A5052778152- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Obsessive-Compulsive Spectrum Disorders
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Electroconvulsive Therapy Studies
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
Bradley Hospital
2011-2023
Brown University
2011-2023
Providence College
2011-2022
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
2009-2013
New York University
2007-2013
National Institute of Mental Health
2011-2013
Angeles University Foundation
2013
Boston Children's Hospital
2013
Foundation for Human Potential
2012
Freedom House
2007
Although electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is considered the most efficacious treatment available for individuals with severe affective disorders, ECT's availability limited and declining, suggesting that information about population-level effects of ECT needed. To examine whether inpatient associated a reduction in 30-day psychiatric readmission risk large, multistate sample inpatients disorders. A quasi-experimental instrumental variables probit model association correlation administration...
Context: Previous work has demonstrated marked changes in inpatient mental health service use by children and adolescents the 1980s early 1990s, but more recent, comprehensive, nationally representative data have not been reported.Objective: To describe trends treatment of with disorders between 1990 2000.Design Setting: Analysis Healthcare Cost Utilization Project Nationwide Inpatient Sample, a sample discharges from US community hospitals sponsored Agency for Research Quality.Patients:...
Cocaine dependence is associated with severe medical, psychiatric, and social morbidity, but no pharmacotherapy approved for its treatment in the United States. The atypical antiepileptic vigabatrin (gamma-vinyl gamma-aminobutyric acid [GABA]) has shown promise animal studies open-label trials. purpose of present study was to assess efficacy short-term cocaine abstinence cocaine-dependent individuals.Participants were seeking parolees who actively using had a history dependence. Subjects...
Objective The purpose of this study was to examine racial-ethnic differences in use mental health treatment for a comprehensive range specific disorders over time. Methods Data from the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and Hospital were used adult outpatient visits U.S. physicians 1993 2008 (N=754,497). Annual visit prevalence three groups estimated as number divided by group's population size. Visit ratios (VPRs) calculated minority non-Hispanic white prevalence. Analyses stratified...
Objectives: Lithium's efficacy in prophylaxis of mood episodes bipolar disorder (BD) is well established the clinical trial setting, but may be less robust routine practice. We compared illness recurrence patients naturalistically continued on or discontinued from lithium after an extended period stability monotherapy, and evaluated other potential risk factors for relapse. Methods: followed 213 who were stable 2 years monotherapy following resolution acute symptoms marking their last manic...
Article Abstract Objective: To assess whether relative severity of irritability symptoms versus elation in mania is stable and predicts subsequent illness course youth with DSM-IV bipolar I or II disorder operationally defined not otherwise specified. Method: Investigators used the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders Schizophrenia School-Age Children to most severe lifetime manic episode aged 7-17 years who were recruited from 2000 2006 as part Course Outcomes Bipolar Youth prospective...
ABSTRACTPartial hospital programs (PHPs) represent an important part of the continuum care for youth with severe and/or refractory OCD, yet little is known about clinical or utilization outcomes in this setting. The current study aimed to characterize symptom improvement and length stay (LOS) among 185 OCD treated a PHP setting identify demographic, clinical, treatment characteristics that predict these outcomes. Results demonstrate 77.3% response rate median LOS 52 days. Holding other...
This study examined trends in health insurance coverage for care workers and their children between 1988 1998.We analyzed data from the annual March supplements of Current Population Survey (CPS), a Census Bureau survey that collects information about nationally representative sample noninstitutionalized US residents.Of personnel younger than 65 years, 1.36 million (90% confidence interval [CI] = 1.28 million, 1.45 million) were uninsured 1998, up 83.4% 1988; proportion rose 8.4% CI 7.8%,...
Objective Nationwide studies contrasting service use of racial-ethnic groups provide an overview disparities, but because variation in populations and systems, local are required to identify specific targets for remedial action. The authors report on the non-inpatient services regulated New York State (NYS) by state's larger cultural groups. Methods Data from NYS Patient Characteristics Survey were used estimate annual treated prevalence treatment intensity, defined as average number weeks...