Publications by authors named "Roxanna Flores"
The Supporting Transition Resilience Of Newcomer Groups (STRONG; Hoover et al., 2019) program was developed to support mental health among newcomer refugee and immigrant students by (1) promoting positive adjustment during resettlement through a trauma-informed, strengths-based approach, contextualized to meet the needs of refugee and immigrant youth; and (2) improving access to services through school-based programming. The purpose of this study was to examine the acceptability and effectiveness of STRONG on the mental health and resilience of refugee and immigrant students using a group randomized waitlist control design.
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- The study investigated how age, education, and sex/gender relate to performance in semantic fluency, which is the ability to generate words within a certain category.
- Data from 2,391 individuals across three different cohorts were analyzed, measuring factors like average cluster size and lexical decision response time in addition to the total number of words generated.
- Results indicated that older age and being female were both linked to lower performance in word generation, while higher education correlated with better performance across various metrics, showing consistent trends across different cohorts.
Objective: Accurate identification of the earliest cognitive changes associated with Alzheimer's disease (AD) is critically needed. Item-level information within tests of category fluency, such as lexical frequency, harbors valuable information about the integrity of semantic networks affected early in AD. To determine the potential of lexical frequency as a cognitive marker of AD risk, we investigated whether lexical frequency of animal fluency output differentiated ε4 carriers from noncarriers in a cross-sectional design among older African-American adults without dementia.
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