A 15-year-old boy with a previous traumatic brain injury arrives in the emergency department (ED) with aggressive behavior. During his ED visit and admission to the inpatient unit, the boy initially requires physical restraints and medications to treat his aggression. A thorough me...

Over the last decade, nearly 200,000 refugee children have resettled across the United States. Once resettled, our nation’s comprehensive refugee health screening program helps ensure that refugee children and families are healthy enough to start school and successfully integrate i...

OBJECTIVE: To identify the prevalence of high HIV transmission potential in a cohort of youth living with HIV (YLWH), and determine the impact of insurance coverage on potential for HIV transmission. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study of antiretroviral therapy (ART)-treated YLWH a...

BACKGROUND: Despite potential respiratory virus transmission in pediatric clinics, little is known about the risk of healthcare-associated viral infections attributable to outpatient encounters. We evaluated whether exposure to a pediatric clinic visit was associated with subsequen...

There is robust, increasing evidence that parental health directly impacts the health of their children. The PolicyLab Intergenerational Family Services research portfolio is developing, implementing and sustaining programs to provide more intergenerational family services, or fami...

ABSTRACT: Pediatricians increasingly endorse a dual generation approach to health, in which parental health behaviors are recognized as critical to promoting child health. Positive parental behaviors often emerge during pregnancy, for reasons that remain incompletely described. We ...

Transgender and gender-expansive youth face unique challenges that
 impact their physical and mental health. Harassment, discrimination, violence and rejection are just some challenges that lead more than 40 percent of transgender individuals to attempt suicide in their lifetime—10...

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of opioid use during pregnancy is increasing. Two downstream effects are neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a postnatal withdrawal syndrome, and long-term prenatal opioid exposure (LTPOE) without documented withdrawal symptoms in the infant. Mental healt...

Immigrants experience domestic violence at rates similar to other populations, yet survivors and victims who speak languages for which there are fewer bilingual, bicultural services often face significant linguistic and cultural barriers when seeking help. In partnership with Natio...

ABSTRACT: Bullying involvement is a multidimensional issue and a significant concern for school-aged youth. However, research on bullying involvement within clinical samples is limited. The present study examines the psychometric properties of the University of Illinois Bully, Figh...