Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Research
Research in the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics encompasses a broad range of pediatric health services, access to health care, patient safety, racial and ethnic disparities, language issues, bullying, obesity, teen dating, and transitional care for adolescents and young adults. Our faculty and fellows collaborate on research, publish in peer-reviewed journals, and qualify for research funding.
Division faculty conduct research on a wide variety of children’s health and health care issues, including:
- Improvement of the health and health care of underserved children, including those who are poor, uninsured, racial or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, and those who face language barriers and have special health care needs
- Racial and ethnic, gender, and language disparities in children’s health and health care
- Community-based interventions for improving the health and health care of underserved children in foster care
- Innovative interventions for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
- Prevention of pediatric hospitalization
- Transition to adult care models
- Prevention of teen pregnancy; health promotion of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and use of text messages for adolescent outpatient appointment reminders
- Factors in the prevention of child abuse and neglect
- Neurocognitive outcomes of neurodevelopmental and genetic disorders, including spina bifida
- Physical capacity in youth with spina bifida
- Psychotropic management in spina bifida
- Quality of life in parents of children with complex medical needs
- Well-being of siblings of children with complex medical needs
- Sexual and gender minority youth and mental health
- Sexual and reproductive health
- Communication within the patient-parent-provider triad about adolescent health services
- Pressure injury prevention
- Improvement of electronic health record usability for providers caring for children with medical complexity
- Improvement of the approach to patients with chronic home ventilation for patients with severe neurological impairment
- Assessment of perceptions of palliative care among care teams, patients, and caregivers
- Improvement of communication strategies between palliative care and hospice