Current Research in Psychiatry

Prenatal care for patients with cardiac disease is complex, often involving close surveillance, intensive monitoring, and peripartum interventions that can result in mother infant separation after birth. Though these experiences can be distressing for patients, little is known about postpartum depression rates in this high-risk population. Characterizing postpartum depression and identifying risk factors might inform risk reduction strategies.

Nationally, patients experience multiple barriers to receiving mental health care. In many parts of the US, access to mental health providers is limited. For many patients, getting an appointment with a psychiatrist is difficult and often takes weeks. When patients are able to schedule appointments with a psychiatrist, the visits are usually short and aimed mostly at prescribing medications. For patients with serious conditions like schizophrenia or major depression, the consequences of unattended emergence or worsening of symptoms during those time intervals can be severe.

The management of anxiety and distress in patients with cancer is stressful for the oncology clinicians who treat them. Unfortunately, psychosocial care for patients with cancer is not universally available or standardized. Referrals from oncology services to psychological serves are often not initiated early enough, may not be encouraged from medicine or surgical services, and are subsequently foregone or patients do not follow up beyond a single appointment.

Nationally, patients experience multiple barriers to receiving mental health care. In many parts of the US, access to mental health providers is limited. For many patients, getting an appointment with a psychiatrist is difficult and often takes weeks. When patients are able to schedule appointments with a psychiatrist, the visits are usually short and aimed mostly at prescribing medications. For patients with serious conditions like schizophrenia or major depression, the consequences of unattended emergence or worsening of symptoms during those time intervals can be severe.

The management of anxiety and distress in patients with cancer is stressful for the oncology clinicians who treat them. Unfortunately, psychosocial care for patients with cancer is not universally available or standardized. Referrals from oncology services to psychological serves are often not initiated early enough, may not be encouraged from medicine or surgical services, and are subsequently foregone or patients do not follow up beyond a single appointment.

Nationally, patients experience multiple barriers to receiving mental health care. In many parts of the US, access to mental health providers is limited. For many patients, getting an appointment with a psychiatrist is difficult and often takes weeks. When patients are able to schedule appointments with a psychiatrist, the visits are usually short and aimed mostly at prescribing medications. For patients with serious conditions like schizophrenia or major depression, the consequences of unattended emergence or worsening of symptoms during those time intervals can be severe.