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Megan Golonka

Megan Golonka

Research Scientist
Center for Child and Family Policy
megan.golonka@duke.edu
Box 90025, Durham, NC 27708
228 Rubenstein Hall, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

My friends made me do it: Peer influences and different types of vaping in adolescence.

Journal Article Addictive behaviors · December 2024 Vaping is one of the most common forms of substance use among adolescents. Social influences play a key role in the decision to use substances and frequency of use during adolescence, and vaping is no exception. Using a sample of 891 adolescents across two ... Full text Cite

Child Sexual Abuse Documentation in Primary Care Settings.

Journal Article Clin Pediatr (Phila) · October 2024 Primary care providers (PCPs) can play an important role in the continuity of care for children who experience sexual abuse (SA). We performed a retrospective, chart-based study of children 3 to 17 years old with SA history. Primary care medical records we ... Full text Link to item Cite

What Do Child Abuse and Neglect Medical Evaluation Consultation Notes Tell Researchers and Clinicians?

Journal Article Child Maltreat · February 2024 Child abuse and neglect (CAN) medical experts provide specialized multidisciplinary care to children when there is concern for maltreatment. Their clinical notes contain valuable information on child- and family-level factors, clinical concerns, and servic ... Full text Link to item Cite

What do child maltreatment reports to Child Protective Services tell us about the needs families and communities are experiencing?

Journal Article Child Youth Serv Rev · December 2023 Intake reports from child protective service (CPS) agencies are the foundation for subsequent decisions and services within the child welfare system. They provide valuable information for understanding children's needs, yet the unstructured way that inform ... Full text Link to item Cite

Electronic Health Record Tools to Identify Child Maltreatment: Scoping Literature Review and Key Informant Interviews.

Journal Article Acad Pediatr · July 2022 OBJECTIVE: To prevent missed cases and standardize care, health systems are beginning to implement EHR-based screens (EHR-CA-S) and clinical decision supports systems (EHR-CA-CDSS) for the identification and management of child maltreatment. This study aim ... Full text Link to item Cite

Maternal Imprisonment and the Timing of Children’s Foster Care Involvement

Chapter · 2021 This Brief focuses on children with incarcerated mothers, a growing and vulnerable population. It presents five empirical studies, along with an introduction and summary chapter. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Association of Parental Incarceration With Psychiatric and Functional Outcomes of Young Adults.

Journal Article JAMA Netw Open · August 2, 2019 IMPORTANCE: In 2016, an estimated 8% of US children younger than 18 years had experienced the incarceration of a parent, and rates were substantially higher among children from racial and ethnic minority backgrounds and disadvantaged groups. Little is know ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Natural Peer Leaders as Substance Use Prevention Agents: the Teens' Life Choice Project.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · July 2017 In adolescent social groups, natural peer leaders have been found to engage in more frequent experimentation with substance use and to possess disproportionate power to affect the behavior and social choices of their associated peer followers. In the curre ... Full text Cite

Evaluating the impact of a substance use intervention program on the peer status and influence of adolescent peer leaders.

Journal Article Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · February 2012 The current study involved an examination of the impact of a peer-led substance use intervention program on the peer leaders beyond the substance use-related goals of the intervention. Specifically, unintended consequences of an adult-sanctioned interventi ... Full text Cite

Early Adolescent Romantic Partner Status, Peer Standing, and Problem Behaviors.

Journal Article The Journal of early adolescence · December 2009 This study examined associations among early adolescent romantic relationships, peer standing, problem behaviors, and gender as a moderator of these associations, in a sample of 320 seventh-grade students. Popular and controversial status youth were more l ... Full text Cite

A whole new world of friends: The Influence of Instant Messenger on Peer Relations

Other Poster presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, San Antonio, TX · May 2006 Cite

Developmental models of aggression

Chapter · January 1, 2003 In this chapter, we review developmental theories related to aggressive behavior. The development of aggression and other forms of antisocial behavior has been a central concern in the field of developmental psychopathology (1), and a large body of researc ... Cite