Publications by authors named "Breanna A Borg"
Article Synopsis
- The study explores the impact of violence exposure on anxiety and psychiatric disorders in adolescents, particularly focusing on how perceived safety and threat sensitivity may mediate these effects.
- A sample of 54 adolescents completed an online survey, revealing that perceived safety is linked to lower anxiety and threat sensitivity, while violence exposure itself did not show a significant connection.
- The results suggest that increasing perceived safety could protect against anxiety, with threat sensitivity serving as a key factor in this relationship, indicating a potential avenue for intervention.
Urban residents are disproportionately affected by violence exposure and mental health consequences as compared to non-urban residents. The present study examined the prevalence of violence exposure and associated mental health consequences among urban and non-urban youth. Urban participants were drawn from Detroit, Michigan, a city that has led the nation for most of the last decade as one of the most violent big cities in the U.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPeer victimization is a developmentally salient stressor that elevates adolescents' risk for anxiety disorders. However, modifiable mechanisms that explain this link and can be targeted via therapeutic interventions remain poorly understood. Drawing from psychobiological models implicating aberrant threat sensitivity in the development and maintenance of psychopathology, the current study investigated sensitivity to peer-related social threats as a mechanism underlying the association between peer victimization and anxiety.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: We hypothesized that imaging is overused in the initial workup of dog bite patients. To reduce radiation exposure, we aim to determine which circumstances surrounding dog bites, patient population, and injury patterns would necessitate imaging studies for management.
Methods: A retrospective review was performed on all patients presenting with dog bites to our level I pediatric trauma center between 2013 and 2015.
Sink-bathing is common practice among parents. However, this puts infants and young children at unrecognized risk for burn injuries. As the only verified pediatric burn center in a large urban area, we treat burn patients from a large variation in socioeconomic status.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Our pediatric trauma center has noted an increase in the occurrence of gunshot wounds in children. We aimed to understand the circumstances surrounding these injuries in order to provide targeted injury prevention methodologies.
Methods: A retrospective review was performed on patients who presented with a gunshot wound to our Level I Pediatric Trauma Center and two neighboring Adult Trauma Centers between 2013 and 2017.