Recent publications on Mental Health

Angerhofer JE, Cruz M, Shaw J, Stewart C, Runkle A, Wolter E, Holden E, Medlock S, Quintana L, Kuo EN, Trejo J, King R, Boggs J. Health care use preceding suicide by firearm compared with suicide by other means -- Alaska, Colorado, and Washington, 2020-2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2025 Jun 12;74(21):365-371. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7421a2. PubMed

Simon GE, Stewart CC, Richards JE, Ziebell R, Lapham GT, Hoopes AJ Accuracy of Self-Report Questionnaires and Records-Based Risk Scores to Identify Adolescents' Risk for Self-Harm 2025 Jun;76(6):554-562. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.20240427. Epub 2025-03-19. PubMed

Curtis LH, Morain S, O'Rourke PP, Staman K, Jarvik JG, Cheville A, Dailey DL, Sluka KA, Heagerty P, Melnick ER, Chakraborty H, Tulsky JA, Volandes A, Simon GE Monitoring in pragmatic trials lessons from the NIH pragmatic trials collaboratory 2025 May;152:107866. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2025.107866. Epub 2025-02-25. PubMed

Rossom RC, Yeh HH, Ma L, Penfold RB, Hooker SA, Miller-Matero LR, Simon G, Owen-Smith A, Borgert-Spaniol CM, Ahmedani B Changes in utilization of in-person and virtual outpatient mental health visits before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: An observational cohort study 2025 Apr 25;104(17):e42305. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000042305. PubMed

Ahmedani BK, Penfold RB, Frank C, Richards JE, Stewart C, Boggs JM, Coleman KJ, Sterling S, Yarborough BJH, Clarke G, Schoenbaum M, Aguirre-Miyamoto EM, Barton LJ, Yeh HH, Westphal J, McDonald S, Beck A, Beidas RS, Richardson L, Ryan JM, Buckingham ET, Buttlaire S, Bruschke C, Flores J, Simon GE Zero Suicide Model Implementation and Suicide Attempt Rates in Outpatient Mental Health Care 2025 Apr;8(4):e253721. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.3721. Epub 2025-04-01. PubMed

Penfold RB, Idu AE, Coley RY, Cushing-Haugen KL, King D, Glass A, Phillips RC, Renz AD, Pabiniak CJ, Graham VF, Thompson EE, Ralston JD, Simon GE, Gonzalez ES, Myers KM, Beck A, Quintana LM, Runkle AJ, Rogers M, Foster DM, Clarke GN, Massimino S, Crawford PM, Cavese JA, Cordaro AR, Chavez LI, Kelleher KJ, Schwartz N, Jiner KR, Liu SB, Condrac S, Hilt RJ Safer and targeted use of antipsychotics in youth: an embedded, pragmatic randomized trial 2025 Mar;66(3):301-310. doi: 10.1111/jcpp.14059. Epub 2024-10-29. PubMed

Simon GE, Garner BR, Smith JD, Wyman PA, Matson TE, Chin-Purcell L, Cero I, Vermeer W, Johnson KA, Prado G, Brown CH Rollout trial designs in implementation research are often necessary and sometimes preferred 2025 Feb 24;20(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s13012-025-01422-x. Epub 2025-02-24. PubMed

Rossom RC, Yeh H-H, Penfold RB, Simon GE, Hooker SA, Ma L, Miller-Matero LR, Owen-Smith A, Ahmedani BK Disruptions in Psychiatric Medication Fills in the United States Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic 2025 Feb 5; https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.512385. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5123850. PubMed

Rossom R, Knowlton G, Yeh HH, Penfold R, Owen-Smith A, Hooker S, Simon G, Miller-Matero L, Akinyemi E, Ahmedani B Psychotherapy Engagement Before and After a Rapid Transition to Telehealth During COVID-19 for Older Adults With Dementia 2025 Feb;44(2):337-346. doi: 10.1177/07334648241271922. Epub 2024-08-05. PubMed

Loree AM, Hecht LM, Yeh HH, Gavrilova L, Furman K, Westphal J, Simon GE, Lynch FL, Beck A, Owen-Smith A, Rossom R, Daida YG, Lu CY, Boggs JM, Frank C, Waring S, Ahmedani BK Factors associated with suicide mortality among reproductive age women: a case-control study 2025 Jan;43(1):215-226. doi: 10.1080/02646838.2023.2223636. Epub 2023-06-13. PubMed

Dorsey S, AlRasheed R, Kerns SE, Meza RD, Triplett N, Deblinger E, Jungbluth N, Berliner L, Naithani L, Pullmann MD A randomized controlled trial testing supervision strategies in community mental health 2025 Jan;6:26334895251330523. doi: 10.1177/26334895251330523. Epub 2025-05-23. PubMed

Marsolo KA, Cheville A, Melnick ER, Jarvik JG, Simon GE, Sluka KA, Crofford LJ, Staman KL, Richesson RL, Schlaeger JM, Curtis LH Impact of electronic health record updates and changes on the delivery and monitoring of interventions in embedded pragmatic clinical trials 2025 Jan;148:107744. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2024.107744. Epub 2024-11-17. PubMed

Wolock CJ, Williamson BD, Shortreed SM, Simon GE, Coleman KJ, Yeargans R, Ahmedani BK, Daida Y, Lynch FL, Rossom RC, Ziebell RA, Cruz M, Wellman RD, Coley RY Importance of variables from different time frames for predicting self-harm using health system data 2024 Dec;160:104750. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2024.104750. Epub 2024-11-16. PubMed

Penfold RB, Yoo HI, Richards JE, Crossnohere NL, Johnson E, Pabiniak CJ, Renz AD, Campoamor NB, Simon GE, Bridges JFP Acceptability of linking individual credit, financial, and public records data to healthcare records for suicide risk machine learning models 2024 Dec;7(4):ooae113. doi: 10.1093/jamiaopen/ooae113. Epub 2024-10-21. PubMed

Rossom RC, Crain AL, Bart G, Richards JE, Boggs JM, O'Connor PJ, Borgert-Spaniol C, Kane S, Hooker SA Randomized Pilot of a Clinical Decision Support Tool to Increase Suicide Screening for at-Risk Primary Care Patients With Opioid Use Disorder 2024 Dec;3(6):100280. doi: 10.1016/j.focus.2024.100280. Epub 2024-10-02. PubMed

Zulauf-McCurdy CA, Johansson M, Hashimoto JR, Meza RD How Can Implementation Science Advance Behavioral Interventions in Preschool? A Scoping Review and Recommendations 2024 Dec;25(8):1275-1283. doi: 10.1007/s11121-024-01742-2. Epub 2024-12-09. PubMed

Cukor J, Xu Z, Vekaria V, Wang F, Olfson M, Banerjee S, Simon G, Alexopoulos G, Pathak J Longitudinal trajectories of symptom change during antidepressant treatment among managed care patients with depression and anxiety 2024 Nov 27;3(1):58. doi: 10.1038/s44184-024-00104-8. Epub 2024-11-27. PubMed

Angerhofer Richards J, Cruz M, Stewart C, Lee AK, Ryan TC, Ahmedani BK, Simon GE Effectiveness of Integrating Suicide Care in Primary Care : Secondary Analysis of a Stepped-Wedge, Cluster Randomized Implementation Trial 2024 Nov;177(11):1471-1481. doi: 10.7326/M24-0024. Epub 2024-10-01. PubMed

Kahn GD, Lockhart E, Simon GE, Owen-Smith AA, Rossom RC, Beck AL, Lynch FL, Daida YG, Lu CY, Waring S, Yeh HH, Ahmedani BK Recorded Diagnosis of Gender Identity Disorder Is Strongly Associated with Suicide Mortality 2024 Oct;9(5):454-458. doi: 10.1089/trgh.2022.0110. Epub 2024-10-09. PubMed

Stavers-Sosa I, Cronkite DJ, Gerstley LD, Kelley A, Kiel L, Kline-Simon AH, Marafino BJ, Ramaprasan A, Carrell DS, Hirschtritt ME Protocol for Designing a Model to Predict the Likelihood of Psychosis From Electronic Health Records Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning 2024 Sep 16;28(3):23-36. doi: 10.7812/TPP/23.139. Epub 2024-09-02. PubMed