The American population is growing more diverse and multicultural as time passes. The health needs of such a population will also shift, namely the mental …
Objectives: This study assessed the characteristics that place adolescent girls at greatest risk for sex trafficking involvement. It was hypothesized that girls with a greater …
Objective. To assess the relationships of physical and mental health with three oral health concerns among Rhode Island (RI) adolescents. Methods. We used the 2019 …
To evaluate whether BMI status is associated with self-reported mental health status among young adults (age 18-44). This cross-sectional study uses data from the 2020 …
Abstract of Mechanisms Underlying High Rates of Tobacco-Related Disease in People with Psychiatric Disorders Who Smoke, by Teresa Elyse DeAtley, Ph.D., Brown University, October 2021 …
Background: Approximately 60% of college students in the United States were diagnosed with at least one mental health issue during the 2020-2021 academic year, which …
Despite sharing a culture of resilience and strong community, African women exposed to war and violence carry a high burden of post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, …
Depression, a common mood disorder affecting millions of Americans, is highly sensitive to social and economic contexts. As such, changes in economic conditions, such as …
One in seven birthing people experience peripartum depression (PPD), and the projected prevalence is higher in Africa than the global mean. PPD can result in …
Objective: The overall goal of the study is to contribute to the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for mental …
Cyberbullying has emerged over the last decade as a growing and incompletely understood problem among adolescents, with implications for their mental health. Gender, sexuality, and …
Purpose: Policies have been shown to bear a considerable influence on transgender health. The few studies that have used adolescent transgender populations to study outcomes …
The main objective of this dissertation was to explore how experiences of minority stress impact mental health problems, substance use, and vulnerability to HIV infection …
People of Color (POC) and other marginalized populations are exposed to unique chronic stressors, such as interpersonal and structural-level experiences of discrimination, which contribute to …
Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are defined by the CDC as possible traumatic occurrences during childhood and includes experiences like violence, abuse, and neglect. Forty-five …
Background and Aims Research has shown a significant negative association between mental health status and routine cervical cancer screening (Zhang et al., 2019). With the …
