Albert Einstein College of Medicine Coping Styles Questionnaire

The profile of coping mechanisms in a sample of 164 subjects (60 alcohol-dependent individuals, 47 depressed patients, 57 controls) was investigated. Data were collected over the period January-December 2004, at the Eginition Psychiatric Hospital of the Athens University Medical School in Athens, capital of Greece. The Albert Einstein College of Medicine Coping Styles Questionnaire (AECOM-CSQ; Plutchik & Conte, 1989), and the Hamilton Depression and Anxiety Rating Scales (Hamilton, 1959, 1960) were used for the assessment. Post hoc analysis of variance for comparisons between groups and logistic regressions using coping styles as predictor variables for group classification were used for data analysis. The main findings were that alcohol-dependent individuals could be distinguished from either depressed or control subjects on the ground of their coping mechanisms with stress, and that men and women use different patterns of psychological adaptation. More specifically, group classification in terms of specific coping styles could be predicted with an overall accuracy of more than 84%; in men, classification related to the coping mechanism of substitution, and in women to blame, reversal, and substitution. These findings may have implications for individually tailored psychotherapeutic interventions in alcohol-dependent individuals.

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Development of a Positive Psychology Program (LAVENDER) for Preserving Medical Student Well-being: A Single-Arm Pilot Study

Global Advances in Health and Medicine ◽

10.1177/2164956120988481 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 10 ◽

pp. 216495612098848

Author(s):

Elaine O Cheung ◽

Ian Kwok ◽

Allison B Ludwig ◽

William Burton ◽

Xinzi Wang ◽

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Keyword(s):

Medical Student ◽

Medical Students ◽

Positive Psychology ◽

Positive Emotion ◽

Albert Einstein College ◽

Albert Einstein ◽

Well Being ◽

Preliminary Evidence ◽

Lessons Learned ◽

Psychology Program

Background Mental health tends to worsen over the course of medical school, with steep declines in well-being in students’ clerkship year (M3). Positive emotion promotes adaptive coping to stress and may help preserve medical student well-being. Objective This study describes the development of LAVENDER (Leveraging Affect and Valuing Empathy for Nurturing Doctors’ Emotional Resilience), a program aimed at increasing positive emotion to preserve well-being in medical students. Methods We conducted a single-arm pilot of LAVENDER, a positive psychology intervention developed for medical students delivered in an interactive classroom format to a cohort of 157 third-year medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Our primary outcome was the acceptability of LAVENDER. We also examined preliminary efficacy using measures of emotion, stress and burnout collected at each intervention session. Results LAVENDER showed good acceptability: 76% of participants agreed that the LAVENDER skills were useful and 72% agreed that they would recommend the LAVENDER program to others. Qualitative feedback suggested that medical students enjoyed the program and found the skills to be useful for coping with stress, but also reported the following barriers to engagement: lack of time to practice the skills, resistance to the mandatory nature of the wellness sessions, and difficulty integrating the skills in daily life. We did not find support for the preliminary efficacy of LAVENDER for improving medical student well-being in students’ clerkship year. Participants showed decreases in positive emotion and increases in symptoms of burnout over the intervention period ( ps < .01). Conclusion The current paper describes the development and a single-arm pilot test of LAVENDER, a positive psychology program tailored for medical students. Although we found preliminary evidence for the acceptability of LAVENDER, we did not find support for the preliminary efficacy. Lessons learned and next steps for the program are discussed.

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Long-term corrections of bilirubin glucuronidation defect in Gunn rats by ex vivo gene therapy using conditionally immortalized autologous hepatocytes . Dept. of Medicine, Marion Bessin Liver Research Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; 2Dept. of Transplantation Surgery, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE; 3Dept. of Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Hepatology ◽

10.1016/0270-9139(95)95218-7 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. A374

Keyword(s):

Liver Diseases ◽

Ex Vivo ◽

Medical Center ◽

Academic Medical Center ◽

Albert Einstein College ◽

Albert Einstein ◽

Transplantation Surgery ◽

Academic Medical ◽

Ex Vivo Gene Therapy

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4906742 Encoding antigens of M. leprae Richard A Young, Barry Bloom, Ronald W Davis assigned to Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research; Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University a division of Yeshiva University] The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Jr University

Comparative Immunology Microbiology and Infectious Diseases ◽

10.1016/0147-9571(90)90349-x ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. xvi

Keyword(s):

Biomedical Research ◽

Albert Einstein College ◽

Albert Einstein ◽

Board Of Trustees ◽

Whitehead Institute ◽

Yeshiva University

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Concurrent Agenesis of the Corpus Callosum and Ureteroceles in Siblings

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.75.5.904 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 75 (5) ◽

pp. 904-907

Author(s):

AVE M. LACHIEWICZ ◽

STANLEY J. KOGAN ◽

SELWYN B. LEVITT ◽

RICHARD L. WEINER

Keyword(s):

Corpus Callosum ◽

Albert Einstein College ◽

Albert Einstein ◽

Simultaneous Occurrence

Agenesis of the corpus callosum is an uncommon anomaly that exists in complete and partial forms. It has been associated with other cerebral malformations as well as facial, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, cardiac, and respiratory anomalies.1 Agenesis of the corpus callosum is generally sporadic but it has been reported in several families.2 Ureteroceles frequently occur in association with duplications of the ureters.3 The hereditary occurrence of ureteroceles has been reported in five families.4-8 In this report, we describe two brothers with the simultaneous occurrence of agenesis of the corpus callosum and orthotopic ureteroceles. Two brothers were seen at The Hospital of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine for evaluation of urologic abnormalities.

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