Lindsay G Flegge,Susan L Glassburn,Brianna L Jehl,Michael A Bushey
{"title":"An exploration of the variety of reported eating problems among adults with chronic pain.","authors":"Lindsay G Flegge,Susan L Glassburn,Brianna L Jehl,Michael A Bushey","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2604502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2604502","url":null,"abstract":"Chronic pain disrupts many life aspects, including eating behaviors. The bidirectional relationship between chronic pain and eating problems, such as emotional eating or gastrointestinal distress, suggests the need for comprehensive studies on this topic. This study aims to describe the variety and prevalence of self-reported eating problems among adults with chronic pain and to correlate these issues with demographic information and pain-related outcomes. Participants included adults evaluated for pain management at a multidisciplinary clinic (N = 118). Qualitative responses to questions about eating problems were analyzed, and statistical analyses compared those with and without endorsed eating problems. Eating problems were reported by 83 participants (70.3%), revealing themes including restriction, binge eating, fluctuating appetite, and stress eating. Significant differences were found in PTSD symptoms, with higher scores in the eating problem group. Differences were trending toward significance for anxiety, but analyses were limited by sample size. The study highlights the prevalence of a wide range of eating problems among patients with chronic pain that includes and goes beyond formal eating disorder diagnoses. Results underscore the need for social workers to be included in integrated treatment approaches. Future research should include larger sample sizes and validated screening measures for eating problems to enhance understanding and intervention strategies.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"156 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145759904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Satı Gül Kapisiz, Ezgi Arslan Özdemir, Yağmur Tekin, Fatih Gültekin
{"title":"Experiences of contact tracing teams in Turkey during the COVID-19 pandemic and Implications for social work","authors":"Satı Gül Kapisiz, Ezgi Arslan Özdemir, Yağmur Tekin, Fatih Gültekin","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2594213","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2594213","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"206 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145611237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Maria Ayoub, Malin Eneslätt, Malin Lövgren, Ulrika Kreicbergs, Camilla Udo
{"title":"Through the lens of social workers: Issues raised in the family talk intervention in pediatric oncology","authors":"Maria Ayoub, Malin Eneslätt, Malin Lövgren, Ulrika Kreicbergs, Camilla Udo","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2594212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2594212","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145611235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hearing impairment, psychological resilience, and physical functioning among older Chinese adults: Implications for social work practice","authors":"Yuying Zhang, Zhenjing Fu, Jiamin Gao","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2594219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2594219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145611236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attachment, self-compassion, parental feelings and emotion regulation in high-stress parenting: implications for social work practice in health care","authors":"Vered Shenaar-Golan, Ayelet Gur, Uri Yatzkar","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2563556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2563556","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"115 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145234943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melih Çamcı,Şeyma Yüsra Soğanda,Muhammed Fatih Baran,Muhammed Şafi Alpaslan
{"title":"Social work in emergency departments: A multi-dimensional analysis of social determinants, interventions, and outcomes.","authors":"Melih Çamcı,Şeyma Yüsra Soğanda,Muhammed Fatih Baran,Muhammed Şafi Alpaslan","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2563554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2563554","url":null,"abstract":"This retrospective cohort study examined social work interventions in the emergency department (ED) of a high-capacity tertiary care center in Türkiye, between February 2019 and February 2024. Data from 714 adult patients referred to the hospital's social work unit were analyzed. Of these patients, 54.8% were female, the mean age was 46.3 years, and over 40% required multidisciplinary interventions. The most common diagnoses were lack of family support and homelessness (35.0%), physical disorders (28.7%), and assault (20.0%). The leading interventions were psychosocial support (40.8%), facilitation of housing and transportation (32.8%), and contact with relatives (25.1%). A significant difference was found between daytime and nighttime consultations, with unmet needs more frequent during off-hours (p < .001). Among survivors of the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes, 96.7% required hospitalization or referral to support services, underscoring the importance of post-disaster hospital-based social work in addressing ongoing psychosocial needs. These results emphasize the role of ED social workers in meeting urgent psychosocial needs, supporting disaster-affected patients, and ensuring continuity of care, thereby enhancing patient outcomes, improving care continuity, and optimizing healthcare resource utilization. Policies ensuring 24/7 social work coverage in EDs may further strengthen these benefits.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"41 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145116743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healthcare professionals' understanding of addiction, treatment and recovery.","authors":"Isabel Narciso,Sara Albuquerque,Sara Nunes","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2555293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2555293","url":null,"abstract":"This study sought to explore and understand healthcare professionals' meanings and experiences with regard to the addiction concept, treatment and recovery. Semi-structured interviews with 18 healthcare professionals in the area of addiction were conducted: nine nurses, six psychologists, a psychiatrist, a social worker and a psychosocial technician. Based on a qualitative methodology, a thematic analysis was conducted using the NVivo software. A global consensus regarding the understanding of addiction was observed: as a disease and on the role of intrinsic motivation for intervention success; and as a severe problem of mental health with a physical impact. Addiction as also conceptualized as a multi-determined process as well as entailing a multiplicity of effects implying suffering and destruction. Regarding treatment main assumptions toward a recovery trajectory: unique interventions, respect for individuals' needs and choices, contextualizing the problem and the person, family and network involvement, collaborative context, and multidisciplinary intervention. By portraying a multidisciplinary perspective and close to the lived experience in the field, this study can contribute to a better understanding of the beliefs and attributions regarding addiction and treatment and, consequently, inform the general population as well as the services providing care to clients.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"16 1","pages":"1-28"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of psychosocial determinants of HbA1c level: Implications for social work care management.","authors":"Yong-Mi Kim,Chie Noyori-Corbett","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2555294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2555294","url":null,"abstract":"Diabetes impacts approximately 37.3 million Americans. The majority of HbA1c studies focused on independent variables while there are possibilities of some variables serving as an antecedent to other variables. Furthermore, most of the research has been skewed toward either objective or subjective data, thus overlooking the possible importance of the use of both data sources in tandem. As such, the purpose of this study is to investigate factors impacting glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels both directly and indirectly with the use of both objective and subjective sources of information. The data are obtained from 2017 to 2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). IBM SPSS Amos 29 was used for the purpose of structural equation modeling to investigate paths related to HbA1c levels. The finding shows that diets impact HbA1c levels directly and diet and exercise impact HbA1c indirectly through BMI. Diets alone can directly reduce HbA1c levels, but exercise alone cannot reduce HbA1c levels. Unexpectedly, socioeconomic construct does not have a direct impact on diet or exercise. However, as expected, the depression construct has a significant effect on both exercise and diet.","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"35 1","pages":"1-17"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Patricia L. Samson, David Nicholas, Tiffany Gloeckler, Debra Samek, Natalie Zawaski
{"title":"From theory to praxis: conceptualizing communities of practice for social workers in healthcare settings","authors":"Patricia L. Samson, David Nicholas, Tiffany Gloeckler, Debra Samek, Natalie Zawaski","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2552661","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2552661","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144915385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Layder’s theory of social domains to assess and address healthcare interprofessional team cohesion","authors":"Kimberly E. Giamportone","doi":"10.1080/00981389.2025.2552656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2025.2552656","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47519,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Health Care","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144910582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}