from other close relationships. Yet desire is one of the most fragile relationship elements, often declining over time. Research has shown that the relationship processes that foster closeness (i.e., overlap between the self and partner; interconnection) are associated with higher desire and help couples maintain desire over time. However, this work does not explain how many couples who are quite close and connected can also report low levels of desire. One perspective, mostly from clinical observations and interviews with couples, is that too much closeness in a relationship stifles desire. Here, we review the empirical evidence for the association between closeness (and related constructs) and sexual desire. From this review, we propose that higher closeness is associated with higher desire, and rather than too much closeness stifling desire, high closeness might be optimally linked to desire when paired with a sense of otherness (i.e., distinctiveness between partners that allows for new insights and acknowledgment of unique contributions). Future research refining the concept of “otherness” and considering the balance of closeness and otherness in relationships has the potential to provide new insights into sexual-desire maintenance.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/camh-12688/) Editorial: The need for more effective school‐based youth mental health interventions
Jan 30th 2024, 09:53

An important setting to detect youth mental health problems and provide interventions is the school context, but effective and affordable school-based interventions are scarce and implementation of the available evidence-based interventions is limited. In this editorial, we highlight three issues and propose a research agenda. First, we emphasize that many of the mental health interventions currently used in school settings lack a solid evidence base. Second, we outline that high-quality studies are needed to determine what works, for whom it works and under which circumstances. This includes insight into the most effective intervention elements, subgroups of students who profit more or less from these interventions, and the most effective modes of delivery. These questions should drive our research agenda on school-based mental health interventions. Finally, while answering these pivotal questions, a collaborative multidisciplinary effort should be made to implement school-based interventions with a solid evidence base, which involves, among others, studying how this can be done most effectively.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/research-on-promising-strategies-for-trauma-responsive-affirming-care-2/) Research on Promising Strategies for Trauma-Responsive, Affirming Care
Jan 30th 2024, 09:47

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/jomf-12959/) Using experiments to study families and intimate relationships
Jan 30th 2024, 09:31

Abstract
Social scientists increasingly are using experiments to examine causal processes and mechanisms in their research. Yet, experiments work much better for some research aims than others. Some goals that are of great interest to family scholars, such as testing theoretical arguments, are well-suited to experimental approaches; other goals, such as documenting real-world experiences, may be best served by another research design. Our aim in this article is to discuss the power and limits of experimental methods for the study of family, with an emphasis on describing the types of topics and approaches that work best in an experimental framework. We begin by briefly reviewing the current state of the literature and the types of experiments that are commonly used to study families and intimate relationships. We discuss recent examples and “best practices” to illustrate the potential strengths of experiments for the study of family. After walking through an in-depth example of an experimental research design, we describe some unresolved theoretical puzzles in the family literature from the previous mid-decade review that seem ripe for experimental study. In doing so, we demonstrate that experiments, when used appropriately, can provide powerful evidence of causal mechanisms that resonate with scholarly audiences and the public.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/asap-12374/) Prosecutors’ considerations when initiating plea bargaining
Jan 30th 2024, 08:33

Abstract
Prosecutors are the key decision-makers when it comes to plea bargaining, which is responsible for the resolution of about 90% of criminal cases. We distributed a mixed-method survey to a national sample of 180 prosecutors to ask about their key considerations when initiating and prosecuting a criminal case. Additionally, the survey asked prosecutors to provide any information they wanted to share regarding plea bargaining. We then conducted a qualitative content analysis to comprehensively identify the factors the prosecutors discussed. We found several factors that prosecutors take into consideration when starting to evaluate a criminal case: attributes of the criminal defendant (e.g., criminal history), victim input (e.g., victim wishes), and factors specific to the case (e.g., evidence strength). Further, when asked if they would like to share anything regarding plea bargaining, some prosecutors stressed the necessity of the plea system, some shared their punishment orientations, and others discussed how they determine punishment on a case-by-case basis. Overall, prosecutors tended to stress criminal history as largely influential in their plea decision-making. This study provides insight into prosecutorial plea bargain decision-making while providing opportunity for future research.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/michigans-child-welfare-system-makes-progress-toward-shaking-off-federal-oversight/) Michigan’s child welfare system makes progress toward shaking off federal oversight
Jan 30th 2024, 08:32

Michigan is closer to shrugging off federal oversight of its child welfare program, after a U.S. district court judge eliminated or reduced many of the requirements it must meet in order to do so. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the state’s child welfare program, attributed the order to the “tremendous progress” the department had made in keeping children in its care safe, including decreasing the number of kids placed in congregate care facilities and decreasing the overall number of children in foster care.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/florida-universities-will-replace-sociology-as-core-course-with-factual-history/) Florida universities will replace sociology as core course with ‘factual’ history
Jan 30th 2024, 07:34

The move to downgrade sociology started in November, when Florida Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr. proposed striking it from a list of potential core or general education courses. The list had been reviewed by a group of faculty commissioned as part of a new state law that prohibits “curriculum based on unproven, speculative, or exploratory content.”
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/asap-12358/) COVID‐19 and K‐12 teachers: Associations between mental health, job satisfaction, perceived support, and experiences of ageism and sexism
Jan 30th 2024, 07:33

Abstract
K-12 public school teachers faced unprecedented and novel disruptions in their workplace during the first entire school year of the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to concerns about their treatment, mental health, and job satisfaction. Between April and June 2021, 341 public U.S. K-12 school teachers from 12 states (covering Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, West, and Pacific Northwest) completed online surveys regarding their perceived general support, experiences of ageism and sexism, job satisfaction, and mental health. Mental health symptoms mediated the relationships between sexism, ageism, and perceived support with job satisfaction (Model 1) and job satisfaction mediated the relationships between sexism, ageism, and perceived support with mental health symptoms (Model 2). Thus, the data supported two models pointing to dual co-existing pathways from (a) general support and (b) experiences of discrimination to both job satisfaction and mental health. These results highlight the importance of developing and implementing policies and programs that can improve teachers’ general support from their community along with addressing job satisfaction.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/news/case-challenging-rise-in-social-care-charges-proceeds/) Case challenging rise in social care charges proceeds
Jan 30th 2024, 06:56

A case challenging a 50 per cent increase in social care charges for disabled Glaswegians has been granted permission to proceed.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/jftr-12547/) COVID‐19: Family resilience in a context of vulnerability
Jan 30th 2024, 06:33

Abstract
The crisis triggered by the emergence of COVID-19, and the subsequent mandatory isolation was one of the most significant vulnerability-inducing events in the past 100 years of humanity. The different experiences of individuals regarding this event led each person to construct their own vulnerability within the global vulnerability. Families have been major protagonists in this situation. The organized families with a healthy affective relational exchange have become resilient families, capable of facing such a critical situation with effective buffering factors. Within these families, resilience guardians have played a crucial role in the protective and supportive function towards their members. This article analyzes such factors, from global vulnerability to resilient families.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/meta-analyses-systematic-reviews/inm-13290/) Ethical challenges for nurses delivering coercive interventions in community mental health settings: A scoping review
Jan 30th 2024, 06:26

Abstract
The number of Australians subject to coercive interventions in community mental health services continues to increase. This is in the context of a growing awareness of the harms from coercion, increasing concerns about potential breaches of human rights and an ongoing uncertainty regarding the clinical benefits of community treatment orders, the primary instrument of legislated coercion in community mental health services. Nurses in community mental health services are on the frontline with regard to coercion. They police the requirements of the community treatment order, administer medication to people in community settings without their consent and facilitate re-hospitalisation if indicated. Coercive practice contradicts the person-centred, recovery-oriented and trauma-informed care principles that inform contemporary mental health nursing. This contradiction may generate ethical challenges for nurses and result in ethical distress. The aim of this scoping review was to map the research literature on how nurses in community mental health settings recognise and manage the harm associated with the administration of coercive interventions and consider the ethical challenges that may arise within this practice. The search strategy yielded 562 studies with author consensus determining a total of three articles as meeting the inclusion criteria. The resulting literature identified three themes: (1) maintaining the therapeutic relationship, (2) promoting autonomy and (3) using subtle forms of control. This review demonstrated that there is minimal research that has considered the ethical challenges related to the use of coercion by nurses in community mental health settings.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/fcre-12772/) Are child custody evaluations beneficial to family law judges? A study from the judicial perspective
Jan 30th 2024, 05:01

Abstract
There is a long history of dissension among legal and mental health professionals about the value of child custody evaluations. Despite frequent use by the courts, the lack of adequate empirical research impedes the ability to validate the efficacy of child custody evaluations. This study investigated the overall value of court-ordered child custody evaluations by surveying a diverse, national sample of judges to gather data regarding the usefulness, and validity of child custody evaluations. Two hundred and sixty-eight judges from 42 states completed an anonymous survey. The results indicated that judges find information voiced by the child in question, data obtained from the parent–child observations, and collateral data obtained about the litigants as most useful. Survey findings suggested judges perceived there to be a shortage of trained evaluators and also consider child custody evaluations too expensive and too time-consuming. Overall, judges find child custody evaluations useful and clearly desire experts to include recommendations on legal custody and parenting time schedules in their reports.
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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/grey-literature/a-ranking-for-interdisciplinarity-is-a-poor-measure-for-the-quality-of-research-and-teaching-in-universities/) A ranking for interdisciplinarity is a poor measure for the quality of research and teaching in universities
Jan 30th 2024, 04:32

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(https://ifp.nyu.edu/2024/journal-article-abstracts/psyg-13062/) Fear of falling and associated factors in older adults with heart failure
Jan 30th 2024, 04:31

Background
This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of fear of falling and associated factors in older adults with heart failure.
Methods
A prospective, cross-sectional study. The study included 100 geriatric patients who were hospitalised and treated in the cardiology department of our hospital with ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) lower than 50% for at least 1 year. A series of geriatric assessments were performed by face-to-face interview on the day of admission. Electrocardiography (ECG) and transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) were also performed on the day of admission.
Results
The median age of the patients was 72 years, and 72.0% were men. Falls Efficacy Scale scores indicated a fear of falling in 46 (46.0%) of the patients. Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) was significantly higher in patients with fear of falling (P < 0.001). Severe depression, severe clinical insomnia, daytime sleepiness, and malnutrition were significantly more frequent among patients with fear of falling. Fear of falling was associated with significantly lower LVEF (P = 0.001). The presence of severe depression increased the risk of fear of falling by 13.97 times (95% CI: 3.064–63.707; P = 0.001), and the presence of daytime sleepiness increased the risk by 3.49 times (95% CI: 1.012–12.037; P = 0.048). A one-unit increase in CCI increased the risk of fear of falling by 1.56 times (95% CI: 1.093–2.238; P = 0.014).
Conclusions
Heart failure patients with concomitant depression, sleep disorders, and high comorbidities have greater fear of falling.
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Michael Reeder LCPC
Baltimore, MD

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