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Showing 1 to 20 of 181 for “"Behavioral Health"”.
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Essays in Behavioral, Health and Financial Economics
… are on different topics. Chapter 1 uses the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey data from 2013 to 2018 to investigate diabetes education's effects among diabetes respondents on different health outcomes and risky behaviors. I utilize Propensity Coarsened Exact Matching …
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Performance dynamics in military behavioral health clinics
… Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other related behavioral health conditions among active duty service members and their families has grown over 100% in the past six years and are now estimated to afflict 18% of the total military force. A 2007 DoD task force on mental health concluded that the …
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Integrated Behavioral Health at UTMB: A Cost/Benefit Study
In the United States, behavioral health issues such as depression are highly prevalent and come at a major economic cost. However, the systems in place to care for behavioral health are often inefficient and fragmented between primary care providers and psychiatrists as well as other behavioral …
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Integrated behavioral health care in Michigan : a policy analysis
As the correlation between physical and behavioral health is becoming increasingly more recognized, policymakers and stakeholders are interested in addressing the health disparities of the Michigan population. Research continues to exemplify that those living with co-occurring physical and …
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Examination of barriers to accessing integrated behavioral health care
<p>Research has found that pediatric integrated behavioral health (IBH) significantly increases utilization of behavioral health services, but there are still families who are missing out. The purpose of the current study is to examine characteristics that may influence or impede utilization of an …
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Primary care behavioral health in the time of COVID-19
<p>People are commonly receiving mental health treatment from primary care providers rather than from behavioral health providers. To address this issue, the healthcare system has begun to integrate behavioral health providers into primary care clinics, known as integrated primary care (IPC). …
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Developing a Behavioral Health Intervention Team for Moore County Schools
Student mental health has been a concern for school districts across the state of North Carolina as well as the nation. The purpose of this study was to improve the mental health, safety and welfare of students in Moore County Schools, located in south central North Carolina. This improvement study …
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Primary Care Physicians’ Experiences Treating Patients with Behavioral Health Needs
<p>The delivery of behavioral health care in primary care shapes the patient-physician relationship, which is a core area of focus for examining patient outcomes. Though early research demonstrates the benefit of integrating physical and behavioral healthcare to the patient experience and health …
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Investigating Dyadic Shared-Decision Making and Behavioral Health Literacy: Social Anxiety
The cost of obtaining healthcare in the United States has escalated dramatically in the past several years, with similar increases in health expenditures. Behavioral health literacy and shared decision-making have emerged as potential solutions to improve care and reduce costs. However, questions …
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A Functional Analysis Of Leader Behavior In A Behavioral Health Setting
<p>A requirement for Maine behavioral health organizations to provide all employees with evaluations lacks guidelines on how to evaluate leader behavior; best practices are to provide a multifaceted evaluation process that includes direct observation. A single-case research design and continuous …
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Adolescents' Perceptions of Services Received at County Behavioral Health Care Centers
… of adolescents who received mental health treatment in a county's behavioral health care system. Additionally, this study accounted for the differences in age, race/ethnicity, gender, length of time in treatment, and treatment outcomes. While there were no statistical differences …
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Understanding behavioral health symptoms in children experiencing housing and food insecurity
… and food security can impact children’s behavioral health. Boston Children’s Primary Care has entered into an accountable care arrangement that has allotted funds for “flexible services” to direct housing or food intervention at children with mental or behavioral health problems. …
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Effect of Short-Term Separation on Behavioral Health of Military Wives
… the effect of short-term separation on the behavioral health of military wives using a descriptive pre-test post-test design and 2) to examine predictors of depression among wives of selected active duty military personnel during short-term separation. Specifically, the research was guided …
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Reducing the Risk of Suicide on an Inpatient Acute Behavioral Health Unit
… is considered best practice in acute mental health. Suicide has ranked in the top five most frequently reported events to the Joint Commission since 1995 (Joint Commission, 2010). A random sample questionnaire was distributed to 20 fulltime behavioral health registered nurses, which yielded16 …
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Family Resilience Model of Behavioral Health for Low-Income Ethnic Minority Families
… of substance abuse and lower levels of mental health. The primary aim of this study was to operationalize the concept of family resilience and develop an empirically-based model of family resilience. The secondary aim, as it relates to the epidemics of lowered health and substance abuse, was to …
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The Relationally-Centered Integrated Behavioral Health Model: Exploring Holistic Patient Health Outcomes
… teams of biomedical and psychosocial health services. Due to the diversity of patient needs, many IPC models have been created with varying methods of organizational structure and foci. This dissertation explores the physical and mental health outcomes of the Relationally-Centered …
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Youth Musicians’ Executive Functioning and its Impact on Emotional and Behavioral Health
… functioning (EF), as well as emotional and behavioral outcomes. We hypothesized that (i) children’s EF would develop more rapidly with exposure to the program; (ii) the intensity of practice would be associated with rate of growth of children’s EF, emotion regulation and behavior; (iii) …
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Designing behavioral health integration in primary care : a practical outcomes-based framework
Patients with comorbid physical, behavioral, and social needs-often referred to as high-need patients-tend to be the most frequent utilizers of the health care system. The US health care system, with fragmented behavioral and medical health care sectors, is unable to effectively meet the complex …
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The use of physician counselling to promote reduction of behavioral health risks
… heart and cardiovascular disease) is related to health habits or lifestyle. In an attempt to promote better health habits, adult patients attending a family physician's practice were asked to complete a brief health habit questionnaire (HHQ) and then advised by their physician to seek self-help …
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A Behavioral Health Intervention for Decreasing Weight Gain in First Year University Students
… evaluate two interventions proposed to improve health behaviors and decrease weight gain among first-year university students, utilizing a health risk appraisal (HRA), telephone health coaching, and monthly health-related emails. The HRA assessed and provided individualized feedback for several …
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