Recent publications on Mental Health

Rossom RC, Yeh HH, Penfold RB, Simon GE, Hooker SA, Ma L, Miller-Matero L, Owen-Smith A, Ahmedani BK. Psychiatric medication adherence in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2025;34(10):e70229. doi: 10.1002/pds.70229.  PubMed

Lee ML, Jack HE, Matson TE, Oliver M, Bobb JF, Berger D, Bradley KA, Hallgren KA. The association between changes in AUDIT-C scores and acute mental healthcare utilization over the next year in a primary care population. Alcohol Clin Exp Res (Hoboken). 2025 Aug 23. doi: 10.1111/acer.70125 [Epub ahead of print] PubMed

Simon GE, Ziebell RA, Johnson E, Shortreed SM. Do health records data accurately identify repeat self-harm after emergency department visits? medRxiv [Preprint]. 2025:2025.06.26.25330358. doi: 10.1101/2025.06.26.25330358.  PubMed

Angerhofer JE, Cruz M, Shaw J, Stewart C, Runkle A, Wolter E, Holden E, Medlock S, Quintana L, Kuo EN, Trejo J, King R, Boggs J. Health care use preceding suicide by firearm compared with suicide by other means -- Alaska, Colorado, and Washington, 2020-2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2025 Jun 12;74(21):365-371. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7421a2. PubMed

Dorsey S, AlRasheed R, Kerns SE, Meza RD, Triplett N, Deblinger E, Jungbluth N, Berliner L, Naithani L, Pullmann MD. A randomized controlled trial testing supervision strategies in community mental health. Implement Res Pract. 2025 May 23;6:26334895251330523. doi: 10.1177/26334895251330523. eCollection 2025 Jan-Dec. PubMed

Rossom RC, Yeh HH, Ma L, Penfold RB, Hooker SA, Miller-Matero LR, Simon G, Owen-Smith A, Borgert-Spaniol CM, Ahmedani B. Changes in utilization of in-person and virtual outpatient mental health visits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: An observational cohort study. Medicine (Baltimore). 2025 Apr 25;104(17):e42305. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000042305. PubMed

Penfold RB. Evidence for mental health and substance use practice change strategies. Pediatrics. 2025 Apr 16. doi: 10.1542/peds.2025-071189. Online ahead of print. PubMed

Ahmedani BK, Penfold RB, Frank C, Richards JE, Stewart C, Boggs JM, Coleman KJ, Sterling S, Yarborough BJH, Clarke G, Schoenbaum M, Aguirre-Miyamoto EM, Barton LJ, Yeh HH, Westphal J, McDonald S, Beck A, Beidas RS, Richardson L, Ryan JM, Buckingham ET 4th, Buttlaire S, Bruschke C, Flores J, Simon GE. Zero suicide model implementation and suicide attempt rates in outpatient mental health care. JAMA Netw Open. 2025 Apr 1;8(4):e253721. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.3721. PubMed

Schillok H, Gensichen J, Panagioti M, Gunn J, Junker L, Lukaschek K, Jung-Sievers C, Sterner P, Kaupe L, Dreischulte T, Ali MK, Aragonès E, Bekelman DB, Herbeck Belnap B, Carney RM, Chwastiak LA, Coventry PA, Davidson KW, Ekstrand ML, Flehr A, Fletcher S, Hölzel LP, Huijbregts K, Mohan V, Patel V, Richards DA, Rollman BL, Salisbury C, Simon GE, Srinivasan K, Unützer J, Wells KB, Zimmermann T, Bühner M; POKAL Group. Effective components of collaborative care for depression in primary care: An individual participant data meta-analysis. JAMA Psychiatry. 2025 Mar 26. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2025.0183. Online ahead of print. PubMed

Simon GE, Stewart CC, Richards JE, Ziebell R, Lapham GT, Hoopes AJ. Accuracy of self-report questionnaires and records-based risk scores to identify adolescents' risk for self-harm. Psychiatr Serv. 2025 Jun 1;76(6):554-562. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.20240427. Epub 2025 Mar 19. PubMed

Curtis LH, Morain S, O'Rourke PP, Staman K, Jarvik JG, Cheville A, Dailey DL, Sluka KA, Heagerty P, Melnick ER, Chakraborty H, Tulsky JA, Volandes A, Simon GE. Monitoring in pragmatic trials lessons from the NIH pragmatic trials collaboratory.  Contemp Clin Trials. 2025 May;152:107866. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2025.107866. Epub 2025 Feb 25. PubMed

Simon GE, Garner BR, Smith JD, Wyman PA, Matson TE, Chin-Purcell L, Cero I, Vermeer W, Johnson KA, Prado G, Brown CH. Rollout trial designs in implementation research are often necessary and sometimes preferred.  Implement Sci. 2025;20(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s13012-025-01422-x.  PubMed

Rossom RC, Crain AL, Bart G, Richards JE, Boggs JM, O'Connor PJ, Borgert-Spaniol C, Kane S, Hooker SA. Randomized pilot of a clinical decision support tool to increase suicide screening for at-risk primary care patients with opioid use disorder.  AJPM Focus. 2024 Oct 2;3(6):100280. doi: 10.1016/j.focus.2024.100280. eCollection 2024. PubMed

Penfold RB, Yoo HI, Richards JE, Crossnohere NL, Johnson E, Pabiniak CJ, Renz AD, Campoamor NB, Simon GE, Bridges JFP. Acceptability of linking individual credit, financial, and public records data to healthcare records for suicide risk machine learning models.  JAMIA Open. 2024 Oct 21;7(4):ooae113. doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae113. eCollection 2024.  PubMed

Cukor J, Xu Z, Vekaria V, Wang F, Olfson M, Banerjee S, Simon G, Alexopoulos G, Pathak J. Longitudinal trajectories of symptom change during antidepressant treatment among managed care patients with depression and anxiety.  Npj Ment Health Res. 2024;3(1):58. doi: 10.1038/s44184-024-00104-8.  PubMed

Marsolo KA, Cheville A, Melnick ER, Jarvik JG, Simon GE, Sluka KA, Crofford LJ, Staman KL, Richesson RL, Schlaeger JM, Curtis LH. Impact of electronic health record updates and changes on the delivery and monitoring of interventions in embedded pragmatic clinical trials.  Contemp Clin Trials. 2024 Nov 17;148:107744. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2024.107744. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Penfold RB, Idu AE, Coley RY, Cushing-Haugen KL, King D, Glass A, Phillips RC, Renz AD, Pabiniak CJ, Graham VF, Thompson EE, Ralston JD, Simon GE, Gonzalez ES, Myers KM, Beck A, Quintana LM, Runkle AJ, Rogers M, Foster DM, Clarke GN, Massimino S, Crawford PM, Cavese JA, Cordaro AR, Chavez LI, Kelleher KJ, Schwartz N, Jiner KR, Liu SB, Condrac S, Hilt RJ. Safer and targeted use of antipsychotics in youth: an embedded, pragmatic randomized trial. J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2025 Mar;66(3):301-310. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.14059. Epub 2024 Oct 29. PubMed

Angerhofer Richards J, Cruz M, Stewart C, Lee AK, Ryan TC, Ahmedani BK, Simon GE. Effectiveness of integrating suicide care in primary care: secondary analysis of a stepped-wedge, cluster randomized implementation trial. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Oct 1. doi: 10.7326/M24-0024. [Epub ahead of print]. PubMed

Kahn GD, Lockhart E, Simon GE, Owen-Smith AA, Rossom RC, Beck AL, Lynch FL, Daida YG, Lu CY, Waring S, Yeh HH, Ahmedani BK. Recorded diagnosis of gender identity disorder is strongly associated with suicide mortality.  Transgend Health. 2024 9;9(5):454-458. doi: 10.1089/trgh.2022.0110. eCollection 2024 Oct.  PubMed

Stavers-Sosa I, Cronkite DJ, Gerstley LD, Kelley A, Kiel L, Kline-Simon AH, Marafino BJ, Ramaprasan A, Carrell DS, Hirschtritt ME. Protocol for designing a model to predict the likelihood of psychosis from electronic health records using natural language processing and machine learning.  Perm J. 2024;28(3):23-36. doi: 10.7812/TPP/23.139. Epub 2024 Sep 2.  PubMed