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This study evaluates whether fatherhood status is associated with receipt of preventive care (i.e., a routine physical) among adolescent males and whether attending their child's appointments is associated with greater odds of preventive care. This study is a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data collected from the 2011-2017 National Survey of...
Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection in the United States. Adolescents (ages 15-19 years) have the highest infection rate, second only to young adults (ages 20-24 years). The purpose of this secondary data analysis is to examine trends from 2013 to 2017 in adolescent chlamydia rates by region, race, and sex. Adolesc...
Constipation is one of the most common chronic disorders in childhood. Functional constipation (FC) is the most common form of constipation and can be defined as difficult or infrequent passage of stool. Current practice guidelines for FC are well defined; however, primary provider perception and treatment often differ from clinical practice guidel...
Children with medical complexity frequently lack coordinated and family-centered care and are best cared for in a medical home. We assessed concordance between provider and family perceptions of care management improvements during a prospective, 3-year study of nine complex care clinics and 42 primary care clinics. Using a pre-post design, we compa...
In today's fast-paced health care delivery system, new evidence for practice emerges on a daily basis, and research results are quickly disseminated. Nurse practitioners are challenged to evaluate the relevance of the evidence to their patient populations and whether clinical practice should be changed on the basis of the presenting evidence. Nurse...
We explored differences in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) and the youth's glycosylated hemoglobin (A1c) of preadolescent and adolescent youths with type 1 diabetes (T1D) by individual (age, sex, race) and family (socioeconomic status) factors, and associations between youths' HRQOL, their parents' HRQOL, and youth's A1c. Correlational secon...
Anxiety is becoming more common in children and can negatively affect social and academic performance. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of 10 min of yoga on anxiety in third- and fourth-graders over 8 weeks. Participants completed 10 min of yoga daily during the school week. Participants completed the Screen for Child Anxiety Rel...
Surgical procedures place children of all ages at risk for pediatric medical traumatic stress. Although medical play has proven effective in pediatric care, little is known about the impacts of a group medical play intervention on children's preoperative fear and anxiety. Therefore, the purpose of this pre-post quasi-experimental study was to explo...