Pediatric Symptom Checklist: screening school-age children for psychosocial dysfunction

MS Jellinek, JM Murphy, J Robinson, A Feins… - The Journal of …, 1988 - Elsevier
The Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) is a 35-item screening questionnaire that is completed
by parents and designed to help pediatricians in outpatient practice identify school-age …

Hunger in children in the United States: potential behavioral and emotional correlates

RE Kleinman, JM Murphy, M Little, M Pagano… - …, 1998 - publications.aap.org
Objective. Results from a recent series of surveys from 9 states and the District of Columbia
by the Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project (CCHIP) provide an estimate that …

Use of the Pediatric Symptom Checklist to screen for psychosocial problems in pediatric primary care: a national feasibility study

MS Jellinek, JM Murphy, M Little… - … of pediatrics & …, 1999 - jamanetwork.com
Background Routine use of a brief psychosocial screening instrument has been proposed
as a means of improving recognition, management, and referral of children's psychosocial …

Diet, breakfast, and academic performance in children

…, K Patton, ME Pagano, JM Murphy - Annals of Nutrition and …, 2002 - karger.com
Objective: To determine whether nutrient intake and academic and psychosocial functioning
improve after the start of a universal-free school breakfast program (USBP). Methods: …

The relationship of school breakfast to psychosocial and academic functioning: cross-sectional and longitudinal observations in an inner-city school sample

JM Murphy, ME Pagano, J Nachmani… - … of pediatrics & …, 1998 - jamanetwork.com
Objective To determine if a relationship exists between participation in a school breakfast
program and measures of psychosocial and academic functioning in school-aged children. …

Relationship between hunger and psychosocial functioning in low-income American children

JM Murphy, CA Wehler, ME Pagano, M Little… - Journal of the American …, 1998 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Using large-scale surveys from nine states, the Community Childhood Hunger
Identification Project (CCHIP) estimates that 8% of American children under the age of 12 …

Substance abuse and serious child mistreatment: Prevalence, risk, and outcome in a court sample

JM Murphy, M Jellinek, D Quinn, G Smith… - Child abuse & …, 1991 - Elsevier
This study examined the prevalence and specific types of substance abuse in a sample of
206 cases of serious child abuse or neglect brought before a metropolitan juvenile court on …

Brief psychosocial screening in outpatient pediatric practice

MS Jellinek, JM Murphy, BJ Burns - The Journal of pediatrics, 1986 - Elsevier
The Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC) is a brief screening questionnaire designed to help
pediatricians in busy office practice select children who are likely to have psychosocial …

Common and costly hospitalizations for pediatric mental health disorders

NS Bardach, TR Coker, BT Zima, JM Murphy… - …, 2014 - publications.aap.org
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Inpatient pediatric mental health is a priority topic for
national quality measurement and improvement, but nationally representative data on the …

Utility of psychosocial screening at a school‐based health center

…, MS Desmond, JM Perrin, JM Murphy - Journal of School …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
School‐based health centers (SBHC) have substantial potential to improve the recognition
and treatment of adolescents' mental health problems. This study was undertaken as a …