Mental Health

The demanding nature of pharmacy programs often leaves little time for self-care, social activities, or hobbies, leading to an imbalance that can foster burnout.

The study found that this patient population was about 25% more likely to have serious mental health issues after childbirth.

The results found that women, non-binary, and sexual minority students are at the highest risk.

The FDA announces a Class II recall for the lot #220128, which were reported to contain the presence of nitrosamine.

Women are more likely to face burnout because they are often balancing both workload and family or home life responsibilities.

Pharmacogenomic testing can help identify patients' genetic profiles, revealing why certain drugs may be less effective or cause adverse effects.

Offering pharmacy professionals insights into the benefits, importance and challenges associated with switching patients to long-acting injectables to treat schizophrenia.

Video chatting, texting, watching videos, and playing video games were activities most commonly associated with depressive symptoms in adolescents.

However, the results also showed that vaccination rates were lower in those who are unmedicated for their mental illness and those with substance use disorders.

According to the authors, being able to identify mood disturbances through passive digital biomarker data can be promising in next-generation predictive, personalized mental health diagnostics.

When considering the 3-stage framework, perhaps a greater emphasis on pre-treatment phase research could help identify some of the more individual traits used to better predict patient outcomes.

Xanomeline and trospium chloride is the first in a new class, offering a new approach with selectively targeting M1 and M4 receptors.

In adolescents, a comprehensive model using behavioral and MRI data had a prediction accuracy of 0.83, which was higher than single data type models.

Using the term "pseudodementia" contributes to the mismanagement and mistreatment of the disease.

Additionally, the authors are concerned by the lack of increase in depressive or anxiety diagnoses, indicating potential barriers to care.

The authors urge that screening, prevention, and treatment of anxiety and depression should be important health care priorities for youth who have chronic pain.

The findings demonstrate a need for additional health care provider training and resources for birthing people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Those with an aneurysm diagnosis who were younger than 40 years of age were observed to have an even higher risk.

Risk of developing anxiety or depression is highest within the first year after cardiovascular hospitalization.

Previously, an independent advisory panel for the FDA rejected the use of MDMA-assisted therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), citing concerns of the reliability of the clinical trial data.

Zuranolone enhances health care providers’ ability to address the complex needs of patients with PPD, offering new hope for rapid and sustained relief from depressive symptoms.

Patients with MDD may also seek complementary or alternative therapies in the form of dietary supplements which might be perceived by patients to be natural and safer than medicinal agents.

The study also found that there were no associations with increased dementia risk when anxiety resolved.

Although important for patient health care, pharmacies’ convenient locations leave staff prone to workplace violence.

Paliperidone palmitate (Erzofi; Luye Pharma Group) is approved as a monotherapy for schizophrenia and as an adjunct for schizoaffective disorder.

The findings also demonstrate that body dysmorphic disorder is also associated with high levels of comorbid psychopathology, risk, and psychosocial impairment.

However, the cost of zuranolone makes it challenging to access and justify, given study results comparing it with brexanolone.

Acetylcholine deficit observed in patients with anorexia nervosa suggest potential targeted treatment options.

On a scale from 1 to 10, respondents rated their feelings of burnout an average of 7.25 in the second annual Pharmacy Times Burnout and Mental Health Survey.

The authors emphasize that these findings suggest a need for targeted resources that help reduce boarding and promote equitable access to care.