A5079062819- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
- Traffic and Road Safety
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Automotive and Human Injury Biomechanics
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Older Adults Driving Studies
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Disaster Response and Management
- Agriculture and Farm Safety
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2015-2025
University of Pennsylvania
2020-2025
Philadelphia University
2024
Wentworth Douglass Hospital
2024
Johns Hopkins University
2007-2011
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
2008
Lafayette College
2008
Columbia University Irving Medical Center
2007
<h3>Objectives</h3> To assess prevalence of victimization and perpetration relationship violence before during college, to explore variations by gender, examine differences type. <h3>Design</h3> Anonymously surveyed students in 67 randomly chosen classes. <h3>Setting</h3> Three urban college campuses. <h3>Participants</h3> Nine hundred ten undergraduate aged 17 22 years. <h3>Main Outcome Measures</h3> Self-reported physical, emotional, sexual violence; the victim or perpetrator....
Importance Suicide is a leading cause of death among US youths, and mental health disorders are known factor associated with increased suicide risk. Knowledge about potential sociodemographic differences in documented diagnoses may guide prevention efforts. Objective To examine the association diagnosis (1) clinical characteristics, (2) precipitating circumstances, (3) mechanism youth decedents. Design, Setting, Participants This retrospective, cross-sectional study decedents aged 10 to 24...
School-based violence prevention programs have shown promise for reducing aggression and increasing children's prosocial behaviors. Prevention interventions within the context of urban after-school provide a unique opportunity academic researchers community stakeholders to collaborate in creation meaningful sustainable initiatives.This paper describes development collaborative between leaders design youth prevention/leadership promotion program (PARTNERS Program) adolescents. Employing...
Hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) engage individuals who have experienced violent victimization in postmedical care programming, with the goal of reducing incidence and impact future injuries. Although there is some empirical support for HVIPs’ on crime-related outcomes, proper assessment limited by a lack systematized research outcomes that relate to proximal goals activities themselves. To address this critical gap, we conducted two-stage Delphi method elicit prioritize...
Hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) are evidence-informed strategies to promote recovery among victims of violence. Limited tools exist capture client-reported perspectives program relevance, responsiveness, acceptability, and impact. We conducted a quality improvement project develop an HVIP-specific tool that can be used collect information regarding client satisfaction with services inform ongoing future efforts. Four former adolescent clients 5 caregivers who received...
ABSTRACT School staff are exposed to high levels of occupational stressors and often work within significant resource constraints, putting them at risk for burnout secondary traumatic stress (STS). Initially developed support community‐based social workers, the Stress‐Less Initiative (SLI) is a 12‐session, team‐based, internally facilitated intervention intended build personal, team, organizational resilience mitigate STS burnout. Our pilot SLI among school providing after‐school programming...
<title>Abstract</title> <bold>Introduction</bold> Despite urgent need for evidence-based violence prevention solutions, demonstrating the impact of community-based programs, which are primed to be culturally relevant and community-tailored, remains difficult. Thus, our community-academic research team, conducted a participatory evaluation identify proximal outcomes Beyond Bars (BTB), an urban United States-based music enrichment program seeking empower young people facilitate community...
Abstract Autistic adolescents and their families may experience barriers to transportation, including independent driving, which is critical supporting quality of life engagement in social, educational, employment opportunities. Healthcare providers feel unprepared provide guidance autistic adolescents, although they are among the professionals turn for guidance. This study describes providers’ experiences decision pursue licensure identifies experienced providing support. We conducted...
In clinical research, ethics review generally first examines whether study risks are reasonable in light of benefits provided. Through informed consent, then, prospective subjects consider the risk/benefit balance and procedures for them. Unique issues emerge research with healthy volunteers. Certain types studies only recruit volunteers as participants. Phase 1 studies, example, including time human investigational drugs vaccines, conducted Although such carries inherent often unknown...
Although there is much discussion regarding the ethics of making payments to healthy volunteers for participating in clinical research, little data are available from point view as what they would consider be fair payment. The objectives this study were determine volunteers' estimates appropriate participation hypothetical trials order explore reasoning behind these and examine association between volunteer demographics payment expectations. Sixty participants with previous experience...
<h3>Statement of Purpose</h3> It is common for posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) to decline after a traumatic event; symptom persistence can herald the development PTSD. Understanding factors related PTSS trajectory violently injured youth may provide novel opportunities early intervention. We describe change in over first few weeks following violence-related injury, and explore characteristics associated with these changes. <h3>Methods</h3> At two time points interpersonal assault (T0...
Background: Limited transportation access may curtail education, occupational training, social, and community engagement opportunities for autistic adolescents. Nearly one-third of adolescents obtain a driver's license by age 21 years, which increase mobility improve adolescents' transition to independent adulthood. This study examined driving instructors' perspectives experiences teaching drive facilitate safe learning-to-drive process. Methods: We conducted interviews with instructors...
This qualitative descriptive study explored the experiences of school nurses in coastal Louisiana, who were affected by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike 2008 had also been path destruction caused Katrina Rita 2005. The purpose was to describe repeated natural disasters relation their professional practice. researchers conducted interviews with five nurses, using constant comparative method data analysis analyze transcripts for recurrent themes. Findings revealed a common process developing...
Abstract Importance: In the transition to adulthood, driving supports independence. For autistic adolescents, training provided by specialized instructors, including occupational therapists, may establish fitness drive and continued Objective: To examine instructors’ experiences providing behind-the-wheel instruction adolescents. Design: We recruited participants through purposive snowball sampling of members ADED, Association for Driver Rehabilitation Specialists. Interviews investigated...
Objective Racial and ethnic disparities and/or inequities have been documented in traffic safety research. However, race/ethnicity data are often not captured population-level databases, limiting the field’s ability to comprehensively study racial/ethnic differences transportation outcomes, as well our mitigate them. To overcome this limitation, we explored utility of estimating race ethnicity for drivers New Jersey Safety Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) warehouse using Bayesian Improved Surname...
This study describes characteristics of students with acquired brain injury enrolled in a statewide educational consultation program and the program’s support activities. Utilizing deidentified data from school program, descriptive analyses demographic characteristics, including medical diagnosis (concussion/mild traumatic [TBI], moderate-severe TBI, non-TBI), referral placement, types activities were undertaken. 70% referred for concussions/mild TBI infrequently by professionals. Most...
We examined the occurrence of stalking victimization among female and male undergraduate students attending three urban colleges. Specifically, we explored proportion who experienced only relationship to perpetrator identified by victims stalking. Our findings suggest that is less frequently perpetrated intimate partners occurs independent more commonly measured forms interpersonal victimization. Given recent changes Jeanne Clery Act include as a mandatorily reportable offense, these results...
The availability of complete and accurate crash injury data is critical to prevention intervention efforts. Relying solely on hospital discharge or police reports may result in a biased undercount injuries. Linking with allow for more robust identification injuries an understanding which populations be missed analysis one source. We used the New Jersey Safety Health Outcomes (NJ-SHO) warehouse examine share entire crash-injured population identified each two sources, overall by age,...