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| Christina M MitchellSummaryAffiliation: University of Colorado Denver Country: USA Publications
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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...- Trajectories of cognitive development among American Indian young childrenChristina M Mitchell
Department of Community and Behavioral Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Dev Psychol 47:991-9. 2011.... - The utility of the Kessler Screening Scale for Psychological Distress (K6) in two American Indian communitiesChristina M Mitchell
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Mail Stop F800, Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building, 13055 East 17th Avenue, Room 335, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Psychol Assess 23:752-61. 2011..Inclusion of a measure such as the K6 as a complement to more traditional dichotomous diagnoses in both research and clinical practice is recommended... - 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.... 
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...- 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 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... - 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... 
Patterns of substance use initiation among young adolescents in a Northern Plains American Indian tribeNancy Rumbaugh Whitesell
Department of Community and Behavioral Health, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 38:383-8. 2012..Studies suggest that disparities can be traced to disproportionate rates of early substance use, but most evidence comes from the retrospective reports of adults or older adolescents...- 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... - 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 - 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.... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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 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)... - 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.... - 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... - 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... - A longitudinal study of self-esteem, cultural identity, and academic success among American Indian adolescentsNancy Rumbaugh Whitesell
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045 0508, USA
Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 15:38-50. 2009..The relationships between self-esteem and success were mediated by personal resources and problem behaviors... - Culture, context, and sexual risk among Northern Plains American Indian YouthCarol E Kaufman
American Indian and Alaska Native Programs, University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Soc Sci Med 64:2152-64. 2007..Youth encountered few economic or social recriminations for a teen birth. As such, cultural influences are important to American Indian sexual health and could be a key part of prevention strategies... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Epidemiology and etiology of substance use among American Indians and Alaska Natives: risk, protection, and implications for preventionNancy Rumbaugh Whitesell
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Am J Drug Alcohol Abuse 38:376-82. 2012.... - Circle of Life HIV/AIDS-prevention intervention for American Indian and Alaska Native youthCarol E Kaufman
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Am Indian Alsk Native Ment Health Res 19:140-53. 2012..The curricula underwent extensive national and community review. Subsequent advances include the development of a computer-based version of the intervention... - 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... - 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... - Impact of targeted health promotion on cardiovascular knowledge among American Indians and Alaska NativesAngela G Brega
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A and M Health Sciences Center, College Station, TX 77845, USA
Health Educ Res 28:437-49. 2013..HGHH appears to improve cardiovascular knowledge among AI/ANs across health literacy levels... - Mechanisms underlying the relationship between health literacy and glycemic control in American Indians and Alaska NativesAngela G Brega
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, USA
Patient Educ Couns 88:61-8. 2012..To understand why HL is related to outcomes, we tested a theoretical framework proposing that diabetes-related knowledge and behavior mediate (explain) the relationship between HL and glycemic control (i.e., A1c)...