Jessica M Jarvis- PhD
- Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh
Jessica M Jarvis
- PhD
- Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh
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Introduction
Dr. Jarvis is a health services researcher with clinical experience as a pediatric music therapist. Their research aims to improve the equity and efficacy of pediatric rehabilitation services for families of critically ill children. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, Dr. Jarvis characterizes trajectories of functional recovery, develops and tests non-pharmacologic, PICU-based interventions, and evaluates equity in access to services across the care continuum.
Current institution
Education
August 2013 - February 2017
August 2007 - January 2012
Publications
Publications (49)
Objectives:
To identify a PICU Core Outcome Measurement Set (PICU COMS), a set of measures that can be used to evaluate the PICU Core Outcome Set (PICU COS) domains in PICU patients and their families.
Design:
A modified Delphi consensus process.
Setting:
Four webinars attended by PICU physicians and nurses, pediatric surgeons, rehabilitation...
Aim
To analyze whether brain connectivity sequences including diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and resting state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) identify vulnerable brain regions and networks associated with neurologic outcome after pediatric cardiac arrest.
Methods
Children aged 2 d-17 y with cardiac arrest were enrolled in one of 2...
Critical illness resulting in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) admission is a profoundly stressful experience for a child and their family. Increasing evidence for emotional and behavioral sequelae post-PICU emphasizes a need to provide better support for families throughout this period of care and recovery. The aim of this qualitative invest...
Report on experiences accessing health care for people with disabilities in the U.S. Available through the FISA Foundation
https://fisafoundation.org/access-to-health-care-initiative/
Pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a significant healthcare issue, but potential treatments are absent despite robust investigation in several clinical trials. Factors attributed to clinical TBI, such as heterogeneity of injury and single-dose pharmacological treatments as well as timing of administration, may be reasons for the negative stu...
Date Presented 03/22/24
This scoping review, spanning peer-reviewed and gray literature, summarizes interventions for health equity in children with disabilities and additional marginalized identities. Results from 31 articles inform approaches for promoting health parity.
Primary Author and Speaker: Christie Cyktor
Contributing Authors: Amy Houtro...
Objective
To review patient-report/caregiver-report measures of rehabilitation service use following acquired brain injury (ABI).
Data sources
Medline, APA PsycINFO, Embase and CINAHL were searched on November 2021 and November 2022. Authors were contacted if measures were not included in manuscripts/appendices.
Study selection
Included articles...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes neurobehavioral and cognitive impairments that negatively impact life quality for millions of individuals. Because of its pernicious effects, numerous pharmacological interventions have been evaluated to attenuate the TBI-induced deficits or to reinstate function. While many such pharmacotherapies have conferred...
Over two-thirds of pediatric critical illness survivors will experience functional impairments that persist after discharge, that is, post-intensive care syndrome in pediatrics (PICS-p). Risk factors include child and family characteristics, invasive procedures, and social determinants of health. Approaches to remediate PICS-p include early rehabil...
Like all children, children with disabilities deserve the fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. There are many barriers to optimal health for children with disabilities. Eliminating health disparities requires removing or minimizing the obstacles that keep children from being healthy. Because pediatric orthopaedic surgeons are oft...
INTRODUCTION/HYPOTHESIS: Mechanical ventilation (MV) in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) increases risk of stress and pain. PICU standard of care to treat stress and pain is a pharmacologic approach, but this increases risk of poor outcomes (e.g., delirium). Listening to music during MV in adults can decrease stress, pain, and medication us...
Background/Objective
Pediatric neurocritical care survivorship is frequently accompanied by functional impairments. Lack of prognostic biomarkers is a barrier to early identification and management of impairment. We explored the association between blood biomarkers and functional impairment in children with acute acquired brain injury.Methods
This...
Abstract Background Pediatric critical care is often accompanied by a variety of functional impairments. Preliminary evidence suggests children’s participation in home activities has a slow trajectory post-pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) discharge, however, additional and more granular knowledge on specific problematic activities is needed to...
Date Presented 03/26/20
This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of PEM+, a web-based care-planning application that was designed with and for caregivers to help OTs enact family-centered and participation-focused care with children and families. Results indicate that PEM+ has potential as an innovative option fo...
Aim
To evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of Participation and Environment Measure‐Plus (PEM+) 2.0, an optimized version of a web‐based, participation‐focused, care‐planning tool.
Method
Twenty‐two caregivers of children aged 0 to 5 years receiving rehabilitation services, who reported dissatisfaction with their child...
Background
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) teams provide care for critically ill children with diverse and often complex medical and surgical conditions. Researchers often lack guidance on an approach to select the best outcomes when evaluating this critically ill population. Studies would be enhanced by incorporating multi-stakeholder prefere...
Date Presented 04/06/19
Trends in participation-focused strategies used by caregivers of critically ill children who did and did not receive PICU rehabilitation services were identified. Strategies were coded as child focused or to an environmental chapter of the ICF-CY. Caregivers can identify participation-focused strategies, but may benefit from...
Objectives:
The primary objectives are to assess the most common type of caregiver strategy (remedial vs compensatory) reported for supporting their child's home participation after critical illness and identify themes in compensatory strategies described, with a secondary objective to describe themes in strategy use as reported by caregivers of c...
Background
Family‐centred care (FCC) is a model for rehabilitation practice that focuses on collaborative partnerships between providers and clients (i.e., children and their caregivers). FCC is a best‐practice standard and is expected to yield better outcomes for children and greater caregiver satisfaction with rehabilitation services. A commonly...
Importance:
The Participation and Environment Measure Plus (PEM+) is a new electronic health application to help caregivers contribute to client-centered and participation-focused care planning for their young child. The PEM+ is designed to help caregivers build on their participation assessment by determining priority activities, setting specific...
OBJECTIVE(s): Determine the associations between having participation-focused strategies and receiving rehabilitation services in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with caregiver stress over six months post-PICU discharge.
DESIGN: Sub-study of a data from Wee-Cover, a prospective cohort study.
SETTING: Two PICU sites.
PARTICIPANTS: Caregi...
Objective: To determine if positive emotion modifies the relationship between cognitive impairment and activities of daily living disability status over 10 years in Mexican American adults aged 75 years and older.
Methods: A retrospective cohort design using data from the Hispanic established populations for the epidemiologic studies of the elderly...
Objective:
To determine the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics as well as health services use associated with successful community discharge.
Data source:
Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility-Patient Assessment Instrument and Medicare Provider Analysis and Review files.
Study design:
We retrospectively examined 167,664 Medicare benefic...
Objective(s): To determine the independent effects of hospital and inpa- tient rehabilitation facility lengths of stay on discharge functional status and discharge destination following inpatient rehabilitation. Design: Retrospective cohort study using the 100% Medicare files. Setting: Acute care hospitals and inpatient rehabilitation facilities ac...
Obesity is a growing global health concern that may lead to cardiovascular disease, type II diabetes, and cancer. Several systematic reviews have shown that technology is successful in combating obesity through increased physical activity, but there is no known review on interventions that use an electronic activity monitor system (EAMS). EAMSs are...
