Melissa T Merrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 222127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Melissa T Merrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Melissa T |
| FAMILY NAME | Merrick |
| SIGNATURE | MERRICK M T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2001-1025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 222 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Evaluating Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Policies in the United States: Lessons Learned
Receipt of Paid Family Leave and Intimate Partner Violence for Women Employed During the Perinatal Period
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a preventable public health problem with documented negative effects on well-being. The perinatal period represents a time of increased stress for partners, which can increase the likelihood of IPV. Economic support policies, like paid family leave (PFL), may reduce family violence, including IPV. Using data from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, we examine the association between receipt of PFL a…
A Playbook for Building Integrated Care Teams: Lessons for System Transformation
In the 1990s, Alaska Native people chose to assume responsibility for their own health care and transform the system to provide better care than they had received as “beneficiaries” of a government-run system that did not meet their needs. Southcentral Foundation (SCF), an Alaska Native-owned and managed organization, took responsibility for providing primary care and related services to Alaska Native and American Indian people in Alaska’s Cook I…
Paid Family Leave: An Upstream Intervention to Prevent Family Violence
Child Care Subsidy Generosity and Child Maltreatment: The Moderating Effects of Administrative Burden
The moment is now: Strengthening communities and families for the future of our nation
Association of public explanations of why children struggle and support for policy solutions using a national sample
Childcare Subsidy Enrollment Income Generosity and Child Maltreatment
In the United States, childcare subsidies are available to low-income working parents to assist with the cost of childcare. The subsidies are provided as block grants to states, which allows for a great deal of flexibility in the specific policies guiding their distribution. Prior research has found a protective link between childcare subsidies and child maltreatment, but the variations in policies have been much less explored. The current study …
Alaskan Innovation: Full Integration of Behavioural Health Services in Primary Care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Team Performance Training: Lessons from Alaska on Team-Based Care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Early childhood education and care policies in the U.S. And their impact on family violence
Recognizing the cumulative burden of childhood adversities transforms science and practice for trauma and resilience
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) studies transformed our understanding of the true burden of trauma. Notable elements of Felitti and colleagues' findings include the influence of adversity on many physical as well as psychological problems and the persistence of impacts decades after the traumas occurred. In this article, we make the case that the most revolutionary finding was the discovery of a strong dose-response effect, with marked i…
Economic Burden of Known Cases of Child Maltreatment from 2018 in Each State
Adverse Childhood Experiences Increase Risk for Prescription Opioid Misuse
Examining the association between ACEs, childhood poverty and neglect, and physical and mental health: Data from two state samples
Vital Signs: Estimated Proportion of Adult Health Problems Attributable to Adverse Childhood Experiences and Implications for Prevention — 25 States, 2015–2017
INTRODUCTION: Adverse childhood experiences, such as violence victimization, substance misuse in the household, or witnessing intimate partner violence, have been linked to leading causes of adult morbidity and mortality. Therefore, reducing adverse childhood experiences is critical to avoiding multiple negative health and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood. METHODS: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data were collected from 25 states t…
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences From the 2011-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 23 States
Importance: Early adversity is associated with leading causes of adult morbidity and mortality and effects on life opportunities. Objective: To provide an updated prevalence estimate of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the United States using a large, diverse, and representative sample of adults in 23 states. Design, Setting, and Participants: Data were collected through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), an annual, na…
Violence-Related Disparities Experienced by Black Youth and Young Adults: Opportunities for Prevention
INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study is to characterize violence-related disparities experienced by young blacks in the U.S. Reducing violence experienced by blacks, particularly youth, who are at substantially higher risk, is essential to improving the health of blacks in the U.S. METHODS: Data from four independent data sets for youth and adults were analyzed to examine rates of homicide, assault, injury from a physical fight, bullying victi…
Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Poor Economic and Educational Outcomes in the Transition to Adulthood
Objectives. To test whether childhood maltreatment was a predictor of (1) having low educational qualifications and (2) not being in education, employment, or training among young adults in the United Kingdom today. Methods. Participants were from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally representative UK cohort of 2232 twins born in 1994 to 1995. Mothers reported on child maltreatment when participants were aged 5, 7…
Child Abuse and Neglect: Breaking the Intergenerational Link
The author discusses research on intergenerational continuity of violence and adversity and the likelihood that individuals who experience abuse, neglect and other forms of childhood adversity are more likely to have children with similar adverse childhood experiences
The Harmful Effect of Child Maltreatment on Economic Outcomes in Adulthood
Objectives. To examine the effect of maltreatment during childhood on subsequent financial strain during adulthood and the extent to which this effect is mediated by adolescent depressive symptoms, adolescent substance abuse, attenuated educational achievement, and timing of first birth. Methods. We specified a multilevel path model to examine the developmental cascade of child maltreatment. We used data from a longitudinal panel study of 496 par…
Intergenerational Continuity in Adverse Childhood Experiences and Rural Community Environments
Objectives. To understand the role of the community environment on intergenerational continuity in adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among a rural White sample. Methods. Parents in 12 counties in rural Iowa reported retrospectively on their own ACEs in 1989. We measured their child’s ACEs retrospectively and prospectively across adolescence (n = 451 families). We measured structural and social process–related measures of community environment …
Spanking and adult mental health impairment: The case for the designation of spanking as an adverse childhood experience
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) such as child abuse are related to poor health outcomes. Spanking has indicated a similar association with health outcomes, but to date has not been considered an ACE. Physical and emotional abuse have been shown in previous research to correlate highly and may be similar in nature to spanking. To determine if spanking should be considered an ACE, this study aimed to examine 1): the grouping of spanking with p…
Adverse childhood experiences and life opportunities: Shifting the narrative
Substantial research shows that early adversity, including child abuse and neglect, is associated with diminished health across the life course and across generations. Less well understood is the relationship between early adversity and adult socioeconomic status, including education, employment, and income. Collectively, these outcomes provide an indication of overall life opportunity. We analyzed data from 10 states and the District of Columbia…
Unpacking the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult mental health
Unpacking the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult mental health
Adverse childhood experiences and life opportunities: Shifting the narrative
Substantial research shows that early adversity, including child abuse and neglect, is associated with diminished health across the life course and across generations. Less well understood is the relationship between early adversity and adult socioeconomic status, including education, employment, and income. Collectively, these outcomes provide an indication of overall life opportunity. We analyzed data from 10 states and the District of Columbia…
Recognizing the cumulative burden of childhood adversities transforms science and practice for trauma and resilience
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) studies transformed our understanding of the true burden of trauma. Notable elements of Felitti and colleagues' findings include the influence of adversity on many physical as well as psychological problems and the persistence of impacts decades after the traumas occurred. In this article, we make the case that the most revolutionary finding was the discovery of a strong dose-response effect, with marked i…
Harsh parenting, physical health, and the protective role of positive parent-adolescent relationships
Child Abuse and Neglect: Breaking the Intergenerational Link
The author discusses research on intergenerational continuity of violence and adversity and the likelihood that individuals who experience abuse, neglect and other forms of childhood adversity are more likely to have children with similar adverse childhood experiences
Multidisciplinary child protection decision making about physical abuse: Determining substantiation thresholds and biases
Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Poor Economic and Educational Outcomes in the Transition to Adulthood
Objectives. To test whether childhood maltreatment was a predictor of (1) having low educational qualifications and (2) not being in education, employment, or training among young adults in the United Kingdom today. Methods. Participants were from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally representative UK cohort of 2232 twins born in 1994 to 1995. Mothers reported on child maltreatment when participants were aged 5, 7…
Intergenerational Continuity in Adverse Childhood Experiences and Rural Community Environments
Objectives. To understand the role of the community environment on intergenerational continuity in adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among a rural White sample. Methods. Parents in 12 counties in rural Iowa reported retrospectively on their own ACEs in 1989. We measured their child’s ACEs retrospectively and prospectively across adolescence (n = 451 families). We measured structural and social process–related measures of community environment …
Longitudinal Mediators of Relations Between Family Violence and Adolescent Dating Aggression Perpetration
Few longitudinal studies have examined the pathways through which family violence leads to dating aggression. In the current study the authors used 3 waves of data obtained from 8th- and 9th-grade adolescents (N = 1,965) to examine the hypotheses that the prospective relationship between witnessing family violence and directly experiencing violence and physical dating aggression perpetration is mediated by 3 constructs: (a) normative beliefs abou…
Examining the association between ACEs, childhood poverty and neglect, and physical and mental health: Data from two state samples
The Harmful Effect of Child Maltreatment on Economic Outcomes in Adulthood
Objectives. To examine the effect of maltreatment during childhood on subsequent financial strain during adulthood and the extent to which this effect is mediated by adolescent depressive symptoms, adolescent substance abuse, attenuated educational achievement, and timing of first birth. Methods. We specified a multilevel path model to examine the developmental cascade of child maltreatment. We used data from a longitudinal panel study of 496 par…
Multidisciplinary assessment of child maltreatment: A multi-site pilot descriptive analysis of the Florida Child Protection Team model
Multidisciplinary assessment of child maltreatment: A multi-site pilot descriptive analysis of the Florida Child Protection Team model
Multidisciplinary child protection decision making about physical abuse: Determining substantiation thresholds and biases
Examination of the factorial structure of adverse childhood experiences and recommendations for three subscale scores.
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the current investigation is to assess and validate the factor structure of the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System's (BRFSS) Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) module. METHOD: ACE data available from the 2009 BRFSS survey were fit using exploratory factor analysis (EFA) to estimate an initial factorial structure. The exploratory solution was then validated using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) with data from t…
Childhood Adversity and Adult Chronic Disease
Longitudinal Mediators of Relations Between Family Violence and Adolescent Dating Aggression Perpetration
Few longitudinal studies have examined the pathways through which family violence leads to dating aggression. In the current study the authors used 3 waves of data obtained from 8th- and 9th-grade adolescents (N = 1,965) to examine the hypotheses that the prospective relationship between witnessing family violence and directly experiencing violence and physical dating aggression perpetration is mediated by 3 constructs: (a) normative beliefs abou…
Adverse childhood experiences and sexual victimization in adulthood
Harsh parenting, physical health, and the protective role of positive parent-adolescent relationships
Spanking and adult mental health impairment: The case for the designation of spanking as an adverse childhood experience
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) such as child abuse are related to poor health outcomes. Spanking has indicated a similar association with health outcomes, but to date has not been considered an ACE. Physical and emotional abuse have been shown in previous research to correlate highly and may be similar in nature to spanking. To determine if spanking should be considered an ACE, this study aimed to examine 1): the grouping of spanking with p…
Adverse childhood experiences and life opportunities: Shifting the narrative
Substantial research shows that early adversity, including child abuse and neglect, is associated with diminished health across the life course and across generations. Less well understood is the relationship between early adversity and adult socioeconomic status, including education, employment, and income. Collectively, these outcomes provide an indication of overall life opportunity. We analyzed data from 10 states and the District of Columbia…
Unpacking the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult mental health
Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences From the 2011-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 23 States
Importance: Early adversity is associated with leading causes of adult morbidity and mortality and effects on life opportunities. Objective: To provide an updated prevalence estimate of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in the United States using a large, diverse, and representative sample of adults in 23 states. Design, Setting, and Participants: Data were collected through the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS), an annual, na…
Violence-Related Disparities Experienced by Black Youth and Young Adults: Opportunities for Prevention
INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this study is to characterize violence-related disparities experienced by young blacks in the U.S. Reducing violence experienced by blacks, particularly youth, who are at substantially higher risk, is essential to improving the health of blacks in the U.S. METHODS: Data from four independent data sets for youth and adults were analyzed to examine rates of homicide, assault, injury from a physical fight, bullying victi…
Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Poor Economic and Educational Outcomes in the Transition to Adulthood
Objectives. To test whether childhood maltreatment was a predictor of (1) having low educational qualifications and (2) not being in education, employment, or training among young adults in the United Kingdom today. Methods. Participants were from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study, a nationally representative UK cohort of 2232 twins born in 1994 to 1995. Mothers reported on child maltreatment when participants were aged 5, 7…
Child Abuse and Neglect: Breaking the Intergenerational Link
The author discusses research on intergenerational continuity of violence and adversity and the likelihood that individuals who experience abuse, neglect and other forms of childhood adversity are more likely to have children with similar adverse childhood experiences
The Harmful Effect of Child Maltreatment on Economic Outcomes in Adulthood
Objectives. To examine the effect of maltreatment during childhood on subsequent financial strain during adulthood and the extent to which this effect is mediated by adolescent depressive symptoms, adolescent substance abuse, attenuated educational achievement, and timing of first birth. Methods. We specified a multilevel path model to examine the developmental cascade of child maltreatment. We used data from a longitudinal panel study of 496 par…
Intergenerational Continuity in Adverse Childhood Experiences and Rural Community Environments
Objectives. To understand the role of the community environment on intergenerational continuity in adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) among a rural White sample. Methods. Parents in 12 counties in rural Iowa reported retrospectively on their own ACEs in 1989. We measured their child’s ACEs retrospectively and prospectively across adolescence (n = 451 families). We measured structural and social process–related measures of community environment …
Vital Signs: Estimated Proportion of Adult Health Problems Attributable to Adverse Childhood Experiences and Implications for Prevention — 25 States, 2015–2017
INTRODUCTION: Adverse childhood experiences, such as violence victimization, substance misuse in the household, or witnessing intimate partner violence, have been linked to leading causes of adult morbidity and mortality. Therefore, reducing adverse childhood experiences is critical to avoiding multiple negative health and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood. METHODS: Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data were collected from 25 states t…
Economic Burden of Known Cases of Child Maltreatment from 2018 in Each State
Adverse Childhood Experiences Increase Risk for Prescription Opioid Misuse
Examining the association between ACEs, childhood poverty and neglect, and physical and mental health: Data from two state samples
Recognizing the cumulative burden of childhood adversities transforms science and practice for trauma and resilience
The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) studies transformed our understanding of the true burden of trauma. Notable elements of Felitti and colleagues' findings include the influence of adversity on many physical as well as psychological problems and the persistence of impacts decades after the traumas occurred. In this article, we make the case that the most revolutionary finding was the discovery of a strong dose-response effect, with marked i…
Association of public explanations of why children struggle and support for policy solutions using a national sample
Childcare Subsidy Enrollment Income Generosity and Child Maltreatment
In the United States, childcare subsidies are available to low-income working parents to assist with the cost of childcare. The subsidies are provided as block grants to states, which allows for a great deal of flexibility in the specific policies guiding their distribution. Prior research has found a protective link between childcare subsidies and child maltreatment, but the variations in policies have been much less explored. The current study …
Alaskan Innovation: Full Integration of Behavioural Health Services in Primary Care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Team Performance Training: Lessons from Alaska on Team-Based Care
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Child Abuse and Trauma (26 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Psychology (21 works) · Poison control (20 works) · Environmental health (17 works) · Suicide prevention (16 works) · Psychiatry (14 works) · Injury prevention (12 works) · Child abuse (11 works) · Mental health (11 works)