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Walker SC, Ahrens KR, Owens MD, Parnes M, Langley J, Ackerley C, Purtle J, Saldana L, Aarons GA, Hogue A, Palinkas LA. Using policy codesign to achieve multi-sector alignment in adolescent behavioral health: a study protocol. Implement Sci Commun 2024; 5:54. [PMID: 38720398 PMCID: PMC11077850 DOI: 10.1186/s43058-024-00583-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2024] [Accepted: 04/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/12/2024] Open
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BACKGROUND Policymaking is quickly gaining focus in the field of implementation science as a potential opportunity for aligning cross-sector systems and introducing incentives to promote population health, including substance use disorders (SUD) and their prevention in adolescents. Policymakers are seen as holding the necessary levers for realigning service infrastructure to more rapidly and effectively address adolescent behavioral health across the continuum of need (prevention through crisis care, mental health, and SUD) and in multiple locations (schools, primary care, community settings). The difficulty of aligning policy intent, policy design, and successful policy implementation is a well-known challenge in the broader public policy and public administration literature that also affects local behavioral health policymaking. This study will examine a blended approach of coproduction and codesign (i.e., Policy Codesign), iteratively developed over multiple years to address problems in policy formation that often lead to poor implementation outcomes. The current study evaluates this scalable approach using reproducible measures to grow the knowledge base in this field of study. METHODS This is a single-arm, longitudinal, staggered implementation study to examine the acceptability and short-term impacts of Policy Codesign in resolving critical challenges in behavioral health policy formation. The aims are to (1) examine the acceptability, feasibility, and reach of Policy Codesign within two geographically distinct counties in Washington state, USA; (2) examine the impact of Policy Codesign on multisector policy development within these counties using social network analysis; and (3) assess the perceived replicability of Policy Codesign among leaders and other staff of policy-oriented state behavioral health intermediary organizations across the USA. DISCUSSION This study will assess the feasibility of a specific approach to collaborative policy development, Policy Codesign, in two diverse regions. Results will inform a subsequent multi-state study measuring the impact and effectiveness of this approach for achieving multi-sector and evidence informed policy development in adolescent SUD prevention and treatment.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sarah Cusworth Walker
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
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- Seattle Children's Hospital and Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Addictions, Drug & Alcohol Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Seattle Children's Hospital and Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Lab For Living, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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- Department of Public Health Policy and Management, Global Center for Implementation Science, New York University, New York City, USA
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- Chestnut Health Systems, Lighthouse Institute, Eugene, OR, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, UC San Diego ACTRI Dissemination and Implementation Science Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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- Partnership to End Addiction, New York, NY, USA
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- Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Walker SC, Baquero B, Bekemeier B, Parnes M, Arora K. Strategies for enacting health policy codesign: a scoping review and direction for research. Implement Sci 2023; 18:44. [PMID: 37735397 PMCID: PMC10512571 DOI: 10.1186/s13012-023-01295-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/18/2023] [Indexed: 09/23/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Strategies for supporting evidence-informed health policy are a recognized but understudied area of policy dissemination and implementation science. Codesign describes a set of strategies potentially well suited to address the complexity presented by policy formation and implementation. We examine the health policy literature describing the use of codesign in initiatives intended to combine diverse sources of knowledge and evidence in policymaking. METHODS The search included PubMed, MEDLINE, PsychInfo, CINAHL, Web of Science, and Google Scholar in November 2022 and included papers published between 1996 and 2022. Terms included codesign, health, policy, and system terminology. Title and abstracts were reviewed in duplicate and included if efforts informed policy or system-level decision-making. Extracted data followed scoping review guidelines for location, evaluation method, health focus, codesign definition, description, level of health system user input, sectors involved, and reported benefits and challenges. RESULTS From 550 titles, 23 citations describing 32 policy codesign studies were included from multiple continents (Australia/New Zealand, 32%; UK/Europe, 32%; South America, 14%; Africa, 9%; USA/Canada 23%). Document type was primarily case study (77%). The area of health focus was widely distributed. Policy type was more commonly little p policy (47%), followed by big p policy (25%), and service innovations that included policy-enabled funding (25%). Models and frameworks originated from formal design (e.g., human-centered or participatory design (44%), political science (38%), or health service research (16%). Reported outcomes included community mobilization (50%), policy feasibility (41%), improved multisector alignment (31%), and introduction of novel ideas and critical thinking (47%). Studies engaging policy users in full decision-making roles self-reported higher levels of community mobilization and community needs than other types of engagement. DISCUSSION Policy codesign is theoretically promising and is gaining interest among diverse health sectors for addressing the complexity of policy formation and implementation. The maturity of the science is just emerging. We observed trends in the association of codesign strategies and outcomes that suggests a research agenda in this area could provide practical insights for tailoring policy codesign to respond to local contextual factors including values, needs, and resources.
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Affiliation(s)
- Sarah Cusworth Walker
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 356560, Seattle, USA.
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- School of Public Health, University of Washington, 3980 15th Ave, Box 351621, Seattle, NE, USA
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- School of Nursing, University of Washington, Box 357263, Seattle, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 356560, Seattle, USA
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- Seattle Children's Hospital, 6901 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA, 98115, USA
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Jiwani Z, Cadwell OG, Parnes M, Brown AD. Uncertainty in the Time of Corona: Precautionary Adherence, Fear, and Anxiety in New York City During the COVID-19 Pandemic. J Nerv Ment Dis 2021; 209:251-255. [PMID: 33512856 DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0000000000001308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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ABSTRACT The recent COVID-19 pandemic is having profound impacts on every sector of society, and New York City (NYC) emerged as an early epicenter of the disease. Given the novelty and scale of the disease, information surrounding COVID-19 has been marked by considerable uncertainty and confusion. Although various factors have been associated with COVID-19 distress, little is known about the relations between levels of intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and anxiety symptoms and behaviors. This cross-sectional study sought to examine potential correlates and pathways between anxiety and precautionary behaviors with the two levels of IU: prospective and inhibitory. Individuals from NYC (N = 99) completed an online survey through Amazon Mechanical Turk. Findings revealed that fear of COVID-19 accounts for associations between prospective IU and greater anxiety symptoms and behaviors, whereas precaution adherence accounts for associations between prospective IU and reduced anxiety symptoms and behaviors. In addition, precaution adherence accounts for associations between inhibitory IU and greater anxiety symptoms and behaviors. The results shed light on ways in which variations in IU may be associated with anxiety symptoms and behaviors in the context of COVID-19 and future pandemic scenarios.
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Kramer MA, Ostrowski LM, Song DY, Thorn EL, Stoyell SM, Parnes M, Chinappen D, Xiao G, Eden UT, Staley KJ, Stufflebeam SM, Chu CJ. Scalp recorded spike ripples predict seizure risk in childhood epilepsy better than spikes. Brain 2019; 142:1296-1309. [PMID: 30907404 PMCID: PMC6487332 DOI: 10.1093/brain/awz059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2018] [Revised: 01/09/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2019] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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In the past decade, brief bursts of fast oscillations in the ripple range have been identified in the scalp EEG as a promising non-invasive biomarker for epilepsy. However, investigation and clinical application of this biomarker have been limited because standard approaches to identify these brief, low amplitude events are difficult, time consuming, and subjective. Recent studies have demonstrated that ripples co-occurring with epileptiform discharges ('spike ripple events') are easier to detect than ripples alone and have greater pathological significance. Here, we used objective techniques to quantify spike ripples and test whether this biomarker predicts seizure risk in childhood epilepsy. We evaluated spike ripples in scalp EEG recordings from a prospective cohort of children with a self-limited epilepsy syndrome, benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes, and healthy control children. We compared the rate of spike ripples between children with epilepsy and healthy controls, and between children with epilepsy during periods of active disease (active, within 1 year of seizure) and after a period of sustained seizure-freedom (seizure-free, >1 year without seizure), using semi-automated and automated detection techniques. Spike ripple rate was higher in subjects with active epilepsy compared to healthy controls (P = 0.0018) or subjects with epilepsy who were seizure-free ON or OFF medication (P = 0.0018). Among epilepsy subjects with spike ripples, each month seizure-free decreased the odds of a spike ripple by a factor of 0.66 [95% confidence interval (0.47, 0.91), P = 0.021]. Comparing the diagnostic accuracy of the presence of at least one spike ripple versus a classic spike event to identify group, we found comparable sensitivity and negative predictive value, but greater specificity and positive predictive value of spike ripples compared to spikes (P = 0.016 and P = 0.006, respectively). We found qualitatively consistent results using a fully automated spike ripple detector, including comparison with an automated spike detector. We conclude that scalp spike ripple events identify disease and track with seizure risk in this epilepsy population, using both semi-automated and fully automated detection methods, and that this biomarker outperforms analysis of spikes alone in categorizing seizure risk. These data provide evidence that spike ripples are a specific non-invasive biomarker for seizure risk in benign epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes and support future work to evaluate the utility of this biomarker to guide medication trials and tapers in these children and predict seizure risk in other at-risk populations.
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- Mark A Kramer
- Boston University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA, USA
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- Boston University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiology, Boston, MA, USA
- Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, MA, USA
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- Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Neurology, Boston, MA, USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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Schwartz SEO, Kanchewa SS, Rhodes JE, Gowdy G, Stark AM, Horn JP, Parnes M, Spencer R. "I'm Having a Little Struggle With This, Can You Help Me Out?": Examining Impacts and Processes of a Social Capital Intervention for First-Generation College Students. Am J Community Psychol 2018; 61:166-178. [PMID: 29178300 DOI: 10.1002/ajcp.12206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Social capital plays a key role in college and career success, and research indicates that a dearth of on-campus connections contributes to challenges first-generation college students face in effectively navigating the college environment. This study investigates a novel intervention that focuses on the development of skills and attitudes to empower first-generation college students to cultivate social capital and on-campus connections during the transition to college. A mixed methods, explanatory design was used to evaluate impacts and processes of the intervention among first-generation college students (n = 164) in the context of an ethnically diverse, urban, public university in the Northeast. Results indicated that students who participated in the intervention demonstrated improved attitudes and behaviors around seeking support in college, closer relationships with instructors, and higher GPAs at the end of their first year in college. These results suggest the potential benefits of a relatively scalable approach to supporting the needs of first-generation college students.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, USA
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- School of Social Work, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
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Hannawi Y, Parnes M, Zhorne L, Jarjour I, Neul J, Nassif L. A Diagnostic Dilemma: Cervical Cord Infarction Caused by Vertebral Artery Dissection and Mimicking a Demyelinating Disease (P03.136). Neurology 2012. [DOI: 10.1212/wnl.78.1_meetingabstracts.p03.136] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Debotton N, Giladi O, Parnes M, Benita S. Novel high-content paclitaxel palmitate nanospheres for improved cancer treatment. J Drug Deliv Sci Technol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s1773-2247(09)50052-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Leibowitz G, Khaldi MZ, Shauer A, Parnes M, Oprescu AI, Cerasi E, Jonas JC, Kaiser N. Mitochondrial regulation of insulin production in rat pancreatic islets. Diabetologia 2005; 48:1549-59. [PMID: 15986240 DOI: 10.1007/s00125-005-1811-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/13/2004] [Accepted: 03/25/2005] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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AIMS/HYPOTHESIS The study was designed to identify the key metabolic signals of glucose-stimulated proinsulin gene transcription and translation, focusing on the mechanism of succinate stimulation of insulin production. METHODS Wistar rat islets were incubated in 3.3 mmol/l glucose with and without esters of different mitochondrial metabolites or with 16.7 mmol/l glucose. Proinsulin biosynthesis was analysed by tritiated leucine incorporation into newly synthesised proinsulin. Preproinsulin gene transcription was evaluated following transduction with adenoviral vectors expressing the luciferase reporter gene under the control of the rat I preproinsulin promoter. Steady-state preproinsulin mRNA was determined using relative quantitative PCR. The mitochondrial membrane potential was measured by microspectrofluorimetry using rhodamine-123. RESULTS Succinic acid monomethyl ester, but not other mitochondrial metabolites, stimulated preproinsulin gene transcription and translation. Similarly to glucose, succinate increased specific preproinsulin gene transcription and biosynthesis. The inhibitor of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH), 3-nitropropionate, abolished glucose- and succinate-stimulated mitochondrial membrane hyperpolarisation and proinsulin biosynthesis, indicating that stimulation of proinsulin translation depends on SDH activity. Partial inhibition of SDH activity by exposure to fumaric acid monomethyl ester abolished the stimulation of preproinsulin gene transcription, but only partially inhibited the stimulation of proinsulin biosynthesis by glucose and succinate, suggesting that SDH activity is particularly important for the transcriptional response to glucose. CONCLUSIONS/INTERPRETATION Succinate is a key metabolic mediator of glucose-stimulated preproinsulin gene transcription and translation. Moreover, succinate stimulation of insulin production depends on its metabolism via SDH. The differential effect of fumarate on preproinsulin gene transcription and translation suggests that these processes have different sensitivities to metabolic signals.
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- G Leibowitz
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Service, Department of Medicine, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
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