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B Banks

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PubMed2001

Workplace supports, job performance, and integration outcomes for people with psychiatric disabilities.

The notion of natural workplace supports is an essential ingredient in achieving successful supported employment outcomes. This quantitative study examines the characteristics of 243 individuals with psychiatric disabilities participating in supported employment programs in the United States. Diagnoses, psychiatric symptoms, and Global Assessment of Functioning were evaluated in relation to supported employment outcomes, including social interaction, wages, and workplace supports. The results of this study indicate that social interaction and natural workplace supports improve supported employment outcomes for individuals with psychiatric disabilities.

Adult↗
PubMed1999

Clinical audit of the process of referral to genitourinary medicine of patients found to be chlamydia positive in a family planning service.

This paper describes a collaborative audit between a large family planning and genitourinary medicine (GUM) service undertaken to ensure that all women presenting for termination of pregnancy (TOP) or IUD fitting were offered screening for chlamydia, were informed of a positive result, and were subsequently referred to GUM for full sexual health screening and contact tracing. Over a six month period in 1996 1072 patients were seen for either TOP (763) or W1) fitting (309) and of these 999 were offered a test which was performed in 988. Overall 38 positive tests were reported (3.8 per cent) but only two of 259 patients tested prior to lUD fitting were found to have chlamydia (<0.8 per cent). Only 27 of these 38 women (74 per cent) had information recorded in their notes that they had been given their result and 24 patients (63 per cent) were seen in GUM. The audit uncovered problems with documentation and cross-referencing of information which largely accounted for the failure to reach some of the standards set. An action plan has been formulated in an attempt to improve this aspect of the screening service. If more widespread screening for chlamydia is to be effectively implemented as recommended by the 31st RCOG Study Group on the Prevention of Pelvic Infection, then it is of importance that workable local protocols are in place including arrangements for partner notification and treatment. This will involve close collaboration between a range of specialities working in the sexual health field.

Chlamydia Infections↗
PubMed1998

Use of false ID cards and other deceptive methods to purchase alcoholic beverages during high school.

Altered motor vehicle drivers's licenses or other falsified or counterfeit photo identification cards are widely and illegally used by teenagers to obtain beer and other alcohol beverages. We obtained information on the methods currently used by teenagers to purchase beer and wine by asking nine hundred teenagers, between 16-19 years old to complete a brief, confidential questionnaire. High school students most often obtained alcoholic beverages by requesting someone of legal age to purchase it for them. College students used borrowed, altered, or counterfeit identification (ID) more often than high school students. Photo IDs purchased through mail order from a magazine advertisement were used infrequently and when use was attempted, they were sometimes (25%) unsuccessful. Fifteen percent of high school students, 14% of college freshmen, and 24% of teenage drug abusers were able to purchase beer by the case with borrowed, altered, or fake ID. Suggestions to reduce sales of alcohol-containing beverages to minors include universal "carding" of prospective purchasers, use of two view or hologram photos on a drivers' license, requiring three different ID cards at the point of purchase, and penalties to stores that fail to make a good effort to identify underage customers.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1994

Effects of haloperidol, quinelorane, and lithium on regional neurotensin/neuromedin N concentrations: further evidence for neurotensin/neuromedin N-dopamine interactions.

In order to further characterize the pharmacologic mechanisms that mediate the antipsychotic drug-induced increase in neurotensin (NT) in nucleus accumbens and striatum, the effects of three weeks treatment with psychotherapeutic levels of lithium alone or in conjunction with haloperidol were compared to the ability of haloperidol alone to alter NT and neuromedin N (NMN) regional brain concentrations in rats. A separate experiment examined the ability of a selective dopamine D2 receptor agonist, quinelorane, to alter NT/NMN regional concentrations after three weeks of treatment as compared to haloperidol, a D2 receptor antagonist. Haloperidol (1 mg/kg) increased both NT and NMN concentrations in several brain regions and these parallel peptide increases were highly correlated. Lithium chloride (0.4 mM) had no effect, either alone or with haloperidol, on NT/NMN concentrations. Quinelorane (1 mg/kg), however, effectively increased both NT and NMN concentrations in the caudate nucleus and nucleus accumbens, as did haloperidol (2 mg/kg). These data indicate that the induction of NT and NMN, whose adjacent sequences are contained in a pro-hormone product of a single gene, occurs in tandem and remains proportional, as well as demonstrating that putative D2 receptor agonists can produce effects on NT/NMN systems that are similar to D2 receptor antagonists.

Animals↗
PubMed1984

A rational approach to the design of highly effective chiral stationary phases for the liquid chromatographic separation of enantiomers.

The design and rationale of some novel chiral stationary phases (CSPs) are discussed with respect to methods for determining enantiomeric purity, absolute configuration and for obtaining enantiomerically pure materials by liquid chromatography. The commercially-available dinitrobenzoylamino CSP type 1 is discussed with respect to the chiral recognition mechanisms which may operate in the resolution of some polycyclic and heterocyclic aromatic molecules and some benzodiazepines. N-Acyl alpha-arylalkylamines are also employed as models to formulate mechanisms for the chiral properties of type 1 CSPs in terms of enantiomeric stacking of the most stable conformations in solution. The properties of new types of 'reciprocal' CSPs are discussed and illustrated by enantiomeric separation of some amino acid and amino phosphoric acid derivatives, and by the separation of the following enantiomeric drugs as their 3,5-dinitrobenzoyl derivatives: metoprolol, oxoprenolol, ephedrine and alprenolol.

Journal Article↗
PubMed1982

Nutritional status in alcoholics with and without liver disease.

Nutritional status, dietary calories, dietary protein, quantity of ethanol (ET), and severity of liver disease were tested in 62 alcoholics with liver disease (ALC LD). Twenty alcoholics without liver disease (ALC) and 20 abstinents (ABS) were also examined. Despite adequate protein intake ALC LD and ALC had significantly lower body weights, triceps skinfolds, and arm muscle circumferences than ABS. Poorer nutritional status in abusers is probably related to toxic effect of ET. ALC LD compared with ALC had no difference in ET (2.05 +/- 0.15 and 1.80 +/- 0.22 g/kg/day, respectively), in weight, triceps skinfold and the arm muscle circumference. ALC LD consumed fewer dietary calories, less protein (covering more of total calories with ET) and had a lower serum albumin. Decreased serum albumin in ALC LD was related to liver disease rather than to malnutrition: it inversely correlated with bilirubin but not with dietary protein. In ALC LD there was no correlation between ET, calories, or protein in the diet and severity of liver disease. The concept that ALC Ld is related to ET dose and/or malnutrition thus could not be confirmed. Other predisposing factors may be instrumental in the pathogenesis of ALC LD.

Alcoholism↗