Michael Rich

Biographic Data

ID3620561
NAMEMichael Rich
GIVEN NAMESMichael
FAMILY NAMERich
SIGNATURERICH M
AFFILIATIONSBrigham and Women's Hospital
ORCID0000-0003-4333-4695
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS29
TOTAL CITATIONS65
AUTHOR COUNT29
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX4

  • Rules at home, rules online: Parental mediation and adolescents’ orientation toward social media community guidelines in the United States

    Zhanwei Yue, Michael Rich et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2026

    As digital platforms increasingly shape adolescents’ lives, safeguarding youth from online risks requires alignment between parenting practices and platform governance. This study examines how parental mediation strategies, specifically the interplay between restrictive rules and autonomy-supportive communication, relate to adolescents’ understanding of social media guidelines and their willingness to report harmful content. Using a nationally di…

  • Navigating fairness and boundaries: Parental rule strategies and indicators of adolescents’ media overuse

    Zhanwei Yue, David S Bickham et al.ARTICLEBehaviour and Information…2025

    Balancing adolescents’ growing desire for independence with the establishment of effective media-related rules presents a complex challenge for many parents. Our study, utilising a diverse nationwide sample of 1,480 adolescents aged 13-17, investigates how adolescents’ perceptions of rule restrictiveness might explain the relationship between parental rule strategies and adolescents’ overuse of media. Indicators of overuse include dysregulated me…

  • Comparative effectiveness of adding delamanid to a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis regimen comprised of three drugs likely to be effective

    Open AccessCarly A Rodriguez, Sara Lodi et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Clarity about the role of delamanid in longer regimens for multidrug-resistant TB is needed after discordant Phase IIb and Phase III randomized controlled trial results. The Phase IIb trial found that the addition of delamanid to a background regimen hastened culture conversion; the results of the Phase III trial were equivocal. We evaluated the effect of adding delamanid for 24 weeks to three-drug MDR/RR-TB regimens on two- and six-month culture…

  • Integrating Health Systems and Science to Respond to Covid-19 in a Model District of Rural Madagascar

    Open AccessRado J L Rakotonanahary, Herinjaka Andriambolamanana et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2021

    There are many outstanding questions about how to control the global COVID-19 pandemic. The information void has been especially stark in the World Health Organization Africa Region, which has low per capita reported cases, low testing rates, low access to therapeutic drugs, and has the longest wait for vaccines. As with all disease, the central challenge in responding to COVID-19 is that it requires integrating complex health systems that incorp…

  • Geographic barriers to establishing a successful hospital referral system in rural Madagascar

    Open AccessFelana Ihantamalala, Felana Angella Ihantamalala et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: The provision of emergency and hospital care has become an integral part of the global vision for universal health coverage. To strengthen secondary care systems, we need to accurately understand the time necessary for populations to reach a hospital. The goal of this study was to develop methods that accurately estimate referral and prehospital time for rural districts in low and middle-income countries. We used these estimates to as…

  • District-level health system strengthening for universal health coverage: Evidence from a longitudinal cohort study in rural Madagascar, 2014-2018

    Open AccessAndrés Garchitorena, Ann C Miller et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    INTRODUCTION: Despite renewed commitment to universal health coverage and health system strengthening (HSS) to improve access to primary care, there is insufficient evidence to guide their design and implementation. To address this, we conducted an impact evaluation of an ongoing HSS initiative in rural Madagascar, combining data from a longitudinal cohort and primary health centres. METHODS: We carried out a district representative household sur…

  • A Preliminary Evaluation of a School-Based Media Education and Reduction Intervention

    Open AccessDavid S Bickham, Yulin Hswen et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Primary Prevention2018

  • Internet Addiction in Children and Adolescents: Risk Factors, Assessment, and Treatment

    Michelle Rich, Michael Rich et al.BOOKInternet Addiction in Children…2017

  • Baseline population health conditions ahead of a health system strengthening program in rural Madagascar

    Open AccessAnn C Miller, Ranto H Ramananjato et al.ARTICLEGlobal Health Action2017

    BACKGROUND: A model health district was initiated through a program of health system strengthening (HSS) in Ifanadiana District of southeastern Madagascar in 2014. We report population health indicators prior to initiation of the program. METHODS: A representative household survey based on the Demographic Health Survey was conducted using a two-stage cluster sampling design in two strata - the initial program catchment area and the future catchme…

  • Afterword to the Issue “Adolescents in the Digital Age: Effects on Health and Development”

    Open AccessDaniel Romer, Michelle Rich et al.ARTICLEMedia and Communication2016

    The articles in this thematic issue suggest both opportunities and hazards for the health and development of adolescents in the digital age. We place these concerns in the context of improving health for young people in the US and elsewhere, and suggest that based on evidence uncovered to date, increasing digital connection may be having no less favorable than adverse effect on adolescents

  • Media effects as health research: How pediatricians have changed the study of media and child development

    David S Bickham, Jill R Kavanaugh et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2016

    Although the study of media and children has long been interdisciplinary, child health researchers and pediatric journals have joined their social science counterparts to investigate media effects over the past several decades. Research on how media use influences child health and development has increased exponentially in pediatric journals between the early 1990s and the present. Communication and psychology scholars have begun to publish their…

  • Depression, adherence and attrition from care in HIV-infected adults receiving antiretroviral therapy

    Alexis A Krumme, Felix Kaigamba et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2015References: 38

    BACKGROUND: A better understanding of the relationship between depression and HIV-related outcomes, particularly as it relates to adherence to treatment, is critical to guide effective support and treatment of individuals with HIV and depression. We examined whether depression was associated with attrition from care in a cohort of 610 HIV-infected adults in rural Rwanda and whether this relationship was mediated through suboptimal adherence to tr…

  • Adolescents’ use of sexually explicit internet material and their sexual attitudes and behavior: Parallel development and directional effects

    Suzan M Doornwaard, David S Bickham et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2015Cited by: 14

    Although research has repeatedly demonstrated that adolescents' use of sexually explicit Internet material (SEIM) is related to their endorsement of permissive sexual attitudes and their experience with sexual behavior, it is not clear how linkages between these constructs unfold over time. This study combined 2 types of longitudinal modeling, mean-level development and cross-lagged panel modeling, to examine (a) developmental patterns in adolesc…

  • Measuring Youth Media Exposure: A Multimodal Method for Investigating the Influence of Media on Digital Natives

    Open AccessMichelle Rich, Michael Rich et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2015Cited by: 3References: 28

    Measuring Youth Media Exposure (MYME) methodology was developed in response to a need for more sensitive, comprehensive, and reliable measures of media use and exposure in a rapidly evolving and increasingly complex mobile digital environment. MYME combines multiple measurement modes to locate its findings in relation to historical trends and superimposes those components to complement, cross-validate, and provide strengths where other components…

  • Methodological Advances in the Field of Media Influences on Children

    Open AccessMichelle Rich, Michael Rich et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2015

  • Shared learning in an interconnected world: Innovations to advance global health equity

    Open AccessAgnes Binagwaho, Cameron T Nutt et al.ARTICLEGlobalization and Health2013

    The notion of "reverse innovation"--that some insights from low-income countries might offer transferable lessons for wealthier contexts--is increasingly common in the global health and business strategy literature. Yet the perspectives of researchers and policymakers in settings where these innovations are developed have been largely absent from the discussion to date. In this Commentary, we present examples of programmatic, technological, and r…

  • Community-Based Accompaniment and Psychosocial Health Outcomes in HIV-Infected Adults in Rwanda: A Prospective Study

    Open AccessDana R Thomson, Michael Rich et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2013

  • Exploring the Perspectives of Obese Adolescent Girls

    Open AccessRichard J Chung, Samuel L K Baxter et al.ARTICLEQualitative Health Research2013Cited by: 2References: 13

    To understand obese adolescent girls' perspectives regarding their weight and health we studied video intervention/prevention assessment audiovisual narratives created by 14 obese girls ages 12 to 20 years. The narratives included interviews, monologues, and daily activities. Themes included illness conceptualizations, health concerns, health misinformation, and distress regarding appearance deriving from both within and without. The predominant …

  • Children, Media, and Health

    Dina L G Borzekowski, Dina Borzekowski et al.ARTICLEJournal of Children and Media2012

    Health is as essential, and as invisible, to children as water is to fish. Even under the most dire circumstances, it is children's nature to be energetic, engaged, and happy. Children expect physi

  • Reliability and construct validity of three health-related self-report scales in HIV-positive adults in rural Rwanda

    Henry M Epino, Henry Epino et al.ARTICLEAIDS Care2012

    Depression, low health-related quality of life, and low perceived social support have been shown to predict poor health outcomes, including HIV-related outcomes. Mental health morbidity and HIV are important public health concerns in Rwanda, where approximately half of the current population is estimated to have survived the genocide and 3% is living with HIV. We examined the reliability and construct validity of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist-15 …

  • VIA's visual voices: The awareness of a dedicated audience for voices in patient video narratives

    Richard Chalfen, Laura J Sherman et al.ARTICLEVisual Studies2010

    First the authors examine the concept of ‘voice’ in one model of participant media research (PMR) giving special attention to parallel variables of hearing, begging questions about the ‘listening’ component of any communication process. Second, they describe the use of a research programme entitled Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) and a series of ongoing video narrative projects with chronically ill young people at Children's Hospit…

  • Visual interventions: Applied visual anthropology

    Richard Chalfen, Malcolm Collier et al.BOOKVisual Interventions2007

    there's a great deal social researchers doing visual work can learn from Pink's book...It's a valuable resource for researchers, activists, and social service workers looking for innovative visual methodologies for collaborative research and social intervention. It makes an excellent contribution to the ongoing academic debate over the value of applied and visual social research, as well. * Contexts, Magazine of the American Sociological Associat…

  • Applying Visual Research Patients Teaching Physicians Through Visual Illness Narratives

    Open AccessRichard Chalfen, Michelle Rich et al.ARTICLEVisual Anthropology Review2004Cited by: 5References: 9

    Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) is grounded in themes central to applied anthropology and combined with selective threads of visual, medical, and media anthropology. VIA emphasizes the use of a multifunctional channel of audiovisual communication in the roles of information and cultural brokerage. Young patients were instructed to follow a specified protocol to “teach your clinician about your illness” by using consumer model video…

  • Health Literacy via Media Literacy: Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment

    Open AccessMichelle Rich, Michael RichARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2004References: 29

    Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment (VIA) builds on the innate comfort that children and adolescents have with audiovisual media to give them control of an important information stream about their own health and well-being. Clinicians provide video camcorders to young people who have chronic medical conditions and ask them to teach the clinicians about their experiences and needs by making visual illness narratives. Their visual narratives a…

  • Visual Illness Narratives of Asthma: Explanatory Models and Health-related Behavior

    Michelle Rich, Michael Rich et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Health Behavior2002

    Understanding and responding to explanatory models of asthma management may be more important than education to improve asthma-related behaviors and adherence to medical plans