Healio (6/2, Downey) reports, “Decreased work hours, more treatment, and better sleep and shift length can help address the high rate of depression among training physicians, according to” a presentation given at the American Psychiatric Association 2022 Annual Meeting by Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, director of the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Family Depression Center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Sen “said the largest driver of depression was found to be work hours.”

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— “VIDEO: Decreased hours, more treatment can address depression among physician interns “Ken Downey Jr., Healio, June 2, 2022

Healio (6/1, Wursta) reports research indicates that “compared with no sport participation, adolescents who participate in team sports experience fewer mental health difficulties, while those who compete in individual sports experience more mental health difficulties.” Investigators arrived at these conclusions after having “analyzed data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, which included a sample of 11,235 U.S. children aged nine to 13 years.” The findings were published online in PLOS One.

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— “Study: Participation in team sports fosters adolescent mental health “Max R. Wursta, Healio, June 1, 2022

HealthDay (6/2, Preidt) reports, “Children whose mothers had rising levels of depression during pregnancy appear to have an increased risk of behavioral problems,” investigators concluded in a seven-year study that “included 125 U.S. women and their children who were followed from before pregnancy until the children were five years old.” The findings were published online ahead of print in the July 15 issue of the Journal of Affective Disorders.

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— “Depression in Pregnancy Tied to Behavior Issues in Kids ” Robert Preidt, HealthDay, June 2, 2022

Medwire News (6/1, Piper) ​​​​​​​reports, “Depression in patients with incident rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a sixfold increased risk for mortality,” investigators concluded in a study that “followed up 11,071 patients with incident RA,” 1,095 of whom “were exposed to antidepressants.” The findings were presented at the EULAR 2022 Congress and published online in a supplemental issue of the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases.

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— “Increased mortality risk with antidepressant use in patients with RA ” Lucy Piper, Medwire News, June 1, 2022

Psychiatric News (6/2) reports, “Beginning July 16, people in the United States experiencing a mental health crisis have to remember only three numbers – 988 – to connect with trained staff who are part of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline network,” but “many state, regional, and county behavioral health program directors are feeling unprepared for this transition,” according to a RAND Corporation report (PDF) “based on an online survey of 180 state, regional, and county behavioral health program directors who, according to the authors, ‘represented jurisdictional coverage of more than one-third of the U.S. population and 23 states.’”

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— “Many Behavioral Health Program Directors Feel Unprepared for 988 Rollout, RAND Report Suggests, Psychiatric News, June 2, 2022