Papers by Cordelia Fuller
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2008
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Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2008
This study examines gender differences in patterns of the co-occurrence of alcohol abuse and depr... more This study examines gender differences in patterns of the co-occurrence of alcohol abuse and depression in youth. Data were from 1,458 youth (ages 9–17) randomly selected from the community. The child and one parent/guardian in each household were interviewed regarding childhood psychopathology, alcohol and drug use, and a wide array of risk factors. The findings showed that: (1) alcohol abuse/dependence
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Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2012
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American Journal of Public Health, 2012
We used data from a national survey to examine arrest rate disparities between African American a... more We used data from a national survey to examine arrest rate disparities between African American and White adolescents (aged 12-17 years; n=6725) in relation to drug-related and other illegal behaviors. African American adolescents were less likely than Whites to have engaged in drug use or drug selling, but were more likely to have been arrested. Racial disparities in adolescent arrest appear to result from differential treatment of minority youths and to have long-term negative effects on the lives of affected African American youths.
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American Journal of Public Health, 2006
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The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 2003
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Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 2012
Rapid economic growth and social change in China in recent years have been accompanied by increas... more Rapid economic growth and social change in China in recent years have been accompanied by increased rates of mental health problems among the country's adolescents. This study examined rates of mental health service use and associated factors among Chinese adolescents. A survey of 1,891 high school students in grades ten through 12 from three high schools in Shantou, China, was conducted in 2009. Measures of mental health status, service need (perceived and objective), mental health service use, and informal help seeking were obtained. Twenty-five percent of the adolescents reported a perceived need for the services of a mental health professional. Only 5% of the sample had used school-based mental health services and only 4% had used non-school-based services. Three factors emerged as independently associated with adolescent use of both school-based and non-school-based services: perceiving a need for mental health services, having turned to a teacher for help, and having turne...
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Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 2010
This study examined initiation of alcohol use among adolescents, in relation to their earlier tra... more This study examined initiation of alcohol use among adolescents, in relation to their earlier traumatic experiences and symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Data were from a longitudinal study of children of Puerto Rican background living in New York City's South Bronx and in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The subsample (n = 1,119; 51.7% male) of those who were 10-13 years old and alcohol naive at baseline was used in the analyses. Alcohol-use initiation within 2 years after baseline was significantly more common among children reporting both trauma exposure and 5 or more of a maximum of 17 PTSD symptoms at baseline (adjusted odds ratio = 1.84, p < .05) than among those without trauma exposure, even when potentially shared correlates were controlled for. Children with trauma exposure but with fewer than five PTSD symptoms, however, did not differ significantly from those without trauma exposure, with regard to later alcohol use. PTSD symptoms in children 10-13 years old ...
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Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.), 2007
This study examined patterns of and reasons for use of complementary and alternative therapies am... more This study examined patterns of and reasons for use of complementary and alternative therapies among women with depression, focusing in particular on three popular types of complementary and alternative therapies-manual therapies (for example, chiropractic treatments, massage, and acupressure), herbs, and vitamins. The multiethnic sample consisted of 220 women with depression who were assessed as part of a nationally representative telephone survey of 3,068 women. Fifty-four percent of these women with depression reported past-year use of complementary and alternative medicine. African-American women were less likely to use complementary and alternative therapies in general, compared with non-Hispanic white women. Other factors significantly associated with use of complementary and alternative medicine in general included being employed, being single, and having self-perceived poor health. The relationships between the sociodemographic factors and use of each of the three individual...
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Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 2004
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Psychiatric Services, 2010
This study assessed patterns of mental health service use among adolescents who had attempted sui... more This study assessed patterns of mental health service use among adolescents who had attempted suicide and examined factors associated with their service use at individual, family, and community levels. Bivariate and multiple logistic regression analyses were conducted with data from 877 adolescents aged 12-17 who had attempted suicide in the past 12 months and who participated in the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse. Of the 877 adolescents, less than half (45%) reported that they had used mental health services in the past 12 months. Adolescents from racial-ethnic minority groups were less likely than whites to receive inpatient or outpatient mental health treatment, even when the analyses controlled for other demographic, individual, and family and community characteristics. Poor self-perceived health and living in a single-parent family were associated with use of inpatient services. Female gender, higher family income, participation in extracurricular activities, and the presence of symptoms of anxiety or disruptive disorders were associated with use of outpatient services. Use of school-based mental health services was associated only with participation in extracurricular activities. The mental health service needs of suicidal adolescents, especially those from ethnic minority groups and lower-income families, too frequently remain unmet. Larger racial-ethnic disparities were found in use of inpatient and outpatient mental health services than in use of school-based services. Mental health services offered within school settings can reach suicidal adolescents who need services but may experience barriers to standard types of care.
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PEDIATRICS, 2006
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Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2010
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The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 2003
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