Are Family Factors Differentially Associated with Externalizing Symptoms Among Youth with Perinatally Acquired HIV?

Youth with perinatally-acquired HIV (PHIV) face unique psychosocial stressors. They are at risk for externalizing problems, including symptoms of oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder (CD), and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as well as risk-taking behaviors, such as substance use (SU). Although family factors have been differentially associated with externalizing and SU behaviors based on youth sex in prior research, there is a dearth of literature considering these processes among youth with PHIV.

Community Violence Exposure and Generalized Anxiety Symptoms: Do Callous-Unemotional Behaviors Moderate this Relation Among Urban Youth?

Community violence exposure (CVE; i.e., direct victimization and witnessed violence) is a major public health concern among youth who reside in low income, urban neighborhoods, who tend to experience CVE chronically and disproportionately.

Self-report versus clinical interview: Discordance among measures of binge eating in a weight-loss seeking sample.

Purpose: Obese, behavioral weight-loss (BWL) seeking individuals may be prone to over-reporting binge-eating (BE). However, many studies rely on self-reported measures of BE in this population, which may be inaccurate. As such, this is the first-ever study to examine the concordance rates among one self-reported and one clinician- administered measure of BE in a BWL-seeking sample with overweight/obesity.