Laura Vega

ORCID: 0009-0009-9683-6243
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Research Areas
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Health Policy Implementation Science
  • Primary Care and Health Outcomes
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Youth Development and Social Support
  • Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Occupational Health and Performance
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Education and Military Integration
  • Medical and Biological Sciences
  • Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Neurology and Historical Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Health
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Emergency and Acute Care Studies

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
2017-2025

Objective Describe modes of death and factors involved in decision-making together with life support limitation (LSL) procedures. Design Prospective, descriptive, longitudinal, noninterventional study. Setting Sixteen pediatric intensive care units Argentina. Patients Every patient who died during a 1-yr period was included. Measurements Main Results Age, sex, length stay (LOS), primary admission diagnosis, underlying chronic disease (CD), postoperative condition (PO). Deaths were classified...

10.1097/01.pcc.0000059428.08927.a9 article EN Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 2003-04-01

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...

10.1177/23743735251314622 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of Patient Experience 2025-01-01

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...

10.1002/pits.23459 article EN Psychology in the Schools 2025-03-06

<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...

10.1136/injuryprev-2020-savir.71 article EN Oral Presentations 2020-05-01

&lt;p&gt;This quality improvement project employed a client-centered process to develop modified Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) 10 (Larsen, Attkisson, Hargreaves, &amp; Nguyen, 1979) for relevance our hospital-based violence intervention progrma (HVIP). Former clients (ages 11 12-18) and caregivers who participated in HVIP services self-administered the initial HVIP-adapted CSQ shared their interpretation of questionnaire items, comfort responding, missing topics, preferences...

10.31124/advance.22731860.v1 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd 2023-05-17

&lt;p&gt;This quality improvement project employed a client-centered process to develop modified Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) 10 (Larsen, Attkisson, Hargreaves, &amp; Nguyen, 1979) for relevance our hospital-based violence intervention progrma (HVIP). Former clients (ages 11 12-18) and caregivers who participated in HVIP services self-administered the initial HVIP-adapted CSQ shared their interpretation of questionnaire items, comfort responding, missing topics, preferences...

10.31124/advance.22731860 preprint EN cc-by-nc-nd 2023-05-17

<h3>Statement of purpose</h3> To identify and address barriers to meeting mental health (MH) needs violently injured youth participating in a post-injury hospital-based case management program. <h3>Methods/approach</h3> Utilising de-identified notes from stratified random sample (n=24) receiving following violent injury, we applied social-ecological framework code recurring themes pertaining individual, family, system facilitators successful resolution youth-identified MH needs....

10.1136/injuryprev-2017-042560.12 article EN Oral Presentations 2017-09-01

<h3>Statement of Purpose</h3> Hospital-based violence intervention programs (HVIPs) are emerging evidence-informed and cost-effective strategies to address violence. Few standardized tools exist capture experiences HVIP clients ensure program relevance responsiveness. We developed a tool measure client satisfaction utilizing feedback from youth caregivers participating in pediatric HVIP. <h3>Methods/Approach</h3> identified the Client Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ) (Larsen et al., 1979),...

10.1136/injuryprev-2022-savir.67 article EN Abstracts 2022-03-01
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