Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Research Profile
Adolescents
Friendship Networks and Youth Smoking
A study using social network analysis, applied to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, to investigate how friendship networks are related to patterns of youth smoking over time.
Contact: Joan Tucker, PhD (Joan_Tucker@rand.org)Brief Substance Use Intervention for Youth in Teen Court
Adapting and testing an efficacious group intervention among teens who have committed a first–time alcohol or other drug misdemeanor offense with the goal of reducing alcohol and drug use and related consequences among this population.
Contact: Elizabeth D’Amico, PhD (Elizabeth_D’Amico@rand.org)Brief Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Intervention for Middle School Youth
A five–year longitudinal study to conduct a more rigorous test of Project CHOICE, the only voluntary intervention tested for middle school youth, in a larger, ethnically diverse school population.
Contact: Elizabeth D’Amico, PhD (Elizabeth_D’Amico@rand.org)Classroom Drug Prevention
An evaluation of the long-term results from Project ALERT, a middle-school drug–prevention curriculum, and its high school extension, ALERT Plus. A separate project developed materials to help teachers provide accurate and developmentally appropriate answers to middle-school students’ questions about various prescription, over–the–counter, and club drugs.
Contact: Phyllis Ellickson, PhD (Phyllis_Ellickson@rand.org)Project SNaX: A Healthy Living Study
In collaboration with Los Angeles Unified School District and key community stakeholders, a study to design and pilot test an intervention aimed at promoting healthy eating and physical activity among an ethnically diverse sample of middle school youth.
Contact: Mark Schuster, MD, PhD (Mark_Schuster@rand.org)Assessment of the School Health Nursing Program
An assessment of how the School Health Nursing Program uses its resources to provide health services to students in Washington, D.C., Public Schools, with specific attention to access to care, quality of services, and barriers to care. This study will offer recommendations on improving school health services and inform a longer–term outcomes–based evaluation of the program’s impact on student health and well-being.
Contact: Anita Chandra, DrPH (Anita_Chandra@rand.org)The Mental Health of Gifted Children Across the Life Course
n examination of the mental health of gifted children, assessing whether they have higher rates of mental disorders than children who aare not gifted; whether giftedness confers mental health advantages at any point in the life span, and whether gifted individuals with specific learning disabilities are at increased risk for mental disorders, particularly anxiety, depression, and suicide ideation/attempts.
Contact: Laurie Martin, ScD, MPH (Laurie_Martin@rand.org)Cognitive Behavior Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)
Implementation of an evidence-based school intervention for trauma for youth in foster care, in collaboration with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services. An evaluation will assess CBITS’s impact on the youths’ mental health, placement stability and type, and related outcomes, as well as costs and factors related to successful implementation.
Contact: Dana Schultz, MPP (Dana_Schultz@rand.org)Effect of Cigarette Advertising on Adolescent Smoking
An examination of how cigarette advertising affects the desire of adolescent never–smokers to smoke, using both correlational and experimental research methods.
Contact: William Shadel, PhD (William_Shadel@rand.org)Adolescent Access and Utilization Study
A project to design, implement, and assess the results of six focus groups for Blue Cross Wellpoint health plan beneficiaries who are parents of teens and teens themselves.
Contact: Mark Schuster, MD, PhD (Mark_Schuster@rand.org)Promising Strategies for Increasing Immunization Among Low-Income Adolescents
A study to identify a set of best practices for increasing the use of recommended vaccines by low–income adolescents and to develop recommendations for adapting and expanding best practices for this population.
Contact: Katherine Harris, MD (Katherine_Harris@rand.org)Raising the Odds for Boys and Men of Color
A systematic review of the scientific literature and a data analysis to help The California Endowment in its strategic planning to raise the odds of boys and young men of color in California achieving healthy outcomes.
Contact: Lois Davis, PhD (Lois_Davis@rand.org)
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