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Xin Zhao

Education

B.A. Psychology and B.A. Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Research Interests

Alisa is a doctoral student in the Clinical Science Ph.D. program at FIU working with Dr. Stacy Frazier. She is interested in 1) harnessing technology and big data to identify and mitigate the science-to-service gap; 2) examining health disparities and serving youth and families in non-specialty settings, and 3) disseminating mental health knowledge outside traditional clinics.

Information Seeking Behavior and Mental Health Service Utilization: Using Big Data Tools to Examine Temporal Trends and Geographic Variations in ADHD

Dissertation funded via the University Graduate School Dissertation Year Fellowship (UGS DFY)
 
Persistently low rates of children’s mental health service utilization have inspired close examination of barriers to care that point to sociodemographic and geographic disparities. However, most studies presume families have adequate and equitable information about mental health that would inspire treatment seeking. Information science points to socioeconomic disparities in health information seeking (access and need) that may decrease corresponding to increasing rates of online searching in underserved communities. My dissertation project will examine connections between behavior (information seeking) and health (mental health service utilization) and will launch a career that uses big data to (1) examine and improve the speed and reach of scientific communication and (2) provide a roadmap for leveraging internet search patterns to improve policy and clinical practices.

Awards

University Graduate School Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2020

Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Psychology Summer Institute (PSI) Fellow, APA, 2020

Center for Children and Families Graduate Student Seed Fund Award, FIU, 2018

Junior Scientist Fellowship, APAGS/Psi Chi, 2017

Publications

Schatz, N., Aloe, A., Fabiano, G., Pelham Jr., W., Smith, A., Zhao, X., Merrill, B., Macphee, F., Ramos, M., Hong, N., Altszuler, A. (2020). Psychosocial Interventions for ADHD: Systematic review with evidence and gap map. Journal of Behavioral Pediatric Research. 

Zhao, X., Page, T., Altszuler, A. R., Pelham, W. E. III, Kipp, H., Gnagy, E. M., Coxe, S., Schatz, N., Merrill, B. M., Macphee, F. L., Pelham, W. E. Jr. (2019). Family burden of raising a child with ADHD. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology.

Luo, Y., Guo, C., Zhang, L., Pang, L., Zhao, X., & Zheng, X. (2018). County-level social factors and schizophrenia: A multilevel study of 1.9 million Chinese adults. Psychiatry Research. 

Zhao, X, & Madhivanan, P. (2018). Is Platelet-Rich Plasma Suitable for Patellar Tendinopathy? Letter to the Editor. The American Journal of Sports Medicine, 46(11), NP52-NP53.

Zhao, X, & Madhivanan, P. (2018). Letter to the Editor Regarding “Minimally Invasive Alternative Approaches to Pterional Craniotomy: A Systematic Review of the Literature”. World Neurosurgery, 114, 429

Zhao, X., & Madhivanan, P. (2018). Comments on platelet-rich plasma versus hyaluronic acid in patients with hip osteoarthritis: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (Int J Surg 2018; 53: 279–87). International Journal of Surgery, 55, 51-52.

Dong, L., Zhao, X., Ong, S. L., & Harvey, A. G. (2017). Patient recall of specific cognitive therapy contents predicts adherence and outcome in adults with major depressive disorder.Behaviour Research and Therapy, 97, 189-199.

Presentations

Zhao, X., Coxe, S. The research-practice-public gap: a simple probe of Google Trends in the case of ADHD. (2019).Poster was presented at the 4thannual Big Data Conference, Miami, FL.

Zhao, X., Page, T., Altszuler, A. R., Gnagy, E. M., Pelham, W. E. III, Schatz, N., Macphee, F. L., Merrill, B. M., Ramos, M., Greiner, A., Pelham, W. E. Jr. (2019). Measuring financial burden of ADHD in a diverse and large sample of U.S. families. Poster will be presented at the annual conference of Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT), Atlanta, GA.

Ramos, M., Macphee, F. L., Merrill, B. M., Zhao, X., Gnagy, E. M., Greiner, A., Pelham, W. E. Jr. (2019). Mindfulness Practice for Children with ADHD at the Summer Treatment Program: A Pilot Study. Poster will be presented at the annual conference of Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT).

Ouellette, R, Goodman, A., Martinez-Pedraza, F., Cromer, K., Zhao, X., Moses, J., Pierre, J. & Frazier, S.L. (2019). Poster was presented at the annual conference of Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC), Seattle, Washington.

Morrow, A. S., Vega, A. C., & Zhao, X. Developing Production-Ready, Artificially Intelligent mHealth Tools: Sentiment Analysis to Track Positivity. Poster was presented at Machine Learning for Healthcare (MLHC) 2019, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Macphee, F., Merrill, B., Ramo, M., Altszuler, A., Zhao, X., Weiland, M., Pelham, W. (2018). Feasibility of Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Capture Parent-Child Interactions in Children with ADHD. Poster was presented at the annual conference of Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT), Washington, D.C.

Zhao, X., Page, T., Gnagy, E. M., Altszuler, A. R., Pelham, W. E. III, Hayes, T., Macphee, F. L., Schatz, N., Merrill, B. M., Ramos, M., Greiner, A., Pelham, W. E. Jr. (2018). The impact of financial recession on young adults diagnosed with ADHD in childhood and their demographically similar peers. Poster was presented at the annual conference of Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT), Washington, D.C.

*Ames, A., *Jeeva. N., *Sylvia, M., *Sravish, A., *Yip, J., *Zhao, X. (2018). A mindfulness-based prevention program for postpartum depression: a prototype of a mobile phone application. Poster presented at the annual conference of “Make the Breast Pump Not Suck!” Hackathon.Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. *equal contribution.

Zhao, X., Page, T., Altszuler, A. R., Pelham, W. E. III, Kipp, H., Gnagy, E. M., Pelham, W. E. Jr. (2017). Measuring the Household Burden of Raising a Child with ADHD.Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT), San Diego, CA.

Zhao, X., Adalio, C., Owens E., Haack, L., McBurnett, K., Hinshaw, S., & Pfiffner, L. (2015). Sociodemographic Differences in Treatment Response in Families of Children with ADHD-I. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), New York, NY.