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| JANETTE L BEALSSummaryAffiliation: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center Country: USA Publications
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The prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder among American Indian Vietnam veterans: disparities and contextJanette Beals
Department of Psychiatry, National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80220, USA
J Trauma Stress 15:89-97. 2002..Once logistic regressions controlled for differential exposure to war-zone stress, ethnicity was no longer a significant predictor of PTSD...- Challenges in operationalizing the DSM-IV clinical significance criterionJanette Beals
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora 80045 0508, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 61:1197-207. 2004..The American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors Project (AI-SUPERPFP) offered a unique opportunity to examine the success of this effort... - Prevalence of major depressive episode in two American Indian reservation populations: unexpected findings with a structured interviewJanette Beals
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, MS F800, P O Box 6508, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:1713-22. 2005..The prevalence of lifetime and 12-month DSM-III-R major depressive episode was compared between the AI-SUPERPFP and NCS samples... - Prevalence of mental disorders and utilization of mental health services in two American Indian reservation populations: mental health disparities in a national contextJanette Beals
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, MS F800, PO Box 6508, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Am J Psychiatry 162:1723-32. 2005.... - Prevalence of DSM-IV disorders and attendant help-seeking in 2 American Indian reservation populationsJanette Beals
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 62:99-108. 2005..The American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors Project (AI-SUPERPFP) estimated the mental health burden and associated help-seeking in select American Indian reservation communities... 
Racial disparities in alcohol use: comparison of 2 American Indian reservation populations with national dataJanette Beals
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO, USA
Am J Public Health 93:1683-5. 2003- Different factor loadings for SF36: the Strong Heart Study and the National Survey of Functional Health StatusJanette Beals
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, F800, P O Box 6508, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 59:208-15. 2006..To increase our understanding of the psychometric characteristics and factor structure of the SF36 in older American Indian populations... - Help seeking for substance use problems in two American Indian reservation populationsJanette Beals
American Indian Program, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, F800, P O Box 6508, Aurora, Colorado 80045 0508, USA
Psychiatr Serv 57:512-20. 2006..This study also sought to understand the correlates of such help seeking, including measures of need, demographic characteristics, spirituality, and ethnic identity... - The relationship of gender and trauma characteristics to posttraumatic stress disorder in a community sample of traumatized northern plains American Indian adolescents and young adultsMukund Gnanadesikan
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
J Clin Psychiatry 66:1176-83. 2005..04) were independent predictors of meeting criteria for PTSD. CONCLUSION: American Indian children and adolescents who experience sexual trauma and multiple traumatic experiences may be at particularly high risk for developing PTSD... - Health-related quality of life and help seeking among American Indians with diabetes and hypertensionLuohua Jiang
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Qual Life Res 18:709-18. 2009.... - Childhood exposure to adversity and risk of substance-use disorder in two American Indian populations: the meditational role of early substance-use initiationNancy Rumbaugh Whitesell
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:971-81. 2009.... - Disparities in patterns of alcohol use among reservation-based and geographically dispersed American Indian populationsDouglas K Novins
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, CO, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 29:107-16. 2005..Careful consideration of these variations may improve the effectiveness of alcohol prevention and treatment programs as they may reflect important underlying differences in the cultures of alcohol consumption across these populations... - Disparities in drug use and disorder: comparison of two American Indian reservation communities and a national sampleNancy Rumbaugh Whitesell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO, USA
Am J Orthopsychiatry 77:131-41. 2007..Findings suggest that disparities in drug use and disorder are complex, characterized by important variations across diverse American Indian tribal cultures... - Performance on the Mini-Mental State Examination and Mattis Dementia Rating Scale among older American IndiansLori L Jervis
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Denver, CO, USA
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 19:173-8. 2007..Complex relationships were found between gender, health conditions (with possible effects on cognitive functioning), and MMSE and MDRS scores. The authors discuss implications and future directions... - Marijuana initiation in 2 American Indian reservation communities: comparison with a national sampleNancy Rumbaugh Whitesell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1311-8. 2007..We examined disparities in age-related patterns of marijuana initiation in 2 culturally distinct American Indian reservation communities (from the Northern Plains and the Southwest) compared with a national sample... - Association between diabetes and mental disorders in two American Indian reservation communitiesLuohua Jiang
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado 80045-0508, USA
Diabetes Care 30:2228-9. 2007 - The relationship of cumulative and proximal adversity to onset of substance dependence symptoms in two American Indian communitiesNancy Rumbaugh Whitesell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Mail Stop F800, P O Box 6508, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 91:279-88. 2007..These findings suggest that efforts to help children and adolescents in AI communities develop constructive mechanisms for coping with adversity may be especially valuable in substance dependence prevention... - Childhood characteristics associated with stage of substance use of American Indians: Family background, traumatic experiences, and childhood behaviorsJoan M O'Connell
American Indian Alaska Native Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, USA
Addict Behav 32:3142-52. 2007..These findings underscore the importance of providing effective interventions during childhood and adolescence to reduce the risk of substance use progression... - Stress burden and diabetes in two American Indian reservation communitiesLuohua Jiang
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Denver, MS F800, P O Box 6508, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Diabetes Care 31:427-9. 2008..To examine the association between psychosocial stress and diabetes in two American Indian reservation communities (Northern Plains and Southwest)... 
Childhood abuse and later parenting outcomes in two American Indian tribesAnne M Libby
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Denver, CO 80045 0508, USA
Child Abuse Negl 32:195-211. 2008..To examine the relationship of childhood physical and sexual abuse with reported parenting satisfaction and parenting role impairment later in life among American Indians (AIs)...- Methods for measuring utilization of mental health services in two epidemiologic studiesDouglas K Novins
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
Int J Methods Psychiatr Res 17:159-73. 2008.... - Alcohol use among American Indian high school youths from adolescence and young adulthood: a latent Markov modelChristina M Mitchell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Denver, F800, P O Box 6508, Aurora, Colorado 80045 0508, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:666-75. 2008..We explored patterns of alcohol use among American Indian youths as well as concurrent predictors and developmental outcomes 6 years later... - Drug use among two American Indian populations: prevalence of lifetime use and DSM-IV substance use disordersChristina M Mitchell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80220, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 69:29-41. 2003..Despite widespread concern and rhetoric about drug problems among AIs, many who had used various drugs either were using them without serious consequences or had quit use altogether... - Aboriginal social organization, contemporary experience and American Indian adolescent alcohol usePaul Spicer
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building, P O Box 6508, Mailstop F800, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
J Stud Alcohol 64:450-7. 2003..Our goal in this article was to explicitly test the importance of these factors in four contemporary American Indian cultural groups... - Comorbidity of alcohol abuse and dependence with medical conditions in 2 American Indian reservation communitiesJay H Shore
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building, Aurora, Colorado 80045 0508, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 30:649-55. 2006..The objective was to examine the association of self-reported Diagnostic and Statistical Manual-IV edition alcohol abuse and dependence with medical conditions among American Indians (AIs)... - Childhood physical and sexual abuse and subsequent depressive and anxiety disorders for two American Indian tribesAnne M Libby
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO, USA
Psychol Med 35:329-40. 2005.... - Social epidemiology of trauma among 2 American Indian reservation populationsSpero M Manson
American Indian Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora 80045 0508, USA
Am J Public Health 95:851-9. 2005..We examined the prevalence of trauma in 2 large American Indian communities in an attempt to describe demographic correlates and to compare findings with a representative sample of the US population... - Correlates of cigarette smoking among selected Southwest and Northern plains tribal groups: the AI-SUPERPFP StudyPatricia Nez Henderson
American Indian Program, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, USA
Am J Public Health 95:867-72. 2005..We describe the prevalence and correlates of cigarette smoking in 2 American Indian tribal groups... - The development of alcohol use and outcome expectancies among American Indian young adults: a growth mixture modelChristina M Mitchell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, 80045, USA
Addict Behav 31:1-14. 2006..Thus, intervention design implications are discussed for the class structures... - Identifying diverse HIV risk groups among American Indian young adults: the utility of cluster analysisChristina M Mitchell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA
AIDS Behav 8:263-75. 2004..Low Efficacy/High Risk had high rates of several high-risk behaviors such as exchanging sex for money or injection drug use. Validation analyses highlighted differences that can be useful for the development of preventive interventions... - Use of biomedical services and traditional healing options among American Indians: sociodemographic correlates, spirituality, and ethnic identityDouglas K Novins
Med Care 42:670-9. 2004..The objective of this study was to describe the use of biomedical services and traditional healing options among a reservation-based sample of American Indians from 2 culturally distinct tribes.. - Childhood physical and sexual abuse and subsequent alcohol and drug use disorders in two American-Indian tribesAnne M Libby
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, Colorado, USA
J Stud Alcohol 65:74-83. 2004.... - The prevalence of DSM-III-R alcohol dependence in two American Indian populationsPaul Spicer
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Univesity of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:1785-97. 2003.... - The relationship between patterns of alcohol use and mental and physical health disorders in two American Indian populationsJoan O'Connell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Addiction 101:69-83. 2006..Multivariate analyses assessed relationships between the alcohol use categories thus identified and a number of health outcomes... - Cultural specificity and comparison in psychiatric epidemiology: walking the tightrope in American Indian researchJanette Beals
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Mail Stop F800, PO Box 6508, Aurora, CO 80045-0508, USA
Cult Med Psychiatry 27:259-89. 2003..A goal of this paper is to challenge those invested in conducting culturally valid epidemiologic work in such populations to better articulate the nature of these efforts... - A pilot study of motivation and treatment completion among American Indian adolescents in substance abuse treatmentAlexandra Fickenscher
National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Addict Behav 31:1402-14. 2006..These concepts and their related therapeutic approaches warrant further study in this population... - Reflections on a proposed theory of reservation-dwelling American Indian alcohol use: comment on Spillane and Smith (2007)Janette Beals
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado, Denver, Aurora, CO 80045 USA
Psychol Bull 135:339-43; discussion 344-6. 2009..Cautionary notes are offered about the development of literature reviews, theoretical frameworks, and policy recommendations for American Indian communities... - Latent class analysis of substance use: comparison of two American Indian reservation populations and a national sampleNancy R Whitesell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building, Mail Stop F800, P O Box 6508, Aurora, Colorado 80045 0508, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:32-43. 2006..We sought to identify characteristic patterns of use-both across and within samples-that could be used to inform intervention efforts aimed at reducing disparities... - Circle of life: rationale, design, and baseline results of an HIV prevention intervention among young American Indian adolescents of the Northern PlainsCarol E Kaufman
University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA
Prev Sci 11:101-12. 2010..The project is well positioned to carry out the longitudinal assessments of the intervention to determine the overall impact of the Circle of Life and the differential impact by pre-intervention patterns of behavior across youth...
Research Grants
- Sociocultural validity in the context of DSM comorbidityJanette Beals; Fiscal Year: 2007..This study has important public health implications as we move towards DSM-V, both for American Indian populations but also more generally, as we seek to improve the psychiatric diagnostic process. ..