COLORISM UNVEILED: EXAMINING HOW SKIN COLOR DISCRIMINATION IS ASSOCIATED WITH ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT, MENTAL HEALTH, AND S...
THE FUTURE OF COLORISM SCIENCE: INTERDISCIPLINARITY, FAMILIES, AND INTERVENTION
Deprescribing medications among patients with multiple prescribers: A socioecological model
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Deprescribing is the intentional dose reduction or discontinuation of a medication. The development of deprescribing interventions should take into consideration important organizational, interprofessional, and patient-specific barriers that can be further complicated by the presence of multiple prescribers involved in a patient's care. Patients wh...
The “Free lunches” index for assessing academics: a not entirely serious proposal
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Background Evaluating academics is a challenge, and the use of indicators such as scientific impact (i.e. number published papers their citation rate) complex poorly validated. We propose new indicator for academic medical research: “Free lunches” index ( fl -index), computed from sum gifts industry. The -index provides direct straightforward measu...
Resilience in children with congenital heart disease: a comparative study with health counterparts.
Published in Archives of disease in childhood
Resilience is a complex, yet rather unexplored topic in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). The goal of this study was to assess and compare resilience in children with CHD with healthy controls during the COVID-19 pandemic. From June 2020 to June 2021, 124 children with various CHDs (14.6±2.1 years, 49 girls) and 124 matched healthy cont...
Who is motivated to accept a booster and annual dose? A dimensional and person-centered approach
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The transmissibility of new COVID-19 variants and decreasing efficacy of vaccines led authorities to recommend a booster and even an annual dose. However, people's willingness to accept new doses varied considerably. Using two independent longitudinal samples of 4596 (Mean age = 53.6) and 514 (Mean age = 55.9) vaccinated participants, we examined h...
Associations of DHEA(S) with negative and positive affect in people who smoke daily with elevated and low depression sym...
BackgroundIndividuals with depression symptoms have a harder time quitting smoking. High negative affect and low positive affect are core depression symptoms and arise following cigarette abstinence. Investigating associations of biological markers with negative and positive affect may provide valuable information about factors relevant to smoking ...
Housing Discrimination and Negative Attitudes Towards Ex-Offender Parents
While the Fair Housing Act prohibits housing discrimination because of race, gender, religion, sex, disability, family status, and national origin, it allows housing providers to discriminate on the basis of criminal history. Prior research shows that housing providers disproportionately deny housing to ex-offender applicants and single parent appl...
Structural and social determinants of mental health inequities among collegiate athletes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Published in British journal of sports medicine
To characterise psychological distress during the COVID-19 pandemic among collegiate athletes and assess whether racial and ethnic differences in psychological distress are attenuated when accounting for inequitable exposure to structural and social determinants of health. Participants were collegiate athletes on teams competing in the National Col...
Psychological Functioning of Childhood Cancer Survivors: Longitudinal Associations With the Parental Context
OBJECTIVE: The long-term psychological effects of childhood cancer vary, with childhood cancer survivors reporting depressive symptoms, fear of cancer recurrence, and benefit finding. As cancer is considered a family disease, investigating the parental context may provide insight into such individual differences in psychological functioning of surv...
