A5023585829- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Treatment of Major Depression
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Bipolar Disorder and Treatment
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Sperm and Testicular Function
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Social Media in Health Education
Harvard University
2014-2024
Canandaigua VA Medical Center
2020-2024
Columbia University
2021
Center for the Study of Healthcare Provider Behavior
2021
VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
2021
West Virginia University
2021
VA Center for Clinical Management Research
2021
University of Rochester Medical Center
2021
University of Michigan
2021
Philadelphia VA Medical Center
2021
Background Although mental disorders are significant predictors of educational attainment throughout the entire career, most research on among students has focused primary and secondary school years. Method The World Health Organization Mental Surveys were used to examine associations with college entry attrition by comparing ( n = 1572) non-students in same age range (18–22 years; 4178), including who recently left without graduating 702) based surveys 21 countries (four low/lower-middle...
Previous research has documented significant variation in the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) depending on type traumatic experience (TE) and history TE exposure, but relatively small sample sizes these studies resulted a number unresolved basic questions.To examine disaggregated associations with PTSD large cross-national community epidemiologic data set.The World Health Organization Mental surveys assessed 29 types (lifetime age at first exposure) DSM-IV that was...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presently uses a 40 ppbv background O 3 level as baseline in its risk assessments. This is defined those concentrations that would exist the absence of North American emissions. Lefohn et al. [2001] have argued frequent occurrences above 50–60 at remote northern sites spring are stratospheric origin, challenging EPA estimate and implying current standard (84 ppbv, 8‐hour average) may be unattainable. We show 3‐D global model tropospheric...
BackgroundAlthough childhood adversities are known to predict increased risk of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) after traumatic experiences, it is unclear whether this association varies by adversity or experience types age.AimsTo examine variation in associations with PTSD according types, and life-course stage.MethodEpidemiological data were analysed from the World Mental Health Surveys (n = 27 017).ResultsFour (physical sexual abuse, neglect, parent psychopathology) associated...
The months after psychiatric hospital discharge are a time of high risk for suicide. Intensive postdischarge case management, although potentially effective in suicide prevention, is likely to be cost-effective only if targeted at high-risk patients. A previously developed machine learning (ML) model showed that suicides can predicted from electronic health records and geospatial data, but it unknown prediction could improved by adding additional information. To determine whether information...
With growing interest in online assessment of substance abuse behaviors, there is a need to formally evaluate the validity data gathered. The current investigation evaluated reliability and anonymous, reports young adults' marijuana use related cognitions. Young adults age 18 25 who had smoked at least one cigarette past 30 days were recruited over 14 months complete an anonymous survey. Of 3,106 eligible cases, 1,617 (52%) completed entire those, 54% (n = 884) reported past-month (65% male,...
Objective: We examined the frequency and intensity of tobacco use thoughts about abstinence among young adults in United States as a function their marijuana. hypothesized that heavier marijuana would be associated with fewer attempts to quit smoking, we explored relationships between ratings intentions related quitting tobacco. Method: This was cross-sectional survey consisting online recruitment anonymous self-report. Participants were English literate, ages 18 25 years, reported...
There is a very high suicide rate in the year after psychiatric hospital discharge. Intensive postdischarge case management programs can address this problem but are not cost-effective for all patients. This issue be addressed by developing risk model to predict which inpatients might need such program. We developed 391,018 short-term admissions of US veterans Veterans Health Administration (VHA) hospitals 2010-2013. Records were linked with National Death Index determine within 12 months...
Purpose. To determine whether young adults are interested in a Facebook intervention for smoking cessation and to inform the design of such an intervention. Design. Mixed-methods. Setting. Participants throughout United States were recruited through Facebook. Participants. Young aged 18 25 years who had smoked at least once past month. Method. (N = 570) completed online survey tobacco social media use. A subset 30 completers, stratified by motivation quit smoking, agreed participate...
Background Research on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) course finds a substantial proportion of cases remit within 6 months, majority 2 years, and minority persists for many years. Results are inconsistent about pre-trauma predictors. Methods The WHO World Mental Health surveys assessed lifetime DSM-IV PTSD presence-course after one randomly-selected trauma, allowing retrospective estimates duration. Prior traumas, childhood adversities (CAs), other mental disorders were examined as...
Psychiatric hospitalization is the standard of care for patients presenting to an emergency department (ED) or urgent (UC) with high suicide risk. However, effect in reducing subsequent suicidal behaviors poorly understood and likely heterogeneous.
To estimate treatment rates of 12-month mental disorders in the Saudi National Mental Health Survey (SNMHS).
This study examined the unique relations of American and Chinese cultural orientations to content quality first-generation immigrant mothers’ emotion discussion with their school-aged children (age = 5 9 years). Mother-child dyads ( n 187) were videotaped during a storytelling task, various aspects talk coded. Mothers self-reported on in language proficiency behaviors (i.e., media use social affiliations). Controlling for socioeconomic status, mother’s age, child gender, generation as well...
Subjective social status (SSS), an individual's subjective view of standing in society, has been shown to better predict health outcomes compared objective measures socioeconomic (SES), including educational attainment and income. This study examines the relationship between SSS severity tobacco, alcohol, marijuana use after controlling for SES. Young adults (N = 1,987) aged 18-25 who reported smoking at least one cigarette past 30 days were recruited surveyed anonymously online. Three...
The Department of Veterans Affairs recently began requiring annual suicide ideation (SI) screening all patients and additional structured questions for reporting SI. Related changes are under consideration at the Defense. These will presumably lead to higher SI detection, which require hiring clinical staff and/or developing a decision support system focus in-depth risk assessments on considered high risk.To carry out proof-of-concept study whether brief question battery from survey US Army...