Modern Healthcare (7/7, Devereaux, Subscription Publication) reports, “Telehealth usage continues to decline as Americans return to medical facilities,” data indicate. The FAIR Health Monthly Telehealth Regional Tracker found that “in April, telehealth utilization fell 12.5%, a trend mirrored by a gradual shift back to in-person visits at hospitals and other healthcare settings.” What’s more, “mental health conditions are the top diagnoses treated via telehealth, according to FAIR Health,” rising from “57% of all mental health claims in March to 58.6% in April.”

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— “Telehealth use falls for third straight month, in-person appointments increase “Mari Devereaux, Modern Healthcare , July 7, 2021

MedPage Today (7/7, Grant) reports, “Children who have difficulty developing age-appropriate emotion regulation skills may be at a higher risk of developing broad anorexia nervosa during adolescence,” researchers concluded “in an analysis of data from the Millennium Cohort Study.” The 15,896-participant study revealed that “lower emotion regulation skills at the age of three were not associated with greater odds of reporting symptoms of broad anorexia at a later age,” but youngsters “who had no improvements in their emotion regulation skills by age seven had statistically higher odds of developing anorexia at age 14.” The findings were published online July 7 in JAMA Psychiatry.

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HealthDay (7/7, Mozes) reports that not only “is it possible to become addicted to gaming on the internet,” but also such an addiction “may trigger sleep difficulties, depression, anxiety and, in some cases, even suicidal thoughts,” investigators concluded in a study involving “phone interviews conducted among nearly 3,000 American college students between 2007 and 2015.” Those interviews “revealed that roughly one in 20 had ‘internet gaming disorder.’” The findings were published online June 6 ahead of print in the August issue of the journal Psychiatry Research. HealthDay adds that in 2013, the American Psychiatric Association included “internet gaming disorder as an official diagnosis in its updated diagnostic manual.” Click here to learn more about the disorder from the APA.

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— “1 in 20 College Students Has ‘Internet Gaming Disorder,’ Study Finds “Alan Mozes, HealthDay, July 7, 2021

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