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Emerging adults (i.e., age 18-25 years) of color in the United States are exposed to race/ethnicity-related traumatic events in online settings. Although an emerging literature documents the mental health consequences of such online exposures among adolescents, the association between these exposures and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) remains understudied in emerging adults. Furthermore, little is known about strengths-based factors that may be protective for emerging adults of color faced with such exposures. The current study aimed to fill these gaps by examining the potential of liberatory media literacy (i.e., the ability to critically read, evaluate, support, and create media and technology that represents people of color in their full humanity) to ameliorate the association between exposure to traumatic events online and PTSD symptoms. Emerging adults of color (N = 325, Mage = 22.24, 56.0% male) were recruited to complete a self-report online survey that assessed exposure to race/ethnicity-related traumatic events in online settings, liberatory media literacy, and PTSD symptoms. The results of moderation analysis indicated that increased exposure to traumatic events online was associated with higher PTSD symptoms, β = .22, and that the inclusive media and technology component of liberatory media literacy was protective in this association, β = .19. However, these effects were small, f2 = .22-.23. The potential of liberatory media literacy as a strengths-based asset for emerging adults of color are discussed. Increasing inclusive media and technology skills may be an important target for intervention.
Medical grade honey has previously been described as a prophylactic treatment for wounds. Local prophylactic treatment may be valuable in preventing post-operative incisional infections in horses undergoing colic surgery but has not been evaluated.
To establish whether medical grade honey gel, applied on the linea alba intraoperatively, decreases the prevalence of incisional infections in horses undergoing colic surgery with no associated adverse effects.
Prospective blinded randomised controlled clinical study.
Horses older than 4months that underwent colic surgery between May 2017 and December 2018 and survived for >2weeks were included in the study. Horses were allocated 11 to treatment or control by block randomisation. In the treatment group, following closure of the linea alba, medical grade honey gel (L-Mesitran Soft
) was placed in the incision followed by apposition of subcutaneous tissue and skin. CA-074 methyl ester molecular weight Information regarding the incision and post-operative complications was obtained at five tcal grade honey gel in the abdominal incision during surgery is safe and may significantly decrease the prevalence of incisional infections in horses undergoing colic surgery.
This prospective cohort study evaluated late complications (LC) on recipient sites comparing two types of connective tissue grafts (CTG).
Participants (n 60) were treated with coronally advanced flap (CAF) plus CTG harvested by de-epithelialized technique (DE) (n31) or two-parallel incision (PI) (n29). Areas were evaluated to identify white discharge associated or not with gingival cul-de-sac. Patients were ordered in groups with (DE+and PI+) or without (DE- and PI-) LC. Biopsies for histopathological analysis in LC areas were proposed.
Six cases exhibited LC, 5 in DE graft (DE+) and 1 in PI graft (PI+) group; 2 were diagnosed at 3months postoperatively, 3 at 6months and one at 12months. The relative risk for LC was 1.7 times greater for DE graft (p 0.01; CI 1.10to2.72; RR>1). Differences were not observed for clinical outcomes after both types of CTGs (p>0.05). Biopsies showed deep invagination of the epithelial lining suggesting cyst-like area/ cavity with keratin content and consolidated in fibrous connective tissue. After 24months biopsied areas presented no recurrence of LC, in non-biopsied patients the clinical condition remained unchanged.
Considering the limitations of this study, LC on recipient sites demonstrated no statistical difference between two types of CTG.
Considering the limitations of this study, LC on recipient sites demonstrated no statistical difference between two types of CTG.
Hypomethylation of intron 1 of the α-synuclein (SNCA) gene has been extensively reported in the blood of patients with α-synucleinopathies. Idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder represents a prodromal stage of α-synucleinopathies. Methylation of α-synuclein intron 1 in idiopathic rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder patients is largely unexplored. The objective of the current study was to assess blood α-synuclein intron 1 methylation in patients and to explore it as a potential biomarker to predict phenoconversion and monitor disease progression.
Seventy-eight polysomnography-confirmed patients and 74 healthy controls were enrolled. After an average of 3.75 years of follow up, 16 patients converted to neurodegenerative diseases (converters), whereas 59 did not (nonconverters). Blood DNA was obtained at baseline from all participants, as well as at the follow-up visit for 27 patients. DNA methylation levels were determined using bisulfite pyrosequencing methods and were compared betweein methylation levels may be useful biomarkers to screen patients, predict phenoconversion, and monitor disease progression. © 2020 International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) during pregnancy is a significant global mental health concern that affects up to 1 in 5 trauma-exposed pregnant women and is associated with an increased risk of adverse maternal and infant complications and health outcomes. This systematic literature review, conducted in accordance with PRISMA guidelines, examined findings from studies of psychological interventions and treatments for prenatal PTSD to inform recommendations for future research. Relevant evidence was identified from reference reviews and electronic databases (i.e., PubMed, Google Scholar, PsychInfo, and Scopus). Included studies reported on the effect of nonpharmacological intervention or treatment of PTSD symptomatology delivered during pregnancy, with at least one postintervention follow-up collected during pregnancy to assess prenatal treatment outcomes. The systematic review was augmented with a discussion of lower-level evidence. Of the 954 articles screened, six peer-reviewed, quantitative reports met the inclusion criteria and featured three empirically based interventions, including two randomized controlled trials Two psychoeducation interventions for PTSD and one treatment study of interpersonal psychotherapy in trauma-exposed pregnant women.
