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Building Bridges: A Brief School Readiness Intervention Designed To Guide Families Transitioning From Early Head Start To Head Start, Katherine A. Zambrana

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The transition into the early school years is a salient developmental milestone, which lays the groundwork for later school success. Parent involvement in children’s development and early learning experiences has been widely examined and identified as a strong predictor of children’s school readiness. Therefore, promoting positive parent involvement during the early school years and during developmental transitions is key to children’s later school success. Recognizing the importance of early school success, several programs have been developed to support children and families in the transition to kindergarten. Yet, as early as preschool, a number of children display significant behavioral and academic …

Tolerance To Psychostimulant Medication Among Children With Adhd, Fiona Macphee

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Medication is the most commonly received treatment for childhood Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) with 90% of children with ADHD having received it at some point in their lives (Danielson et al., 2018). Central Nervous System (CNS) stimulant medication is a well-established short-term treatment for childhood ADHD (Pliszka, 2007). However, there is little support in the literature for long-term benefit of psychostimulants. One possible explanation for this lack of sustained effect is the development of tolerance to the drug. The current study aimed to examine possible evidence of short-term tolerance to stimulant medication, methylphenidate (MPH). Additionally, we investigated previous stimulant medication treatment …

Information Seeking Behavior And Mental Health Service Utilization: Using Big Data Tools To Examine Temporal Trends And Geographic Variations In Adhd, Xin Zhao

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Persistently low rates of children’s mental health service utilization have inspired close examination of barriers to care that point to sociodemographic and geographic disparities. Information science points to socioeconomic disparities in health information seeking (access and need) that may decrease corresponding to increasing rates of online searching in underserved communities. Three specific aims were examined: Aim 1. Examine changes in information seeking over time; Aim 2. Examine geographical variations of online searches; Aim 3. Examine the connection between state-level information-seeking variations and individual diagnoses.

The dissertation uses publicly available data and big data methods (i.e., time series analyses, machine learning …