Douglas K Novins
Biographic Data
| ID | 658951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas K Novins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas K |
| FAMILY NAME | Novins |
| SIGNATURE | NOVINS D K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4475-8596 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transforming through leadership: A qualitative study of successful American Indian Alaska Native behavioral health leaders
It is important to encourage AIAN public health leaders to employ leadership research and models conducted or developed in the context of AIAN communities. The emerging model presented in this study could serve as an initial basis for AIAN leadership training. Given the challenging context of AIAN leadership, the lessons taught by these successful leaders could be adapted for use by leaders in non AIAN settings
Law Enforcement Agencies’ Perceptions of the Benefits of and Barriers to Temporary Firearm Storage to Prevent Suicide
Objectives. To examine the perceived benefits of and barriers to law enforcement agencies providing increased access to voluntary and temporary firearm storage. Methods. We surveyed 448 police chiefs and sheriffs in 8 US Mountain West states about firearm storage practices, benefits of and barriers to storage, and related attitudes and beliefs. Data collection occurred during the spring and summer of 2016. Results. Nearly three quarters of agenci…
Be creative and you will reach more people”: Youth’s experiences participating in an arts-based social action group aimed at mental health stigma reduction
Background: Starting in 2013, the Mental Health Youth Action Board, made up of 15 teens ages 15–18, was created to advise a large children’s hospital on improvements in mental health care and produce social action projects to impact community perceptions of mental health.Methods: This participatory qualitative case study explored the experiences of 14 young people who participated in the Mental Health Youth Action Board between 2013 and 2016.Resu…
Addressing Substance‐use Problems in Tribal Home Visiting
Given the high rates for substance use among women and men of childbearing age, perinatal and early childhood home‐visiting programs serving tribal communities must consider how they will address substance‐use problems among the families they support. In this study, we explored the approaches to identifying and addressing family‐based substance‐use problems that were implemented by nine home‐visiting programs serving American Indian/Alaska Native…
Contextual Issues for Implementation and Evaluation of Home‐visitation Programs for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: An Introduction to the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood H…
Home‐visiting programs have become a key component of evidence‐based services for pregnant women, new mothers, their infants, and their families. When Congress authorized the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) in 2010, it set aside 3% of the $1.5 billion in funding to support home‐visiting programs operated by tribes, Tribal MIECHV programs have been funded in 14 states and have served over 3,100 families, providin…
Using Single‐case Designs to Evaluate Components of Tribal Home‐visitation Programs
Single‐case designs are typically used in classroom and clinical settings to assess the behavioral impacts of an intervention with an individual child. Using two illustrative case studies, this article describes the extension of this model to home‐visitation programs serving tribal communities and examines the lessons learned throughout the process of adapting this approach. Our experience suggests that the benefits of using this design outweigh …
Disseminating Information on Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in a Tribal Health Setting: A Case Study
Exposure to trauma is consistently associated with co-occurrence of behavioral health disorders. Primary care settings are opportune places to screen for traumatic experiences and symptoms, as they are often the initial point of care for behavioral health concerns by the Alaska Native and American Indian (AN/AI) population. In this case study, we examine results dissemination activities at the SCF Research Department-hosted 2016 Alaska Native Hea…
Law Enforcement and Gun Retailers as Partners for Safely Storing Guns to Prevent Suicide: A Study in 8 Mountain West States
Objectives. To examine the extent to which law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and gun retailers are willing to offer voluntary, temporary storage as a part of an overall suicide prevention effort. Methods. We invited all LEAs and gun retailers in 8 US states to respond to questionnaires asking about their willingness to offer temporary gun storage and their recommendations to gun owners about safe storage. Results. We collected data in 2016 from 448…
A comparison of the prevalence and risk factors of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in two American Indian population samples and in a general population sample
The current study aimed to examine whether the prevalence and risk factors for suicidal ideation and attempts differ when comparing two American Indian reservation samples to the U.S. general population. Data were from the baseline nationally representative National Comorbidity Survey ( N = 5,877) and the representative American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors Project (AI-SUPERPFP; N = 3,084). Fac…
The social construction of violence among Northern Plains tribal members with antisocial personality disorder and alcohol use disorder
Whereas recent reports from national studies have presented extremely high rates for many personality disorders in American Indian communities, persistent concerns about the meaning of these symptoms have left many troubled by these reports. American Indians as a group are known to suffer disproportionately from a number of violent experiences, but the dynamics of this violence have received little attention. This paper examines perspectives on v…
Epidemiology and Etiology of Substance Use among American Indians and Alaska Natives: Risk, Protection, and Implications for Prevention
BACKGROUND: The epidemiology and etiology of substance use and disorder in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities have received increasing attention over the past 25 years and accumulating evidence provides important insights into substance use patterns in these populations. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: We provide a descriptive sketch of the AI/AN population in the United States today, present a brief review of the literature on the epi…
Walking On: Celebrating the Journeys of Native American Adolescents with Substance Use Problems on the Winding Road to Healing
High rates of substance use and related problems have been long recognized as critical health issues for Native American adolescents. Unfortunately, no manualized interventions address the specific needs of Native American adolescents in a culturally appropriate manner. In 2006, the Cherokee Nation partnered with the University of Colorado to employ a community-based participatory research process to develop an intervention for Native American ad…
A Mental Health Needs Assessment of Urban American Indian Youth and Families
American Indian (AI) youth experience significant mental health disparities. The majority of AI youth live in urban areas, yet urban AI youth are underserved and unstudied. This manuscript describes a qualitative study of community mental health needs in an urban population of AI youth, conducted as part of the planning process for a system of care (SOC). Participants included 107 urban AI youth and families that participated in one of 16 focus g…
Geographical Access and the Substitution of Traditional Healing for Biomedical Services in 2 American Indian Tribes
OBJECTIVES: American Indians who live in rural reservation communities face substantial geographic barriers to care that may limit their use of health services and contribute to their well-documented health disparities. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of geographical access to care on the use of services for physical and mental health problems and to explore American Indians' use of traditional healing services in relation to …
Pathways to care: Narratives of American Indian adolescents entering substance abuse treatment
Reflections on a proposed theory of reservation-dwelling American Indian alcohol use: Comment on Spillane and Smith (2007)
In their recent article, N. Spillane and G. Smith suggested that reservation-dwelling American Indians have higher rates of problem drinking than do either non-American Indians or those American Indians living in nonreservation settings. These authors further argued that problematic alcohol use patterns in reservation communities are due to the lack of contingencies between drinking and "standard life reinforcers" (SLRs), such as employment, hous…
Marijuana Initiation in 2 American Indian Reservation Communities: Comparison With a National Sample
Objectives. We examined disparities in age-related patterns of marijuana initiation in 2 culturally distinct American Indian reservation communities (from the Northern Plains and the Southwest) compared with a national sample. Methods. We used discrete-time survival models to estimate age-related risk for initiation with data from 2 population-based studies: the American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Fa…
Disparities in drug use and disorder: Comparison of two American Indian reservation communities and a national sample
Population-based samples provided estimates of drug use and disorder in two American Indian populations. Comparison to a national sample revealed tribal-national, intertribal, and intratribal gender and age differences. Findings suggest that disparities in drug use and disorder are complex, characterized by important variations across diverse American Indian tribal cultures
Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology: Patterns among american indian adolescents in substance abuse treatment
In this study the authors examined the prevalence and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma symptomatology among a sample of 89 American Indian adolescents in a residential substance abuse treatment program. These youths reported an average of 4.1 lifetime traumas, with threat of injury and witnessing injury being most common; molestation, rape, and sexual attack were least common. Approximately 10% of participants met the…
Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Utilization of Mental Health Services in Two American Indian Reservation Populations: Mental Health Disparities in a National Context
OBJECTIVE: The American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors Project (AI-SUPERPFP) provided estimates of the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders and utilization of services for help with those disorders in American Indian populations. Completed between 1997 and 1999, the AI-SUPERPFP was designed to allow comparison of findings with the results of the baseline National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), conducted …
Use of Biomedical Services and Traditional Healing Options Among American Indians: Sociodemographic Correlates, Spirituality, and Ethnic Identity
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to describe the use of biomedical services and traditional healing options among a reservation-based sample of American Indians from 2 culturally distinct tribes METHODS: Participants were 2595 American Indian adolescents and adults ages 15 to 57 randomly selected to represent 2 tribes living on or near their rural reservations. First, we examined the prevalence and correlates of use of biomedical servic…
Racial Disparities in Alcohol Use: Comparison of 2 American Indian Reservation Populations With National Data
American Indian alcohol use has received scrutiny in recent decades,1 but data derived from samples that permit direct comparisons to other US epidemiological studies have been less commonly reported.2–4 This brief places rates of the quantity and frequency of alcohol use in 2 tribally defined reservation samples in such a comparative epidemiological context
Assessing Psychopathology in American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Adolescents
A Mental Health Needs Assessment of Urban American Indian Youth and Families
American Indian (AI) youth experience significant mental health disparities. The majority of AI youth live in urban areas, yet urban AI youth are underserved and unstudied. This manuscript describes a qualitative study of community mental health needs in an urban population of AI youth, conducted as part of the planning process for a system of care (SOC). Participants included 107 urban AI youth and families that participated in one of 16 focus g…
Racial Disparities in Alcohol Use: Comparison of 2 American Indian Reservation Populations With National Data
American Indian alcohol use has received scrutiny in recent decades,1 but data derived from samples that permit direct comparisons to other US epidemiological studies have been less commonly reported.2–4 This brief places rates of the quantity and frequency of alcohol use in 2 tribally defined reservation samples in such a comparative epidemiological context
Law Enforcement and Gun Retailers as Partners for Safely Storing Guns to Prevent Suicide: A Study in 8 Mountain West States
Objectives. To examine the extent to which law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and gun retailers are willing to offer voluntary, temporary storage as a part of an overall suicide prevention effort. Methods. We invited all LEAs and gun retailers in 8 US states to respond to questionnaires asking about their willingness to offer temporary gun storage and their recommendations to gun owners about safe storage. Results. We collected data in 2016 from 448…
Contextual Issues for Implementation and Evaluation of Home‐visitation Programs for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: An Introduction to the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood H…
Home‐visiting programs have become a key component of evidence‐based services for pregnant women, new mothers, their infants, and their families. When Congress authorized the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) in 2010, it set aside 3% of the $1.5 billion in funding to support home‐visiting programs operated by tribes, Tribal MIECHV programs have been funded in 14 states and have served over 3,100 families, providin…
A comparison of the prevalence and risk factors of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in two American Indian population samples and in a general population sample
The current study aimed to examine whether the prevalence and risk factors for suicidal ideation and attempts differ when comparing two American Indian reservation samples to the U.S. general population. Data were from the baseline nationally representative National Comorbidity Survey ( N = 5,877) and the representative American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors Project (AI-SUPERPFP; N = 3,084). Fac…
Marijuana Initiation in 2 American Indian Reservation Communities: Comparison With a National Sample
Objectives. We examined disparities in age-related patterns of marijuana initiation in 2 culturally distinct American Indian reservation communities (from the Northern Plains and the Southwest) compared with a national sample. Methods. We used discrete-time survival models to estimate age-related risk for initiation with data from 2 population-based studies: the American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Fa…
Law Enforcement Agencies’ Perceptions of the Benefits of and Barriers to Temporary Firearm Storage to Prevent Suicide
Objectives. To examine the perceived benefits of and barriers to law enforcement agencies providing increased access to voluntary and temporary firearm storage. Methods. We surveyed 448 police chiefs and sheriffs in 8 US Mountain West states about firearm storage practices, benefits of and barriers to storage, and related attitudes and beliefs. Data collection occurred during the spring and summer of 2016. Results. Nearly three quarters of agenci…
Be creative and you will reach more people”: Youth’s experiences participating in an arts-based social action group aimed at mental health stigma reduction
Background: Starting in 2013, the Mental Health Youth Action Board, made up of 15 teens ages 15–18, was created to advise a large children’s hospital on improvements in mental health care and produce social action projects to impact community perceptions of mental health.Methods: This participatory qualitative case study explored the experiences of 14 young people who participated in the Mental Health Youth Action Board between 2013 and 2016.Resu…
Addressing Substance‐use Problems in Tribal Home Visiting
Given the high rates for substance use among women and men of childbearing age, perinatal and early childhood home‐visiting programs serving tribal communities must consider how they will address substance‐use problems among the families they support. In this study, we explored the approaches to identifying and addressing family‐based substance‐use problems that were implemented by nine home‐visiting programs serving American Indian/Alaska Native…
Using Single‐case Designs to Evaluate Components of Tribal Home‐visitation Programs
Single‐case designs are typically used in classroom and clinical settings to assess the behavioral impacts of an intervention with an individual child. Using two illustrative case studies, this article describes the extension of this model to home‐visitation programs serving tribal communities and examines the lessons learned throughout the process of adapting this approach. Our experience suggests that the benefits of using this design outweigh …
Pathways to care: Narratives of American Indian adolescents entering substance abuse treatment
Assessing Psychopathology in American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Adolescents
Racial Disparities in Alcohol Use: Comparison of 2 American Indian Reservation Populations With National Data
American Indian alcohol use has received scrutiny in recent decades,1 but data derived from samples that permit direct comparisons to other US epidemiological studies have been less commonly reported.2–4 This brief places rates of the quantity and frequency of alcohol use in 2 tribally defined reservation samples in such a comparative epidemiological context
Use of Biomedical Services and Traditional Healing Options Among American Indians: Sociodemographic Correlates, Spirituality, and Ethnic Identity
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to describe the use of biomedical services and traditional healing options among a reservation-based sample of American Indians from 2 culturally distinct tribes METHODS: Participants were 2595 American Indian adolescents and adults ages 15 to 57 randomly selected to represent 2 tribes living on or near their rural reservations. First, we examined the prevalence and correlates of use of biomedical servic…
Prevalence of Mental Disorders and Utilization of Mental Health Services in Two American Indian Reservation Populations: Mental Health Disparities in a National Context
OBJECTIVE: The American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors Project (AI-SUPERPFP) provided estimates of the prevalence of DSM-III-R disorders and utilization of services for help with those disorders in American Indian populations. Completed between 1997 and 1999, the AI-SUPERPFP was designed to allow comparison of findings with the results of the baseline National Comorbidity Survey (NCS), conducted …
Trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder symptomatology: Patterns among american indian adolescents in substance abuse treatment
In this study the authors examined the prevalence and correlates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma symptomatology among a sample of 89 American Indian adolescents in a residential substance abuse treatment program. These youths reported an average of 4.1 lifetime traumas, with threat of injury and witnessing injury being most common; molestation, rape, and sexual attack were least common. Approximately 10% of participants met the…
Marijuana Initiation in 2 American Indian Reservation Communities: Comparison With a National Sample
Objectives. We examined disparities in age-related patterns of marijuana initiation in 2 culturally distinct American Indian reservation communities (from the Northern Plains and the Southwest) compared with a national sample. Methods. We used discrete-time survival models to estimate age-related risk for initiation with data from 2 population-based studies: the American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Fa…
Disparities in drug use and disorder: Comparison of two American Indian reservation communities and a national sample
Population-based samples provided estimates of drug use and disorder in two American Indian populations. Comparison to a national sample revealed tribal-national, intertribal, and intratribal gender and age differences. Findings suggest that disparities in drug use and disorder are complex, characterized by important variations across diverse American Indian tribal cultures
Reflections on a proposed theory of reservation-dwelling American Indian alcohol use: Comment on Spillane and Smith (2007)
In their recent article, N. Spillane and G. Smith suggested that reservation-dwelling American Indians have higher rates of problem drinking than do either non-American Indians or those American Indians living in nonreservation settings. These authors further argued that problematic alcohol use patterns in reservation communities are due to the lack of contingencies between drinking and "standard life reinforcers" (SLRs), such as employment, hous…
Epidemiology and Etiology of Substance Use among American Indians and Alaska Natives: Risk, Protection, and Implications for Prevention
BACKGROUND: The epidemiology and etiology of substance use and disorder in American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities have received increasing attention over the past 25 years and accumulating evidence provides important insights into substance use patterns in these populations. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: We provide a descriptive sketch of the AI/AN population in the United States today, present a brief review of the literature on the epi…
Walking On: Celebrating the Journeys of Native American Adolescents with Substance Use Problems on the Winding Road to Healing
High rates of substance use and related problems have been long recognized as critical health issues for Native American adolescents. Unfortunately, no manualized interventions address the specific needs of Native American adolescents in a culturally appropriate manner. In 2006, the Cherokee Nation partnered with the University of Colorado to employ a community-based participatory research process to develop an intervention for Native American ad…
A Mental Health Needs Assessment of Urban American Indian Youth and Families
American Indian (AI) youth experience significant mental health disparities. The majority of AI youth live in urban areas, yet urban AI youth are underserved and unstudied. This manuscript describes a qualitative study of community mental health needs in an urban population of AI youth, conducted as part of the planning process for a system of care (SOC). Participants included 107 urban AI youth and families that participated in one of 16 focus g…
Geographical Access and the Substitution of Traditional Healing for Biomedical Services in 2 American Indian Tribes
OBJECTIVES: American Indians who live in rural reservation communities face substantial geographic barriers to care that may limit their use of health services and contribute to their well-documented health disparities. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of geographical access to care on the use of services for physical and mental health problems and to explore American Indians' use of traditional healing services in relation to …
Pathways to care: Narratives of American Indian adolescents entering substance abuse treatment
A comparison of the prevalence and risk factors of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in two American Indian population samples and in a general population sample
The current study aimed to examine whether the prevalence and risk factors for suicidal ideation and attempts differ when comparing two American Indian reservation samples to the U.S. general population. Data were from the baseline nationally representative National Comorbidity Survey ( N = 5,877) and the representative American Indian Service Utilization, Psychiatric Epidemiology, Risk and Protective Factors Project (AI-SUPERPFP; N = 3,084). Fac…
The social construction of violence among Northern Plains tribal members with antisocial personality disorder and alcohol use disorder
Whereas recent reports from national studies have presented extremely high rates for many personality disorders in American Indian communities, persistent concerns about the meaning of these symptoms have left many troubled by these reports. American Indians as a group are known to suffer disproportionately from a number of violent experiences, but the dynamics of this violence have received little attention. This paper examines perspectives on v…
Law Enforcement and Gun Retailers as Partners for Safely Storing Guns to Prevent Suicide: A Study in 8 Mountain West States
Objectives. To examine the extent to which law enforcement agencies (LEAs) and gun retailers are willing to offer voluntary, temporary storage as a part of an overall suicide prevention effort. Methods. We invited all LEAs and gun retailers in 8 US states to respond to questionnaires asking about their willingness to offer temporary gun storage and their recommendations to gun owners about safe storage. Results. We collected data in 2016 from 448…
Be creative and you will reach more people”: Youth’s experiences participating in an arts-based social action group aimed at mental health stigma reduction
Background: Starting in 2013, the Mental Health Youth Action Board, made up of 15 teens ages 15–18, was created to advise a large children’s hospital on improvements in mental health care and produce social action projects to impact community perceptions of mental health.Methods: This participatory qualitative case study explored the experiences of 14 young people who participated in the Mental Health Youth Action Board between 2013 and 2016.Resu…
Addressing Substance‐use Problems in Tribal Home Visiting
Given the high rates for substance use among women and men of childbearing age, perinatal and early childhood home‐visiting programs serving tribal communities must consider how they will address substance‐use problems among the families they support. In this study, we explored the approaches to identifying and addressing family‐based substance‐use problems that were implemented by nine home‐visiting programs serving American Indian/Alaska Native…
Contextual Issues for Implementation and Evaluation of Home‐visitation Programs for American Indian and Alaska Native Communities: An Introduction to the Tribal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood H…
Home‐visiting programs have become a key component of evidence‐based services for pregnant women, new mothers, their infants, and their families. When Congress authorized the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV) in 2010, it set aside 3% of the $1.5 billion in funding to support home‐visiting programs operated by tribes, Tribal MIECHV programs have been funded in 14 states and have served over 3,100 families, providin…
Using Single‐case Designs to Evaluate Components of Tribal Home‐visitation Programs
Single‐case designs are typically used in classroom and clinical settings to assess the behavioral impacts of an intervention with an individual child. Using two illustrative case studies, this article describes the extension of this model to home‐visitation programs serving tribal communities and examines the lessons learned throughout the process of adapting this approach. Our experience suggests that the benefits of using this design outweigh …
Disseminating Information on Trauma Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment in a Tribal Health Setting: A Case Study
Exposure to trauma is consistently associated with co-occurrence of behavioral health disorders. Primary care settings are opportune places to screen for traumatic experiences and symptoms, as they are often the initial point of care for behavioral health concerns by the Alaska Native and American Indian (AN/AI) population. In this case study, we examine results dissemination activities at the SCF Research Department-hosted 2016 Alaska Native Hea…
Transforming through leadership: A qualitative study of successful American Indian Alaska Native behavioral health leaders
It is important to encourage AIAN public health leaders to employ leadership research and models conducted or developed in the context of AIAN communities. The emerging model presented in this study could serve as an initial basis for AIAN leadership training. Given the challenging context of AIAN leadership, the lessons taught by these successful leaders could be adapted for use by leaders in non AIAN settings
Law Enforcement Agencies’ Perceptions of the Benefits of and Barriers to Temporary Firearm Storage to Prevent Suicide
Objectives. To examine the perceived benefits of and barriers to law enforcement agencies providing increased access to voluntary and temporary firearm storage. Methods. We surveyed 448 police chiefs and sheriffs in 8 US Mountain West states about firearm storage practices, benefits of and barriers to storage, and related attitudes and beliefs. Data collection occurred during the spring and summer of 2016. Results. Nearly three quarters of agenci…
Medicine (19 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Environmental health (9 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (9 works) · Community Health and Development (8 works) · Population (7 works) · Demography (6 works)