Grace Chang

..4%). Reasons for the discrepancies in the self and partner reports of prenatal abstinence, and how partners might influence such behavior remain speculative, but identify areas for future research and prevention...

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..Moreover, it appeared that although the average quantity of alcohol consumed per drinking day was unchanged, the overall mean percentage of days drinking declined significantly from the time of enrollment to follow-up in all groups...

..We conclude that goal choice in behavioral self-management of alcohol use by pregnant women is critical...

..Women in both stages of change reduced the quantity and the frequency of their alcohol consumption while pregnant and achieved comparable rates of abstinence...

..This study describes the factors associated with self-reported substance use in pregnant young women attending a hospital clinic and evaluates 3 ways in its identification...

..We hypothesized that there would be discrepancies between parent and child report of child distress...

..Overall, there were no differences in drinking outcome by treatment group. Characteristics associated with changes in drinking, however, were identified to provide possible direction for future investigation...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare neurocognitive changes in patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) or primary myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) after allogeneic HSCT or other therapies...

..Patients' substance use problems are a particularly understudied aspect of psychosocial variables in cancer treatment...

..We ascertain the components of emergency department (ED) length of stay for adult patients receiving psychiatric evaluation and to examine their variability across 5 hospitals within a health care system...

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..Further research is necessary to clarify the epidemiological and cultural aspects of this phenomenon, and to guide treatment...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate psychosocial predictors of long-term survival and disease recurrence after patients underwent allogeneic HSCT for chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML)...

..Approximately 6 months after marrow donation, related marrow donors whose recipients died had significantly higher Beck Depression Inventory scores than did donors whose related recipients were living...

..However, other clinical variables prior to transplant and once transplant occurred were found to predict survival...

..Time was the most important variable accounting for these changes...

..As Medicaid managed care is responsible for the health care of low-income beneficiaries who are inherently vulnerable, it is important to make every effort to evaluate the impact of a quality project meant to improve their treatment...

..To test the effectiveness of a brief intervention in the reduction of prenatal alcohol consumption by women when a partner is included...

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..Findings suggest brief interventions are not consistently helpful to women drinkers...

..To identify patient and clinical management factors related to emergency department (ED) length of stay for psychiatric patients...

..CONCLUSIONS: The T-ACE may be a practical way for clinicians to identify risk drinking in both pregnant women and expectant fathers...

..To ask psychiatric clinicians for their perspectives on the rate-limiting steps (RLS) in patient care in the Emergency Department (ED) and to compare them to the patient's actual length of stay...

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..The objective of this study was to determine the association between adolescents' use of alcohol and specific aspects of religiousness and spirituality...

..Recruitment and retention were more challenging than anticipated. A substantial number of completers reduced their use of substances and risk of driving after drinking during the 3-month follow-up period...

..59, P = .026), compared with their white counterparts. CONCLUSION: Self-report on the T-ACE questionnaire is more effective than medical records in identifying women at risk for prenatal alcohol use...

..This study identified characteristics of adult psychiatric patients who remained for 24 or more hours in the emergency departments of general hospitals in Massachusetts...

..The purpose of this study was to assess whether clinical complications of HSCT could explain variation in parents' recovery of emotional functioning...

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..This article will review updated information from both clinical and preclinical studies regarding opioid-induced hyperalgesia, tolerance, and dependence. The implications of these issues in clinical opioid therapy also will be discussed...

..The CRAFFT, when embedded in a general health habits survey, seems to be a feasible option for pregnant young adults, but further studies to assess reliability, sensitivity, and specificity are recommended...

..In contrast, hypertensive women drank more when action oriented to change. The implications for treating risk drinking in women are discussed...

..To determine the accuracy of the CRAFFT substance abuse screening test...

..This study examines the veracity of self-reported data by applicants to psychiatry residency...

..Complications related to the use of valproic acid for seizure prophylaxis are presented...

..Trustworthiness was identified by participants as the most important doctor characteristic, and learnable behaviors as exemplifying trustworthiness...

..88 and 0.59 for the T-ACE and 0.63 and 0.85 for the AUDIT. Brief screening instruments improved the identification of risky drinking in a psychiatry clinic...

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..The proposed study site is the Young Adult Reproductive Health Service, run by the Brigham and Women's Hospital in conjunction with Children's Hospital for the past two decades, and serves 200 new patients annually. ..

..This proposed targeted study of women responds to PA-02-168, which seeks research on screening and interventions in medical settings, and builds upon our previous research on brief interventions for pregnant women. ..

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