Research

Publications

1. Referrals to Community and State Agencies to Address Social Determinants of Health for Improving Mental Health, Functioning, and Quality of Care Outcomes for Diverse Adults: North Carolina and Massachusetts, September 2019–January 2023 (with Margarita Alegría, Sheri Lapatin Markle, Irene Falgas-Bague, Claire Poindexter, Ganriela Livas Stein, Kari Eddington, Abraham Ezequiel Martinez Vargas, Larimar Fuentes, Michelle Cheng, and Patrick E Shrout). American Journal of Public Health, Advance online publication, November 2023. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307442

2. Parental psychopathology and posttraumatic stress in Puerto Ricans: the role of childhood adversity and parenting practices (with Jenny Zhen-Duan, Kiara Alvarez, Lulu Zhang, Josephine Kuo, Irene Falgas-Bagué, Hector Bird, Clorisa Canino, Cristiane S Duarte, and Margarita Alegría). The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Advance online publication, October 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13902

3. Resilience of racial and ethnic minority older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of a prior disability prevention intervention (with Mayra L Sánchez González, Irene Falgas-Bague, Sheri L Markle, and Margarita Alegría). The American psychologist, Advance online publication, July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001177

4. Association of sociocultural stressors with bipolar disorder onset in Puerto Rican youth growing up as members of a minoritized ethnic group: results from the Boricua Youth Longitudinal Study (with Irene Falgas-Bague, Jenny Zhen-Duan, Arundati Nagendra, Kiara Alvarez, Glorisa Canino, Cristiane S Duarte, Hector Bird, Pablo Martinez De-Salazar, and Margarita Alegría). The Lancet Regional Health, 24: 100549, July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2023.100549

5. Adverse childhood experiences and alcohol use and misuse: Testing the impact of traditional and expanded adverse childhood experiences among racially/ethnically diverse youth transitioning into adulthood (with Jenny Zhen-Duan, Daniella Colombo, Mercedes Hoyos, and Kiara Alvarez). Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 15(Suppl 1), S55–S64, May 2023. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001458

6. A Longitudinal Study of Risk Factors for Sexual Victimization in Puerto Rican Youth (with Hiu-fai Fong, Kiara Alvarez, Glorisa Canino, Hector R. Bird, and Margarita Alegría). Academic pediatrics, S1876-2859(22)00631-3, December 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2022.12.003

7. Association of everyday discrimination with health outcomes among Asian and non-Asian US older adults before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (with Lulu Zhang, Ziqiang Lin, Xinyi Ouyang, Fengnuan Zhao, and Margarita Alegría). Frontiers in Public Health, section Public Health Education and Promotion, Advance online publication, October 2022. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.953155

8. Racial/ethnic differences in acute and longer-term posttraumatic symptoms following traumatic injury or illness (with Margarita Alegría, Patrick A. Palmieri, David A. Spain, M. Rose Barlow, Lisa Shieh, Marjory Williams, Pranathi Srirangam, and Eve B. Carlson). Psychological Medicine, Advance online publication, July 2002, Pages: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291722002112

9. Role of social determinants in anxiety and depression symptoms during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adults in North Carolina and Massachusetts (with Margarita Alegría, Isabel S. O’Malley, Kiara Alvarez, Gabriela L. Stein, Larimar Fuentes, Kari Eddington, Claire Poindexter, Sheri L. Markle, Anne N. Thorndike, Lulu Zhang, and Patrick E. Shrout). Behaviour Research and Therapy, Volume 154, July 2022, Pages: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2022.104102

10. How minority context alters the risk for developing mental health disorders and psychological distress for Latinx young adults (with Margarita Alegría, Kiara Alvarez, Glorisa Canino, Cristiane Duarte, Hector Bird, Maria Ramos-Olazagasti, Sheri L. Markle, Isabel S. O’Malley, Doriliz Vila, and Patrick E. Shrout. The Milbank Quarterly, Volume 100, Issue 2, June 2022, Pages: 424-463. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0009.12552

11. Factors Associated with Mental Health Service Use among Black, Latinx, and Asian Older Adults in Community Based Organizations (with Liao Zhang, Isabel S. O'Malley, Mayra Sanchez, and Margarita Alegría). Journal of Applied Gerontology, Volume 41, Issue 3, March 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/07334648211012802

12. Late Life Anxiety and Depression Symptoms, and Suicidal Behaviors in Racial/Ethnic Minority Older Adults in Community-Based Organizations and Community Clinics in the U.S. (with Aida L. Jiménez, Tiara F. Calhoun, Lauren Cohen, and Margarita Alegría). Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advance online publication, February 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000524

13. Similarities in client-clinician perceptions of subjective social status and its association to similarities in the quality of working alliance and client anxiety symptoms (with Ora Nakash, Alisa K. Lincoln, Souvik Banerjee and Margarita Alegria). Psychotherapy Research, Volume 31 Issue 8, November 2021, Pages: 1079-1091. https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2021.1900618

14. The association between patient-provider racial/ethnic concordance, working alliance, and length of treatment in behavioral health settings (with Alice W. Cheng, Ora Nakash, Mirko K. Fillbrunn, and Margarita Alegría). Psychological Services, Advance online publication, September 2021. https://doi.org/10.1037/ser0000582

15. The Impact of Social Support on Treatment Participation and Completion in a Disability Prevention Intervention for Older Adults (with Elizabeth Vásquez, Isabel O’Malley, Esther Velásquez, and Margarita Alegría). Journal of Aging and Health, Volume 33, Issue 7-8, August-September 2021, Pages 557-564. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264321999897

16. Racial/ethnic disparities in depression treatment for caregivers investigated by the U.S. child welfare system (with Hiu-fai Fong, Michael Lindsey, William Beardslee, and Margarita Alegria). Academic Pediatrics, Volume 21, Issue 6, August 2021, Pages: 1037-1045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2021.02.004

17. Associations Between Trauma, Sleep, and Cognitive Impairment Among Latino and Asian Older Adults (with Altaf Saadi, Andrew Hwang, Lauren Cohen, and Margarita Alegría). Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Volume 69, Issue 4, April 2021, Pages:1019-1026. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.16986

18. Measurement Invariance of Screening Measures of Anxiety, Depression, and Level of Functioning in a US Sample of Minority Older Adults Assessed in Four Languages (with Patrick E. Shrout, Kiara Alvarez, Issaure Hostetter, and Margarita Alegria). Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12:579173, February 2021. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.579173

19. Racial/Ethnic Differences in General Physical Symptoms and Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms: Investigating the Role of Education (with Stella Evangelidou, Amanda NeMoyer, Isabel O’Malley, and Margarita Alegría). Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 2020, Pages: 557-569. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000319

20. Reducing racial/ethnic disparities in mental health service use among emerging adults: community-level supply factors (with Amanda NeMoyer, Kiara Alvarez, Ronald C. Kessler, Nancy A. Sampson, Jennifer G. Green, and Margarita Alegría). Ethnicity and Health, Volume 27, Issue 4, September 2020, Pages: 749-769. https://doi.org/10.1080/13557858.2020.1814999

21. Barriers to mental health service use and predictors of treatment drop out: Racial/ethnic variation in a population-based study (with Jennifer G. Green, Katie A. McLaughlin, Mirko Fillbrunn, Marie Fukuda, James S. Jackson, Ronald C. Kessler, Ekaterina Sadikova, Nancy A. Sampson, Corrie Vilsaint, David R. Williams, and Margarita Alegria). Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Service Research, Volume 47, Issue 4, July 2020, Pages: 606-616. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-020-01021-6

22. Association Between Patient-Provider Racial and Ethnic Concordance and Patient-Centered Communication in Outpatient Mental Health Clinics (with Christin Mujica, Kiara Alvarez, Shalini Tendulkar, and Margarita Alegría). Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Volume 30, Issue 3, January 2020, Pages: 423-439. https://doi.org/10.1037/int0000195

23. Effectiveness of a Disability Prevention Intervention for Minority Elders: The Positive Minds-Strong Bodies Randomized Clinical Trial (with Margarita Alegría, Walter Frontera, Sheri L. Markle, Chau Trinh-Shevrin, Ye Wang, Lizbeth Herrera, Rachel Z. Ishikawa, Esther Velazquez, Larimar Fuentes, Yuying Guo, Janet Pan, Megan Cheung, Jeanine Wong, Urania Genatios, Aida Jimenez, Zorangeli Ramos, Giselle Perez, Josephine Y. Wong, Ching-King Chieng, Stephen J. Bartels, Naihua Duan, and Patrick E. Shrout). American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Volume 27, Issue 12, December 2019, Pages: 1299-1313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2019.08.008

24. Change in Patient Activation and Mental Illness Symptoms After Communication Training: A Multisite Study with a Diverse Patient Sample (with Meng Chiang, Janet Chang, Ora Nakash, Mirko K. Fillbrunn, and Margarita Alegría). Psychiatric Services, Volume 70, Issue 8, August 2019, Pages: 696-702. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201800216

25. Bias corrections for probit and logit models with two-way fixed effects (with Ivan Fernandez-Val and Martin Weidner). The Stata Journal, Volume 17, Issue 3, September 2017, Pages: 517-545. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536867X1701700301

Working Papers

1. Association of a disability preventive intervention for older adults with all-cause mortality before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: Secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial (with Irene Falgas-Bague, Kiara Alvarez, Sheri L. Markle, and Margarita Alegría).

2. Relationship Between Childhood Trauma and Discrimination Experiences on Post-traumatic Stress: A Study of Puerto Rican Youth in Two Contexts (with Lisa R. Fortuna, Michelle Porche, Kiara Alvarez, Sarah Valentine, and Margarita Alegría).

3. Predictors of Leaving High School for Boricua Youth in Mainland U.S. and Puerto Rico (with Michelle V. Porche, Sarah A. Mejia, Lisa R. Fortuna, Kiara Alvarez, Héctor R. Bird, Cristiane S. Duarte, Glorisa Canino, and Margarita Alegría).

4. Neighborhood Context and Suicidal Behavior among Puerto Rican Adolescents and Young Adults: Findings from a Two-Site Longitudinal Study (with Kiara Alvarez, Karissa DiMarzio, Lillian Polanco-Roman, Patrick E. Shrout, Hector Bird, Glorisa Canino, Cristiane Duarte, and Margarita Alegría).

Selected Work in Progress

1. Association of prenatal substance use with educational attainment of Puerto Rican adolescents: the mediating role of school performance (with Jenny Zhen-Duan, Kiara Alvarez, Irene Falgas-Bague, Cristiane S. Duarte, Glorisa Canino, Hector Bird, and Margarita Alegría).

2. The Effect of Compulsory Preschool on Educational Outcomes and Parents' Behavior: Evidence from Mexico.

3. Do Group Monetary Incentives Influence the Estimation of Peer Effects? Evidence from the Aligning Learning Incentives Program.