Wanjiku Njoroge
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2024
AACAP'S 2024 HONORS PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS
Njoroge W. AACAP'S 2024 HONORS PRESENTATION HIGHLIGHTS. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2024, 63: s138. DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2024.08.015.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchEditors’ Note: 2024 Annual Report Regarding JAACAP’s Antiracist Journey
Novins D, Singh M, Althoff R, Bagot K, Blader J, Brotman M, DelBello M, Dickstein D, Doyle A, Drury S, Findling R, Fortuna L, Fristad M, Middeldorp C, Njoroge W, Rogers C, Pumariega A, Bath E, Bihani N, Thompson-Felix T, Billingsley M. Editors’ Note: 2024 Annual Report Regarding JAACAP’s Antiracist Journey. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2024 PMID: 39307183, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2024.09.001.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchA Secret Shopper Study of Language Accessibility of Community-Based Behavioral Health Services for Children in Families Who Speak Spanish and English
Lomax S, Klusaritz H, Jimenez M, Frausto B, Cahen V, Njoroge W, Yun K. A Secret Shopper Study of Language Accessibility of Community-Based Behavioral Health Services for Children in Families Who Speak Spanish and English. The Journal Of Pediatrics 2024, 276: 114275. PMID: 39218205, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2024.114275.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchBehavioral health facilitiesMedicaid-insured childrenHealth facilitiesPreferred languageBehavioral health careSubstance abuse servicesSpanish-speaking familiesModifiable barriersHealth schedulesHealth careAbuse servicesOutpatient facilitiesStandardized scriptPrimary outcomeTelephone numbersAppointmentChildrenEnglishCallersLanguageScripted callsAccess trainingFacilitiesSpanishFamilyBringing the Village to the Child: Addressing the Crisis of Children’s Mental Health
Robles-Ramamurthy B, Njoroge W, Benton T. Bringing the Village to the Child: Addressing the Crisis of Children’s Mental Health. Child And Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics Of North America 2024, 33: i. DOI: 10.1016/s1056-4993(24)00056-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchRacial Implicit Associations in Child Psychiatry
Malison K, Avila-Quintero V, Al-Mateen C, Flores J, Landeros-Weisenberger A, Njoroge W, Novins D, Robles-Ramamurthy B, Taylor J, Bloch M, Tobón A. Racial Implicit Associations in Child Psychiatry. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2024 PMID: 38823476, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2024.04.013.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchImplicit Association TestRace Implicit Association TestRecruitment of human participantsExternalizing behavior problemsPaper self-identifiesImplicit associationsChildren faceBehavior problemsChild psychiatryAbstractText Label="DIVERSITY &Negatively valenced wordsExternal wordHuman participantsValenced wordsExternalizing disordersParticipating psychiatristsPsychiatric cliniciansNegative valenceNegative wordsPsychiatristsAssociation TestPsychiatryInvestigate psychiatristsReduce racial inequalityDemographic predictorsBringing the village to the child: answering the call to lead and transform child and adolescent psychiatry
Robles-Ramamurthy B, Njoroge W, Benton T. Bringing the village to the child: answering the call to lead and transform child and adolescent psychiatry. Child And Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics Of North America 2024, 33: xvii-xix. PMID: 38823821, DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2024.03.012.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchThe impact of the pandemic on mothers and children, with a focus on syndemic effects on black families: the “Prenatal to Preschool” study protocol
Njoroge W, Tieu T, Eckardt D, Himes M, Alexandre C, Hall W, Wisniewski K, Popoola A, Holloway K, Rodriguez Y, Kornfield S, Momplaisir F, Wang X, Gur R, Waller R. The impact of the pandemic on mothers and children, with a focus on syndemic effects on black families: the “Prenatal to Preschool” study protocol. Frontiers In Psychiatry 2024, 14: 1281666. PMID: 38260788, PMCID: PMC10801187, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1281666.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMental healthCOVID-19 pandemicChildren ages 24Parent/caregiver questionnairesCohort of mothersMental health equityElectronic medical recordsAge 36 monthsCohort studyChild age 36 monthsPostpartum womenMedical recordsPeripartum periodStudy protocolMultiple time pointsSyndemic effectCaregiver questionnaireClinical InterviewCaregivers' experiencesSocial determinantsPreventative interventionsAge 24Prospective researchHealth equitySecondary caregiversEditors’ Best of 2023
Novins D, Althoff R, Brotman M, DelBello M, Doyle A, Fortuna L, Fristad M, Middeldorp C, Njoroge W, Rogers C, Singh M. Editors’ Best of 2023. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2024, 63: 3-6. PMID: 38154857, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2023.10.001.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2023
Observations of Positive Parenting from Online Parent–Child Interactions at Age 1
Waller R, Paz Y, Himes M, White L, Rodriguez Y, Gorgone A, Luby J, Gerstein E, Brady R, Chaiyachati B, Duncan A, Barzilay R, Kornfield S, Burris H, Seidlitz J, Parish-Morris J, Laney N, Gur R, Njoroge W. Observations of Positive Parenting from Online Parent–Child Interactions at Age 1. Parenting 2023, 24: 39-65. PMID: 38188653, PMCID: PMC10766433, DOI: 10.1080/15295192.2023.2286454.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchPositive parentingParent-child interaction taskHigh positive parentingParent-child interactionsChildren's cognitive developmentChildren's socioemotional developmentParent-child dyadsParenting factorsGood model fitCognitive developmentSocioemotional developmentParent reportInteraction tasksPandemic worryPositive regardParentingSupportive relationshipsValid assessmentConstruct validityOlder parental ageNeighborhood safetyYoung childrenMethodological factorsMethodological variablesTaskEditors’ Note: Third Annual Report Regarding JAACAP’s Antiracist Journey
Novins D, Singh M, Althoff R, Bagot K, Brotman M, DelBello M, Dickstein D, Doyle A, Drury S, Findling R, Fortuna L, Fristad M, Middeldorp C, Njoroge W, Rogers C, Pumariega A, Bath E, Tobón A, Thompson-Felix T, Diversity E, Billingsley M, Family J. Editors’ Note: Third Annual Report Regarding JAACAP’s Antiracist Journey. Journal Of The American Academy Of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 2023, 62: 1287-1294. PMID: 38035913, DOI: 10.1016/j.jaac.2023.09.531.Peer-Reviewed Original Research