Publications by authors named "J Somers"

Unlabelled: Adherence to guidelines for geriatric patients with a hip fracture is challenging. With this study, adherence to important quality indicators in geriatric hip fracture care was improved. A quality improvement collaborative including benchmarking and knowledge sharing showed to be effective in improving quality of care.

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Low parental monitoring is a well-established risk factor for and presumed cause of teen problem behavior. However, an integrated theory for how monitoring changes teen behavior has not been articulated. We propose a model in which parental monitoring can reduce teen misbehavior via nine mechanisms organized into behavior-management (B), context-control (C), and relationship/support-mediated (R) domains (BCR Model).

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Significant mental health problems affect one in five youth in the United States; in tandem with the child mental health epidemic, parents in the United States report high and rising rates of burnout and mental health challenges of their own. Multiple well-established theoretical perspectives demonstrate the high degree of interdependence between children's and their parents' mental health, including intergenerational transmission, prenatal programming, attachment, and temperament and self-regulation theories. Drawing on these perspectives, we argue that a approach that centers the development of psychopathology within the context of the parent-child dyad can promote resilience and arrest emerging mental health problems for children and their parents, during sensitive developmental windows (e.

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Coordination in mothers' and their infants' parasympathetic nervous system functioning (i.e., respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA] synchrony) specifically during playful interactions may promote resilience against exposure to postpartum depressive symptoms (PPD), for both members of the dyad.

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