IMPORTANCE Mental health (MH) conditions are undertreated in late life. It is important to identify treatment strategies that address variability in treatment content and delivery and take individual-specific symptoms into account, particularly among low-income, community-dwelling older adults. OBJECTIVE To evaluate program feasibility and MH outcomes among community-dwelling older adults randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms of varying intensity of evidence-based, collaborative MH care management services (ie, the Supporting Seniors Receiving Treatment and Intervention [SUSTAIN] program) that provide standardized, measurement-based, software-aided MH assessment and symptom monitoring and connection to community resources via telephone. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Trial participants were 1018 older, community-dwelling, low-income adults prescribed an antidepressant or anxiolytic by a primary care or non-MH professional and experiencing clinically significant MH symptoms at intake. The participant subsample was drawn from a larger parent sample of older adults enrolled in the SUSTAIN program. Individuals were randomized to receive MH symptom monitoring alone (hereafter monitoring alone) or MH symptom monitoring plus care management (hereafter care management) provided by an MH professional. Baseline characteristics were examined, and changes in clinical MH outcomes were evaluated at 3-month and 6-month follow-up. The study dates were August 5, 2010, to May 5, 2014. INTERVENTIONS Monitoring alone or care management delivered by an MH professional. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES Overall MH functioning (primary) and depressive and anxiety symptoms. RESULTS A total of 509 participants were randomized to the monitoring alone group and 509 to the care management group; 377 and 401 completed Ն2 research assessments in the monitoring alone and case management groups, respectively. Compared with those randomized to monitoring alone, individuals randomized to care management showed greater improvements in the 3 domains of MH functioning (β [SE], 0.
Ultraviolet radiation (UV) therapy is sometimes used as a treatment for various common skin conditions, including psoriasis, acne, and eczema. The dosage of UV light is prescribed according to an individual's skin sensitivity. Thus, to establish the proper dosage of UV light to administer to a patient, the patient is sometimes screened to determine a minimal erythema dose (MED), which is the amount of UV radiation that will produce minimal erythema (sunburn or redness caused by engorgement of capillaries) of an individual's skin within a few hours following exposure. This article describes how to conduct minimal erythema dose (MED) testing. There is currently no easy way to determine an appropriate UV dose for clinical or research purposes without conducting formal MED testing, requiring observation hours after testing, or informal trial and error testing with the risks of under-or over-dosing. However, some alternative methods are discussed. Video LinkThe video component of this article can be found at
1. Coproporphyrinogenase has been prepared from rat-liver mitochondria and its properties have been studied. The isoelectric point was found to be around pH15.0 and the molecular weight to be 80000 + 8000. The pH optimum of the enzymic reaction was 7-4 and the apparent Km was of the order 0 03mM. The enzyme was destroyed by boiling and irreversible inactivation occurred below pH3.5. It could be stored at -10°without loss of activity. The enzyme acts specifically on coproporphyrinogen III and does not form protoporphyrinogen from trans-2,4-diacrylicdeuteroporphyrin or its porphyrinogen. It was unaffected by prolonged dialysis and no cofactor requirement could be demonstrated. 2. Column chromatography of a partially purified enzyme preparation on Sephadex G-200 was found to be an improved method of purification, which gave a coproporphyrinogenase 58-fold purified. The purified enzyme was studied electrophoretically but no evidence was obtained to suggest that more than one enzyme was involved in the reaction. 3. The action was studied of various compounds added to the system. The presence of monothiol groups in the enzyme system was indicated, whereas vicinal dithiol groups were not involved in the reaction. Metalchelating agents did not inhibit the reaction and no requirement for the presence of any essential metal has been found. All attempts to demonstrate the presence of a prosthetic group, in particular flavines, failed. Neither pyridoxal phosphate nor ATP was involved in the reaction, nor was a mitochondrial electron-transport chain required for the activity of the enzyme. Some circumstantial evidence was obtained to suggest that ci8-2,4-diacryliedeuteroporphyrin is an intermediate in the reaction.
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