Courtney Blondino
Biographic Data
| ID | 1734377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Courtney Blondino |
| GIVEN NAMES | Courtney |
| FAMILY NAME | Blondino |
| SIGNATURE | BLONDINO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9966-4039 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A community conversation process to establish resident and service provider perspectives on needs related to use and treatment of opioids and substances
Introduction: Rates of fatal overdose due to opioid and substance use in Richmond, Virginia increased from 44.6 in 2018 to 129.5 per 100,000 city residents in 2023. The underlying contexts surrounding the increase in substance use and overdoses in Richmond, Virginia remains poorly understood. Methods: Using community based participatory research principles (CBPR), a series of "community conversations" with neighborhood residents were conducted be…
Latent Classes of Comorbid Substance Use and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms and Their Stability in U.S. Adults Over Time
Introduction The co-occurrence of mental disorder symptoms is common in people who use substances. It is unclear whether patterns of comorbidity in a population-based sample of adults are consistent with prior work. The study goal was to identify this comorbidity structure and evaluate its stability over time.Methods Using Waves 1, 2, and 3 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, this study applied latent class analysis to ident…
Latent Structure of Past 12-Month Tobacco Use in Wave 6 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco product usage patterns vary significantly across different segments of the population. Combustible tobacco product usage decreased from 19.3% to 12.5%, while electronic cigarette (ECIG) use rose from 1.8% to 3.7% for the US population from 2010 to 2020. However, age-specific estimates differ between younger and older adults. It is possible there are latent subpopulations within American adults. METHOD: a 6-level ordinal vari…
Utilizing natural language processing to analyze student narrative reflections for medical curriculum improvement
MOTIVATION: Medical curricula improvement is an ongoing process to keep material relevant and improve the student's learning experience to better prepare them for patient care. Many programs utilize end-of-year evaluations, but these frequently have low response rates and lack actionable feedback. We hypothesized that student reflections written during a fourth year Sub-Internship could be used retrospectively to mine additional information as fe…
The use and potential impact of digital health tools at the community level
CHWs are not an obstacle to digital health adoption or use. CHWs believe that digital tools can help them have more impact in their communities regardless of perceived barriers. However, cost is a barrier to digital device/tool use; potential solutions to cost constraints of technological access will benefit from further exploration of reimbursement models. Digital health tools have the potential to increase CHW capacity and shape the future of c…
The Association Between Health Literacy and Tobacco Use
Association between caregiver depression and child after-school program participation
Depressive symptoms in parents and caregivers to children are associated with adverse biopsychosocial outcomes for caregivers themselves and the children in their custody. Higher overall and parenting-related stress, including stress over children's unsupervised after-school time, is associated with increased caregiver depression risk. Child after-school program participation is a form of social support that may mitigate parenting-related stress …
Developing community-based health education strategies with family history
These results provide evidence that perceived threat mediates the association between FH and engagement with health education. Currently available health education programs may benefit from considering the role of FH in an individual's motivation for participation in health education activities alongside other factors
Developing community-based health education strategies with family history
These results provide evidence that perceived threat mediates the association between FH and engagement with health education. Currently available health education programs may benefit from considering the role of FH in an individual's motivation for participation in health education activities alongside other factors
Association between caregiver depression and child after-school program participation
Depressive symptoms in parents and caregivers to children are associated with adverse biopsychosocial outcomes for caregivers themselves and the children in their custody. Higher overall and parenting-related stress, including stress over children's unsupervised after-school time, is associated with increased caregiver depression risk. Child after-school program participation is a form of social support that may mitigate parenting-related stress …
Developing community-based health education strategies with family history
These results provide evidence that perceived threat mediates the association between FH and engagement with health education. Currently available health education programs may benefit from considering the role of FH in an individual's motivation for participation in health education activities alongside other factors
The Association Between Health Literacy and Tobacco Use
The use and potential impact of digital health tools at the community level
CHWs are not an obstacle to digital health adoption or use. CHWs believe that digital tools can help them have more impact in their communities regardless of perceived barriers. However, cost is a barrier to digital device/tool use; potential solutions to cost constraints of technological access will benefit from further exploration of reimbursement models. Digital health tools have the potential to increase CHW capacity and shape the future of c…
Latent Classes of Comorbid Substance Use and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms and Their Stability in U.S. Adults Over Time
Introduction The co-occurrence of mental disorder symptoms is common in people who use substances. It is unclear whether patterns of comorbidity in a population-based sample of adults are consistent with prior work. The study goal was to identify this comorbidity structure and evaluate its stability over time.Methods Using Waves 1, 2, and 3 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study, this study applied latent class analysis to ident…
Latent Structure of Past 12-Month Tobacco Use in Wave 6 of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health
INTRODUCTION: Tobacco product usage patterns vary significantly across different segments of the population. Combustible tobacco product usage decreased from 19.3% to 12.5%, while electronic cigarette (ECIG) use rose from 1.8% to 3.7% for the US population from 2010 to 2020. However, age-specific estimates differ between younger and older adults. It is possible there are latent subpopulations within American adults. METHOD: a 6-level ordinal vari…
Utilizing natural language processing to analyze student narrative reflections for medical curriculum improvement
MOTIVATION: Medical curricula improvement is an ongoing process to keep material relevant and improve the student's learning experience to better prepare them for patient care. Many programs utilize end-of-year evaluations, but these frequently have low response rates and lack actionable feedback. We hypothesized that student reflections written during a fourth year Sub-Internship could be used retrospectively to mine additional information as fe…
A community conversation process to establish resident and service provider perspectives on needs related to use and treatment of opioids and substances
Introduction: Rates of fatal overdose due to opioid and substance use in Richmond, Virginia increased from 44.6 in 2018 to 129.5 per 100,000 city residents in 2023. The underlying contexts surrounding the increase in substance use and overdoses in Richmond, Virginia remains poorly understood. Methods: Using community based participatory research principles (CBPR), a series of "community conversations" with neighborhood residents were conducted be…
Medicine (7 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Environmental health (3 works) · Population (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Public health (3 works) · Anxiety (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works) · Community health (2 works) · Demography (2 works)