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I am so excited to announce my 1st first author publication of my protocol for my "Systematic Review of Universal Preventive Interventions Designed to Improve Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Health in Children Under the Age of 13." Let me share more 1/

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Our review question is: Does implementation of universal preventive interventions in family, community, health care, and school settings with recipients from birth to 12 years old avert the development of mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders later in life? 2/

This question is important as a child's environment can have life long impacts. I noticed so much research focusing on selective interventions in children at high risk or indicated intervention in children engaging in high risk behaviors. Children that look fine, may not be 3/

This was my experience. After my recovery, I learned of the genetic nature of mental illness and realized that it may have been preventable. This article from Renzi et al was such an eye opener in the nature of epigenetic associations 4/

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Our research will focus on behavioral health outcomes and better understanding the factors that affect the quality of the dissemination and implementation processes employed with universal preventive interventions across the United States. I am excited for the completion of 5/

this review and using a more focused lens in terms of age group and population. I noticed a lot of research brings in international perspectives and that fails to hold accountability for the state of preventive research in the United States 6/

I also started this systematic review as @UCSanDiego didn't have a Prevention Science major for me to focus on, so I really wanted to build an in depth understanding of this field through this review, joining @NPSCoalition and working with my subject matter experts 7/

Thank you to all of my subject matter experts, Dr Diana Fishbein, @DMaxCrowley, @CBWeThrive and @DrJessMontoya. Thanks to our librarian Karen Heskett from @ucsdlibrary's Systematic Review service. Special thanks to @TeleseFrancesca for believing in me when I told her about 8/

wanting to do this systematic review. I am so thankful for @Covidence for making our collaboration smoother. There is still so much work to be done on this review. We are almost done with the Title & Abstract screening and when the review is accepted, you will be first to know 9/

Feel free to review the protocol and let me know if you have any questions, thoughts or encouragement. If you are not following me or my research team, follow us. I am so excited for what is to come with this review and the resource it will be 10/10

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