Using Add Health data, the authors provide evidence that some adolescents gave inaccurate
and/or invalid responses on a self-administered questionnaire. Further analyses show that …

There are conflicting findings about whether adopted children have more psychological and
behavioral problems than nonadoptees. Research results are discrepant partly because …

A larger proportion of adopted adolescents receive mental health counseling than do their
nonadopted peers. Adoptees might have more problems that require counseling, or their …

This study examined the contribution of demographic characteristics, early maltreatment,
and peer and family relationships during adolescence to the prediction of aggressive and …

BACKGROUND With increasing attention to the quality of health care delivery, evaluating
trauma triage decisions in a large system of emergency care can help decision makers reduce …

In a series of adoption-related studies using the Add Health data sets, discrepancies were
observed between the Add Health In-school Questionnaire and the In-home Interview data …

Background Pediatric patients make up approximately 10% of EMS transports nationwide.
Previous studies demonstrated that pediatric patients do not consistently have a full set of …

BACKGROUND: Children's language and developmental delays can result from a late diagnosis
of hearing loss. To improve population-based prevention efforts to reduce such delays, …

Becoming pregnant and giving birth during the second decade of life is common in many
countries, but it is exceedingly rare and discouraged in others. Over half of young women …

BACKGROUND: American Indians in South Dakota have the highest mortality rates in the
nation compared to other racial and ethnic groups and American Indians in other states. …