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When stay-at-home orders were announced as one of the greatest tools in our arsenal against the COVID-19 pandemic, anyone who s vintage enough to have watched forward-looking shows and movies from The Jetsons to Star Trek to Back to the Future might have thought America was ready to embrace a world where video calling and other tech-heavy communication options reigned supreme.
But one year, dozens of Zoom meetings, hundreds of phone calls and text messages, thousands of online gaming hours, and millions of social media posts later, new research led by UNLV has found that the tech mediums we once thought were the way of the future actually don t stack up very well against old-fashioned face-to-face communication. At least not in the order we imagined.
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As perinatal depression soars during pandemic, there s a growing need for treatment
CHICAGO - Perinatal depression has soared during the pandemic. But many mental health professionals are overwhelmed and can t take on new clients.
Good news comes from a new Northwestern Medicine study finding paraprofessionals generated similar reductions in depressive symptoms as mental health professionals when delivering a group-based cognitive-behavioral therapy intervention.
The study findings are based on adding home health visits by trained lay health professionals to low-income pregnant women in a national project called Mothers & Babies. Mothers and Babies is an intervention using cognitive behavioral therapy that aims to reduce stress and improve mood among pregnant women and new mothers.
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Boston, MA Most pregnant women and mothers of children younger than 18 years old say they would receive a COVID-19 vaccine and vaccinate their children, according to a survey conducted by researchers at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The research indicated that vaccine acceptance was highest in India, the Philippines, and all sampled countries in Latin America, and it was lowest in Russia, the U.S., and Australia.
The results will be published online on March 1, 2021 in the
European Journal of Epidemiology.
Vaccines for COVID-19 are being distributed around the world, but until now researchers have had little data about global COVID-19 vaccine acceptance. To assess pregnant women and mothers stances on whether to vaccinate themselves and their children, a team led by Harvard Chan School s Julia Wu, research scientist in the Department of Epidemiology and a principal investigator of the Human Immunomics Initiative, conducted an online survey administered by
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Toronto, ON - Children in the United States who have more screen time at ages 9-10 are more likely to develop binge-eating disorder one year later, according to a new national study.
The study, published in the
International Journal of Eating Disorders on March 1, found that each additional hour spent on social media was associated with a 62% higher risk of binge-eating disorder one year later. It also found that each additional hour spent watching or streaming television or movies led to a 39% higher risk of binge-eating disorder one year later.
Binge-eating disorder is characterized by eating large quantities of food in a short period of time, a feeling of loss of control during the binge, and experiencing shame or guilt afterwards. Binge-eating disorder can be severe and life-threatening if it causes heart disease or diabetes, and it is the most common eating disorder in the United States. People with binge-eati
The results of a new Danish study by researchers from iPSYCH show that the amount of green space surrounding children s homes has influence for the risk of developing ADHD. The study is so far the largest of its kind.