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Testing the Feasibility of a Culturally Tailored Breast Cancer Screening Intervention with Native Hawaiian Women in Rural Churches
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Ka'opua, Lana Sue I.; Park, Soon H.; Ward, Margaret E.; Braun, Kathryn L. – Health & Social Work, 2011
The authors report on the feasibility of delivering a church-based breast cancer screening intervention tailored on the cultural strengths of rural-dwelling Hawaiians. Native Hawaiian women are burdened by disproportionately high mortality from breast cancer, which is attributed to low participation in routine mammography. Mammography is proven to…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Churches, Cancer, Screening Tests
The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Short Version: Scale Reduction via Exploratory Bifactor Modeling of the Broad Anxiety Factor
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Ebesutani, Chad; Reise, Steven P.; Chorpita, Bruce F.; Ale, Chelsea; Regan, Jennifer; Young, John; Higa-McMillan, Charmaine; Weisz, John R. – Psychological Assessment, 2012
Using a school-based (N = 1,060) and clinic-referred (N = 303) youth sample, the authors developed a 25-item shortened version of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) using Schmid-Leiman exploratory bifactor analysis to reduce client burden and administration time and thus improve the transportability characteristics of this…
Descriptors: Reliability, Measures (Individuals), Anxiety, Depression (Psychology)
Differences in Levels of Functional Impairment and Rates of Serious Emotional Disturbance between Youth with Internalizing and Externalizing Disorders When Using the CAFAS or GAF to Assess Functional Impairment
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Francis, Sarah E.; Ebesutani, Chad; Chorpita, Bruce F. – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 2012
This investigation examined how two commonly employed measures of functional impairment (the "Child and Adolescent Functional Assessment Scale" [CAFAS] and the "Global Assessment of Functioning" [GAF] scale) perform with respect to assessing levels of functional impairment and, hence, identifying rates of serious emotional…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Measures (Individuals), Emotional Disturbances, Functional Behavioral Assessment
Evidence-Based Services in a Statewide Public Mental Health System: Do the Services Fit the Problems?
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Schiffman, Jason; Becker, Kimberly D.; Daleiden, Eric L. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2006
This study examined the degree to which a literature review of evidence-based services identified services appropriate for the actual problems of youth involved in intensive public mental health services. The diagnostic profiles and specific intervention targets reported by treatment providers were coded to determine whether a relevant empirically…
Descriptors: Youth, Mental Health, Problems, Clinical Diagnosis
Population and Service Characteristics of Youth with Schizophrenia-Spectrum Diagnoses in the Hawaii System of Care
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Schiffman, Jason; Daleiden, Eric L. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: Population and service characteristics were compared for youth (age 0-18 years) with and without schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, who received public mental health services in Hawaii's comprehensive system of care between July 1, 2000 and June 30, 2001. Methods: Electronic records of youth with a diagnosis in the…
Descriptors: Health Services, Delivery Systems, Schizophrenia, Mental Health Programs
Staying in the Clinical Ballpark while Running the Evidence Bases
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Chorpita, Bruce F.; Viesselman, John O. – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
Leimomi was a 16-year-old female of Asian Pacific Island descent born and raised on Oahu who was referred to the Department of Health's Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division (CAMHD) by her public school student services coordinator for running away, chronic truancy, aggressiveness, and drug abuse. She had been diagnosed with systemic lupus…
Descriptors: Methods, Decision Making, Medical Services, Intervention
The National Center on Indigenous Hawaiian Behavioral Health Study of Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in Native Hawaiian Adolescents
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Andrade, Naleen N.; Hishinuma, Earl S.; McDermott, John F., Jr.; Johnson, Ronald C.; Goebert, Deborah A.; Makini, George K., Jr.; Nahulu, Linda B.; Yuen, Noelle Y. C.; McArdle, John J.; Bell, Cathy K.; Carlton, Barry S.; Miyamoto, Robin H.; Nishimura, Stephanie T.; Else, Iwalani R. N.; Guerrero, Anthony P. S.; Darmal, Arsalan; Yates, Alayne; Waldron, Jane A. – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2006
Objectives: The prevalence rates of disorders among a community-based sample of Hawaiian youths were determined and compared to previously published epidemiological studies. Method: Using a two-phase design, 7,317 adolescents were surveyed (60% participation rate), from which 619 were selected in a modified random sample during the 1992-1993 to…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Identification, Incidence, Anxiety