Mental Health
Primary Care Interventions to Prevent or Treat Traumatic Stress in Childhood: A Systematic Review
To systematically assess the evidence base for prevention and treatment of child traumatic stress in primary care settings.Parent Reports of Mental Health Concerns and Functional Impairment on Routine Screening With the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
This study used the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to describe the prevalence of parent-reported mental health (MH) concerns in youth presenting for primary care appointments and to examine relationships between children's MH issues and functional impairment. We hypothesized that increased MH symptomology would be associated with increased impairment and family burden.Assessing the Impact of a Web-Based Comprehensive Somatic and Mental Health Screening Tool in Pediatric Primary Care
To evaluate how parents and physicians perceive the utility of a comprehensive, electronic previsit screener, and to assess its impact on the visit.Factors Associated With Discipline Counseling For Parents of Infants and Young Children
The aim of this study was to identify and better understand the factors associated with discipline counseling at health visits and how parents’ needs for discipline counseling are being met.Training Clinicians in Mental Health Communication Skills: Impact on Primary Care Utilization
Although it is known that children with mental health problems utilize primary care services more than most other children, it is unknown how addressing mental health problems in primary care affects children’s subsequent services utilization. This study measures primary care utilization in the context of a randomized trial of a communication skills training program for primary care clinicians that had a positive impact on child mental health outcomes.
