Presenter Profile
Ashley Hollo, MD, MPH
Pediatric Resident
University of Colorado - Denver
ashley.hollo@childrenscolorado.org
University of Colorado - Denver
ashley.hollo@childrenscolorado.org
Ashley Hollo is a first year pediatric resident at the University of Colorado - Denver. She completed her medical training at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and spent a year obtaining her Master's of Public Health at The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her study focus was Healthy Policy and Injury and Violence Prevention.
Presentations
Optimizing Patient-Reported Outcomes Feedback to Youth Participants in a Violence Intervention Program
Ashley Hollo, MD, MPH
Mark Nimmer, BS
Brooke Cheaton, MBA
Marlene Melzer-Lange, MD
Michael Levas, MD MS
Part of session:
Background:
The health, well-being and psychological development of children in urban areas is threatened by exposure to interpersonal violence. Violence intervention programs, such as Project Ujima, provide children with comprehensive treatment following exposure to violence. Although the collection of PROs throughout treatment has been demonstrated to be feasible, youth and crime victim specialist preferences for data presentation is unknown. We sought to determine patient and caregiver preferences regarding which PROs are of interest and how best to visually display them for optimal engagement.
Methods:
Participants in Project Ujima’s 8-week summer camp who were either a victim of violent injury, a direct relative of a violent injury victim, or a homicide survivor were recruited. We conducted structured interviews to determine which parameters and visual formats were of highest interest and best understood by youth participants and crime victim specialists.
Results:
Fifteen youth and nine crime victim specialists consented to participate. Both preferred visuals with the highest level of color-shading and descriptions. The domains with the highest level of interest among both youth and case workers were social, anger, emotional, school, physical, peer relations, and psychosocial well-being. Youth wanted to see how their scores compared to others in the program, while crime victim specialists did not think such comparisons would be beneficial.
Conclusions:
Youth participants and their crime victim specialists in a violence intervention program desired to see their PROs in a graphical form. Both groups preferred visuals with the highest level of shading and descriptions. Further investigation is needed to determine how to implement PRO visuals with the desired domains into regular violence intervention programming.
Objectives:
1. The feasibility of collecting patient-reported outcomes (PROs) from youth victims of violence to assess their well-being. 2. Which quality of life measures are important to our cohort of youth victims of violence and their case workers, and how these outcomes can best be graphed for optimal understanding.
3. How graphical displays of patient-reported outcome measures can be used to improve programming of violence intervention programs.