A5072784996- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Sex work and related issues
- Elder Abuse and Neglect
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Diversity and Career in Medicine
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Disaster Response and Management
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Acupuncture Treatment Research Studies
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
Children's Mercy Hospital
2015-2024
University of Missouri–Kansas City
2016-2024
University of Kansas
2021-2024
Mercy Hospital
2021-2023
Sisters of Mercy Health System
2021-2023
Mercy Children's Hospital
2021
University of Louisville
2010
Kosair Children's Hospital
2010
Relatively few studies have considered the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on intimate partner violence (IPV) advocates or agencies where they work. In this study, based United States IPV advocates' experiences working with survivors during pandemic, we conducted interviews to explore: 1) personal challenges and resilience as pandemic; 2) how adapted support advocates; 3) specific needs culturally-specific agencies. We semi-structured 53 from June November 2020. Participants were included if...
We explored the challenges and lived experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors during COVID-19 pandemic by interviewing 53 U.S.-based IPV advocates between June November 2020. Advocates described how limited survivors’ abilities to meet their basic needs. The was also as being used abusive partners perpetrate control has created unique safety harm reduction challenges. experienced compounding due structural inequities. must be considered local, state, federal governments when...
Adolescent relationship abuse (ARA) (i.e. physical, sexual, psychological, or economic in the context of romantic relationships) is associated with adverse health outcomes, including anxiety, depression, suicidality, unintended pregnancy, and substance misuse. A related phenomenon, reproductive coercion involves interference decision making a partner intention promoting pregnancy controlling outcomes pregnancy. Reproductive violence, sexually transmitted infections. Little known about...
Abstract Objectives Previous studies have illustrated pediatric knowledge deficits among Emergency Medical Services (EMS) providers. The purpose of this study was to identify perspectives a diverse group EMS providers regarding prehospital care educational and proposed methods training improvements. Methods Purposive sampling used recruit in settings for participation. Two separate focus groups (administrative non-administrative personnel) were held three locations (urban, suburban, rural)....
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) impact health across the life course. The purpose of this study was to identify caregiver ACEs, current adversity, and resilience in families seeking care pediatric acute settings. Study aims included identifying demographic characteristics, adversities, measures associated with ACEs ≥4.A cross-sectional survey design used a convenience sample (n = 470) recruited at emergency urgent settings large Midwest hospital system.Measures were self-reported....
Acupuncture is a nonpharmalogical treatment modality that used to treat pain. Prior research demonstrates pediatric patients tolerate acupuncture well and may experience significant pain relief. The objectives of this study were (1) explore the experiences emergency department (ED) physicians as they 2 procedures, Battlefield Four Gates (2) describe factors impacting feasibility implementation in ED setting.This qualitative individual semistructured interviews with medicine who had completed...
Foreign body ingestion is a common pediatric complaint. Two case reports describe intestinal obstruction in children from an of single superabsorbent water ball, requiring surgical removal. We nonsurgical management asymptomatic child who ingested approximately 100 beads. Because the risk for subsequent obstruction, patient was admitted whole bowel irrigation. This report first describing use irrigation with multiple beads ingestion.
Adolescent substance use is associated with numerous adverse health outcomes. A hospitalization represents an opportunity to identify and address use. We sought describe self-reported documented among hospitalized adolescents.
Introduction Compassion fatigue, a product of burnout (BO), secondary traumatic stress (STS), and compassion satisfaction (CS), is reduced capacity interest in being empathetic for suffering individuals. Our objective was to determine prevalence fatigue the pediatric emergency department. Methods We administered Professional Quality Life instrument, including BO, STS, CS scales, convenience sample department staff (physicians, nurses, technicians, social workers, child life specialists)....
Objective The aim of this study was to examine universal intimate-partner violence (IPV) assessment in the pediatric acute care setting. Methods We reviewed IPV over 1 year 2 emergency departments and 3 urgent centers within a children's hospital system. Written used questions (ie, safety concerns at home, information desired); “yes” either considered positive. identified positive assessments via preexisting quality report. collected demographics, resource utilization, reason for screen by...
Objective Previous research suggests that health care providers' assumptions about the content and marketing of intimate partner violence (IPV) materials are not always correct may do harm. This study sought to determine what mothers with histories IPV identify as important information communicate how it should be presented in a pediatric emergency department. Methods qualitative used English- Spanish-speaking focus groups for data collection grounded theory approach analysis. Initial...
Pediatricians advocate for parent wellbeing as a component of child health, and most pediatricians are parents themselves, the majority with partners who also work.1 Yet academic departments pediatrics inconsistently address workplace supports, which resulted in challenges pediatrician even before coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. During COVID-19 pandemic, experiencing work-related parenting-related that have spurred escalating concerns about work-life integration, burnout,...