Maria Orlando Edelen

Senior Behavioral Scientist
Boston Office

Education

Ph.D. in quantitative psychology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Overview

Biography

Maria Orlando Edelen is a senior behavioral scientist at RAND, where she focuses on mental health and health care quality. Her research has involved smoking, adolescents, depression, nursing homes, and community-based treatment programs, among other topics. Edelen received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Research Focus

Publications

A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative - 2011

Resisting Smoking When a Best Friend Smokes: Do Intrapersonal and Contextual Factors Matter? - 2011

The Positive Mental Health Instrument: Development and Validation of a Culturally Relevant Scale in a Multi-Ethnic Asian Population - 2011

Correspondence of Verbal Descriptor and Numeric Rating Scales for Pain Intensity: An Item Response Theory Calibration - 2010

Long-term Effect of Community-Based Treatment: Evidence from the Adolescent Outcomes Project - 2010

Running Away from Home: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Risk Factors and Young Adult Outcomes - 2010

A Comparison of Two Depressive Symptomatology Measures in Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Clients - 2009

Creating a Developmentally Sensitive Measure of Adolescent Alcohol Misuse: An Application of Item Response Theory - 2009

Measurement of Teen Dating Violence Attitudes: An Item Response Theory Evaluation of Differential Item Functioning According to Gender - 2009

The Health Value and Cost of Care for Major Depression - 2009

Why Not Just Ask the Resident? Refinement of a Preference Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes - 2009

Do Dimensions of Therapeutic Community Treatment Predict Retention and Outcomes? - 2008

Evaluating Differential Item Functioning of the PRIME-MD Mood Module Among Impoverished Black and White Women in Primary Care - 2008

Further Validity Evidence for the Dimensions of Change in Therapeutic Community Treatment Instrument - 2008

How a Therapy-Based Quality Improvement Intervention for Depression Affected Life Events and Psychological Well-Being Over Time: A 9-Year Longitudinal Analysis - 2008

Multiple Trajectories of Physical Aggression Among Adolescent Boys and Girls - 2008

Nursing Home Assessment of Cognitive Impairment: Development and Testing of a Brief Instrument of Mental Status - 2008

Obtaining Utility Estimates of the Health Value of Commonly Prescribed Treatments for Asthma and Depression - 2008

Temporal Associations of Cigarette Smoking with Social Influences, Academic Performance, and Delinquency: A Four-Wave Longitudinal Study from Ages 13-23 - 2008

The Longitudinal Association Between Substance Use and Delinquency Among High-Risk Youth - 2008

The Relationship of Reported Pain Severity to Perceived Effect on Function of Nursing Home Residents - 2008

The Societal Promise of Improving Care for Depression: Nine Years Out - 2008

What the Resident Meant to Say: Use of Cognitive Interviewing Techniques to Develop Questionnaires for Nursing Home Residents - 2008

A Discrete Time Hazards Model of Smoking Initiation Among West Coast Youth from Age 5 to 23 - 2007

Are Prisoner Characteristics Associated with Therapeutic Community Treatment Process? - 2007

Measuring Changes in Client-Level Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community (TC) with the Dimensions of Change Instrument (DCI) - 2007

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Issues Among People with HIV: Lessons from HCSUS - 2007

Pattern-Mixture Models for Addressing Nonignorable Nonresponse in Longitudinal Substance Abuse Treatment Studies - 2007

Pilot Test of Project CHOICE: A Voluntary Afterschool Intervention for Middle School Youth - 2007

Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community: Associations with Retention and Outcomes Among Adolescent Residential Clients - 2007

A Discrete Time Hazards Model of Smoking Initiation Among West Coast Youth from Age 5 to 23 - 2006

Affective and Behavioral Responses to Health-Related Social Control - 2006

Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Women's Developmental Trajectories and Associates Outcomes - 2006

Identification of Differential Item Functioning Using Item Response Theory and the Likelihood-Based Model Comparison Approach: Application to the Mini-Mental State Examination - 2006

Improving the Measurement of Socially Unacceptable Attitudes and Behaviors With Item Response Theory - 2006

The Dimensions of Change in Therapeutic Community Treatment Instrument - 2006

Concurrent Use of Alcohol and Cigarettes from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: An Examination of Developmental Trajectories and Outcomes - 2005

Dynamic Effects Among Patients' Treatment Needs, Beliefs, and Utilization: A Prospective Study of Adolescents in Drug Treatment - 2005

Isolating the Nexus of Substance Use, Violence and Sexual Risk for HIV Infection Among Young Adults in the United States - 2005

Mediation Analysis of a School-Based Drug Prevention Program: Effects of Project ALERT - 2005

Mental Health Status and Use of General Medical Services for Person with Human Immunodeficiency Virus - 2005

Predictors of Attempted Quitting and Cessation Among Young Adult Smokers - 2005

Substance Use Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of Smoking, Binge Drinking, and Marijuana Use - 2005

A Cross-Lagged Model of Psychiatric Problems and Health-Related Quality of Life Among a National Sample of HIV-Positive Adults - 2004

Developmental Trajectories of Cigarette Smoking and Their Correlates from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood - 2004

From Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Smoking - 2004

How Important Are Client Characteristics to Understanding Treatment Process in the Therapeutic Community? - 2004

The Interview Mode Effect on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) Scale: An Item Response Theory Analysis - 2004

Combination Antiretroviral Therapy and Improvements in Mental Health: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample of Persons Undergoing Care for HIV in the United States - 2003

Further Investigation of the Performance of S - X2: An Item Fit Index for Use with Dichotomous Item Response Theory Models - 2003

How to Evaluate and Improve the Quality and Credibility of an Outcomes Database: Validation and Feedback Study on the UK Cardiac Surgery Experience - 2003

Improving the Credibility of Information on Health Care Outcomes: the Cardiac Surgery Demonstration Project - 2003

Patterns and Correlates of Binge Drinking Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood - 2003

Personal and Psychosocial Characteristics Associated with Psychiatric Conditions Among Women with Human Immunodeficiency Virus - 2003

Predictors of Acute Distress Among Young Adults Injured By Community Violence - 2003

Retention of Court-Referred Youth in Residential Treatment Programs: Client Characteristics and Treatment Process Effects - 2003

Social Context and Adolescent Health Behavior: Does School-Level Smoking Prevalence Affect Students' Subsequent Smoking Behavior? - 2003

Acculturation and Peritraumatic Dissociation in Young Adult Latino Survivors of Community Violence - 2002

Acculturation and Peritraumatic Dissociation in Young Adult Latino Survivors of Community Violence - 2002

Development and Validation of a Modified Version of the Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire - 2002

Differential Item Functioning in a Spanish Translation of the PTSD Checklist: Detection and Evaluation of Impact - 2002

Differential Item Functioning in a Spanish Translation of the PTSD Checklist: Detection and Evaluation of Impact - 2002

Knowledge of Health Care Benefits Among Patients with Depression - 2002

Re-estimating the Prevalence of Psychiatric Disorders in a Nationally Representative Sample of Persons Receiving Care for HIV: Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study - 2002

The Prevalence of Alcohol Consumption and Heavy Drinking Among People with HIV in the United States: Results from the HIV Cost and Services Utilization Study - 2002

The Temporal Relationship Between Emotional Distress and Cigarette Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood - 2002

Understanding the Causal Relationship Between Patient-Reported Interpersonal and Technical Quality of Care for Depression - 2002

ADHD Treatment in a Behavioral Health Care Carve-Out: Medications, Providers, and Service Utilization - 2001

Are Better Ratings of the Patient-Provider Relationship Associated with Higher Quality Care for Depression? - 2001

Brief Screening of Psychiatric Disorders Among a National Sample of HIV-positive Adults: Concordance Between the Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and the CIDI Short Form (CIDI-SF) - 2001

Psychiatric Disorders and Drug Use Among Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Infected Adults in the United States - 2001

CUNY's Testing Program: Characteristics, Results, and Implications for Policy and Research - 2000

Identifying a Short Functional Disability Screen for Older Persons - 2000

Likelihood-based Item-Fit Indices for Dichotomous Item Response Theory Models - 2000

Summed-Score Linking Using Item Response Theory: Application to Depression Measurement - 2000

The Effect of Copayments on Drug and Alcohol Treatment Following Inpatient Detoxification Under Managed Care - 2000