Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
Department of Family MedicineÂ
Alan R. Roth, DO, FAAFP, FAAHPM
Chairman, Department of Family Medicine, Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine
Chief, Department of Integrative Pain and Palliative Care Medicine
Gina M. Basello, D.O.
Residency Program Director of Family Medicine, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center's Vice-Chairperson and Associative Director of the Hospice & Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Cameron Nienaber, MD.
Medical Director, Richmond Hill Family Medicine Center
Faculty Attending Jamaica Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program
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Psychoeducational Material- Evaluating Strategies for Disseminating Information About the Mental Health Effects of Discrimination
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Project Coordinators at SJU: Aldona Chorzepa, B.A. and Kyara Archie, B.A.
Project Coordinator at JHMC: Lyle Yap, DO
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aldona.chorzepa19@my.stjohns.edu
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This project was supported by a Faculty Research Consortium grant to E. Brondolo
Phase 1 was to create a psychoeducational booklet that will aide in communicating messages that reflect the state-of-science concerning six topics related to depression and the relations of racial discrimination to depression. This will also serve as a method of teaching others about this matter in a therapeutic setting. Our intention for the booklet is for it to be made for general use. This phase was completed during the fall. In Phase 2, we tested this booklet in 68 students. Now we are finishing testing it with mental health providers to get feedback using qualitative interviews. This will need to be written as a poster. Phase 3 is to take this psychoeducational booklet that we have created and use it in a hospital/medical center setting and testing how and when this innovation is implemented in medical practice. The aim of this project is to see whether reviewing the psychoeducation booklet will improve knowledge about and attitudes towards depression and depression treatment and will decrease mental health stigmatization and inter-racial anxiety. This will involve tracking and creating databases and developing surveys with residents who are working on the project.
​Clinical and Non-clinical Factors Impacting the Decision to Physically Restrain ​
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Project Coordinators: Andrew Miele, M.A. and Brandon Dial, B.A.
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Research has shown there are wide variations in rates of physical restraint use across types of healthcare settings (e.g. acute care, psychiatric settings, long-term care). Recent studies suggest this reflects the importance of non-clinical factors, such as perceptions of potential risk by hospital staff, and varying degrees of nurse/physician knowledge of restraint use. While existing literature outlines how other non-clinical factors, such as race, can impact physician decision-making, less research has focused on how non-clinical risk factors, including sociodemographic characteristics such as age, race, and gender, are associated with the use of restraints. In collaboration with medical residents at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, this project will attempt to explicate the factors influencing the decision to restrain. Using latent class analysis, our project aims to model this process by incorporating both clinical and non-clinical factors of the patient, as well as factors at the level of healthcare staff, clinical unit, and hospital.
COVID-19 Healthcare Provider Work Stress Scale Development
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Project Coordinators: Margaret McDonald, M.A. and Alexandra Spinelli, M.A.
margaretmcdonald20@my.stjohns.edu
Alexandra.spinelli18@my.stjohns.edu
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This team's overall focus is on the effects of work stress on burnout and mental health in healthcare providers responding to COVID-19. This on-going project is being conducted in collaboration with our team at NYP-Queens and family medicine residents at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. To understand work stress and its effects during COVID-19, our first goal was to understand the types of stressful experiences that healthcare providers faced during COVID-19. It is important but difficult to differentiate between stressors (the things that happen to you) and the experience of stress (the way you feel about them). After a year of speaking to healthcare providers about their experiences, we put what we learned together into a questionnaire.
Alcohol use disorders (AUDs), such as intoxication and dependence, are increasingly common among patients presenting to non-psychiatric, acute care settings. These patients frequently present with risk factors for restraint use, including clinical factors such as alterations to mental status associated with delirium, confusion, and agitation. In collaboration with medical residents at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, this project will attempt to explicate the factors influencing the decision to restrain. Using latent class analysis, our project aims to model this process by incorporating both clinical and non-clinical factors of the patient, as well as factors at the level of healthcare staff, clinical unit, and hospital.
Alcohol Use Disorder Follow Up​​
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Project Coordinators: Andrew Miele, M.A. and Brandon Dial, B.A.
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