Translational Medicine calls for papers / publications

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of the Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association: Recovery-Oriented Practice in Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing

Guest Editors:
Kris A. McLoughlin,DNP, APRN, PMH-CNS, BC, CADC-II
Mary D. Moller DNP, ARNP, APRN, PMHCNS-BC, CPRP, FAAN

DEADLINE for article submission: AUGUST 1, 2012

In a 2005 Mental Health Declaration for Europe, the World Health Organization identified the need to “design and implement…mental health systems that promote…recovery.” According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s (SAMHSA) National Consensus Statement, Recovery is cited as the “single most important goal” for the mental health service delivery system (2006). Most recently, on December 22, 2011 the SAMHSA announced a new working definition of recovery as “A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential”. Four major dimensions that support a life in recovery include health, home, purpose, and community along with 10 guiding principles: hope; person-driven; holistic; peer support; relationship and social networks; culturally-based and influenced; importance of addressing trauma; involving friends, family, community strengths, and responsibility; respect; and, the need for many pathways for recovery to occur.

The American Psychiatric Nurses Association (APNA) is one of five national participants in a SAMHSA initiative to transform the concepts of recovery from a set of beliefs to recovery-oriented nursing practices. As a profession, psychiatric-mental health nursing focuses on the person with the disease or disorder (not the disease or disorder itself). We assist people, through recovery-oriented interventions to adapt to their world and find personal meaning and purpose in their own real-life experiences as community members. This special issue will focus on the state of the science: How Psychiatric Nursing is understanding, integrating and developing recovery-practices and programs; and, how these practices affect outcomes.

Manuscript submission may include, but are not limited to:

Innovative recovery-oriented program development
Development, implementation, and evaluation of recovery-oriented practices or components of recovery practice
First-person accounts of recovery practice and related outcomes

Data-based manuscripts, quality improvement studies, state of the science / systematic literature reviews preferred. All manuscripts should be translational in nature by including key practice points for psychiatric nurses that can be implemented in the institutional or community healthcare setting.

Call for Papers: Maximizing Community Contributions, Benefits, and Outcomes in Clinical and Translational Research

A thematic issue of Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action

Deadline for submissions August 6, 2012

Call for Papers for a Special Section of Translational Behavioral Medicine: Practice, Policy, Research: Smartphones, Sensors, and Social Networks: A New Age of Health Behavior Change

Submission Deadline November 30, 2012

For submission information: http://www.springer.com/medicine/journal/13142

Traditional health behavior change interventions have long been limited by high expense, patient burden, and poor adherence. As health professionals, our access to intervene upon patients’ behavior is constrained by current models of health care which limit care provision to face-to-face visits provided on a weekly schedule or less frequently. Limited access to patients limits our ability to gain an accurate understanding of the antecedents and consequences of behavior, and to intervene in the moments when patients most need help. Computing technology including mobile phones, sensors, and online social networks – by being available in real time – are being explored as ways to enhance our ability to understand health behavior and more effectively intervene upon it. mHealth, the application of mobile technology to health, has reached its tipping point. A rapidly growing body of research evidence demonstrates the efficacy of mHealth approaches across a wide range of conditions, populations, and settings. mHealth has also attracted a parallel explosion of industry attention. An extremely diverse group of companies are capitalizing on the mHealth market, which is projected to reach $23 billion in revenues by 2017. Sensing technologies are also rapidly being developed to gather behavioral, physiological, and contextual data that can then be used to predict behavior or deliver “just-in-time” interventions. Finally, online social networking, a service that allows individuals to interact and communicate with other users without geographical, physical, or logistical barriers has now been used for health surveillance, disseminating information and innovations, and health behavior intervention. The potential of these technologies to impact health behavior change has yet to be fully realized. The purpose of this special issue is to draw papers from academicians, clinicians, and industry professionals who are developing, testing, and/or researching the efficacy of these technologies for health behavior change.

Given that opportunities for academic-industry communication and collaboration have been too infrequent, we have seen relatively limited translation of evidence-based mHealth approaches into the real-world settings that are largely served by industry. We suspect that collaboration between industry and the research community might accelerate the growth of the mHealth market and improve the health of patients and populations. There are important barriers to such collaborations which we hope are explored and discussed further in this special issue. We hope to attract high quality contributions relating to the opportunities and challenges associated with stimulating academic-industry partnerships and creating evidence-based technology-based approaches to health behavior change. We acknowledge differences in the type of data that is collected by academics and industry professionals and aim to be a forum for both types of data, while acknowledging the strengths and limitations of each. Traditional research reports are sought, but also case studies characterizing real world translation efforts, implementation challenges, and academic-industry partnerships are strongly encouraged. Additionally, synopses of practical tools and strategies, applications, and approaches are of interest. Selected manuscripts will be published together with commentaries in this special section of Translational Behavioral Medicine.

Editors of the Special Section:
Sherry Pagoto, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Gary Bennett, PhD, Duke University

Editor-in-Chief:
Bonnie Spring, PhD, Northwestern University

Call for Papers for a Special Section of Translational Behavioral Medicine on the Topic of Multiple Health Behavior Change Research Advances and Challenges

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2012

In 2008, the Multiple Health Behavior Change Special Interest Group of the Society of Behavioral Medicine published a Special Issue of Preventive Medicine that outlined how Multiple Health Behavior Change (MHBC) research represents a major opportunity for the future of preventive medicine and health promotion. Since the publication of that special issue, MHBC research has steadily increased in sophistication, relevance, and impact. However, as outlined in a Prochaska, et al. (2009) and in the NIH funding opportunity announcement focusing on comorbid health conditions and chronic diseases (2011), there needs to be a broader discussion and emphasis of the importance, implications and evidence for focusing on MHBC research, and implementation. Individuals with multiple health risk behaviors are the highest cost populations with increased health care and disability costs, and decreased productivity and represent the greatest risk for chronic disease, disability and premature death (Edington, 2001). Effectively treating two behaviors has been found to reduce medical costs by about $2000 per year (Edington, 2001). Consequently, targeting change in multiple risk behaviors can improve health outcomes, maximize health promotion efforts, and reduce health care costs.

This call for papers solicits high quality contributions representing state-of-the-science conceptual and research papers on core topics in multiple risk behavior research in clinical, community, and other real world settings, both nationally and internationally. Papers addressing relationships between multiple risks and multiple health behaviors; theories; methodological issues; intervention and program design; outcomes; service delivery and implementation; and future research are strongly encouraged. Selected manuscripts will be published together with invited commentaries in this special section of Translational Behavioral Medicine. In addition to empirical papers, case studies characterizing real world translation or implementation challenges, theoretical discussions and commentaries on research and policy challenges are of particular interest.

Editors of the Special Section:

Kerry E. Evers, PhD, Pro-Change Behavior Systems
Lisa M. Quintiliani, PhD, Boston University

Editor-in-Chief:

Bonnie Spring, PhD, Northwestern University

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Translational Stroke Research: Endothelial Dysfunction in Cerebrovascular Disease

Guest editor: Nabil Alkayed (The Ohio State University)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: August 1, 2012

The cerebrovascular endothelium plays an important role in determining risk and outcome from cerebrovascular disease, including stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage and traumatic brain injury. The special issue will review novel mechanisms, methodology and therapeutic strategies targeting brain vascular endothelium.

Translational Stroke Research covers basic, translational, and clinical studies. The Journal emphasizes novel approaches in order to help translate scientific discoveries from basic stroke research into the development of new strategies for prevention, assessment, treatment, and repair after stroke and other forms of neurotrauma.

Translational Stroke Research focuses on translational research and is relevant to both basic scientists and physicians, including but not restricted to neuroscientists, vascular biologists, neurologists, neuroimagers, and neurosurgeons. The Journal provides an interactive forum for the dissemination of original research articles, review articles, research reports, letters, comments, and research protocols, in stroke and stroke related areas. Its distinguished editorial board is made up of leading stroke researchers and physicians from North America, Europe, and Asia.

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of Translational Stroke Research: the Peripheral Immune Response in Acute Injuries of the CNS

Guest editor: Keith Pennypacker (University of South Florida)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 1, 2012

This issue will focus on the role that the peripheral immune system plays in delayed cellular death after injury to the CNS. Understanding these cellular and humeral responses will permit targeting specific signaling pathways for pharmaceutical intervention to reduce cellular degeneration without augmenting the post-injury immune suppression.

Translational Stroke Research covers basic, translational, and clinical studies. The Journal emphasizes novel approaches in order to help translate scientific discoveries from basic stroke research into the development of new strategies for prevention, assessment, treatment, and repair after stroke and other forms of neurotrauma.

Translational Stroke Research focuses on translational research and is relevant to both basic scientists and physicians, including but not restricted to neuroscientists, vascular biologists, neurologists, neuroimagers, and neurosurgeons. The Journal provides an interactive forum for the dissemination of original research articles, review articles, research reports, letters, comments, and research protocols, in stroke and stroke related areas. Its distinguished editorial board is made up of leading stroke researchers and physicians from North America, Europe, and Asia.