Health Care Avoidance and Delay in the Transgender Population: A Systematic Review Exploring Associations with Minority Stress.

Purpose: A wide body of research explores the substantial issue of health care avoidance and delay (HAD) in the transgender population, and much focus has been given to the minority stress model in the exploration of associated factors. This review addresses gaps in the literature by investigating the cumulative evidence for association between HAD and minority stress, and by further examining the evidence for individual facets of minority stress. A secondary aim of this review is to examine how operationalization of HAD may impact our understanding of research findings.

Recovered memory practices in Ireland: public & professional perspectives.

We surveyed members of the public and professionals to assess opinions and experiences related to recovered memories in Ireland ( = 675). We found that memory recovery amongst therapy-goers in Ireland is relatively common (8%). Likewise, many practitioners (29%) reported some experience with a client recovering a memory and most had actually recovered a memory themselves.

Caregivers of individuals with borderline personality disorder: The relationship between leading caregiver interventions and psychological distress/positive mental well-being.

Burden and psychological distress are higher in informal caregivers (ICs) of people with severe emotional and behavior dysregulation who have been given a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD) compared with non-caregivers. The current cross-sectional study examines the difference in outcomes of ICs of people with BPD who have received the intervention Family Connections (FC) and who also led interventions for other caregivers (caregiver-leaders) compared with those who have attended FC but not led caregiver interventions (non-leader-FC participants). The sample for this research is from a larger study (Hayes et al.

Demographic factors associated with healthcare avoidance and delay in the transgender population: Findings from a systematic review.

Purpose: Healthcare avoidance and delay (HAD) in the transgender population has been well documented, and research has explored a range of associated factors that help to identify those most at risk of HAD. This review addresses a gap in the research by synthesizing research exploring associations between HAD and demographic factors.

Methods: A systematic search of literature published at any time up to December 2021 was conducted, using five databases (EBSCO, EMBASE, PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science) and manually searching reference lists of included studies.

The relationship between social support, coping strategies and psychological distress and positive mental well-being in carers of people with borderline personality disorder.

Background: Informal carers of people with BPD experience high levels of burden and psychological distress relative to other populations. There is a scarcity of research evidencing the influence of modifiable factors on carer outcomes to inform interventions. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between social support, coping strategies and psychological distress and positive mental well-being in this carer population.

The effect of COVID-19 lockdowns on women's perinatal mental health: a systematic review.

Background: Risk factors for poor maternal perinatal mental health include a previous mental health diagnosis, reduced access to perinatal services, economic concerns and decreased levels of social support. Adverse maternal perinatal mental health can negatively influence the psychological wellbeing of infants. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic presented an additional stressor.

An Open Dialogue-informed approach to mental health service delivery: experiences of service users and support networks.

Background: Open Dialogue (OD) is a needs-based, service-user initiated approach to mental health service delivery that emphasises dialogue, and shared understanding between service users, and their support network.

Aims: The aim of this study was to explore the lived experience of being part of an OD-informed mental health service in Ireland.

Method: Data were collected through semi-structured group interviews and analysed using thematic analysis.

A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? A spectrum of attitudes to assisted reproductive technologies in Ireland.

Objective: New technologies present new ethical dilemmas. Our ethical intuitions may mislead us in relation to new technologies such as nuclear power, vaccines, GMOs and assistive reproductive technologies (ART). Between 1999 and 2008 the number of ART treatment cycles increased by 265% in Ireland.

Transforming Growth Factor Beta Gene Signatures are Spatially Enriched in Keloid Tissue Biopsies and Ex vivo-Cultured Keloid Fibroblasts.

The keloid lesion is recognised as a spatially heterogeneous mass both in cellular and acellular composition and biological activity. Here, we have utilised a bioinformatic approach to determine whether this spatial heterogeneity is also evident at the molecular level and to identify key upstream regulators of signalling pathways enriched in the lesion in a spatially-restricted manner. Differentially expressed genes (20% change, p < 0.

Zanamivir: a significant reduction in viral load during treatment in military conscripts with influenza.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group trial performed at 5 residential units of the Finnish Defence Forces was conducted to assess the antiviral activity, efficacy and safety of inhaled zanamivir for the treatment of naturally acquired influenza. Conscripts were recruited within 2 d of onset of typical influenza symptoms and received inhaled zanamivir 10 mg via a Diskhaler twice daily for 5 d or matching placebo. Time to alleviation of clinically significant symptoms of influenza was the primary endpoint.