Publications
- Description: Justify and recommend using standardized risks, i.e., standardized probabilities, which do provide information about prevalence, in addition to adjusted odds ratios, for pairwise comparisons of the levels of a significant factor. Illistrate the advantages of generally reporting standardized risk estimates, in the context of assessing the effect of blood lead levels during the preschool years on occurrence of academic problems in kindergarten.
- Purpose: Provides a race- and gender-specific model for predicting 1-year survival rates for extremely low birth (ELBW) infants by using population-based data.
Tang, Y., Ma, C., Cui, W., Chang, V., Ariet, M., Morse, S. B., Resnick, M. B., and Roth, J. (2006). The risk of birth defects in multiple births: a population-based study. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 10(1), 75-81.
- Purpose: Determine if multiple births have higher risks of birth defects compared to singletons and to identify types of birth defects that occur more frequently in multiple births, controlling for seven sociodemographic and health-related variables.
Cui, W., Ma, C., Tang, Y., Chang, V., Rao, P.V., Ariet, M., Resnick, M. B., and Roth, J. (2005). Sex differences in birth defects: a study of opposite-sex twins. Birth Defects Research (Part A), 73, 876-880.
- Purpose: Utilize a statewide population of opposite-sex twins to determine whether there are sex differences in birth defects between twin siblings.
Wu, S. S., Ma, C., Carter, R. L., Ariet, M., Feaver, E. A., Resnick, M. B., & Roth, J. (2004). Risk factors for infant maltreatment: A population-based study. Child Abuse and Neglect, 28, 1253-1264.
- Purpose: Identify perinatal and sociodemographic risk factors in mothers and infants that were associated with maltreatment during the first year of life.
- Purpose: Estimate state expenditures at kindergarten from infant and maternal medical and sociodemographic factors that are known at birth.
Guoerguiva, R. V., Carter, R., Shah, N., L, Mahan, C. S., Ariet, M., Roth, J., Thompson, D., Teng, C. H., Bucciarelli, R., Curran, J., & Resnick, M. B. (2003). A risk assessment screening for very low birthweight. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 7(2), 127-136.
- Description: Develop a risk-assessment screening tool for very low birth weight and to compare our empirically derived tool used by the State of Florida.
- Objectives: What are the population survival percentages by birth weight? Given survival, what effect did birth weight have on the odds that a child would have a developmental delay or disability? What should the threshold birthweight value be, if any, for all infants to be automatically referred for evaluation to determine if there is a need for intervention services? What effect did certain social demographic, behavioral, and/or perinatal health factors have on a child's chance of developing a developmental delay or disability?
- Description: Considers the problem of record linkage in the situation where there is only non-unique identifiers, like names, sex, race, etc., as common identifiers in the database to be linked.
- Description: Determine how course choice, grades, tenth grade standardized test score results, race, and gender affected performance on a computerized placement test administered upon entry to a community college.
Gueoguiva, R. V., Carter, R. L., Ariet, M., Roth, J., Mahan, C. S., & Resnick, M. B. (2001). Effect of teenage pregnancy on education disabilities in kindergarten. American Journal of Epidemiology, 154(30), 212-220.
- Description: Assess the independent effect of teenage pregnancy on educational disabilities and educational problems in a total population of children who entered kindergarten in Florida in 1992-1994 and investigate controlling for potentially confounding factors affects the relation between teenage pregnancies and poor outcome.
- Description: Assess the relative effects and the impact of perinatal and sociodemographic risk factors on long-term morbidity within a total birth population in Florida.
- Description: Review recent medical research on the relationship between young maternal age and the incidence of low birth weight infants.
Roth, J., Resnick, M. B., Ariet, M., Carter, R. L., Eitzman, D. V., Curran, J. S., Cupoli, M., Mahan, C. S., Bucciarelli, R. L. (1995). Changes in survival patterns of very low-birth-weight infants from 1980 to 1993. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 149, 1311-1317.
- Objective: To determine survival patterns among very low-birth-weight (<1500 grams) infants between 1980 and 1993.