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The Impact on Adolescent Mental Health in South Jersey Due To the Cancelation and Return of Sports
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many organized sports programs have been canceled or limited in participation. While research prior to the pandemic has strongly suggested that participation in organized sports has benefits for mental and physical health, especially in adolescence, there have been minimal studies on how the removal of organized sports affects mental health outcomes. Additionally, studies have found that the stress of the pandemic and its associated life changes has greatly decreased mental health outcomes in our target population. These findings may indicate the importance of return to organized sports in a time where mental health outcomes are already low in our communities.
Our study is one of the first to analyze this important relationship between the closures of sports, the return to sports, and their associated impact on mental health in the wake of the pandemic in New Jersey. With sports starting to open back up in the area, evaluating the impact that this lapse in participation has had on the athleteâs mental health is increasingly important
Amenorrhea and Stress Fractures in Female New Jersey Division III Collegiate Runners: An Opportunity for Increased Health Education
Background: In the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), 9.1% of the injuries reported by Womenâs cross country athletes between 2014-2019 were fractures. Although excessive exercise is a major contributor to the development of amenorrhea, there are currently no studies on the association between amenorrhea and stress fractures in NJ NCAA Division III Womenâs cross country or track athletes. This study aims to determine if there is an association between incidence of amenorrhea and subsequent occurrence of stress fractures among this population.
Methods: This is a survey based study. Participants must be female athletes over the age of 18 who currently participate in collegiate cross country or track running at a NJ Division III school. In total, 68 survey responses were collected. Data was analyzed using SPSS.
Results: Of the 68 participants, 58.8% missed their menstrual cycle and 45.6% experienced a stress fracture during training or competition. There is a significant association between having missed at least one menstrual cycle during training or competition and the number of stress fractures experienced by NJ Division III female cross country and track athletes (p = 0.044). Only 30.9% of respondents indicated that someone from their schoolâs staff spoke to them about the importance of maintaining regular menstruation during training.
Conclusions: This study confirms that both amenorrhea and stress fractures are commonly seen among NJ NCAA Division III female cross country and track athletes. Our data also highlights a need for increased education of NJ Division III female athletes regarding the importance of maintaining regular menstruation as a means of stress fracture prevention. Further investigation of the role of amenorrhea on the incidence of stress fractures may shine light on an important area for prevention and increased health education
Outcomes in Type II Diabetes Patients through the Covid 19 Pandemic A Retrospective Chart Review
Context: The COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity for urgent expansion of telemedicine services as providers continued to supply longitudinal care to patients. Patients with type II diabetes were vulnerable to serious infection with COVID-19 as well as disruption in management of their chronic disease.
Objective: To delineate the outcomes in type II diabetes patients through the COVID-19 pandemic by a retrospective chart review in which disease management was evaluated through HbA1c levels and BMI.
Methods: This retrospective chart review included adult T2DM patients receiving care from five university family medicine offices in NJ. HbA1c levels and BMI values were compared during the pre-pandemic (February 2019-February 2020) and pandemic (March 2020-May 2022) time periods. Data analysis was completed through SPSS.
Results: There was no significant difference in HbA1c levels from before the COVID-19 pandemic compared to during the pandemic, but there was a significant decrease in BMI. There was a greater shift in patients being prescribed multiple anti-diabetic oral drugs compared to insulin during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Conclusions: Despite changes in daily living and healthcare delivery, patients with T2DM were able to maintain or improve their disease status. Patients that were older, female, with a higher BMI, and of African American descent exhibited greater healthcare utilization, with variance in types of visits and associated outcomes. Moving forward, telemedicine could be a potential outlet for alleviating the global health burden associated with T2DM
Mental Health Outcomes at a Student-Run Free Clinic
In this project we aim to:
1. Assess the outcomes of screening, management, and diagnosis for patients at the Rowan Community Health Center (RCHC).
2. Compare the outcomes of screening, management, and diagnosis between different groups (gender, race, income, insurance status) using validated surveys.
3. There is a need for accessible and affordable primary care in the South Jersey area, which the RCHC is hoping to meet.
Hypothesis:
The quality of mental health care available to patients at the RCHC is comparable to that at other insured practices
Assessing the Need for Mental Health Screenings in a Student-Run Free Clinic and a Family Medicine Office
Background: The US Preventive Services Task Force provides strong evidence that early screening helps identify depression in primary care settings, promotes intervention, and facilitates treatment. The Rowan Community Health Clinic (RCHC) in Lindenwold, NJ is a student-run free clinic who serves patients regardless of patient gender, race, income or insurance status. This study aims to determine if there is a need to build internal infrastructure at RCHC for depression and anxiety management.
Methods: This is an IRB-approved study that began in June 2021. Data was collected from Rowan Community Health Center and Rowan Family Medicine patients. Patients were administered mental health screenings using the GAD-2/GAD-7 and PHQ-2/PHQ-9.
Results: No significant difference in prevalence of minimal or mild-to-severe depression or anxiety based on income above or below the poverty line, insurance status, status of established care with a primary care physician, gender, primary language spoken, or location of care.
Conclusions: At this time, the data is showing a snapshot of our ongoing study. Therefore, we can capture current proportions of patients with specific mental health screening scores, but we cannot draw any significant conclusions at this time. In the future, data should continue to be collected at both the RCHC and Family Medicine offices utilizing the GAD-2/GAD-7 and PHQ-2/PHQ-9
The Need for Depression and Anxiety Screenings at a Student-Run Clinic
General anxiety and major depressive disorder are common and treatable mental health disorders. The US Preventive Services Task Force provides strong evidence that early screening helps identify depression in primary care settings, promotes intervention and facilitates treatment. Many medical offices use validated screening tools, GAD-7 and PHQ-9, to measure symptom severities and further help guide treatment modalities for patients with anxiety and depression, respectively. The Rowan Community Health Clinic (RCHC) in Lindenwold, NJ is a student-run free clinic that serves patients regardless of patient gender, race, income, or insurance status. This study aims to determine if there is a need to build internal infrastructure at RCHC for depression and anxiety management. This study started in June 2021 and had a total of 25 patients. Patients were administered both the GAD-7 and PHQ-9 for screening and were given various resources and/or referrals depending on their calculated score. Data was stored in Qualtrics and analyzed in SPSS. While this study had a small sample size, it was evident that both anxiety and depression play a role in our patientsâ lives despite not seeing any significant data between minimal and moderate-to-severe depression and/or anxiety. With these tools only being able to measure symptom severity, further psychiatric evaluation is also essential to accurately diagnose mental health disorders. Future steps involve increasing sample size as well as comparing data with insured patients at a Family Medicine office. One of RCHCâs goals is to use our preliminary data in order to start a framework and provide accessible mental health services within our student-run clinic
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The production of tt⟠, W+bb⟠and W+cc⟠is studied in the forward region of protonâproton collisions collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.98±0.02 fbâ1 . The W bosons are reconstructed in the decays WââÎœ , where â denotes muon or electron, while the b and c quarks are reconstructed as jets. All measured cross-sections are in agreement with next-to-leading-order Standard Model predictions.The production of , and is studied in the forward region of proton-proton collisions collected at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV by the LHCb experiment, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.98 0.02 \mbox{fb}^{-1}. The bosons are reconstructed in the decays , where denotes muon or electron, while the and quarks are reconstructed as jets. All measured cross-sections are in agreement with next-to-leading-order Standard Model predictions
Multidifferential study of identified charged hadron distributions in -tagged jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
Jet fragmentation functions are measured for the first time in proton-proton
collisions for charged pions, kaons, and protons within jets recoiling against
a boson. The charged-hadron distributions are studied longitudinally and
transversely to the jet direction for jets with transverse momentum 20 GeV and in the pseudorapidity range . The
data sample was collected with the LHCb experiment at a center-of-mass energy
of 13 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 1.64 fb. Triple
differential distributions as a function of the hadron longitudinal momentum
fraction, hadron transverse momentum, and jet transverse momentum are also
measured for the first time. This helps constrain transverse-momentum-dependent
fragmentation functions. Differences in the shapes and magnitudes of the
measured distributions for the different hadron species provide insights into
the hadronization process for jets predominantly initiated by light quarks.Comment: All figures and tables, along with machine-readable versions and any
supplementary material and additional information, are available at
https://cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/p/LHCb-PAPER-2022-013.html (LHCb
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Study of the decay
The decay is studied
in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of TeV
using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 5
collected by the LHCb experiment. In the system, the
state observed at the BaBar and Belle experiments is
resolved into two narrower states, and ,
whose masses and widths are measured to be where the first uncertainties are statistical and the second
systematic. The results are consistent with a previous LHCb measurement using a
prompt sample. Evidence of a new
state is found with a local significance of , whose mass and width
are measured to be and , respectively. In addition, evidence of a new decay mode
is found with a significance of
. The relative branching fraction of with respect to the
decay is measured to be , where the first
uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third originates from
the branching fractions of charm hadron decays.Comment: All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and
additional information, are available at
https://cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/p/LHCb-PAPER-2022-028.html (LHCb
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Measurement of the ratios of branching fractions and
The ratios of branching fractions
and are measured, assuming isospin symmetry, using a
sample of proton-proton collision data corresponding to 3.0 fb of
integrated luminosity recorded by the LHCb experiment during 2011 and 2012. The
tau lepton is identified in the decay mode
. The measured values are
and
, where the first uncertainty is
statistical and the second is systematic. The correlation between these
measurements is . Results are consistent with the current average
of these quantities and are at a combined 1.9 standard deviations from the
predictions based on lepton flavor universality in the Standard Model.Comment: All figures and tables, along with any supplementary material and
additional information, are available at
https://cern.ch/lhcbproject/Publications/p/LHCb-PAPER-2022-039.html (LHCb
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