Dr. Kenneth Ruggiero (Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston) joins AJP Audio to discuss the the effectiveness of an app-based intervention at reducing the symptoms of sleeplessness and posttraumatic stress in a broad cohort in the wake of a natural disaster. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin puts the rest of the May issue into context.

00:38 Ruggiero interview
03:13 Bounce Back Now app
05:03 Natural disasters and other sources of trauma
07:31 Low cost and broad-based intervention
08:49 Limitations
10:19 Changes in how the intervention was designed
11:17 Uptake and interactions with the app
13:15 Future directions
14:36 Kalin interview
14:50 Ruggiero et al.
19:26 Norman et al.
23:29 Conrod et al.
27:53 Olfson et al.
31:44 Olfson et al.

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