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Dental Fluoride Varnish Application During Medical Visits Among Children Who Are Privately Insured, Kimberley H. Geissler Phd, Andrew W. Dick Phd, Sarah L. Goff Phd, Christopher Whaley Phd, Ashley M. Kranz Phd

Health Promotion and Policy Faculty Publication Series

Fluoride varnish is effective at reducing tooth decay, which affects nearly a quarter of US children ages 2 to 5 years and more than half of children ages 6 to 8 years.^1,2 To increase young children’s receipt of preventive oral health services, the US Preventive Services Task Force recommends medical providers apply fluoride varnish to young children’s teeth during well-child visits through 5 years of age.² Offering fluoride varnish in medical settings may increase young children’s receipt of this service because 89% of children younger than 6 years of age had a preventive medical visit in …

Maltreatment And Brain Development: The Effects Of Abuse And Neglect On Longitudinal Trajectories Of Neural Activation During Risk Processing And Cognitive Control, Jungmeen Kim-Spoon, Toria Herd, Alexis Brieant, Kristin Peviani, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Nina Lauharatanahirun, Jacob Lee, Brooks King-Casas

Psychological and Brain Sciences Faculty Publication Series

The profound effects of child maltreatment on brain functioning have been documented. Yet, little is known about whether distinct maltreatment experiences are differentially related to underlying neural processes of risky decision making: valuation and control. Using conditional growth curve modeling, we compared a cumulative approach versus a dimensional approach (relative effects of abuse and neglect) to examine the link between child maltreatment and brain development. The sample included 167 adolescents (13?14 years at Time 1, 53 % male), assessed annually four times. Risk processing was assessed by blood-oxygen-level-dependent responses (BOLD) during a lottery choice task, and cognitive control by BOLD …

Family Support And Readiness To Consider Smoking Cessation Among Chinese And Vietnamese American Male Smokers, Joan A. Daniel, Jin E. Kim-Mozeleski, Krishna C. Poudel, Angela Sun, Nancy J. Burke, Janice Y. Tsoh

Health Promotion and Policy Faculty Publication Series

Introduction. Smoking prevalence is disproportionately high among Asian American immigrant men with limited English proficiency. Understanding the role of family support may provide insights into culturally acceptable strategies to promote smoking cessation. Aims. This study examined how family support was associated with readiness to consider smoking cessation among Chinese and Vietnamese American male daily smokers. Methods. We analyzed baseline data (N = 340) from a cluster randomized trial of a family-based healthy lifestyle intervention. We assessed the frequency of receiving family support in various forms (encouraging use of cessation resources, praising efforts, checking in, and reminding of familial role). Multiple …

Evaluating Epidemic Forecasts In An Interval Format, Johannes Bracher, Evan L. Ray, Tilmann Gneiting, Nicholas G. Reich

Biostatistics and Epidemiology Faculty Publications Series

For practical reasons, many forecasts of case, hospitalization, and death counts in the context of the current Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are issued in the form of central predictive intervals at various levels. This is also the case for the forecasts collected in the COVID-19 Forecast Hub (https://covid19forecasthub.org/). Forecast evaluation metrics like the logarithmic score, which has been applied in several infectious disease forecasting challenges, are then not available as they require full predictive distributions. This article provides an overview of how established methods for the evaluation of quantile and interval forecasts can be applied to epidemic forecasts in …

Parenting Group For Externalizing Youth With Side Benefits For Parents, Diane Johnson

Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects

Abstract

Background/Purpose: Mental health problems in the form of externalizing behaviors in children continues to climb. The financial burden, along and increased risks of long-term adverse effects, are a critical area that are improved with interventions such as parent management training (PMT). PMT is an evidence-based treatment for disruptive and externalizing child behaviors. Even brief interventions can improve parents’ perceptions of challenging behavior and benefit parental well-being through stress reduction and self-efficacy. Purpose: To provide PMT concepts through a group format and improve parental perceptions of externalizing behaviors and stress reduction. Methods: Provide a six-session parent group with discussion, video, …

Processes Linking Socioeconomic Disadvantage And Neural Correlates Of Cognitive Control In Adolescence, Alexis Brieant, Toria Herd, Kirby Deater-Deckard, Jacob Lee, Brooks King-Casas

Psychological and Brain Sciences Faculty Publication Series

Socioeconomic status (SES) is broadly associated with self-regulatory abilities across childhood and adolescence. However, there is limited understanding of the mechanisms underlying this association, especially during adolescence when individuals are particularly sensitive to environmental influences. The current study tested perceived stress, household chaos, parent cognitive control, and parent-adolescent relationship quality as potential proximal mediators of the association between family SES and neural correlates of cognitive control. A sample of 167 adolescents and their primary caregivers participated in a longitudinal study across four years. SES was indexed by caregivers? education and income-to-needs ratio at Time 1. At Time 2, adolescents reported …

Pubertal Development And Risk Of Premenstrual Disorders In Young Adulthood, Donghao Lu, Jurate Alenaviciute, Ragnar Bjarnason, Unnur A. Valdimarsdóttir, Elizabeth R. Bertone-Johnson

Health Promotion and Policy Faculty Publication Series

STUDY QUESTION

Is pubertal timing associated with risk of premenstrual disorders (PMDs) in young adulthood? SUMMARY ANSWER

Late pubertal development is associated with decreased premenstrual symptom burden and risk of PMDs in young adulthood. WHAT IS KNOWN ALREADY

PMDs, including premenstrual syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder, may begin during the teenage years. Few risk factors in early life have been identified for PMD development. STUDY DESIGN, SIZE, DURATION

A prospective cohort study of 6495 female participants during 1996–2013. PARTICIPANTS/MATERIALS, SETTING, METHODS

We included participants from the Growing Up Today Study (GUTS). Pubertal development was indicated by the timing of menarche, …