Christa Lilly
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4460076 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Christa Lilly |
| PRENOMES | Christa |
| SOBRENOME | Lilly |
| ASSINATURA | LILLY C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | West Virginia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0009-0638 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Pubertal Development and the Onset of Substance Use Among Appalachian Youth
Objective: We investigated the links between pubertal timing and tempo and the onset of cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use among middle schoolers in Appalachian communities. Methods: School surveys were administered to middle school students of the 6th grade and continuing through the spring of the 8th grade (n = 2,587; 49.4% boys), beginning in the fall at six-month intervals. Youth self-reported on their pubertal development and substance use. …
Resilience in rural front-line workers and law enforcement officers
Front-line workers and law enforcement officers experience uniquely high levels of occupational distress. The present study investigated the effectiveness of mindfulness-based resilience training with rural front-line workers and law enforcement officers to enhance personal well-being and professional functioning. A total of 162 participants were recruited into 10 cohorts from February to June 2022. Each cohort received a 2-day training followed …
Fidelity to an early childhood home visitation program model’s prenatal physical activity curriculum modules
Associations Between Parent and Adolescent General and Domain‐Specific Self Control
Adolescent self‐control is predictive of many outcomes (e.g., educational, financial, and interpersonal) during adolescence and into adulthood. Despite its importance, few studies report on associations between parental self‐control and adolescent self‐control, and no studies have considered how these associations may be domain‐specific (e.g., teens and parents’ self‐control are correlated for health behaviors but not for leisure activities). The…
Adolescent caffeine use and problematic school behavior
INTRODUCTION: Caffeine is a psychostimulant possessing arousal, motor activation, and reinforcing properties, which is consumed daily by most adolescents aged 12-19 years. Although current understanding of the implications of adolescent caffeine consumption for school behaviors remains incomplete, studies have shown that in addition to acute effects of the drug, in common with other habit-forming psychoactive substances, regular use leads to phys…
Beyond School Climate
BACKGROUND: The conceptual framework for School as a Protective Factor approach was presented in a companion article in this issue of the journal. The current article describes the validation of the School as a Protective Factor-Brief (SPF-Brief), a 13-item survey measuring the 3 core constructs and 13 defining characteristics of this framework. METHODS: The SPF-Brief was validated through 2 studies. The developmental study used a longitudinal de…
Beyond School Climate
BACKGROUND: The school climate concept has been promising, but has long-standing critiques that have not been adequately addressed to date. The School as a Protective Factor approach represents one attempt to offer a new approach that builds on and extends beyond the concept of school climate while addressing previously identified limitations. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEORY: The School as a Protective Factor approach offers a new framework for conceptua…
Prenatal substance use in the rural and Appalachian state
PURPOSE: To examine the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of prenatal substance use in the rural Appalachian state of West Virginia (WV). METHODS: Population-based cohort (Project WATCH) of all women (N = 34,309) who gave birth between February 2020 and June 2022. A composite substance use variable included 9 categories: "no substance use," "opioids," "cannabis," "sedatives/hypnotics," "stimulants," "opioids and cannabis," "opioids and stimula…
Using adverse childhood experiences to explore the usefulness of community health needs assessments to monitor complex determinants of health at the local level
A mixed methodological examination of older adults’ psychological reactance toward caregiving messages from their adult children
This study extends psychological reactance theory (PRT) to family caregiving by exploring autonomy-threatening messages adult child caregivers use to gain compliance from older adult parents. Results of focus groups and interviews with older adult care recipients (Study One) and caregivers (Study Two) corroborated three types of autonomy-threatening messages, which were used to test PRT (Study Three). Older adults (N = 281) were randomly assigned…
Increased Odds of Incident Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in Presence of Common Non-Cancer Chronic Pain Conditions in Appalachian Older Adults
In this large cohort of older Appalachian Medicare beneficiaries, baseline NCPCs showed a strong, positive, dose-response relationship to odds for incident ADRD; this association appeared partially mediated by depression and anxiety. Further longitudinal research in this and other high-risk, rural populations are needed to evaluate the causal relation between NCPC and ADRD
Initial Findings of a Multicomponent School Health Intervention in Rural Appalachia
Background. Schools are an important setting for health promotion because they afford children and adolescents numerous opportunities to accumulate the recommended physical activity (PA) minutes and make other health-related decisions, including healthy eating. Unfortunately, there is little evidence of coordinated school-based health interventions in rural Appalachia. The Greenbrier Children’s Health Opportunities Involving Coordinated Efforts i…
School Climate as a Universal Intervention to Prevent Substance Use Initiation in Early Adolescence
Initiation of substance use often starts during adolescence, with tobacco and alcohol use frequently preceding the use of marijuana and other illicit drugs. Studies suggest that a positive school climate may prevent substance use while promoting healthy student behaviors. The purpose of this study was to determine the longitudinal associations between school climate and substance use initiation in a group of middle school students. Parallel laten…
Using School Climate to Improve Attendance and Grades
BACKGROUND: Students with chronic absences tend to struggle academically and may not benefit fully from all school has to offer. A positive school climate has been shown to reduce absenteeism and promote academic success. In this study, we explored how a positive school climate and high satisfaction with school may influence absences and academic performance. METHODS: We used mediated path analysis to describe relationships involving school clima…
School Climate as an Intervention to Reduce Academic Failure and Educate the Whole Child
BACKGROUND: Preventing student academic failure is crucial to student health and life success. Previous studies suggest a positive school climate may reduce students' risk for academic failure and contribute to academic success. The purpose of this study was to determine the longitudinal associations between school climate and academic grades in a group of middle school students who transition into high school. METHODS: Parallel latent growth cur…
A qualitative assessment of home visitors’ knowledge, skills, and abilities in delivering prenatal physical activity curriculum modules
A Latent Class Analysis of the Co-occurrence of Risk Behaviors among Adolescents
Objectives: In this study, we examined the co-occurrence of multiple health-risk behaviors to determine whether there are any differences in the pattern of co-occurrence by sex. Methods: We conducted latent class analysis using the national 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data for the overall sample, and separately by sex (N = 13,583). Results: Over half of the sample (53%) belonged to the low risk subgroup (Class 1). Class 2 accounted for 15% of…
Association Between Breastfeeding and Childhood Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
Trends in serum lipids among 5th grade Cardiac participants, 2002–2012
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that serum low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C) and non-high-density lipoprotein (non-HDL-C) have recently declined in the U.S.A. among adult and child populations despite high obesity prevalence rates. The purpose of this study was to assess whether there was a significant linear decrease in LDL-C and non-HDL-C, but not Body Mass Index (BMI) percentile among a cross-sectional, large, homogenous cohort with consistent me…
Trends in serum lipids among 5th grade Cardiac participants, 2002–2012
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that serum low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C) and non-high-density lipoprotein (non-HDL-C) have recently declined in the U.S.A. among adult and child populations despite high obesity prevalence rates. The purpose of this study was to assess whether there was a significant linear decrease in LDL-C and non-HDL-C, but not Body Mass Index (BMI) percentile among a cross-sectional, large, homogenous cohort with consistent me…
Trends in serum lipids among 5th grade Cardiac participants, 2002–2012
BACKGROUND: Studies have shown that serum low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C) and non-high-density lipoprotein (non-HDL-C) have recently declined in the U.S.A. among adult and child populations despite high obesity prevalence rates. The purpose of this study was to assess whether there was a significant linear decrease in LDL-C and non-HDL-C, but not Body Mass Index (BMI) percentile among a cross-sectional, large, homogenous cohort with consistent me…
Association Between Breastfeeding and Childhood Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors
A Latent Class Analysis of the Co-occurrence of Risk Behaviors among Adolescents
Objectives: In this study, we examined the co-occurrence of multiple health-risk behaviors to determine whether there are any differences in the pattern of co-occurrence by sex. Methods: We conducted latent class analysis using the national 2013 Youth Risk Behavior Survey data for the overall sample, and separately by sex (N = 13,583). Results: Over half of the sample (53%) belonged to the low risk subgroup (Class 1). Class 2 accounted for 15% of…
Initial Findings of a Multicomponent School Health Intervention in Rural Appalachia
Background. Schools are an important setting for health promotion because they afford children and adolescents numerous opportunities to accumulate the recommended physical activity (PA) minutes and make other health-related decisions, including healthy eating. Unfortunately, there is little evidence of coordinated school-based health interventions in rural Appalachia. The Greenbrier Children’s Health Opportunities Involving Coordinated Efforts i…
School Climate as a Universal Intervention to Prevent Substance Use Initiation in Early Adolescence
Initiation of substance use often starts during adolescence, with tobacco and alcohol use frequently preceding the use of marijuana and other illicit drugs. Studies suggest that a positive school climate may prevent substance use while promoting healthy student behaviors. The purpose of this study was to determine the longitudinal associations between school climate and substance use initiation in a group of middle school students. Parallel laten…
Using School Climate to Improve Attendance and Grades
BACKGROUND: Students with chronic absences tend to struggle academically and may not benefit fully from all school has to offer. A positive school climate has been shown to reduce absenteeism and promote academic success. In this study, we explored how a positive school climate and high satisfaction with school may influence absences and academic performance. METHODS: We used mediated path analysis to describe relationships involving school clima…
School Climate as an Intervention to Reduce Academic Failure and Educate the Whole Child
BACKGROUND: Preventing student academic failure is crucial to student health and life success. Previous studies suggest a positive school climate may reduce students' risk for academic failure and contribute to academic success. The purpose of this study was to determine the longitudinal associations between school climate and academic grades in a group of middle school students who transition into high school. METHODS: Parallel latent growth cur…
A qualitative assessment of home visitors’ knowledge, skills, and abilities in delivering prenatal physical activity curriculum modules
Increased Odds of Incident Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in Presence of Common Non-Cancer Chronic Pain Conditions in Appalachian Older Adults
In this large cohort of older Appalachian Medicare beneficiaries, baseline NCPCs showed a strong, positive, dose-response relationship to odds for incident ADRD; this association appeared partially mediated by depression and anxiety. Further longitudinal research in this and other high-risk, rural populations are needed to evaluate the causal relation between NCPC and ADRD
Using adverse childhood experiences to explore the usefulness of community health needs assessments to monitor complex determinants of health at the local level
A mixed methodological examination of older adults’ psychological reactance toward caregiving messages from their adult children
This study extends psychological reactance theory (PRT) to family caregiving by exploring autonomy-threatening messages adult child caregivers use to gain compliance from older adult parents. Results of focus groups and interviews with older adult care recipients (Study One) and caregivers (Study Two) corroborated three types of autonomy-threatening messages, which were used to test PRT (Study Three). Older adults (N = 281) were randomly assigned…
Prenatal substance use in the rural and Appalachian state
PURPOSE: To examine the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of prenatal substance use in the rural Appalachian state of West Virginia (WV). METHODS: Population-based cohort (Project WATCH) of all women (N = 34,309) who gave birth between February 2020 and June 2022. A composite substance use variable included 9 categories: "no substance use," "opioids," "cannabis," "sedatives/hypnotics," "stimulants," "opioids and cannabis," "opioids and stimula…
Adolescent caffeine use and problematic school behavior
INTRODUCTION: Caffeine is a psychostimulant possessing arousal, motor activation, and reinforcing properties, which is consumed daily by most adolescents aged 12-19 years. Although current understanding of the implications of adolescent caffeine consumption for school behaviors remains incomplete, studies have shown that in addition to acute effects of the drug, in common with other habit-forming psychoactive substances, regular use leads to phys…
Beyond School Climate
BACKGROUND: The conceptual framework for School as a Protective Factor approach was presented in a companion article in this issue of the journal. The current article describes the validation of the School as a Protective Factor-Brief (SPF-Brief), a 13-item survey measuring the 3 core constructs and 13 defining characteristics of this framework. METHODS: The SPF-Brief was validated through 2 studies. The developmental study used a longitudinal de…
Beyond School Climate
BACKGROUND: The school climate concept has been promising, but has long-standing critiques that have not been adequately addressed to date. The School as a Protective Factor approach represents one attempt to offer a new approach that builds on and extends beyond the concept of school climate while addressing previously identified limitations. CONTRIBUTIONS TO THEORY: The School as a Protective Factor approach offers a new framework for conceptua…
Resilience in rural front-line workers and law enforcement officers
Front-line workers and law enforcement officers experience uniquely high levels of occupational distress. The present study investigated the effectiveness of mindfulness-based resilience training with rural front-line workers and law enforcement officers to enhance personal well-being and professional functioning. A total of 162 participants were recruited into 10 cohorts from February to June 2022. Each cohort received a 2-day training followed …
Fidelity to an early childhood home visitation program model’s prenatal physical activity curriculum modules
Associations Between Parent and Adolescent General and Domain‐Specific Self Control
Adolescent self‐control is predictive of many outcomes (e.g., educational, financial, and interpersonal) during adolescence and into adulthood. Despite its importance, few studies report on associations between parental self‐control and adolescent self‐control, and no studies have considered how these associations may be domain‐specific (e.g., teens and parents’ self‐control are correlated for health behaviors but not for leisure activities). The…
Pubertal Development and the Onset of Substance Use Among Appalachian Youth
Objective: We investigated the links between pubertal timing and tempo and the onset of cannabis, alcohol, and tobacco use among middle schoolers in Appalachian communities. Methods: School surveys were administered to middle school students of the 6th grade and continuing through the spring of the 8th grade (n = 2,587; 49.4% boys), beginning in the fall at six-month intervals. Youth self-reported on their pubertal development and substance use. …
Medicine (16 obras) · Psychology (15 obras) · Demography (8 obras) · Psychiatry (8 obras) · Environmental health (7 obras) · Clinical Psychology (6 obras) · Developmental psychology (6 obras) · Early Childhood Education and Development (5 obras) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras)