Publications by authors named "Barkin S"

Background: There is considerable research on the ramifications of medication non-adherence for adults with psychotic illnesses. Much of which has tightly controlled designs and strict inclusion/exclusion procedures (i.e.

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  • Childhood physical activity is crucial for establishing long-term health.
  • There are many known factors that influence physical activity levels, but knowledge about early childhood remains limited.
  • The review highlights gaps in current datasets, aiming to inform and direct future research efforts.
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Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic affected child health behaviors, leading to worse physical health. Given the importance of good family health in improved child health outcomes, this secondary cohort analysis tested the hypothesis that family health would improve from baseline to 12-week follow-up after participation in a novel family nutrition program.

Methods: Diverse parent-child dyads participated in a home-based virtual Teaching Kitchen Outreach (vTKO) program (11 weekly healthy, low-cost recipes, cooking videos, and associated groceries delivered).

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Background And Objectives: The American Academy of Pediatrics designed The Injury Prevention Program (TIPP) in 1983 to help pediatricians prevent unintentional injuries, but TIPP's effectiveness has never been formally evaluated. We sought to evaluate the impact of TIPP on reported injuries in the first 2 years of life.

Methods: We conducted a stratified, cluster-randomized trial at 4 academic medical centers: 2 centers trained their pediatric residents and implemented TIPP screening and counseling materials at all well-child checks (WCCs) for ages 2 to 24 months, and 2 centers implemented obesity prevention.

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Obesity in children remains a major public health problem, with the current prevalence in youth ages 2-19 years estimated to be 19.7%. Despite progress in identifying risk factors, current models do not accurately predict development of obesity in early childhood.

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Objective: To assess pre and postself-reported counseling outcomes for Safer: Storing Firearms Prevents Harm, an American Academy of Pediatrics universal firearm safe storage counseling training for pediatric clinicians providing health maintenance in outpatient settings.

Study Design: Safer was developed by a national multidisciplinary committee of firearm injury prevention experts with input from firearm-owning families and launched in June 2021. Pediatric clinicians completed baseline and 1-month posttraining surveys after signing up for the Pedialink course from February through June 2022.

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  • The study aimed to gather insights from Head Start families and employees about their experiences with food and nutrition insecurity and how the program addresses these issues.
  • Four virtual focus groups were conducted with 27 participants, and the analysis involved both inductive and deductive methods to draw conclusions.
  • The findings highlighted the effectiveness of Head Start's two-generational approach, emphasizing the importance of family advocates, access to healthy foods, and the need for skills and education to break unhealthy generational patterns.
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Objective: To evaluate the association between baseline ultra-processed food consumption in early childhood and child BMI Z-score over 36 months.

Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort analysis as a secondary data analysis of the Growing Right Onto Wellness randomised trial. Dietary intake was measured via 24-h diet recalls.

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Background: The Nova classification system categorizes foods into 4 processing levels, including ultraprocessed foods (UPFs). Consumption of UPFs is extensive in the United States, and high UPF consumption is associated with chronic disease risk. A reliable and valid method to Nova-categorize foods would advance understanding of UPF consumption and its relationship to health outcomes.

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The objective of this technical report is to provide clinicians with evidence-based, actionable information upon which to make assessment and treatment decisions for children and adolescents with obesity. In addition, this report will provide an evidence base to inform clinical practice guidelines for the management and treatment of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. To this end, the goal of this report was to identify all relevant studies to answer 2 overarching key questions: (KQ1) "What are clinically based, effective treatments for obesity?" and (KQ2) "What is the risk of comorbidities among children with obesity?" See Appendix 1 for the conceptual framework and a priori key questions.

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The objective of this technical report is to provide clinicians with actionable evidence-based information upon which to make treatment decisions. In addition, this report will provide an evidence base on which to inform clinical practice guidelines for the management and treatment of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. To this end, the goal of this report was to identify all relevant studies to answer 2 overarching key questions: (KQ1) "What are effective clinically based treatments for obesity?" and (KQ2) "What is the risk of comorbidities among children with obesity?" See Appendix 1 for the conceptual framework and a priori Key Questions.

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Importance: Virtual home-based interventions may bolster protective factors, such as family health and resilience, during stressors such as the COVID-19 pandemic; however, their effectiveness is unknown.

Objective: To examine the effectiveness of a virtual health coaching intervention on family health and resilience during the pandemic.

Design, Setting, And Participants: In this parallel-group, single-site randomized clinical trial, 123 parents and their 2- to 8-year-old children were enrolled at a pediatric clinic or community partner site in Tennessee from March 10 to August 11, 2021.

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Background: Measuring diet quality in early childhood requires time-intensive and costly measurements (e.g., 24-hour diet recall) that are especially burdensome for low-income, minority populations.

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Background: Previous interventions to reduce emergency department (ED) overutilization from non-urgent visits have shown little success. At our hospital, we created an ED to primary care clinic (PCC) transfer protocol for non-urgent ED visits of established patients. Our study analyzed the impact of this protocol on patient encounters.

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Background: As school districts across the nation evaluate strategies and implement programs to reduce absenteeism, health-related interventions remain largely underutilized. This study provides the estimated cost of improving students' diet quality as a means to increase attendance. Then, it compares the costs and efficacy of improving diet quality to those of other absence-reduction interventions.

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Objectives: To assess the relationship between an Area Deprivation Index (ADI) and a Social Determinant of Health (SDoH) measure within a diverse sample. A prescreening tool based on routinely collected information could reduce clinical burden by identifying patients impacted by SDoH for comprehensive assessment.

Study Design: In total, 499 consented pediatric patient-families who spoke English, Spanish, or Arabic and had a child ≤12 years receiving primary care at a large academic institution were enrolled.

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Introduction: Telehealth is the use of electronic information and technology for long-distance clinical care. In direct-to-patient (DTP) telehealth, the patient initiates care from a personal computer or mobile device to a medical provider. While information on standard clinic-to-clinic telehealth exists, less is known about DTP telehealth in pediatric populations.

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Background And Objectives: Our objective is to identify common family functioning measurement tools and assess their compatibility with family-health development and life-course perspectives.

Methods: Data sources include PubMed, ERIC, CINAHL, Families and Societies Worldwide, PsychInfo, Web of Science, PsychNet, and Health and Psychosocial Instruments. Title and abstract screening and full-text review of articles were conducted by multiple reviewers based on prespecified inclusion criteria.

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Background: With increased reliance on digital health care, including telehealth, efficient and effective ways are needed to assess patients' comfort and confidence with using these services.

Objective: The goal of this study was to develop and validate a brief scale that assesses digital health care literacy.

Methods: We first developed an item pool using existing literature and expert review.

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Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a chronic, debilitating mood disorder associated with poor medical outcomes. MDD has a multifactorial etiology with numerous biopsychosocial factors implicated as risk factors. Functional and psychiatric impairments have been evaluated in patients with liver cirrhosis; however, less is known about the prevalence and risk factors for the development of MDD in those patients.

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