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Wed, 2021-01-27 15:47 — mdmcdonald

This Resilient American Communities (RAC) COVID-19 Initiative workgroup is focused on 1) Improvng mental health and well-being strategies and practices and 2) Longer-term movement toward a more just, healthy, equitable American Society for everyone shaped not only by the need to fix our problems, but also motivated to move toward a better realization of our collective aspirations through the creation of better psychosocial environments in our communities.   

Acute and longitudinal individual and transpersonal challenges are clearly stemming from the despair and divisions that are degrading the resilience and regenerative capacities of American communities today. Life in our vulnerable and disenfranchised communities have already suffered greatly from systemic historical inequities.  
 
Suffering in many American communities, especially in communities of color, is being made even more untenable from emerging 21st century challenges, which are especially acute now due to COVID-19 pandemic and syndemic impacts on our society.  The discussions in this RAC Mental Health and Well-being workgroup are focused on strategies and actions to help inspire and connect those in the RAC unity of effort to engage in improving mental health and well-being in Resilient American Communities.

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Most clinicians treating low-income COVID patients feel morally distressed--survey

Tue, 2022-08-30 09:38 — mike kraft

Constrained by a lack of sufficient resources and faced with difficult decisions amid COVID-19 surges in the first year of the pandemic, nearly 72% of US primary care, dental, and behavioral health clinicians working in safety-net clinics report experiencing mild to intense moral distress, finds a study published late last week in BMJ Open.

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Youth mental health crisis with Sandra DeJong, MD, MSc

Thu, 2022-07-28 16:14 — John Girard
Youth mental health crisis with Sandra DeJong, MD, MSc AMA's Moving Medicine series features physician voices and achievements. Learn more in this discussion about the youth mental health crisis. American Medical Association

Dr. DeJong: Yeah, so it really is unprecedented in my experience to have both this emergency declaration and the surgeon general's advisory. And I think it really is because the situation itself is unprecedented. So what makes it an emergency? We have much higher rates of things like anxiety, depression, suicide.

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I'm tired’: Teachers face mental health crisis due to low pay, pandemic stress, scant support

Thu, 2022-07-28 15:55 — John Girard
Amid COVID, teachers face growing mental health crisis Navigating low salaries, pandemic worries and burnout: Many teachers will tell you this is the job description of modern educators. The result is an expanding mental health crisis among U.S. teachers – a problem so dire that many are leaving the profession. ***@***.*** Cronkite News - Arizona PBS
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Mental health, COVID-19 and fentanyl crisis to blame for Colorado life expectancy decrease

Wed, 2022-07-27 17:55 — John Girard
Mental health, COVID-19 and fentanyl crisis to blame for Colorado life expectancy decrease The average life expectancy in Colorado has dropped nearly three years since 2019, and experts are citing mental health, COVID-19 and the fentanyl crisis as major factors. Logan MacDonald KKTV
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Experts Say We Have the Tools to Fight Addiction. So Why Are More Americans Overdosing Than Ever?

Mon, 2022-07-18 15:43 — John Girard

 

Mental Health: Teens made up larger share of U.S. sucides early in panedmic--study

Tue, 2022-04-26 10:50 — mike kraft
Teens Made Up Larger Share of Suicides Early in the Pandemic, Study Finds Across 14 states, an upward trend was seen overall, though certain states had declines Molly Walker medpagetoday

Adolescent suicides made up a larger share of suicides at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic compared to prepandemic years, according to data from 14 states.

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Covid mental health issues: Impact on families of ICU patients and working women --new studies

Tue, 2022-04-26 10:31 — mike kraft
Family members of Covid-19 ICU patients may emerge with a different condition, study says PTSD doesn't just happen to veterans of war. A new study shows that symptoms were tracked to significant levels in loved ones of patients who were in the ICU with Covid-19. The results point to a need for screening and resources to get people help, experts say. Madeline Holcombe, CNN CNN
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Trauma among health care workers comparable to that of combat vets--study

Fri, 2022-04-08 10:20 — mike kraft
Betrayal, guilt, shame: Trauma among health care workers comparable to that of combat vets Forced to ration care amid a deluge of Covid patients while others flouted safety measures during the pandemic, health care workers are left with "moral injury." NBC News
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Cambridge study on long COVID patients indicates high percentage of brain fog and concentration problems

Mon, 2022-03-21 13:33 — mike kraft

Long COVID study indicates “something concerning is happening”

Two new studies are reporting on an ongoing long COVID research project investigating the persistent effects of COVID-19 on cognition in the months after acute disease. The University of Cambridge-led research found many long COVID patients are experiencing significant and measurable memory or concentration impairments even after mild illness.

“Long COVID has received very little attention politically or medically,” said Lucy Cheke, senior author on the new studies. “It urgently needs to be taken more seriously, and cognitive issues are an important part of this. When politicians talk about ‘Living with COVID’ – that is, unmitigated infection, this is something they ignore.”

The new findings come from an ongoing project called The COVID and Cognition Study (COVCOG). The study recruited nearly 200 COVID-19 patients across late 2020/early 2021 and around the same amount of demographically matched uninfected controls. The goal was to “map the terrain” of cognition in post-acute COVID-19.

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COVID Patients May Have Increased Risk of Developing Mental Health Problems--study

Thu, 2022-02-17 19:54 — mike kraft
COVID Patients May Have Increased Risk of Developing Mental Health Problems Social isolation, economic stress, loss of loved ones and other struggles during the pandemic have contributed to rising mental health issues like anxiety and depression. But can having COVID-19 increase the risk of developing mental health problems? A large new study suggests it can.
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