Research In Action

Read abstracts of recent peer-reviewed research studies conducted by members of the Center for Injury Research and Prevention and the Center for Violence Prevention at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 

Young Driver Safety

Driving Safety Among Adolescents With Health Conditions: An Integrative Review. Journal of Transport & Health, 2025. Leigh DiFusco, Xiaoxuan Liu, Allison Curry, Catherine McDonald.

Teen Driving. Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2025. Patty Huang, Brian Johnston.

Association Between Young New Drivers' Skills and Driver Training, Home Neighborhood Income Level, and Urbanicity: Evidence From the State of Ohio. Transportation Research Record, 2025. Jasmine Wu, Xiaoxia Dong, Elizabeth Walshe, Flaura Winston, Megan Ryerson. 

Driving Toward Independence: Perspectives From Autistic Adolescents and Their Families. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025. Haley Bishop, Morgan O'Donald, Emma Sartin, Rachel Myers, Christina Labows, Benjamin Yerys, Allison Curry. 

"Like Everybody Else": Adolescent Perceptions of Safe, independent Driving with a CHD. Cardiology in the Young, 2025. Leigh DiFusco, Rachel Solomon, Lindsey Lee, Chelsea McIntosh, Catherine McDonald. 

Addressing the Gap: Examining the Role of Multiple Executive Function Constructs and Associated Factors in Risky Driving Performance in Young Drivers. Transportation Research Record, 2025. Elizabeth Walshe, Keith Baxelbaum, Chelsea McIntosh, Luke Miller, Shukai Cheng, Nicole Wen, Flaura Winston, Dan Romer.

Road Traffic Protection

The Future of Transportation and Health for Older Adults. Journal of Transport & Health, 2025. Sara Freed, Renée St. Louis, Jonathon Vivoda, Nina Silverstein. 

A Novel Technological Approach to Preventing Distracted Driving. Journal of Safety Research, 2025. Haley Bishop, Morgan O'Donald, Lauren O'Malley, Kristi Metzger, Matthew Knutson, Kevin Kramer, Ryan Chamberlain, Sara Seifert, Allison Curry.

Concussion

CONCUSS Randomised Clinical Trial of Vergence/Accommodative Therapy for Concussion-Related Symptomatic Convergence Insufficiency. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2025. Tara Alvarez, Mitchell Scheiman, Christina Master, Farzin Hajebrahimi, Melissa Noble, Suril Gohel, Rebecca Baro, Josie Bachman, Arlene Goodman. 

An Analysis of Guardian Cap Use and Changes in the Concussion Rate in National Football League Preseason Practices From 2018 to 2023. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2025. James Funk, Joseph Cormier, David Lessley, Ann Bailey, Erin Sanchez, Christopher Sherwood, Jeff Crandall, Kristy Arbogast, Barry Myers, Thom Mayer, Allen Sills.

Child Occupant Protection

Repositioning Forward-Leaning Booster-Seated Child Occupants in Frontal-Oblique Low-Acceleration Impacts. Traffic Injury Prevention, 2025. Valentina Graci, Madeline Griffith, Thomas Seacrist. 

The effect of time-extended evasive swerving maneuvers on occupants' bracing strategies. Traffic Injury Prevention, 2025. Valentina Graci, Kenneth Berkery, Thomas Seacrist, Sriram Balasubramanian, Kristy Arbogast.

Preventing Real-World Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke Events With Technology. American Journal of Public Health, 2025. Jalaj Maheshwari, Emma Sartin, Gregory Chingas, Kristy Arbogast.

General Pediatric Injury

Approaches and Strategies for Pediatric Injury Prevention. Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2025. Lois Lee, Flaura Winston. 

Old Threats, New Risks, and Opportunities: The Evolving Challenge of Pediatric Injury Prevention. Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2025. Lois Lee, Flaura Winston.

Violence Prevention

Evolution of Firearm Mortality as the Leading Cause of Death in the US Pediatric Population. JAMA Pediatrics, 2025. Michael Nance, Allie Croughan, Myron Allukian.

Follow-Up After ED Visits for Teens With Depression and Suicidality: A Retrospective Cohort Study. Pediatrics, 2025. Priyanka Joshi, Joel Fein, William Quarshie, Jungwon Min, Polina Krass, Leah Brogan, Stephanie Mayne, Sarah Wood.

Paired Video-based Counseling and Firearm Safety Device Distribution in a Pediatric Emergency Department. Academic Pediatrics, 2025. Sofia Chaudhary, Alexandra Portugues, Rachel Myers, Rebecca Haber, Kevin Pettijohn, Katherine Donches, Marlena Cook, Walter Faig, Anna Weiss, Joel Fein. 

Child Opportunity Index and Access to Firearms Among Adolescents and Young Adults. JAMA Health Forum, 2025. Nicole Koepke, Warren Frankenberger, Katelin Hoskins, Darcy Brodecki, Walter Faig, Anireddy Reddy.

Interpersonal Violence: A Global Issue Demands Consistent Data Collection and Comprehensive Solutions. Pediatric Research, 2025. Joel Fein, Stephen Leff.

“I just dried my tears … and went about my day”: Implementing a Secondary Traumatic Stress Group Intervention with a Multidisciplinary Health Care Team. Traumatology, 2025. Hillary Kapa, Elena Daniel, Caitlin Axtmayer, Rachel Myers, Laura Vega.

Mapping Case Management Activities to Support Implementation and Fidelity of a Pediatric Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Program. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2025. Carolena Muno, Hillary Kapa, Jody Thigpen, Laura Vega, Rachel Myers.

Prediction of Adolescent Suicide Attempt by Integrating Clinical, Neurocognitive and Geocoded Neighborhood Environment Data. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 2025. Elina Visoki, Tyler Moore, Victor Ruiz, Joel Fein, Monica Calkins, Ruben Gur, Tami Benton, Raquel Gur, Fuchiang Tsui, Ran Barzilay.

Neighborhood Firearm Violence, Psychosocial Risks and Youth Firearm Perception. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2025. Jungwon Min, Vicky Tam, Stephanie Mayne, Polina Krass, Joel Fein.

Prevalence of Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts by Race and Gender in Three Large U.S. Adolescent Cohorts. The American Journal of Psychiatry, 2025. Ashley Cooper, Elina Visoki, Kate Tran, Ezer Elbaz, Mārtiņš Gataviņš, Sarah McKetta, Joel Fein, Tami Benton, Ran Barzilay.

Extreme Risk Protection Orders-Ethics for Clinicians. JAMA Internal Medicine, 2025. Vivek Ashok, Christopher Knoepke, Joel Burnett, Amirala Pasha.

Screening for Mental Health Symptoms Following Pediatric Traumatic Injury: A Practice Management Guideline (from the Pediatric Trauma Society, Society of Trauma Nurses, and Center for Pediatric Traumatic Stress). The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2025. Julia Price, Meghan Marsac, Leigh Ridings, Caitlin Axtmayer, Richard James, Melanie Stroud, Maria Durand, Shannon Longshore, Jennifer Freeman, Todd Nickoles, Ian Mitchell, Chia-Lun Yang, Nancy Kassam-Adams. 

Firearm Injury Risk Prediction Among Children Transported by 9-1-1 Emergency Medical Services: A Machine Learning Analysis. Pediatric Emergency Care, 2025. Craig Newgard, Sean Babcock, Susan Malveau, Amber Lin, Jason Goldstick, Patrick Carter, Jennifer Cook, Xubo Song, Ran Wei, Apoorva Salvi, Mary Fallat, Nathan Kuppermann, Peter Jenkins, Joel Fein, Clay Mann.