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Alexis French

Alexis French

Assistant Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Community Psychiatry
alexis.french@duke.edu
2608 Erwin Rd., Suite 300, Durham, NC 27705

Scholarly Works - Journal articles

Psychotropic Medication Use Among Children in Foster Care with Placement Instability: A Statewide Retrospective Analysis

Journal article JAACAP Connect · March 20, 2026 This statewide retrospective analysis investigates the prevalence and patterns of high-risk psychotropic medication prescribing among children in foster care with placement instability. With 236 cases examined between June 2022 and June 2023, the s ... Full text Cite

Linking Electronic Health Record Prescribing Data and Pharmacy Dispensing Records to Identify Patient-Level Factors Associated With Psychotropic Medication Receipt: Retrospective Study.

Journal article JMIR Med Inform · March 4, 2025 BACKGROUND: Pharmacoepidemiology studies using electronic health record (EHR) data typically rely on medication prescriptions to determine which patients have received a medication. However, such data do not affirmatively indicate whether these prescriptio ... Full text Link to item Cite

Topical review: sleep regulation as a novel target for treating preschool-aged children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms.

Journal article J Pediatr Psychol · March 1, 2025 OBJECTIVE: Elevated attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms in preschoolers are a risk factor for poorer psychiatric health, cognitive deficits, and social and academic impairment across the lifespan. The first-line treatment for these pre ... Full text Link to item Cite

Telehealth Utilization Among Adult Medicaid Beneficiaries in North Carolina with Behavioral Health Conditions During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal article J Racial Ethn Health Disparities · October 2024 OBJECTIVE: We examined factors associated with telehealth utilization during COVID-19 among adult Medicaid beneficiaries with behavioral health conditions. DATA SOURCES AND STUDY SETTING: NC Medicaid 2019-2021 beneficiary and claims data. STUDY DESIGN: Thi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mental Health Crisis Responses and (In)Justice: Intrasystem and Intersystem Implications.

Journal article Psychiatr Clin North Am · September 2024 Mental health crises among people who are marginalized merit special consideration. These groups are both overserved and underserved by mental health crisis systems: over-represented in acute treatment settings by number while facing inequities in outcomes ... Full text Link to item Cite

What Explains Inequalities in Telehealth Utilization Among North Carolina Medicaid Beneficiaries?

Journal article Telemed J E Health · August 2024 Background: Increased availability of telehealth can improve access to health care. However, there is evidence of persistent disparities in telehealth usage, as well as among people from minoritized racial and ethnic groups and rural residents. The objecti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Behavioral Health Trends Among Perinatal North Carolina Medicaid Beneficiaries.

Journal article N C Med J · August 2024 Untreated behavioral health conditions among the perinatal population are associated with high mortality and morbidity. We examined trends of behavioral health conditions and treatment received by perinatal Medicaid beneficiaries and described the characte ... Full text Link to item Cite

Describing Perspectives of Telehealth and the Impact on Equity in Access to Health Care from Community and Provider Perspectives: A Multimethod Analysis.

Journal article Telemed J E Health · January 2024 Introduction: The rapid adoption of telehealth as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic provided the opportunity to examine perceptions of health care access and use of telehealth for delivery of effective and equitable care in low-income and historically marg ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment and Outcomes Among North Carolina Medicaid-Insured Youth With Depression.

Journal article JAACAP Open · November 2023 OBJECTIVE: Youth depression is increasing and is associated with adverse concurrent and long-term outcomes. Understanding receipt of depression treatment and outcomes is critical for population-level efforts to address youth depression. This study aimed to ... Full text Link to item Cite

Use of North Carolina Medicaid Collaborative Care Billing Codes After Statewide Approval for Reimbursement.

Journal article Psychiatr Serv · December 1, 2022 Effective October 2018, North Carolina Medicaid approved reimbursement for collaborative care model (CoCM) billing codes. From October 2018 through December 2019, only 915 of the estimated two million eligible Medicaid beneficiaries had at least one CoCM c ... Full text Link to item Cite

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Psychotropic Prescription Receipt Among Pediatric Patients Enrolled in North Carolina Medicaid.

Journal article Psychiatr Serv · December 1, 2022 OBJECTIVE: The authors aimed to examine racial-ethnic differences in filled psychotropic prescriptions among a pediatric Medicaid population. METHODS: This retrospective cohort study included patients ages 0-21 with at least one North Carolina Medicaid cla ... Full text Link to item Cite

Inequities in Receipt of the North Carolina Medicaid Waiver Among Individuals with Intellectual Disability or Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Journal article J Dev Behav Pediatr · September 1, 2022 OBJECTIVE: We examined characteristics associated with receiving the North Carolina Home and Community-Based Services Waiver for intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DDs) and its association with emergency department (ED) utilization. METHOD: Thr ... Full text Link to item Cite