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Patient perspectives in addressing mental health needs in primary care [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context Primary care physicians often help patients with mental health concerns, but little is known about patients’ views of addressing their mental health needs within the primary care setting. MOHR presented a list of 10-15 actionable evidence-based strategies that patients could select to improve the risk.

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How Mental Health & SUD Bias Impact ED Physical Care

Physician's Weekly

Mental health and SUD bias impact the quality of ED care that patients with these conditions receive for physical health concerns, according to research. Many respondents described an abrupt shift in clinician demeanor—“dismissive,” “rushed,” or “unprofessional”—once their mentalhealth history surfaced.

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Mindfulness-Based and Cognitive Behavioral Therapies: A Qualitative Study on What Helps Opioid-Treated Chronic Low Back Pain [Pain management]

Annals of Family Medicine

The present study reports on the findings from one-year follow-up qualitative data collected to better understand the interventions’ effects. Setting Multi-site study, with participants recruited from outpatient clinical and community settings.

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Increasing Primary Care Research Workforce and Output through T32 Primary Care Fellowship Training [Education and training]

Annals of Family Medicine

TL1 or KL2), including in team science, community-engaged research (CER), and implementation science (IS), all well aligned with PC research. Funding opportunities for pre-/post-doctoral training exist in the US, including T32 programs. However, most PC departments are not leveraging such programs.

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Alcohol Free for Five Years Today

Mere Mortal MD

“Sobriety is about freeing yourself from any behavior that enslaves you and keeps you from being present in life.” I have felt the shame and stigma associated with having not only a mental health disorder—depression—but also a substance abuse disorder. I am finally free.

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The Power of Words, 16 Years Later

A Country Doctor Writes

If a primary care patient was going through a difficult time with their social life or mental health, we would walk them down the hall to meet a therapist right then and there. Similarly, if a behavioral health patient looked like they had pneumonia, the warm handoff would go in the opposite direction.

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Position Statement on Measurement Based Care

Integrated Care News by CFHA

MBC is presented not simply as data collection, but as a dynamic, evidence-based clinical process that enhances outcomes, promotes equity, and strengthens team-based care. Collect, share, act: A transtheoretical clinical model for doing measurement-based care in mental health treatment. Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute.