Jeremy N. V. Miles

Behavioral & Social Scientist
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in quantitative psychology, University of Derby, United Kingdom

Overview

Biography

Jeremy Miles is a behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation, specializing in quantitative psychology and psychometrics. He is currently working on a project examining the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on teacher behavior and on test scores. He is also involved in research on prevention and treatment of substance abuse in teens and adults and the measurement and etiology of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Research Focus

Publications

A Multi-Sample Confirmatory Factor Analysis of PTSD Symptoms: What Exactly Is Wrong with the DSM-IV Structure? - 2013

Exploring the Association Between Military Base Neighborhood Characteristics and Soldiers' and Airmen's Outcomes - 2013

Mental Health Treatment Experiences of U.S. Service Members Previously Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan - 2013

Temporal Associations of Popularity and Alcohol Use Among Middle School Students - 2013

The Effects of Employment Among Adolescents At-Risk for Future Substance Use - 2013

Assessing Measurement Invariance of Familism and Parental Respect Across Race/Ethnicity in Adolescents - 2012

Assessing Motivational Interviewing Integrity for Group Interventions with Adolescents - 2012

Detection of Associations Between Trial Quality and Effect Sizes - 2012

Is the Intergenerational Transmission of Smoking from Mother to Child Mediated by Children's Behavior Problems? - 2012

Preventing Alcohol Use with a Voluntary After-School Program for Middle School Students: Results from a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of CHOICE - 2012

Probiotics for the Prevention and Treatment of Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis - 2012

Racial/ethnic Differences in the Influence of Cultural Values, Alcohol Resistance Self-Efficacy, and Alcohol Expectancies on Risk for Alcohol Initiation - 2012

Voluntary After-School Alcohol and Drug Programs for Middle School Youth: If You Build It Right, They Will Come - 2012

Empirical Evidence of Associations Between Trial Quality and Effect Size - 2011

Intergenerational Relationships Between the Smoking Patterns of a Population-Representative Sample of US Mothers and the Smoking Trajectories of Their Children - 2011

Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program - 2011

Safety of Probiotics to Reduce Risk and Prevent or Treat Disease - 2011

Substance Use Among Middle School Students: Associations with Self-Rated and Peer-Nominated Popularity - 2011

A Preliminary Investigation Into Whether Attentional Bias Influences Mood Outcomes Following Emotional Disclosure - 2010

All PTSD Symptoms Are Highly Associated with General Distress: Ramifications for the Dysphoria Symptom Cluster - 2010

Anxiety Sensitivity and PTSD Symptom Severity Are Reciprocally Related: Evidence from a Longitudinal Study of Physical Trauma Survivors - 2010

Cost-effectiveness of Shared Pharmaceutical Care for Older Patients: RESPECT Trial Findings - 2010

Effectiveness of Shared Pharmaceutical Care for Older Patients: RESPECT Trial Findings - 2010

Exploring Productivity Outcomes from a Brief Intervention for At-Risk Drinking in an Employee Assistance Program - 2010

Racial/ethnic Differences in Adolescent Substance Use: Mediation by Individual, Family, and School Factors - 2010

The Influence of Personal, Family, and School Factors on Early Adolescent Substance Use - 2010

The Teen Depression Awareness Project: Building an Evidence Base for Improving Teen Depression Care - 2010

Ethnic Differences in Posttraumatic Distress: Hispanics' Symptoms Differ in Kind and Degree - 2009

Impact of Teen Depression on Academic, Social, and Physical Functioning - 2009

Seven Years Later: Developmental Transitions and Delinquent Behavior for Male Adolescents Who Received Long-Term Substance Treatment - 2009

Accountability and Teaching Practices: School-Level Actions and Teacher Responses - 2008

Brief Motivational Interviewing for Teens at Risk of Substance Use Consequences: A Randomized Pilot Study in a Primary Care Clinic - 2008

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

Spanish and English Versions of the PTSD Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C): Testing for Differential Item Functioning - 2008

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

The Relationship Between the Dimensions of Change Instrument and Retention in Therapeutic Community Treatment: The Moderating Influence of Time in Treatment - 2008

Perceived Parenting Styles, Depersonalisation, Anxiety and Coping Behaviour in Adolescents - 2003

Preventing Pressure Ulcers in Hospitals: A Systematic Review of Nurse-Focused Quality Improvement Interventions -