Publications by authors named "Brenda Ortega"
We developed and tested MivacunaLA/MyshotLA, a community-informed mobile phone intervention, to increase COVID-19 vaccination among Latino parents/caretakers of minors in under-resourced areas of Los Angeles by addressing misinformation and building trust. We recruited Latino parents/caregivers with at least one unvaccinated child in East and South Los Angeles in the summer of 2021 and evaluated MivacunaLA as a randomized controlled trial with a wait-list control group. A difference-in-difference analysis showed Latino parents/caregivers that participated in MivacunaLA ( = 246), in comparison to the control group, were 15 percentage points more likely ( = 0.
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- A study in Mexico analyzed the prevalence of alcohol and drug use among 304 Emergency Department patients with road traffic injuries from January to April 2022, finding that 27.6% tested positive for substances.
- The breath tests showed that 16.1% had alcohol in their system, while saliva tests revealed that amphetamines/methamphetamines (8.6%), cocaine (7.0%), and cannabis (6.9%) were common among those tested.
- The study recommends routine biological testing in Emergency Departments to improve treatment outcomes and better assess substance use, as the demographics of those testing positive and negative were quite similar.