Assessments of working group effectiveness in the planning of the New Jersey Kids Study: An applied mixed-methods study on the science of team science.

Introduction: The New Jersey Kids Study (NJKS) is a transdisciplinary statewide initiative to understand influences on child health, development, and disease. We conducted a mixed-methods study of project planning teams to investigate team effectiveness and relationships between team dynamics and quality of deliverables.

Methods: Ten theme-based working groups (WGs) (e.

Feasibility and Acceptability of an Online Family Literacy Program in an Under-Resourced Community During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the feasibility and acceptability of an online family literacy program (FLP) among low-income Latino families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods: We conducted a mixed methods pilot study. Latino parent-child dyads participated in an 8-week online FLP conducted on video conferencing software, developed through a cross-sector health care-education partnership.

Reach Out and Read Implementation: A Scoping Review.

Background: Reach Out and Read (ROR) is an evidence-based literacy promotion intervention that leverages the near-universal access to children of primary care practices to promote optimal child development. While several studies document ROR's effectiveness, its implementation remains understudied.

Objective: This scoping review examines the existing literature to better understand ROR implementation.

Building a Community Partnership in a Pandemic: NJ Pediatric Residency Advocacy Collaborative.

The New Jersey Pediatric Residency Advocacy Collaborative (NJPRAC) is a statewide collaborative with faculty leads from each of the 10 New Jersey pediatric residency programs. The 2 major goals of the collaborative were to build community partnerships between pediatric residency programs and local organizations and develop a core advocacy curriculum. In this article, we focus on how the NJPRAC built community partnerships with Family Success Centers (FSCs) across the state over the course of a 2-year period.

Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten: A Bilingual Family Literacy Program in Primary Care.

Purpose: To describe the development and pilot testing of a bilingual family literacy program (FLP) for dual language learners entering kindergarten implemented in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC).

Description: The Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten program is an English-Spanish bilingual FLP that uses four parent and pediatrician-prioritized health topics to introduce early English literacy skills to families and promote health behaviors that are important for school readiness while encouraging maintenance of Spanish. We developed an FLP manual, conducted a 16-week single-arm pilot study, and modified the FLP based on family feedback and observation.

The Impact of Food Insecurity on Child Health.

Food insecurity (FI) has severe implications on children's health and their future health outcomes. Children with FI have limited access to healthy foods and demonstrate poorer eating behavior, leading to chronic absenteeism, school failure, and chronic disease. Given the health implications of FI, it is imperative for pediatricians to screen all children, and advocate for protecting necessary nutritional programs that exist to mitigate FI and for improved accessibility of nutritious, healthy food options, especially in locations labeled as food deserts.

Training Pediatric Residents in Literacy Promotion: Residency Directors' Perspectives.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and Canadian Pediatric Society recommend that pediatricians incorporate literacy promotion during well child care, but literacy promotion education during pediatric training remains understudied. We sought to understand how literacy promotion training is currently implemented in pediatric residency programs from the perspective of program directors. We conducted semistructured interviews with all 9 residency program directors in 1 state.

Frequency of Food Insecurity and Associated Health Outcomes in Pediatric Patients at a Federally Qualified Health Center.

Unlabelled: Food insecurity (FI) has been recognized as a public challenge not only for developing countries but also for the U.S.

Population: The present study was designed to identify the prevalence of FI and the association of household FI with the health status of pediatric patients seen at a Federally Qualified Health Center in New Jersey which provides health care mainly for Latino patients.

Understanding Barriers to Literacy Promotion Among New Jersey General Pediatricians.

Low literacy is associated with poor health. We sought to examine pediatricians' attitudes and practices regarding literacy promotion in early childhood. We distributed a self-administered 23-item survey to a random sample of 500 board certified or eligible New Jersey primary care pediatricians.

Women and cigarette smoking: does amount of weight gain following a failed quit attempt affect social disapproval?

This study examined the perception of social attractiveness and approval of smoking in a vignette of an American college female smoker after a failed quit attempt. It was hypothesized that she would be perceived more favorably when she was smoking to control her weight, compared to a non-weight related excuse during a failed quit attempt. The design was a 2 (gender: male vs.

Deception in prison assessment of substance abuse.

The relationship of The Paulhus Deception Scales (PDS; ) to the Texas Christian University Drug Screen I was investigated in participants screened for a voluntary in-prison substance abuse treatment program. Mean PDS scores for 35 female and 277 male prison inmates were significantly higher than the inmate norms in the test manual. All three PDS scale scores were negatively related to symptom endorsement and to the diagnosis of drug dependence.

Acculturation of Japanese Americans:: Use of the SL­ASIA with a Community Sample.

PURPOSE. The present article summarizes the use of the Suinn­Lew Asian Self Identity Acculturation Scale (SL­ASIA) with a community sample of Japanese Americans. METHODOLOGY.