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NOTE: Food-insecure households are those in which either adults or children or both were “food insecure,” meaning
that, at times, they were unable to acquire adequate food for active, healthy living for all household members because
they had insufficient money and other resources for food. Statistics for 1996–1998 and 2000 are omitted because
they are not directly comparable with those for other years.
*Numbers in parentheses indicate the prevalence of the disorder without any comorbidity. These rates were calculated using the NCS data for GAD and PTSD, and the ECA data for OCD. The rates were not used in calculating the any anxiety disorder and any disorder totals for the ECA and NCS columns. The unduplicated GAD and PTSD rates were added to the best estimate total for any anxiety disorder (3.3%) and any disorder (1.5%).
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From 2005-2008, blacks/African Americans constituted the largest percentage of diagnoses of HIV infection each year. In 2008, of adults and adolescents diagnosed with HIV infection in the 37 states and 5 U.S. dependent areas with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting since at least January 2005, 50% were black/African American, 29% were white, 20% were Hispanic/Latino, 1% each were Asian and American Indian/Alaska Native and persons reporting multiple races, and less than 1% were Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander.
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Nearly three in ten beneficiaries (29 percent) are limited in their ability to handle basic activities of daily living (ADLs), such as bathing and eating, with even higher shares among the nonelderly disabled population (42 percent) and those ages 85 and older (48 percent). A similar share of all beneficiaries (30 percent) are limited in their ability to do instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), such as housework, preparing meals, and using the telephone. Such limitations affect a greater share of nonelderly disabled beneficiaries (54 percent) and those ages 85 and over (43 percent).
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2007; 5: 23. | www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1878470/
Child Adolesc Social Work J. 2009; 26(1): 49–63. | www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2723848/
S Afr Med J. 2009 July; 99(7): 523–527.
Comparison of the prevalence of HIV among black women in the general population and black women with severe mental illness after standardising for age.
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2009 July 1; 4(4): 326–339.
In the probabilistic model, Brain State A at Time 1 (left panel) makes it easier to enter Brain State B than Brain State C at Time 2 (right panel).
World Psychiatry. 2009 June;8(2):75-81.
To experience self-stigma, the person must be aware of the stereotypes that describe a stigmatized group (e.g., people with mental illness are to blame for their disorder) and agree with them (that’s right, people with mental illness are actually to blame for their disorder).
Perspect Psychol Sci. 2009 July 1; 4(4): 326–339.
In the mechanistic linear model, Psychological Process A localized in Brain Area 1 causes the separate and distinct Psychological Process B localized in Brain Area 2, and so on.
Am J Public Health. 2009 October; 99(Suppl 2): S432–S438.
Solid lines represent statistically significant direct effects of the regression of each mediator (i.e., psychological distress; risky sexual situations) onto childhood sexual abuse, experiences of childhood homophobia, and experiences of adult homophobia. Dashed lines represent statistically significant indirect effects, which are the regressions of risky sexual behavior onto childhood sexual abuse, experiences of childhood homophobia, and experiences of adult homophobia through (a) psychological distress, (b) risky sexual situations, or (c) psychological distress and risky sexual situations. Dashed lines that cross an intermediary variable (i.e., psychological distress; risky sexual situations) include that variable as a mediator.
Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2006 August; 15(4): 188–192.
Lines are plotted for 1 standard deviation above and one standard deviation below the sample mean on neighborhood social disorder; the y-axis is labeled in standard deviation units.
Biol Psychiatry. 2009 March 1; 65(5): 374–382.
Mean heart rate in the 6-second resting interval prior to script onset for control, circumscribed social phobia, generalized social phobia without comorbid depression, and generalized social phobia with comorbid depression groups. Error bars refer to standard error of the mean.
J Can Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2010 February; 19(1): 19–25.
J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci. 2009 March; 64B(2): 234–246.
Dotted lines indicate hypothesized indirect relationships (i.e., perceived social support is hypothesized to mediate the relationship of built environment variables to psychological distress).
Nat Rev Neurosci. 2008 December; 9(12): 947–957.
Recent data from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication study55, 57, a nationally representative epidemiological survey of mental disorders, suggest that about half of the population fulfill criteria for one or other psychiatric disorders in their lifetimes. The majority of those with a mental disorder have had the beginnings of the illness in childhood or adolescence. Some anxiety disorders such as phobias and separation anxiety and impulse-control disorders begin in childhood, while other anxiety disorders such as panic, generalized anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder, substance disorders and mood disorders begin later, with onsets rarely before early teens. Schizophrenia typically begins in late adolescence or the early twenties, with men having a somewhat earlier age of onset compared to women56. Psychiatric disorders with childhood or adolescent onsets tend to be more severe, are frequently undetected early in the illness, and accrue additional co-morbid disorders especially if untreated. It is therefore critical to focus efforts on early identification and intervention.
Technically, the recession that began in December 2007 ended in June 2009 as the economy began growing again. But, the pace of growth has not been strong enough to reduce the unemployment rate, which rose far higher than in the previous two recessions and far faster than (though not quite as high as) in the deep 1981-82 recession.
Schizophr Res. 2009 May; 110(1-3): 59–64.
Cognitive appraisal of stigma-related stress and its predictors (part 1, adapted from Major and O’Brien, 2005). Stress predictors consist of public and personal factors (left margin of Figure 1). Ingroup perception (lower left corner of Figure 1) refers to how individuals with mental illness perceive their ingroup, that is the group of people with mental illness; more specifically, how individuals value their ingroup (group value), how strongly they feel attached to it (group identification) and whether they perceive their ingroup as a coherent unit in society (entitativity).
Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2009 August 1; 18(4): 200–204.
The red arrows represent continuity from early childhood to adulthood, and the blue arrows represent proposed causal pathways. As shown in the lower portion of the model, maternal depression is a well-known predictor of youth depression; depression during adolescence in turn predicts recurrence of depression in many youth and is hypothesized to predict becoming a depressed parent, especially in females. The upper portion of the model shows the intergenerational transmission of stress in families of depressed parents, from early childhood through the transition to adulthood. Stress and depression in the youth are reciprocally related. Interpersonal dysfunction in childhood is hypothesized to be a mediator of the link between both early stress exposure and maternal depression and the two outcomes of adolescent stress and depression.
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A 45%-plurality opposes the recently passed health care legislation, but it’s difficult to say Americans fear socialized medicine when so many are against making changes to Medicare.
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“Many low-income families living in public housing have to cope with crumbling ceilings, faulty plumbing, and other unmet repair needs, the New York Times reported Monday.
Just a third of Democrats believe that compared with recent Congresses, the current Congress has accomplished more than usual.
In dealing with the economy, as many Americans say the Republicans can do a better job as say that about the Democrats.
On perhaps the most important issue of the 2010 midterm elections, the economy, neither party has an advantage with the public