Anxiety

Patients who receive dialysis report that traveling to dialysis facilities remains a source of stress and a barrier to treatment, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

Thirty-one percent of American adults expect to feel stressed about the upcoming holiday season, an increase of 9 percentage points from 2021, according to a poll from the American Psychiatric Association.

The biggest news on Healio Psychiatry over the last month was the controversy over daylight saving time.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In this Healio exclusive, Katherine K. Dahlsgaard, PhD, ABPP, discusses tools that are available to help allergists assess and treat children for anxiety pertaining to their food allergy.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Hereditary angioedema has a significant effect on mental health, daily activities and quality of life, according to a study presented at the American College of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Annual Scientific Meeting.

Teachers showed a significantly higher prevalence of negative mental health outcomes compared with health care and office workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers reported in Educational Researcher.

CHICAGO — Results presented at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting showed anxiety and sleep disturbance were independent predictors of high barriers to proper opioid use after spinal deformity surgery.

Mindfulness-based stress reduction was found to be noninferior to escitalopram for the treatment of anxiety disorders, researchers reported in JAMA Psychiatry.

Psilocybin is one the most well-known psychedelics — and one of the most widely touted for its potential to confer benefit in the medical setting.

SAN DIEGO — For individuals, a change in depressive symptoms was associated with change in body weight, and the association was stronger for those with overweight or obesity than those with a normal BMI, according to study data.