Publication Briefs
Recent Publication Briefs
Browse our collection of publication briefs featuring students, researchers, clinicians, and professors across injury prevention fields.
Addressing Fear of Negative Consequences of Overdose Response: A Qualitative Survey
Participant responses indicated that hesitance to respond to an overdose stems from fear of disease transmission from artifacts of drug use, violence, and exposure to unintentional overdose.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Sarah Febres-Cordero, PhD, RN, Athena D.F Sherman, PhD, PHN, RN, CNE, and Ursula A. Kelly, PhD, APRN
September Publication Brief (PDF)Youth Suicide and Preceding Mental Health Diagnosis
A substantial percentage of youth who died by suicide had no recorded mental health diagnosis, particularly among racially and ethnically minoritized populations.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Sofia Chaudhary, MD
August 2024 Brief (PDF)Frontiers in Public Health Special Edition "Urgent Injury and Violence-Related Public Health Threats: The Role of Social Determinants in Cross-Cutting Injury and Violence across the Lifespan"
These studies highlight how unevenly distributed social resources disproportionately affect those without adequate support.
Featuring 20 IPRCE Core Faculty members
Compiled Publication Briefs (PDF)Associations Between Short-Term Ambient Temperature Exposure and Emergency Department Visits for Amphetamine, Cocaine, and Opioid Use in California from 2005 to 2019
People who use stimulants and opioids may be sensitive to short-term higher ambient temperature.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Howard Chang, PhD
July 2024 Brief (PDF)Access to, Experience with, and Attitudes towards Take Home Naloxone: An Online Survey
A majority of the participants who use opioids were in favor of having naloxone with them when using drugs and believed naloxone should be freely available to people.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Joseph Carpenter, MD
April 2024 Brief (PDF)Pediatric Firearm Injury Emergency Department Visits From 2017 to 2022: A Multicenter Study
Pediatric firearm injury emergency department visits per 30 days doubled during the pandemic, and mortality rates increased.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Dr. Sofia Chaudhary, MD
March 2024 Brief (PDF)Yoga Vs Cognitive Processing Therapy for Military Sexual Trauma-Related Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Randomized Clinical Trial
Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga is an effective, acceptable, and cost-efficient PTSD treatment for women veterans with PTSD related to military sexual trauma.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Ursula Kelly, PhD, APRN
February 2024 Brief (PDF)"I'm Not Going to Lay Back and Watch Somebody Die": A Qualitative Study of How People Who Use Drugs' Naloxone Experiences Are Shaped by Rural Risk Environment and Overdose Education/Naloxone Distribution Intervention
Factors that influence rural PWUDs' decisions to accept, carry, and administer naloxone are complex and touch upon all domains of their rural risk environment.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Hannah Cooper, ScD
January 2024 Brief (PDF)Intersections of Oppression: Examining the Interactive Effect of Racial Discrimination and Neighborhood Poverty on PTSD Symptoms in Black Women
The multiple levels of oppression that Black individuals face must be considered when diagnosing and treating stress-related psychopathology.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Abigail Powers Lott, PhD and Jennifer Stevens, PhD
November 2024 Brief (PDF)Longitudinal Study of Covid-19 Stay-At-Home Orders' Impact on Deaths of Despair in the United States, January 2019 to December 2020
The duration of jurisdictional COVID-19 stay-at-home orders may have contributed to an increase in age-adjusted drug-overdose death rates in the United States.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Nadine Kaslow, PhD
October 2023 Brief (PDF)Publication Briefs Archives
Minimum Wage and Violence Outcomes
Addressing root causes of violence, such as increasing minimum wage, can have a cascading positive impact across multiple violence outcomes.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Briana Woods-Jaeger, PhD
September 2023 Brief (PDF)Use of Non-Stigmatizing Language is Associated with Improved Outcomes in Hospitalized People who Inject Drugs
Best-practice language is associated with increased odds of addition treatment and specialty care referrals, although it is not commonly used in records.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Joseph Carpenter, MD
August 2023 Brief (PDF)Risks of Severe Assault and Intimate Partner Homicide Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Intimate Partner Violence Survivors: Preliminary Findings from Community Listening Sessions
Several risk themes are unique to TGD people and should be considered when safety planning or adapting IPV screening tools for this population.
IPRCE Core Faculty: Athena Sherman, PhD, RN
July 2023 Brief (PDF)Can Accurate Demographic Information About People Who Use Prescription Medications Non-Medically Be Derived from Twitter?
Social media based surveillance for opioids, stimulants, and tranquilizers was consistent with statistics reported through traditional sources.
IRPCE Core Faculty: Abeed Sarker, PhD and Hannah Cooper, ScD
June 2023 Brief (PDF)"COVID gave him an opportunity to tighten the reins around my throat”: Perceptions of COVID-19 movement restrictions among survivors of intimate partner violence
This qualitative study addresses a gap by understanding the impacts of COVID-19, including the impacts of movement restrictions (i.e., shelter in place orders, quarantine, isolation orders) on experiences of IPV from the perspective of survivors.
IRPCE Core Faculty: Kathryn G. Wyckoff
March 30, 2023 Brief (PDF)Do Gender Differences Exist Among Victims of Head and Neck Injuries due to Intimate Partner Violence?
IPRCE Core faculty members Drs. Amy Zeidan, Dabney Evans, and Randi Smith's research aimed to address a gap by comparing the frequency, severity, and characteristics of head and neck injuries due to intimate partner violence, between men and women.
IRPCE Core Faculty: Amy Zeidan, PhD, Dabney Evans, PhD, and Randi Smith, PhD
March 2023 Brief (PDF)Electronic Advisories Increase Naloxone Prescribing Across Health Care Settings
Core Faculty member Dr. Joseph Carpenter and team evaluated the changes in prescriber practices at a large county hospital due to an electronic health record (EHR) advisory. This was a retrospective chart abstraction study looking at all opioid prescriptions and all naloxone prescriptions written as emergency department (ED) discharge, inpatient hospital discharge, or outpatient medications.
IRPCE Core Faculty: Joseph Carpenter, MD
February 2023 Brief (PDF)Natural Language Model for Automatic Identification of Intimate Partner Violence Reports from Twitter
Core Faculty members Abeed Sarker and Sangmi Kim collected publicly available English posts (tweets) related to interpersonal violence from Twitter using its public streaming application programming interface to improve surveillance and targeted distribution of support and/or interventions for those in need.
IRPCE Core Faculty: Abeed Sarker, MD and Sangmi Kim, PhD
January 2023 Brief (PDF)Integration of Life Care Specialists Into Orthopaedic Trauma Care to Improve Postoperative Outcomes: A Pilot Study
Core faculty member and IPRCE's drug safety task force lead, Dr. Nicholas Giordano assessed the feasibility and impact of integrating a Life Care Specialist (LCS) into orthopaedic trauma care settings.
Trauma Sensitive Yoga as a Treatment for PTSD in Women Veterans
Core Faculty Member and co-lead of IPRCE's violence prevention task force, Dr. Ursula Kelly was awarded "2021 Best Paper by a Woman in Science or Under-represented Minority" in July of 2022 for her work on the publication that aimed to address the need for treatment options and barriers to care by investigating a non-trauma-focused treatment option for women Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) related to military sexual trauma (MST).
Examining the Impact of Different News Formats on Self-Efficacy in Identifying When to Seek Care for Traumatic Brain Injuries
University of Georgia MPH graduate, current Cornell Ph.D. candidate, and 2022 Scott Lilienfield Scholarship recipient, Rebekah Wicke, examined which news format, if any, is preferable in bringing about favorable outcomes in reducing participants’ psychological distance to the threat of experiencing a TBI.
Ethical Care of the Traumatized: Conceptual Introduction to Trauma-Informed Care for Surgeons and Surgical Residents
IPRCE Core Faculty member, Randi Smith, MD, MPH reviews fundamental concepts of trauma-informed care (TIC) and applies them to the work of surgeons.
Two Generations Thrive: Bidirectional Collaboration Among Researchers, Practitioners and Parents to Promote Culturally Responsive Trauma Research Practice and Policy
IPRCE Core faculty member Briana Woods-Jaegar, Ph.D. leads a study that describes the collaboration among researchers, practitioners, and parents of color with lived experiences of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).
Pain & Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Symptoms after combat-related injury
IPRCE Core Faculty member and Drug Safety Task Force leader, Nicholas Giordano, PhD, RN, evaluates the association between pain outcomes and PTSD symptom trajectories among combat-injured service members.
Effect of Nighttime Rental Restrictions on E-Scooter Injuries
IPRCE Director, Jonathan Rupp, PhD, and colleagues retrospectively review the effects of Atlanta's regulation banning nighttime e-scooter rentals on injury trends at a tertiary care and trauma center.
Food Insecurity Predicts Urban Gun Violence
IPRCE Core Faculty member, Randi Smith, MD, MPH, examines the impact of poor food access on the incidence of gunshot injury within the city of Atlanta.
Methadone and Suboxone Mentions on Twitter
IPRCE Exploratory Research Project PI, Abeed Sarker, PhD, explores public perceptions of effective medications for opioid use disorder.
MITIGATING NEGATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF COMMUNITY VIOLENCE Exposure
IPRCE Core Faculty member, Briana Woods-Jaeger, PhD, leads a study on reducing negative consequences after violence exposure with the perspectives of African American youth.
Estimating Frequency of High-Risk Prescribing Patterns to Develop Targeted Interventions
Emory Rollins School of Public Health student and 2020 Scott Lilienfeld Injury Prevention scholar, Kara Suvada, analyzes frequencies of high-risk prescribing patterns in relation to co-prescription with contraindicated drugs.
Improved Proxy Measures of State-Level Household Gun Ownership
IPRCE Core Faculty member, Joseph Saleh, PhD, develops and validates proxy measures of state-level household gun ownership using advanced machine learning methods.
Domestic Violence in Atlanta, GA Before and During COVID-19
IPRCE Core Faculty member, Dabney Evans, PhD, MPH, studies domestic violence trends before and during shelter-in-place orders.