A5005588057- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Reproductive Health and Contraception
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
- Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Impact of Technology on Adolescents
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Sex work and related issues
- Injury Epidemiology and Prevention
Boston Children's Hospital
2022-2024
Tufts Children's Hospital
2017-2023
Tufts Medical Center
2017-2023
Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
2022-2023
Tufts University
2019-2022
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
2021
Thundermist Health Center
2018
Bradley Hospital
2018
Providence College
2018
Hasbro Children's Hospital
2018
Adolescence is the transitional bridge between childhood and adulthood; it encompasses developmental milestones that are unique to this age group. Healthy cognitive, physical, sexual, psychosocial development both a right responsibility must be guaranteed for all adolescents successfully enter adulthood. There consensus among national international organizations needs of addressed promoted ensure health adolescents. This policy statement outlines special challenges face on their journey...
Confidentiality is an essential component of high-quality health care for adolescents and young adults can have impact on the experiences outcomes youth. Federal state laws, professional guidelines, ethical standards provide a core framework guidance in implementation confidentiality protections clinical practice. This policy statement provides recommendations pediatricians other pediatric professionals, clinics, systems, payers, electronic record developers to optimize practices across...
Long-acting reversible contraceptives are the most effective methods to prevent pregnancy and also offer noncontraceptive benefits such as reducing menstrual blood flow dysmenorrhea. The safety efficacy of long-acting contraception well established for adolescents, but rate use remains low this population. pediatrician can play a key role in increasing access adolescents by providing accurate patient-centered counseling understanding addressing barriers use.
This clinical report provides pediatricians evidence-based information on the developmentally appropriate, comprehensive care for hospitalized adolescents. Included in this are opportunities and challenges facing when caring specific adolescent populations. The companion policy statement, “The Hospitalized Adolescent,” includes detailed descriptions of hospital admission demographics, personnel recommendations, setting design advice, as well sections educational services, legal ethical...
Confidentiality is a foundational element of high-quality, accessible, and equitable health care. Despite strong grounding in federal state laws, professional guidelines, ethical standards, care professionals adolescent patients face range complexities barriers to seeking providing confidential adolescents across different settings circumstances. The dynamic needs adolescents, the oftentimes competing interests key stakeholders, rapidly evolving technological context care, variable billing...
Tattoos, piercing, and scarification are now commonplace among adolescents young adults. This first clinical report from the American Academy of Pediatrics on voluntary body modification will review methods used to perform modifications. Complications resulting methods, although not common, discussed provide pediatrician with management information. Body be contrasted nonsuicidal self-injury. When available, information also is presented societal perceptions modification.
<h3>Importance</h3> Annual preventive health visits provide an opportunity to screen youths for unhealthy substance use and intervene before serious harm results. <h3>Objectives</h3> To assess the feasibility acceptability estimate efficacy of a primary care computer-facilitated screening practitioner-delivered brief intervention (CSBI) system compared with usual (UC) youth associated risk riding impaired driver. <h3>Design, Setting, Participants</h3> An intent-to-treat pilot randomized...
Each year, more than 500 000 girls and young women younger 20 years become pregnant. It is important for pediatricians to have the ability resources in their offices make a timely pregnancy diagnosis adolescent patients provide them with nonjudgmental options counseling. Counseling includes an unbiased discussion of adolescent's legal either continue or terminate her pregnancy, supporting decision-making process, referring appropriate services. Pediatricians who choose not such discussions...
Teen pregnancy and parenting remain important public health issues in the United States around world. A significant proportion of teen parents reside with their families origin, which may positively or negatively affect family structure. parents, defined as those 15 to 19 years age, are at high risk for repeat births. Pediatricians can play an role care adolescent children. This clinical report updates a previous on children addresses management specific this population, including...
Background Previous studies have demonstrated the prevalence of social media use and identified presence high-risk behaviors among adolescents, including self-harm sharing sexually explicit messages. Objective This study aimed to identify patterns in amount time spent on by adolescents who engage behavior extent which they as a platform for such behaviors. Methods was descriptive cross-sectional 179 seen pediatric clinic at an urban medical center. We used anonymous self-report survey obtain...
Rates of sexual activity, pregnancies, and births among adolescents have continued to decline during the past decade historic lows. Despite these positive trends, many remain at risk for unintended pregnancy sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This technical report discusses new data trends in adolescent behavior barrier protection use. Since 2017, STI rates increased use methods, specifically external condom use, has declined young adults. Interventions that increase availability or...
The American Academy of Pediatrics policy statement "Options Counseling for the Pregnant Adolescent Patient" recommends basic content pediatrician's counseling an adolescent facing a new diagnosis pregnancy. However, options is just one aspect what may be more challenging scenarios in pediatric office. Pediatricians must remain alert to possibility pregnancy among their female patients. When discovering symptoms suggestive pregnancy, pediatricians obtain relevant history, perform diagnostic...
Rates of sexual activity, pregnancies, and births among adolescents have continued to decline during the past decade historic lows. Despite these positive trends, many remain at risk for unintended pregnancy sexually transmitted infections (STIs). When used consistently correctly, latex synthetic barrier methods reduce STIs, including HIV, pregnancy. This update 2013 policy statement is intended assist pediatricians in understanding supporting use by their patients prevent pregnancies STIs...
This policy statement is the first published in United States on this topic and authors aim to provide pediatricians with evidence-based information unique aspects required care for hospitalized adolescents. Included a description of possible effects hospitalization may have developmental emotional progress adolescence, role hospital setting, importance confidentiality, issues related legal/ethical matters bias institutional systemic racism that occur during hospitalization.
Pediatricians are often the first physicians to encounter adolescents and young adults presenting with psychotic symptoms. Although pediatricians would ideally be able refer these patients immediately into psychiatric care, shortage of child adolescent psychiatry services may sometimes require make an initial assessment or continue care after recommendations made by a specialist. Knowing how identify further evaluate symptoms in pediatric collaborate specialty is critical helping minimize...