Sitara Weerakoon

10PUBLICATIONS
12CO-AUTHORS
Child and adolescent developmentCurriculum and pedagogy theory and developmentFeminist and queer theoryEnvironmental crimeYouth justice
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Publications (10)

|Oct 16, 2026
Profiles of Risk: The Role of Ethnic Identity Exploration and Neighborhood Violence on Acute Mental Health Symptomatology Among Ethnic Racial Minoritized Youth.

|Dec 08, 2025
Adolescent Substance Use Among High School Students Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Study of Peer Exposure and Risk.

Sitara M Weerakoon, Sydney C Simmons, Elizabeth H Connors

|Dec 03, 2025
Racial Self-Efficacy and Ethnic Identity in the Context of Neighborhood Violence and Internalizing Symptoms Among Black and Latinx youth: An Application of the Minority Stress Theory.

Sitara M Weerakoon, Mike Henson-Garcia, Raquel Rose

|Apr 28, 2025
Spatial Associations of Alcohol Outlet Density with Neighborhood Crime and Child Opportunity: A Hierarchical Bayesian Ecological Study.

Sitara M Weerakoon, Bryce Puesta Takenaka, Nimisha Srikanth

|Dec 11, 2024
A Nationally Representative Analysis of Substance Use and Sexual Health Correlates Associated with HIV and STI Testing among Adolescents.

Sitara M Weerakoon, Nimisha Srikanth, Christina Aivadyan

|Jul 21, 2023
Adolescent Polysubstance Use and Co-Occurring Weapon Carrying, Bullying Victimization, and Depressive Symptomology: Patterns and Differences in the United States.

Sitara M Weerakoon, Mike Henson-Garcia, Ann Abraham

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Sarah E Messiah

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Ijeoma Opara-Mezue

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Alaina M Beauchamp

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