Only 63.7% of adolescents reported that they had ever heard of the morning-after pill, and 12% of those adolescents reported having used it themselves
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Up to 12% of mothers experience depressive symptoms. Children whose parents reported parental depressive symptoms had an 18% increased risk of an emergency department visit and a 36% increased risk of a school absence.
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Medication adherence was near optimal in the intervention month, but dropped off when reminders and incentives stopped.
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85% of youth who used antipsychotics received these medications concurrently with another psychotropic medication class.
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This project will focus on increasing knowledge of Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute treatment evidence among clinicians who care for refugees, as well as professional interpreters and refugee community leaders, and provide guidance on how to discuss treatment options with patients.
Jan 21, 2020
From Screen Time to Smoking: Preventing Unhealthy Youth Behaviors
Unhealthy behaviors like poor diet, physical inactivity, and smoking put children at risk for developing heart disease, diabetes and cancer later...
Jan 16, 2020
Sexual Assault, Behavioral Health & Emergency Medicine: 3 Perspectives on New Research
Nearly 2 million adolescents in the United States have been sexually abused, and each year thousands of children and adolescents are the victims...
Jan 15, 2020
Announcing Awardees for the Winter 2020 CPCE and PolicyLab Pilot Grant Program
At PolicyLab, we are committed to supporting our incredible investigators as they launch exciting careers as academicians, ask new and important...
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We realize you can’t ask an important research question unless you’ve asked yourself who are the people you're trying to help and how is that question defined in their lens. Only then can your research produce important policy outcomes.
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MD, MSCE
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Children in America today are facing social, economic, and systems-level complexities that require thoughtful, multidisciplinary solutions – and that’s what we’re all about at PolicyLab.
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DrPH, MHS
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