In a letter, PolicyLab responded to an opportunity for feedback from the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on their white paper "Preparing for the Next Pandemic."   PolicyLab offers the following input on what can be learned from the response to the…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the validity of the Behavioral Health Checklist (BHCL) strength-based factor scores and the extent to which this factor has a buffering effect on the relationship between behavioral health symptom severity and children's social problems. METHOD: The…

PURPOSE: To describe the first 30 days of rapid adolescent telehealth scale-up in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at a single academic medical center and assess for disparities in visit completion rates by patient characteristics. METHODS: Visit outcome…

Adolescent and young adult health-care providers often care for transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) youth-youth whose gender identity is incongruent with the gender assigned to them at birth. This patient population faces health challenges distinct from their cisgender peers (i.e.,…

The purpose of the study was to quantify changes in sleep during the middle-to-high school transition and determine if changes in sleep differ by sociodemographic characteristics. Adolescents were enrolled in eighth grade and followed into ninth grade (N = 110; 2,470 nights observed)…

Spring in the Northeastern United States usually represents a period of relatively high emergency department (ED) utilization for childhood asthma. Putative drivers of this phenomenon include seasonal allergens and the tail of winter respiratory viruses. The emergence and spread of…

Deficits in positive emotionality (PE) have been implicated in the etiology of both social anxiety and depression; however, factors that contribute to divergent social anxiety and depression outcomes among youth low in PE remain unknown. Extant research suggests that parent-child…

Youth exposure to ‘web of violence’ is associated with impairments in mental and physical health. The current study aimed to identify subgroups of violent events, such as maltreatment, bullying perpetration and peer victimization and explore how these relate to depressive symptoms,…

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) now affects at least 1 in 59 children. While we know that we can often detect ASD by age 2, the average age of diagnosis remains 4 years old and is even later for racial/ethnic minority, rural and low-income youth and girls. This is concerning as early…

A national quality measure in the Child Core Set is used to assess whether pediatric patients hospitalized for a mental illness receive timely follow-up care. In this study, we examine the relationship between adherence to the quality measure and repeat use of the emergency department…