HealthDay (7/6, Mozes) reports research indicates that “many people living with HIV/AIDS still face a dramatically higher risk for suicide.” Investigators arrived at that conclusion after conducting “a review of 40 studies that involved a total of roughly 185,000 adults with HIV or AIDS” from “all over the world.” In fact, “the study team concluded that suicide risk is 100 times higher among such patients, compared with the population at large.” The findings of the systematic review and meta-analysis were published online April 9 in the journal General Psychiatry.

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— “People With HIV Have Much Higher Risk for Suicide “Alan Mozes, HealthDay, July 6, 2021

Psychiatric News (7/6) reports, “Young adults with serious mental illness (SMI) who are overweight or obese experienced similar weight loss and cardiorespiratory fitness improvements after participating in a 12-month group intervention as those who received one-on-one mobile health (mHealth) coaching for 12 months,” investigators concluded in a study involving “150 adults with SMI aged 18 to 35 years with a body mass index ≥25 kg/m2 who were receiving services at four community mental health centers in the northeastern” US. The findings of the randomized study were published online June 30 in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “Mobile Intervention as Effective as Group Intervention for Promoting Weight Loss in Young People With SMI , Psychiatric News, July 6, 2021

Healio (7/6, Gramigna) reports, “Adults with anorexia nervosa had increased risk for relapse in the first months after acute care discharge,” researchers concluded in a study involving “93 women with anorexia nervosa.” The findings were published online June 22 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “People with anorexia nervosa at increased risk for relapse soon after acute care discharge “Joe Gramigna, Healio, July 6, 2021

“Parents of kids with medical complexity face challenges other parents don’t,” the Washington Post (7/3, Blakemore) reported. But “how is their mental health compared to their counterparts whose children don’t face problems such as chronic diseases, developmental disabilities or congenital disorders?” A new large study published in the July issue of Pediatrics indicates that “parents of children with medical complexity are up to five times likelier to have poor or fair mental health – and that many don’t know how to get support.”

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Psychiatric News (7/2) reported, “More than one in four American adults who had symptoms of depression or anxiety reported an unmet need for mental health counseling at the end of 2020,” investigators concluded after analyzing “data from approximately 70,000 adults in the Household Pulse Survey, which was conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and other federal agencies from December 9 to December 21, 2020.” The study revealed that “overall, more than one in 10 adults in the study reported this unmet need.” The findings were published online June 30 in a brief report in Psychiatric Services, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.

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— “Study Reveals Extent of Unmet Need for Mental Health Counseling During Pandemic, Psychiatric News, July 2, 2021