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  1. Getting Performance Metrics Right: A Qualitative Study of Staff Experiences Implementing and Measuring Practice...

    BACKGROUND: Quality improvement is a central goal of the patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model, and requires the use of relevant performance measures that can effectively guide comprehensive care...

  2. Getting the Most out of Healthcare as an Autistic Adult

    The Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE), a partnership between academic researchers and members of the Autistic community, has conducted a series of studies to understand...

  3. Collaboration Strategies in Non-Traditional CBPR Partnerships: Lessons from an Academic-Community Partnership with Autistic...

    Background: Most community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects involve local communities defined by race, ethnicity, geography, or occupation. Autistic self-advocates, a geographically dispersed...

  4. Racial Discrepancies in the Association Between Paternal vs. Maternal Educational Level and Risk of Low Birthweight in...

    Background: The role of paternal factors in determining the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes has received less attention than maternal factors. Similarly, the interaction between the effects of race and...

  5. A Study of Multnomah County community support services for the chronically mentally ill

    In recent years attention has been given to the problems of the chronically mentally ill in regard to the effects of deinstitutionalization and a need for community supports. In this study, 77 service providers...

  6. Organizational Supports Used by Private Child and Family Serving Agencies to Facilitate Evidence Use: a Mixed Methods Study...

    Background: Challenges to evidence use are well documented. Less well understood are the formal supports—e.g., technical infrastructure, inter-organizational relationships—organizations may put in place to...

  7. The Sexual Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning Youth

    Although persons of different sexual and gender orientations often get grouped together under the term “LGBTQ” (for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning), it is important to distinguish...

  8. Network Indicators of the Social Ecology of Adolescents in Relative and Non-Relative Foster Households

    Though the presence, composition, and quality of social relationships—particularly as found in family networks—has an important influence on adolescent well-being, little is known about the social ecology...

  9. Motivations of Yoga Teachers and the Impact of Training and Teaching

    Objective: Most research on yoga focuses on efficacy with physical and mental health conditions. Little attention is given to yoga teachers. This project focused on motivations to engage in yoga teacher...

  10. Oregon Community-Based Care Survey: Assisted Living, Residential Care, and Memory Care

    This report, prepared by the Institute on Aging (IOA) at Portland State University (PSU) in collaboration with the Oregon Department of Human Services, describes community-based care (CBC) settings that provide...

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