Publications by authors named "Justin Halloran"
Purpose: This study surveyed a national sample of inpatient pediatric behavioral health facilities on policies related to care for transgender and gender-expansive (TGE) youth to assess adherence to best practices.
Methods: Staff/providers at youth inpatient psychiatric facilities were recruited by phone or email. Participants completed an electronic survey on facilities' training policies, staff comfort related to gender diversity, and other policies related to caring for TGE youth.
Article Synopsis
- * A survey conducted on 70 TGE adolescents revealed that 39.1% valued having children, but only 23.2% were interested in biological parenthood, with many expressing concerns about future fertility.
- * The findings highlight the need for better information and education for TGE youth regarding reproductive health, enabling healthcare providers to support informed decision-making in treatment options.
Background: In collaboration with members of the transgender and gender diverse (TGD) community, we created a didactic resource about the unique needs of TGD youth.
Methods: We developed teaching materials enhanced by video clips of two TGD adolescents openly sharing aspects of their lived experience. We compared the video and no video conditions in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) in which participants were assigned to one of four parallel conditions: 1) a transgender [TgV] or 2) a cisgender [CgV] woman presenting with videos embedded into the presentation, 3) the same cisgender woman presenting without the videos [CgN], or 4) a no intervention control [NiC].
Importance: Transphobia and stigma remain barriers to seeking mental health care for gender-diverse adolescents.
Objective: To examine the utility of brief social contact-based video interventions of transgender protagonists with depression to reduce transphobia and depression-related stigma and increase treatment-seeking intentions among adolescents in the general population.
Design, Setting, And Participants: During August 2021, a total of 1437 participants were recruited and randomly assigned to 1 of 4 video-based conditions in a 2:2:1:1 ratio: (1) transgender adolescent girls, (2) transgender adolescent boys, (3) cisgender adolescent girls, or (4) cisgender adolescent boys.
Background: Comparative analysis of gene expression in human tissues is important for understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying tissue-specific control of gene expression. It can also open an avenue for using gene expression in blood (which is the most easily accessible human tissue) to predict gene expression in other (less accessible) tissues, which would facilitate the development of novel gene expression based models for assessing disease risk and progression. Until recently, direct comparative analysis across different tissues was not possible due to the scarcity of paired tissue samples from the same individuals.
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