Jane L. Pearson

ORCID: 0000-0002-7969-058X
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Research Areas
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Gun Ownership and Violence Research
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
  • Traumatic Brain Injury Research
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
  • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
  • Geography Education and Pedagogy
  • Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
  • Community Health and Development
  • Treatment of Major Depression
  • Delphi Technique in Research
  • Mental Health and Patient Involvement

National Institute of Mental Health
2012-2024

National Institutes of Health
1997-2024

Pearson (United States)
2002-2019

Vibrant Emotional Health
2019

University of Colorado Denver
2017

Office of Science
2017

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
2015

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
2014

National Institute of Mental Health
2014

National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
2014

Suicide rates are highest in late life; the majority of older adults who die by suicide have seen a primary care physician preceding months. Depression is strongest risk factor for late-life and suicide's precursor, suicidal ideation.To determine effect intervention on ideation depression patients.Randomized controlled trial known as PROSPECT (Prevention Primary Care Elderly: Collaborative Trial) with patient recruitment from 20 practices New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh regions, May...

10.1001/jama.291.9.1081 article EN JAMA 2004-03-02

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a decrease in the 2019 suicide rate, from 14.2 per 100 000 individuals 2018 to 13.9 2019, representing 833 fewer suicides.1 This is first national year-over-year since 1999, but efforts need consider trends among subgroups. Growing concerns regarding increasing rates of suicides Black youth2 led us examine subgroup over past 2 decades.

10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.11563 article EN cc-by-nc-nd JAMA Network Open 2021-05-26

Previous research has documented connections between adults' working models of childhood attachment relationships and the quality parent-child relationships, but less attention been devoted to examining such links for intimate adult relationships. Twenty-seven married couples were given George, Kaplan, Main's Adult Attachment Interview each person was rated as either secure or insecure with respect attachment. Self-report measures satisfaction couple communication marital relations...

10.1177/019251392013004003 article EN Journal of Family Issues 1992-12-01

Twenty-seven mothers and 27 fathers were given the Adult Attachment Interview (M. Main & R. Goldwyn, in press) when their children 3.5 years old. Continuous ratings of narrative coherence, probable experience quality (parents perceived as loving), state mind (current anger at parents) entered latent variables partial least squares structural equation models that included observational measures marital parenting style. Models include fathers' attachment histories predicted more variance...

10.1037//0022-006x.64.1.53 article EN Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1996-01-01

Abstract The secure working model classification of adult attachment, as derived from Main and Goldwyn's (in press) Adult Attachment Interview scoring system, was considered in terms earned-security continuous-security . Earned-security a given to adults who described difficult, early relationships with parents, but also had current models indicated by high coherency scores; referred which individuals attachment relationship parents models. Working were classified earned-secure,...

10.1017/s0954579400004636 article EN Development and Psychopathology 1994-01-01

Abstract This study addresses the question of whether or not parents' working models childhood attachments constitute a risk factor for difficulties in current parent-child relations. In sample 27 families and their preschool-aged children, mother-child father-child dyads were observed separate laboratory play sessions from which ratings children's behavior collected. Working attachment assessed using Adult Attachment Interview (George, Kaplan, & Main, 1984). Results showed that parents...

10.1017/s0954579400000870 article EN Development and Psychopathology 1992-07-01

This study examined whether marital status is associated with suicide rates among various age, sex, and racial groups, in particular widowhood young adults of both sexes.US national mortality data were compiled for the years 1991-1996, broken down by race, 5-year age status.Data on indicated an approximately 17-fold increase widowed White men (aged 20-34 years), a 9-fold African American men, lesser increases women compared their married counterparts.National suggest that as many 1 400 aged...

10.2105/ajph.92.9.1518 article EN American Journal of Public Health 2002-09-01

Cognitive impairment and depression each compromise functional status in the elderly, but it is not known whether their coexistence associated with additive impairment. The effect of presence or absence a diagnosis major on was examined group 50 community‐residing patients dementia Alzheimer's type (DAT). Patients were diagnosed as depressed (N = 20) 30) according to DSM‐III criteria. assessed Mini‐Mental State Exam (MMSE), by family report Instrumental Activities Daily Living (IADLs)....

10.1111/j.1532-5415.1989.tb06674.x article EN Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 1989-12-01

DEPRESSION in the aging and aged is a major public health problem. It causes suffering to many who go undiagnosed, it burdens families institutions providing care for elderly by disabling those might otherwise be able-bodied. What makes depression so insidious that neither victim nor provider may recognize its symptoms context of multiple physical problems people. Depressed mood, typical signature depression, less prominent than other depressive such as loss appetite, sleeplessness, anergia,...

10.1001/jama.268.8.1018 article EN JAMA 1992-08-26

Digital monitoring technologies (e.g., smart-phones and wearable devices) provide unprecedented opportunities to study potentially harmful behaviors such as suicide, violence, alcohol/substance use in real-time. The of these new has the potential significantly advance understanding, prediction, prevention behaviors. However, also introduce myriad ethical safety concerns, deciding when how intervene if a participant's responses indicate elevated risk during study?We used modified Delphi...

10.1176/appi.prcp.20200029 article EN cc-by-nc Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice 2020-12-21

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10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2020.1042 article EN JAMA Psychiatry 2020-05-20

There is minimal guidance for efforts to create effective public messages that increase awareness suicide preventable. To address this need, several agencies in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Annenberg Foundation convened a workshop consisting prevention advocates persons with expertise health evaluation, contagion, decision-making, marketing. "Logic models" were used define intended audiences, assumed mechanisms change, outcomes. This summary describes some challenges...

10.1521/suli.35.2.134.62871 article EN Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior 2005-04-01

We report here the frequency of black grandmothers' coresidence in households with first-grade children, their patterns involvement parenting, and degree to which family structure employment affected parenting a 1966/1967 community-defined population. Coresidence between grandmothers target grandchildren was found 10% households. The 130 substantial, second only mother involvement, characterized by 2 activity patterns: control punishment, support punishment. differed structure, mother-absent...

10.1111/j.1467-8624.1990.tb02790.x article EN Child Development 1990-04-01
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