Adam J. Zolotor

ORCID: 0000-0002-9007-223X
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  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Child Abuse and Related Trauma
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Healthcare Policy and Management
  • Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Restraint-Related Deaths
  • Global Health Workforce Issues
  • Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
  • Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
  • Child Welfare and Adoption
  • Gestational Diabetes Research and Management
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Reproductive Health and Contraception

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2014-2024

Communities In Schools of Orange County
2024

Coastal Area Health Education Center
2022-2024

National Association of Social Workers
2024

University of Oxford
2024

North Carolina Institute of Medicine
2013-2020

Pediatrics and Genetics
2019

Day Family Medicine
2007-2013

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2011

University of Alabama at Birmingham
2011

10.1016/j.amepre.2008.06.031 article EN American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2008-09-10

Importance Child maltreatment is associated with serious negative physical, psychological, and behavioral consequences. Objective To review the evidence on primary care–feasible or referable interventions to prevent child inform US Preventive Services Task Force. Data Sources PubMed, Cochrane Library, trial registries through February 2, 2023; references, experts, surveillance December 6, 2023. Study Selection English-language, randomized clinical trials of youth age 18 years (or their...

10.1001/jama.2024.0276 article EN JAMA 2024-03-19

BACKGROUND. Social capital includes collective efficacy, psychological sense of community, neighborhood cohesion, and parental investment in the child. It has been shown to be associated with a variety health welfare outcomes may useful understanding preventing parenting behaviors on continuum child abuse neglect. OBJECTIVE. The purpose this research was evaluate low social as risk factor for harsh physical punishment, neglectful parenting, psychologically domestic violence. METHODS. This...

10.1542/peds.2005-1913 article EN PEDIATRICS 2006-06-01

Studies of intimate partner violence (IPV) and child maltreatment (CM) have examined the association between IPV physical abuse. Children in homes with may also experience other forms CM. The objective is to determine prevalence CM without using cross-sectional analysis survey data mothers partners (n1⁄4 1,232). Conflict Tactics Scale Parent Child were used IPV, physical, psychological, sexual abuse, neglect. Mothers reporting (either man woman or man) report 2.57 times odds abuse compared...

10.1093/brief-treatment/mhm021 article EN Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 2007-09-11

Peer support may improve self-management among the millions of people with diabetes around world. A major challenge to international promotion peer is allowing for tailoring population, cultural, health system and other features specific settings, while also ensuring congruence standards what entails. One strategy address this was used in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Diabetes Initiative. Key functions self-management—Resources Supports Self-Management—were identified. Individual programmes...

10.1093/fampra/cmp013 article EN Family Practice 2009-03-10

<b>PURPOSE</b> Unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms are more common in adults who recall abuse as a child; however, data available on children limited. The aim of this study was to investigate the association childhood maltreatment and early development whether relation mediated by psychological distress. <b>METHODS</b> Data were obtained from Longitudinal Studies Child Abuse Neglect, consortium 5 prospective studies child maltreatment. 845 observed age 4 through 12 years subjects study....

10.1370/afm.1053 article EN The Annals of Family Medicine 2010-03-01

To examine national, regional, and state abusive head trauma (AHT) trends using child hospital discharge data by applying a new coding algorithm developed the Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC).Data from 4 waves of Kids' Inpatient Database annual North Carolina were used to determine in AHT incidence among children <1 year age between 2000 2009. National, rates calculated. Poisson regression analyses trends.The CDC narrow broad algorithms identified 5437 6317 cases, respectively,...

10.1542/peds.2013-2049 article EN PEDIATRICS 2013-11-26

Abusive head trauma (AHT) is a serious condition, with an incidence of approximately 30 cases per 100,000 person-years in the first year life.To assess effectiveness statewide universal AHT prevention program.In total, 88.29% parents newborns (n = 405 060) North Carolina received intervention (June 1, 2009, to September 30, 2012). A comparison preintervention and postintervention was performed using nurse advice line telephone calls regarding infant crying (January 2005, December 31, 2010)....

10.1001/jamapediatrics.2015.2690 article EN JAMA Pediatrics 2015-10-26

To examine whether child maltreatment (physical, emotional, and sexual abuse, neglect) predicts adolescent intercourse; associations between intercourse are explained by children's emotional distress, relations among maltreatment, differ according to gender.The Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse Neglect was a multisite, longitudinal investigation. Participants ranged from at-risk substantiated maltreatment. Maltreatment history assessed through Protective Service records youth self-report...

10.1542/peds.2008-3836 article EN PEDIATRICS 2009-08-11

This article draws attention to the overlapping literature on social determinants of health and adverse childhood experiences, growing clinical interest in addressing them promote children’s parents’ well-being. We address important considerations suggest solutions for leaders practitioners primary care health/adverse experiences. Priorities include: begin with a few prevalent conditions which there are helpful resources; focus that current or recent where parents may be more apt engage...

10.1542/peds.2021-052641 article EN PEDIATRICS 2022-03-10

<i>Objective:</i> To evaluate the efficacy of videotaped instruction a behavioral intervention to reduce crying among newborns. <i>Methods:</i> Mothers healthy, full-term newborns were recruited from postpartum unit large community hospital for prospective, randomized, controlled trial an infant crying. participating in viewed videotape with instructions involving swaddling, side positioning, white noise, jiggling, and sucking. control group normal newborn care. Intervention was assessed by...

10.3122/jabfm.2010.03.090142 article EN The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine 2010-05-01
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