Recruiting a hidden population, such as the population of women at risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancy (AEP) who binge drink and are at risk of an unintended pregnancy, is challenging as this…
Mobile health interventions may help People Living with HIV (PLWH) improve engagement in care. We designed and piloted PositiveLinks, a clinic-affiliated mobile intervention for PLWH, and assessed longitudinal impact on…
A Pilot RCT of an Internet Intervention to Reduce the Risk of Alcohol‐Exposed Pregnancy
Background Preventing alcohol‐exposed pregnancies (AEPs) could reduce the incidence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorders. Previous face‐to‐face interventions significantly reduced risk for AEP, but a scalable intervention is needed to reach…
Capacity to consent to voluntary hospitalization: Searching for a satisfactory Zinermon screen
Half a decade ago, the Zinermon court announced the need for clinicians to evaluate the competence of people with mental illness to consent to voluntary hospital admission, but the court…
Stability of psychiatric patients’ perceptions of their hospital admission experience
The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the stability (i.e., consistency of patients' responses over time) of newly developed scales to measure the admission experience of psychiatric hospitalization.…
Procedural justice in the context of civil commitment: A critique of Tyler’s analysis
This article is a critique of T. R. Tyler's 1992 review of procedural justice and its effect on therapeutic outcome in patients involved in civil commitment hearings. The article clarifies…
Using the Internet to teach parents and children about constipation and encopresis
Since 1995, we have maintained a tutorial about chronic childhood constipation and encopresis on our web site. The tutorial is directed at parents and older children and includes a feedback…
A Telecommunication Monitoring System (TMS) for clinical and research practice
The telephone has been used in clinical and research practice for many years. A telecommunication monitoring system (TMS) provides an automated way to track patients' and participants' symptoms, compliance, and…
Depression in a cancer patient population
The main goal of this study was to examine depression and its components in cancer patients as compared with healthy control subjects and psychiatric inpatients. The participants were 54 cancer…