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Psychiatry
Jack Tsai
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Development of a Scale to Assess Practitioner Knowledge in Providing Integrated Dual Disorders Treatment
As mental health providers increasingly adopt evidence-based practices, tools are needed to assess practitioner knowledge of these practices. We describe the development and psychometric evaluation of a paper-...
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Scales to Evaluate Quality of Medication Management: Development and Psychometric Properties
This paper describes the psychometric properties of two fidelity scales created as part of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) sponsored medication management toolkit and the...
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Housing Preferences and Choices Among Adults with Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorders: A Qualitative Study
Housing is a crucial issue for adults with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders, as this population is particularly susceptible to housing instability and homelessness. We interviewed...
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Staff Turnover in Statewide Implementation of ACT: Relationship with ACT Fidelity and Other Team Characteristics
Staff turnover on assertive community treatment (ACT) teams is a poorly understood phenomenon. This study examined annual turnover and fidelity data collected in a statewide implementation of ACT over a 5-year...
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Recovery-Oriented Training and Staff Attitudes over Time in Two State Hospitals
Recovery attitudes and concepts are often promoted to community mental health staff through educational and in-service trainings, but no study found has examined this in state hospitals. The current observatio...
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Racial Differences Among Supported Housing Clients in Outcomes and Therapeutic Relationships
This study examined racial differences between African American and White supported housing clients in clinical outcomes and in their relationships with their landlords, medical and mental health care provider...
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Housing Satisfaction Among Chronically Homeless Adults: Identification of its Major Domains, Changes Over Time, and Relation to Subjective Well-being and Functional Outcomes
There is limited consensus on the critical domains of housing satisfaction among chronically homeless adults and little information on changes in housing satisfaction over time or whether housing satisfaction ...
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Comparison of Outcomes of Homeless Female and Male Veterans in Transitional Housing
Homelessness among female veterans is of national concern, but there have been few studies of how they differ from male veterans or whether they have different outcomes. This study compared 59 female and 1,181...
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Racial Comparison of Therapeutic Support, Service Use, and Satisfaction Among Male Outpatients with Severe Mental Illness
This study examined racial differences among male outpatients with severe mental illness on therapeutic support, mental health service utilization, and service satisfaction. A total of 530 participants (289 Wh...
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Do Faith-Based Residential Care Services Affect the Religious Faith and Clinical Outcomes of Homeless Veterans?
Data on 1,271 clients in three residential care services funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs was used to examine: (1) how religious-oriented programs differ in their social environment from secular pr...
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Conduct disorder behaviors, childhood family instability, and childhood abuse as predictors of severity of adult homelessness among American veterans
Despite US federal efforts to end and prevent homelessness among veterans, there has been limited examination of pre-military factors like childhood problems, associated with adult homelessness. This study exa...
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Longitudinal Association of Therapeutic Alliance and Clinical Outcomes in Supported Housing for Chronically Homeless Adults
General psychotherapy research has underscored the importance of the therapeutic alliance in client outcomes. This study examined the association between therapeutic alliance and client outcomes specifically b...
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Homeless Veterans Who Served in Iraq and Afghanistan: Gender Differences, Combat Exposure, and Comparisons with Previous Cohorts of Homeless Veterans
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Risk of incarceration and clinical characteristics of incarcerated veterans by race/ethnicity
Unprecedented growth in the US prison population has highlighted the overrepresentation of racial/ethnic minorities in prisons. This study examined the hypothesis that veteran status is protective against inca...
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The Effects of Race and Other Socioeconomic Factors on Health Service Use Among American Military Veterans
This study examined the extent to which racial disparities in service utilization exist in veterans (VA) and non-VA health care systems. An observational study design was used with a nationally representative...
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Homelessness in a National Sample of Incarcerated Veterans in State and Federal Prisons
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has been increasing efforts to reach out to assist incarcerated veterans. While previous studies have shown strong associations between incarceration and homelessness, ...
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A Meta-analytic Review of Non-specific Effects in Randomized Controlled Trials of Cognitive Remediation for Schizophrenia
Cognitive remediation (CR) has been found to improve cognitive performance among adults with schizophrenia in randomized controlled trials (RCTs). However, improvements in cognitive performance are often obser...
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Homelessness among a nationally representative sample of US veterans: prevalence, service utilization, and correlates
To examine the prevalence of lifetime homelessness among veterans and use of Veterans Affairs (VA) homeless services, as well as their association with sociodemographic and clinical characteristics.
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A 20-Site Comparison of Transition-in-Place Versus Traditional Transitional Housing Programs
Transition-in-Place (TIP) is a housing model being piloted in the veterans affairs transitional housing program, Grant & Per Diem (GPD). This observational 20-site study compares characteristics and outcomes o...
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Exploring the Link Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and inflammation-Related Medical Conditions: An Epidemiological Examination
There have been few epidemiological studies exploring the link between PTSD and inflammation using population-based samples. This study examined the relation between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and in...
