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Study Suggests Young People May Be More Likely To Take Up Marijuana If Parents Use The Drug

Reuters (11/22, Carroll) reported that a study published in JAMA Network Open suggests “teens and young adults have a higher likelihood of taking up marijuana if their parents use the drug.” Among parents currently using “cannabis or who have used the drug in the past, convincing kids not to take up the drug can be more complicated than for parents who never tried marijuana, said the study’s lead author, Bertha Madras.” Researchers used “a survey of nearly 25,000 parent-child pairs.” The study also “found that kids with moms who had used marijuana in the past, but not for at least a year, were 30% more likely to take up marijuana compared to kids with mothers who never used the drug.”

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— “Teens, young adults more likely to take up marijuana if parents use it, “Linda Carroll, Reuters, November 22, 2019

Study Examines Factors Tied To Good Mental Health In Survivors Of Childhood Sexual Abuse

HealthDay (11/22, Preidt) reported, “Two in three survivors of childhood sexual abuse have good mental health,” but research “suggests that social isolation, chronic pain, substance abuse and depression can hinder recovery.”

Healio (11/22, Gramigna) reported researchers arrived at their conclusions after analyzing “data from 17,014 individuals aged 20 years or older who responded to the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey-Mental Health,” 651 of which “had a history of childhood sexual abuse.” The findings were published online Sept. 29 in the journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

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— “Two-Thirds of Child Abuse Survivors Do Well as Adults, “Robert Preidt, HealthDay, November 22, 2019

Nurses May Be At Higher Risk For Suicide, Researchers Say

MedPage Today (11/22, Firth) reported, “Nurses are at a higher risk of suicide and are more likely to have experienced a job problem prior to taking their lives compared to others in the general population,” researchers concluded after “examining 12 years of suicide data from 2005 to 2016.” The findings were presented at the Fuld Institute for EBP National Summit.

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— “New Research Suggests Nurses at Increased Risk for Suicide, “Shannon Firth, MedPage Today, November 22, 2019

Study Suggests Hispanic Americans May Experience Worsening Mental Health From Immigration Raids

Reuters (11/21, Rapaport) reports that Hispanic Americans “may experience worsening mental health when immigration arrests spike, a U.S. study suggests.” Researchers “examined data on people who identified as Hispanic or Latino in nationally-representative behavioral health surveys administered from 2014 to 2018.” The study was published in the American Journal of Public Health.

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— “, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters , November 21, 2019

Women With Eating Disorders May Have Higher Risk For Adverse Pregnancy And Neonatal Outcomes, Study Indicates

Healio (11/21, Gramigna) reports researchers found that “women with eating disorders are at an increased risk for adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes and should thus be recognized as a high-risk population among pregnant women.” The researchers wrote, “From a clinical point of view, these findings emphasize the importance of developing a reliable antenatal routine enabling identification of women with ongoing or previous eating disorders and considering extended pregnancy screening.” The findings were published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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— “Women with eating disorders experience adverse pregnancy, neonatal outcomes, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, November 21, 2019

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