PRC Faculty and Staff Highlights
Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth
HYD-PRC members Amy Gower and Barb McMorris, along with colleagues Nic Rider, Camille Brown, Eli Coleman, Lindsay Taliaferro, and Marla Eisenberg recently published an article, “Supporting Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth: Protection Against Emotional Distress and Substance Use” in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This article examines whether the presence of caring parents, safe and supportive schools, and connections to adults in the community are associated with reductions in depression, suicidality, and substance use among a statewide sample of transgender and gender diverse youth.
Mobile App Helps Providers Self-assess Vaccination Practices
Annie-Laurie McRee, Assistant Professor and HYD-PRC deputy director, received support from the Michael Joseph Sauvageau Fund to develop and assess the acceptability and feasibility of a mobile app for health care providers to self-assess their vaccination practices and receive feedback.
Pediatric Providers’ Perspectives of Children with Incarcerated Parents
Using an online fictional vignette research design, Rebecca Shlafer, Assistant Professor and HYD-PRC faculty, and her team will ask pediatric providers to respond to questions about fictional children presenting for care. Shlafer is exploring if and how care is altered when pediatric providers are aware that the child’s father is absent or in prison. Shlafer received funding to support this project from the Michael Joseph Sauvageau Fund.
Unmet Health Care Needs: Youth in Minnesota’s Juvenile Correction Facilities
Rebecca Shlafer and her colleagues recently released a report highlighting that youth residing in correctional facilities have substantially higher rates of adverse health conditions (physical, mental, dental) than their peers. Report findings -- results from the 2016 Minnesota Student Survey -- indicate that youth access to health care is well below suggested guidelines. To review this report, please click here.
First PHSO Paper is Published
Congratulations to Jennifer Doty (former HYD-PRC post-doctoral fellow) and HYD-PRC colleagues, Amy Gower, Renee Sieving, Shari Plowman, and Barb McMorris, on the first publication from the PRC’s Partnering for Healthy Student Outcomes core research project. “Cyberbullying, Victimization and Perpetration, Connectedness, and Monitoring of Online Activities: Protection from Parental Figures” can be found in the December 2018 issue of the journal Social Sciences.
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Policies and Practices to Prevent Bias-Based Bullying in Schools
Congratulations to HYD-PRC staff Amy Gower and her colleagues on receiving funding to conduct a multi-method pilot study to understand youth, parent, and school personnel's experiences with bias-based bullying and schools' responses to it. Focused on the experiences of youth of color, LGBTQ youth, and overweight youth, who are often subject to increased levels of bullying, Gower and colleagues will also examine how schools’ diversity education activities are related to bias-based bullying. This two-year collaborative project will be with colleagues in the Divisions of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health and Environmental Health Sciences in the School of Public Health at the UMN.