Violence and Health Research Briefs

2011

Reducing the Impact of Children's Exposure to Violence: Results of the National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches — 2011

RAND's evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches identified program successes and challenges in implementing programs for children exposed to violence. The evaluation results, though largely inconclusive, can inform similar efforts going forward.

2009

Making It Easier for School Staff to Help Traumatized Students — 2009

Describes Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET), a cognitive-behavioral program intended to be delivered in schools by teachers or school counselors rather than clinical personnel.

2008

Out of the Ivory Tower, Into the Real World: Examples of Street-Smart Community Health Research — 2008

Discusses the potential of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to reduce the burden of chronic health problems on poor and minority neighborhoods and describes three successful CBPR programs.

2007

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

This research brief describes findings from HIV Costs and Services Utilization Study surveys on the prevalence of mental health and substance abuse problems for persons with HIV, access to appropriate care, and ability to adhere to treatment.

2006

Curbing Teen Dating Violence: Evidence from a School Prevention Program — 2006

This research brief summarizes a survey about the effectiveness of programs from Break the Cycle, a nonprofit organization dedicated to developing and fielding dating-violence prevention programs.

Getting To Outcomes™: Improving Community-Based Substance-Use Prevention — 2006

This research brief summarizes research to create Getting To Outcomes (GTO), a science-based model and support tools to help local groups develop or improve substance-use-prevention programs.

How Schools Can Help Children Recover from Traumatic Experiences — 2006

This fact sheet summarizes a program guide, or tool kit, that describes a variety of school-based mental health programs for students exposed to trauma, such as Hurricane Katrina and other natural disasters, and community or personal violence.

2005

Stopping Violence Before It Starts: Identifying Early Predictors of Adolescent Violence — 2005

This research brief describes work documented in “Early Predictors of Adolescent Violence,” American Journal of Public Health.

2002

After 9-11: Stress and Coping Across America — 2002

Events in recent years have taught us that individuals need not be present at a catastrophic event to experience stress symptoms.

2001

Guns in the Family: Firearm Storage Patterns in U.S. Homes with Children — 2001

Analysis of data regarding firearm ownership and storage patterns found that of the families in the United States with children and firearms, fewer than half store their firearms unloaded, locked, and away from ammunition.

1998

Youth Violence: A Public-Health Problem with Disturbing Correlates — 1998