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Prevalence of mental disorders from adolescence through early adulthood in American Indian and First Nations communities
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)
Indigenous communities lack representation in psychiatric epidemiology despite disproportionate exposure to risk factors. We document the cumulative and 12-month prevalence of psychiatric disorders across the early life ...
Mediating role of diabetes distress and depressive symptoms in type 2 diabetes medication adherence gender differences
(SAGE Publications, 2020)
Background. Medication adherence is negatively related to both diabetes distress (DD) and depressive symptoms (DS). Past research suggests gender differences in adherence, DD, and DS. A gap exists in determining if gender ...
Microaggressions, diabetes distress, and self-care behaviors in a sample of American Indian adults with type 2 diabetes
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018)
American Indian/Alaska Native people experience the highest age-adjusted prevalence of type 2 diabetes of any racial group in the United States, as well as high rates of related health problems. Chronic stressors such as ...
Longitudinal study of the stress of poor glucose control and diabetes distress
(SAGE Publications, 2021)
Poor glucose control can be viewed as a stressor, possibly promulgating diabetes distress. We examined the relationship between perceived blood glucose control and diabetes distress over time using a partially controlled ...
Aggressive delinquency among North American Indigenous adolescents: Trajectories and predictors
(Wiley, 2016)
Aggressive delinquency is a salient social problem for many North American Indigenous (American Indian, Canadian First Nations) communities, and can have deleterious consequences later in life. Yet there is a paucity of ...
Factors associated with Indigenous youths' abstinence from drinking
(Elsevier BV, 2017)
The proportion of youth who abstain from alcohol use decreases during adolescence but little attention has focused on factors associated with abstinence. No research has examined this question for Indigenous youth, many ...
Prospective childhood risk factors for gang involvement among North American Indigenous adolescents
(SAGE Publications, 2016-10)
The purpose of the study was to examine prospective childhood risk factors for gang involvement across the course of adolescence among a large 8-year longitudinal sample of 646 Indigenous (i.e., American Indian and Canadian ...
Self-reported arrests among Indigenous adolescents: A longitudinal analysis of community, family, and individual risk factors
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016)
Purpose: North American indigenous (American Indian/Canadian First Nations) adolescents are overrepresented in the juvenile justice systems in the USA and Canada. One explanation advanced for disproportionate numbers of ...
Conduct disorder and alcohol use disorder trajectories, predictors, and outcomes for Indigenous youth
(Elsevier BV, 2017-02)
Objective: The aim of this study was to identify separate and joint trajectories of conduct disorder (CD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) DSM-IV diagnostic symptoms among American Indian and First Nation (Indigenous) youth ...