Tina L Cheng
Biographic Data
| ID | 340609 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina L Cheng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina L |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheng |
| SIGNATURE | CHENG T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2053-1402 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The impact of Covid ‐19 on psychiatric clinical encounters among low‐income racially‐diverse children
BACKGROUND: There is a lack of longitudinal data to examine the impact of COVID-19 on all types of clinical encounters among United States, underrepresented BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color), children. This study aims to examine the changes in all the outpatient clinical encounters during the pandemic compared to the baseline, with particular attention to psychiatric encounters and diagnoses. METHOD: This study analyzed 3-year (Janua…
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms among Assault-injured Youth: Parallel Process Models Addressing Comorbidity
Community violence and its physical health consequences are well known among youth living in urban settings. However, less is known about the cumulative effect of contextual and demographic risk factors on posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among vulnerable youth. Longitudinal data (baseline, 9-month, 21-month) were analyzed to investigate trajectories of PTSS, internalizing, and externalizing symptoms among 188 youth ( Mage 12.87, 60.6% male) …
Factors associated with successful mentor matching in an intervention study of youth violence
One challenge of conducting intervention studies is ensuring that study participants are exposed to the intervention. For example, in our randomized controlled trial of Take Charge! , a mentor‐implemented and research‐informed violence prevention program that partners with one‐on‐one community‐based mentoring agencies, only 50% of intervention youth with fight‐related injuries were successfully matched with a mentor. We examined the differences b…
NABat: A top-down, bottom-up solution to collaborative continental-scale monitoring
Collaborative monitoring over broad scales and levels of ecological organization can inform conservation efforts necessary to address the contemporary biodiversity crisis. An important challenge to collaborative monitoring is motivating local engagement with enough buy-in from stakeholders while providing adequate top-down direction for scientific rigor, quality control, and coordination. Collaborative monitoring must reconcile this inherent tens…
Bullying: An Unexamined Cause of Assault-related Emergency Department Visits for Urban Adolescents
Enabling Factors Associated with Receipt of Interconception Health Care
A marginal cost analysis of a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America youth mentoring program: New evidence using statistical analysis
Life Course Approaches to the Causes of Health Disparities
Reducing health disparities requires an understanding of the mechanisms that generate disparities. Life course approaches to health disparities leverage theories that explain how socially patterned physical, environmental, and socioeconomic exposures at different stages of human development shape health within and across generations and can therefore offer substantial insight into the etiology of health disparities. Life course approaches are inf…
Profiles of Future Orientation among Assault-injured Adolescents: Correlates and Concurrent Outcomes
Maternal postpartum plasma folate status and preterm birth in a high-risk US population
Objective While maternal folate deficiency has been linked to poor pregnancy outcomes such as neural tube defects, anaemia and low birth weight, the relationship between folate and preterm birth (PTB) in the context of the US post-folic acid fortification era is inconclusive. We sought to explore the relationship between maternal folate status and PTB and its subtypes, i.e. spontaneous and medically indicated PTB. Design Observational study. Sett…
Folate Nutrition Status in Mothers of the Boston Birth Cohort, Sample of a US Urban Low-Income Population
Objectives. To examine maternal folic acid supplementation and plasma folate concentrations in the Boston Birth Cohort, a predominantly urban, low-income, minority population in Boston, Massachusetts. Methods. This report includes 7612 mothers with singleton live births (3829 Black, 2023 Hispanic, 865 White, and 895 others) enrolled in the Boston Birth Cohort at the Boston Medical Center, during 1999 to 2014. Folic acid supplementation during pre…
I Used to Be Wild: Adolescent Perspectives on the Influence of Family, Peers, School, and Neighborhood on Positive Behavioral Transition
Public health practice involving adolescents is largely focused on preventing or delaying the initiation of risk behavior. However, given the experimental and exploratory nature of this developmental period, this is often impractical. This article focuses on behavioral transitions and the ways in which youth involved in risk behaviors shift to more promotive behaviors. Based on a positive youth development perspective, in-depth interviews with ur…
Health Behaviors Among Women Using Fertility Treatment
Caregiver and Adolescent Discrepancies in Perceptions of Violence and Their Associations with Early Adolescent Aggression
Moving Beyond Too Little, Too Late: Managing Emerging Infectious Diseases in Wild Populations Requires International Policy and Partnerships
Association Between Preconception Counseling and Folic Acid Supplementation Before Pregnancy and Reasons for Non-Use
Addressing Psychosocial Adversity Within the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Expert-Created Measurable Standards
Parenting in the digital age: Urban black youth's perceptions about technology-based communication with parents
Given the high rates of cell phone and Internet usage among youth, technology is a promising method for improved parent–youth communication. However, little is known about how parents can effectively engage in technology-based communication with youth, particularly low-income urban minority youth. Eight focus groups with 82 low-income urban black youth (aged 14 to 22 years) provided information about perceptions of technology-based communication …
Promoting “Healthy Futures” to Reduce Risk Behaviors in Urban Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial
There is increasing evidence of the interconnection between educational and health outcomes. Unfortunately wide disparities exist by both socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity in educational and vocational success. This study sought to promote urban youths’ career readiness as a way to reduce involvement in risk behaviors. Two hundred primarily African‐American youth (ages 14–21) were recruited from a pediatric primary care clinic. Youth random…
Career Readiness: A Potential Pathway Through Which Urban Youth's Exposure to Stress Influences Adult Health
Although a growing body of research provides support for the detrimental effects of stress during childhood on future adult health, less is known about how stress disrupts normal developmental processes. This pathway may be particularly relevant for urban adolescents who are exposed to additional contextual stressors. This study will longitudinally explore how psychological stress from multiple domains influences urban adolescents’ career readine…
Future orientation: A construct with implications for adolescent health and wellbeing
Multidisciplinary research has supported a relationship between adolescent future orientation (the ability to set future goals and plans) and positive adolescent health and development outcomes. Many preventive strategies – for example, contracepting, exercising – are based on taking actions in the present to avoid unwanted or negative future consequences. However, research has been hampered by unclear and often divergent conceptualizations of th…
Barriers and Facilitators to School-Based Parent Involvement for Parents of Urban Public Middle School Students
Using semistructured interviews, we explored barriers and facilitators to school-based parent involvement (SBPI) in a sample of predominately African American parents ( N = 44) whose children attended urban public middle schools. Barriers to SBPI (e.g., perceptions of hostile parent-teacher interactions and aggressive, disrespectful students in the school) were more commonly reported than facilitators (e.g., child invitations for involvement). Fi…
Translating Life Course Theory to Clinical Practice to Address Health Disparities
Characteristics of Children Eligible for Public Health Insurance but Uninsured: Data from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health
The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Mothers’ Parenting Practices for Urban, Low-Income Adolescents
Life Course Approaches to the Causes of Health Disparities
Reducing health disparities requires an understanding of the mechanisms that generate disparities. Life course approaches to health disparities leverage theories that explain how socially patterned physical, environmental, and socioeconomic exposures at different stages of human development shape health within and across generations and can therefore offer substantial insight into the etiology of health disparities. Life course approaches are inf…
Promoting “Healthy Futures” to Reduce Risk Behaviors in Urban Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial
There is increasing evidence of the interconnection between educational and health outcomes. Unfortunately wide disparities exist by both socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity in educational and vocational success. This study sought to promote urban youths’ career readiness as a way to reduce involvement in risk behaviors. Two hundred primarily African‐American youth (ages 14–21) were recruited from a pediatric primary care clinic. Youth random…
Barriers and Facilitators to School-Based Parent Involvement for Parents of Urban Public Middle School Students
Using semistructured interviews, we explored barriers and facilitators to school-based parent involvement (SBPI) in a sample of predominately African American parents ( N = 44) whose children attended urban public middle schools. Barriers to SBPI (e.g., perceptions of hostile parent-teacher interactions and aggressive, disrespectful students in the school) were more commonly reported than facilitators (e.g., child invitations for involvement). Fi…
Profiles of Future Orientation among Assault-injured Adolescents: Correlates and Concurrent Outcomes
Parenting in the digital age: Urban black youth's perceptions about technology-based communication with parents
Given the high rates of cell phone and Internet usage among youth, technology is a promising method for improved parent–youth communication. However, little is known about how parents can effectively engage in technology-based communication with youth, particularly low-income urban minority youth. Eight focus groups with 82 low-income urban black youth (aged 14 to 22 years) provided information about perceptions of technology-based communication …
The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Mothers’ Parenting Practices for Urban, Low-Income Adolescents
Folate Nutrition Status in Mothers of the Boston Birth Cohort, Sample of a US Urban Low-Income Population
Objectives. To examine maternal folic acid supplementation and plasma folate concentrations in the Boston Birth Cohort, a predominantly urban, low-income, minority population in Boston, Massachusetts. Methods. This report includes 7612 mothers with singleton live births (3829 Black, 2023 Hispanic, 865 White, and 895 others) enrolled in the Boston Birth Cohort at the Boston Medical Center, during 1999 to 2014. Folic acid supplementation during pre…
Urban African American Parents’ Messages About Violence
Family socialization, which includes parental control and support, plays an important role in reducing the likelihood of adolescent involvement in conflict. This study examined the strategies that urban parents living in neighborhoods with high crime rates suggest to help their adolescent children avoid or deescalate conflict. Data come from 48 African American parent/adolescent dyads recruited through the youths' middle school. Dyads responded t…
I Used to Be Wild: Adolescent Perspectives on the Influence of Family, Peers, School, and Neighborhood on Positive Behavioral Transition
Public health practice involving adolescents is largely focused on preventing or delaying the initiation of risk behavior. However, given the experimental and exploratory nature of this developmental period, this is often impractical. This article focuses on behavioral transitions and the ways in which youth involved in risk behaviors shift to more promotive behaviors. Based on a positive youth development perspective, in-depth interviews with ur…
Caregiver and Adolescent Discrepancies in Perceptions of Violence and Their Associations with Early Adolescent Aggression
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms among Assault-injured Youth: Parallel Process Models Addressing Comorbidity
Community violence and its physical health consequences are well known among youth living in urban settings. However, less is known about the cumulative effect of contextual and demographic risk factors on posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) among vulnerable youth. Longitudinal data (baseline, 9-month, 21-month) were analyzed to investigate trajectories of PTSS, internalizing, and externalizing symptoms among 188 youth ( Mage 12.87, 60.6% male) …
Cheng Responds
Cheng Responds Tina L. Cheng M JenkinsCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.1.136-b Published Online: October 07, 2011
Characteristics of Children Eligible for Public Health Insurance but Uninsured: Data from the 2007 National Survey of Children’s Health
The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Mothers’ Parenting Practices for Urban, Low-Income Adolescents
Urban African American Parents’ Messages About Violence
Family socialization, which includes parental control and support, plays an important role in reducing the likelihood of adolescent involvement in conflict. This study examined the strategies that urban parents living in neighborhoods with high crime rates suggest to help their adolescent children avoid or deescalate conflict. Data come from 48 African American parent/adolescent dyads recruited through the youths' middle school. Dyads responded t…
Translating Life Course Theory to Clinical Practice to Address Health Disparities
Future orientation: A construct with implications for adolescent health and wellbeing
Multidisciplinary research has supported a relationship between adolescent future orientation (the ability to set future goals and plans) and positive adolescent health and development outcomes. Many preventive strategies – for example, contracepting, exercising – are based on taking actions in the present to avoid unwanted or negative future consequences. However, research has been hampered by unclear and often divergent conceptualizations of th…
Barriers and Facilitators to School-Based Parent Involvement for Parents of Urban Public Middle School Students
Using semistructured interviews, we explored barriers and facilitators to school-based parent involvement (SBPI) in a sample of predominately African American parents ( N = 44) whose children attended urban public middle schools. Barriers to SBPI (e.g., perceptions of hostile parent-teacher interactions and aggressive, disrespectful students in the school) were more commonly reported than facilitators (e.g., child invitations for involvement). Fi…
Moving Beyond Too Little, Too Late: Managing Emerging Infectious Diseases in Wild Populations Requires International Policy and Partnerships
Association Between Preconception Counseling and Folic Acid Supplementation Before Pregnancy and Reasons for Non-Use
Addressing Psychosocial Adversity Within the Patient-Centered Medical Home: Expert-Created Measurable Standards
Parenting in the digital age: Urban black youth's perceptions about technology-based communication with parents
Given the high rates of cell phone and Internet usage among youth, technology is a promising method for improved parent–youth communication. However, little is known about how parents can effectively engage in technology-based communication with youth, particularly low-income urban minority youth. Eight focus groups with 82 low-income urban black youth (aged 14 to 22 years) provided information about perceptions of technology-based communication …
Promoting “Healthy Futures” to Reduce Risk Behaviors in Urban Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial
There is increasing evidence of the interconnection between educational and health outcomes. Unfortunately wide disparities exist by both socioeconomic status and race/ethnicity in educational and vocational success. This study sought to promote urban youths’ career readiness as a way to reduce involvement in risk behaviors. Two hundred primarily African‐American youth (ages 14–21) were recruited from a pediatric primary care clinic. Youth random…
Career Readiness: A Potential Pathway Through Which Urban Youth's Exposure to Stress Influences Adult Health
Although a growing body of research provides support for the detrimental effects of stress during childhood on future adult health, less is known about how stress disrupts normal developmental processes. This pathway may be particularly relevant for urban adolescents who are exposed to additional contextual stressors. This study will longitudinally explore how psychological stress from multiple domains influences urban adolescents’ career readine…
Health Behaviors Among Women Using Fertility Treatment
Caregiver and Adolescent Discrepancies in Perceptions of Violence and Their Associations with Early Adolescent Aggression
Maternal postpartum plasma folate status and preterm birth in a high-risk US population
Objective While maternal folate deficiency has been linked to poor pregnancy outcomes such as neural tube defects, anaemia and low birth weight, the relationship between folate and preterm birth (PTB) in the context of the US post-folic acid fortification era is inconclusive. We sought to explore the relationship between maternal folate status and PTB and its subtypes, i.e. spontaneous and medically indicated PTB. Design Observational study. Sett…
Folate Nutrition Status in Mothers of the Boston Birth Cohort, Sample of a US Urban Low-Income Population
Objectives. To examine maternal folic acid supplementation and plasma folate concentrations in the Boston Birth Cohort, a predominantly urban, low-income, minority population in Boston, Massachusetts. Methods. This report includes 7612 mothers with singleton live births (3829 Black, 2023 Hispanic, 865 White, and 895 others) enrolled in the Boston Birth Cohort at the Boston Medical Center, during 1999 to 2014. Folic acid supplementation during pre…
I Used to Be Wild: Adolescent Perspectives on the Influence of Family, Peers, School, and Neighborhood on Positive Behavioral Transition
Public health practice involving adolescents is largely focused on preventing or delaying the initiation of risk behavior. However, given the experimental and exploratory nature of this developmental period, this is often impractical. This article focuses on behavioral transitions and the ways in which youth involved in risk behaviors shift to more promotive behaviors. Based on a positive youth development perspective, in-depth interviews with ur…
Enabling Factors Associated with Receipt of Interconception Health Care
A marginal cost analysis of a Big Brothers Big Sisters of America youth mentoring program: New evidence using statistical analysis
Life Course Approaches to the Causes of Health Disparities
Reducing health disparities requires an understanding of the mechanisms that generate disparities. Life course approaches to health disparities leverage theories that explain how socially patterned physical, environmental, and socioeconomic exposures at different stages of human development shape health within and across generations and can therefore offer substantial insight into the etiology of health disparities. Life course approaches are inf…
Profiles of Future Orientation among Assault-injured Adolescents: Correlates and Concurrent Outcomes
Bullying: An Unexamined Cause of Assault-related Emergency Department Visits for Urban Adolescents
Factors associated with successful mentor matching in an intervention study of youth violence
One challenge of conducting intervention studies is ensuring that study participants are exposed to the intervention. For example, in our randomized controlled trial of Take Charge! , a mentor‐implemented and research‐informed violence prevention program that partners with one‐on‐one community‐based mentoring agencies, only 50% of intervention youth with fight‐related injuries were successfully matched with a mentor. We examined the differences b…
NABat: A top-down, bottom-up solution to collaborative continental-scale monitoring
Collaborative monitoring over broad scales and levels of ecological organization can inform conservation efforts necessary to address the contemporary biodiversity crisis. An important challenge to collaborative monitoring is motivating local engagement with enough buy-in from stakeholders while providing adequate top-down direction for scientific rigor, quality control, and coordination. Collaborative monitoring must reconcile this inherent tens…
Medicine (22 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Public health (10 works) · Poison control (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Nursing (7 works) · Population (7 works)