Search Results - "SCHARF, DEBORAH M."

Quantifying the Persistence of Pro-Smoking Media Effects on College Students' Smoking Risk by Setodji, Claude M., Ph.D, Martino, Steven C., Ph.D, Scharf, Deborah M., Ph.D, Shadel, William G., Ph.D

“…Abstract Purpose To quantify the persistence of pro-smoking media exposure effects on college students' intentions to smoke and smoking refusal self-efficacy…”
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Integrating Primary Care Into Community Mental Health Centers: Impact on Utilization and Costs of Health Care by Krupski, Antoinette, West, Imara I, Scharf, Deborah M, Hopfenbeck, James, Andrus, Graydon, Joesch, Jutta M, Snowden, Mark

“…Objective:This evaluation was designed to assess the impact of providing integrated primary and mental health care on utilization and costs for outpatient…”
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Structural Components of Integrated Behavioral Health Care: A Comparison of National Programs by Goldman, Matthew L, Scharf, Deborah M, Brown, Jonathan D, Scholle, Sarah H, Pincus, Harold A

“…Initiatives that support and incentivize the integration of behavioral health and general medical care have become a focus of government strategies to achieve…”
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Integrating Primary Care Into Community Behavioral Health Settings: Programs and Early Implementation Experiences by Scharf, Deborah M, Eberhart, Nicole K, Schmidt, Nicole, Vaughan, Christine A, Dutta, Trina, Pincus, Harold Alan, Burnam, M. Audrey

“…ObjectiveThis article describes the characteristics and early implementation experiences of community behavioral health agencies that received Primary and…”
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General Medical Outcomes From the Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration Grant Program by Scharf, Deborah M, Schmidt Hackbarth, Nicole, Eberhart, Nicole K, Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela, Beckman, Robin, Han, Bing, Pincus, Harold Alan, Burnam, M. Audrey

“…Objective:Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration (PBHCI) grants aim to improve the health of people with serious mental illness by integrating primary…”
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Hiding the tobacco power wall reduces cigarette smoking risk in adolescents: using an experimental convenience store to assess tobacco regulatory options at retail point-of-sale by Shadel, William G, Martino, Steven C, Setodji, Claude M, Scharf, Deborah M, Kusuke, Daniela, Sicker, Angela, Gong, Min

“…ObjectivesThis experiment tested whether changing the location or visibility of the tobacco power wall in a life sized replica of a convenience store had any…”
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Impact of a mental health based primary care program on emergency department visits and inpatient stays by Breslau, Joshua, Leckman-Westin, Emily, Han, Bing, Pritam, Riti, Guarasi, Diana, Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela, Scharf, Deborah M., Finnerty, Molly T., Yu, Hao

“…Integrating primary care services into specialty mental health clinics has been proposed as a method for improving health care utilization for medical…”
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Patterns of intermittent smoking: An analysis using Ecological Momentary Assessment by Shiffman, Saul, Kirchner, Thomas R, Ferguson, Stuart G, Scharf, Deborah M

“…Abstract Non-daily smokers comprise a substantial proportion of US smokers, but there has been little study of their patterns of smoking, which are often…”
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Enrollment of Specialty Mental Health Clinics in a State Medicaid Program to Promote General Medical Services by Breslau, Joshua, Yu, Hao, Horvitz-Lennon, Marcela, Leckman-Westin, Emily, Scharf, Deborah M, Connor, Kathryn L, Finnerty, Molly T

“…Objective:To promote integrated general medical care for individuals with serious mental illness, the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) established…”
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Prioritizing quality measure concepts at the interface of behavioral and physical healthcare by PINCUS, HAROLD ALAN, LI, MINGJIE, SCHARF, DEBORAH M., SPAETH-RUBLEE, BRIGITTA, GOLDMAN, MATTHEW L., RAMANUJ, PARASHAR P., FERENCHICK, ERIN K.

“…Integrated healthcare models can increase access to care, improve healthcare quality, and reduce cost for individuals with behavioral and general medical…”
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The effects of prior authorization policies on medicaid-enrolled children's use of antipsychotic medications: evidence from two mid-Atlantic states by Stein, Bradley D, Leckman-Westin, Emily, Okeke, Edward, Scharf, Deborah M, Sorbero, Mark, Chen, Qingxian, Chor, Ka Ho Brian, Finnerty, Molly, Wisdom, Jennifer P

“…The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of prior authorization policies on the receipt of antipsychotic medication for Medicaid-enrolled children…”
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Analyzing Milestones in Smoking Cessation: Illustration in a Nicotine Patch Trial in Adult Smokers by Shiffman, Saul, Scharf, Deborah M, Shadel, William G, Gwaltney, Chad J, Dang, Qianyu, Paton, Stephanie M, Clark, Duncan B

“…Tests of addiction treatments seldom reveal where treatment exercises its effect (i.e., promoting initial abstinence, preventing lapses, and/or impeding…”
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Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration Program: Impacts on Health Care Utilization, Cost, and Quality by Breslau, Joshua, Sorbero, Mark J, Kusuke, Daniela, Yu, Hao, Scharf, Deborah M, Hackbarth, Nicole Schmidt, Pincus, Harold Alan

“…This article describes an extension of the RAND Corporation's evaluation of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Primary and…”
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Measuring Exposure to Protobacco Marketing and Media: A Field Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment by Martino, Steven C., Scharf, Deborah M., Setodji, Claude M., Shadel, William G.

“…The aims of this study were to validate ecological momentary assessment (EMA) as a method for measuring exposure to tobacco-related marketing and media and to…”
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Middle and High School Students' Exposure to Alcohol- and Smoking-Related Media: A Pilot Study Using Ecological Momentary Assessment by Scharf, Deborah M., Martino, Steven C., Setodji, Claude M., Staplefoote, B. Lynette, Shadel, William G.

“…The goals of this study were to assess the feasibility of using Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) to measure adolescents' exposure to alcohol and…”
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Daily Smoking Patterns, Their Determinants, and Implications for Quitting by Chandra, Siddharth, Shiffman, Saul, Scharf, Deborah M, Dang, Qianyu, Shadel, William G

“…In this article, the authors examine daily temporal patterns of smoking in relation to environmental restrictions on smoking and cessation outcomes…”
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Friends Moderate the Effects of Pro-Smoking Media on College Students' Intentions to Smoke by SETODJI, Claude M, MARTINO, Steven C, SCHARF, Deborah M, SHADEL, William G

“…Exposure to prosmoking media (e.g., smoking in movies, advertising in magazines) contributes to smoking in young people. However, the extent to which the…”
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Smoking during the night: Prevalence and smoker characteristics by Scharf, Deborah M., Dunbar, Michael S., Shiffman, Saul

“…We report on the smoking patterns and characteristics of individuals who smoke at night. We also explore the relationship between night smoking, nicotine…”
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Focusing on the five A's: A comparison of homeless and housed patients' access to and use of pharmacist-provided smoking cessation treatment by Connor, Sharon E., Scharf, Deborah M., Jonkman, Lauren J., Herbert, Mary I.

“…The prevalence of smoking remains high among the medically underserved and could be related to disparities in access to and use of smoking cessation…”
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SimCoach Evaluation: A Virtual Human Intervention to Encourage Service-Member Help-Seeking for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Depression by Meeker, Daniella, Cerully, Jennifer L, Johnson, Megan, Iyer, Neema, Kurz, Jeremy, Scharf, Deborah M

“…This article describes RAND Corporation researchers' assessment of SimCoach, a computer program featuring a virtual human that speaks and gestures in a video…”
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