Caregiver-Youth Agreement on the Nine-Item Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Survey.

Background: Patient and caregiver perspectives are critical in the evaluation of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID); however, little is understood about how caregiver and youth perceptions may differ. This study compared caregiver and youth reports among pediatric patients from an outpatient ARFID program.

Methods: Patients (217 individuals with ARFID, aged 8-17) and their caregivers completed the Nine-Item ARFID Screen (NIAS), a screening tool with parallel youth and caregiver report forms.

Catch the wind: Optimizing wind turbine power generation by addressing wind veer effects.

Wind direction variability with height, known as "wind veer," results in power losses for wind turbines (WTs) that rely on single-point wind measurements at the turbine nacelles. To address this challenge, we introduce a yaw control strategy designed to optimize turbine alignment by adjusting the yaw angle based on specific wind veer conditions, thereby boosting power generation efficiency. This strategy integrates modest yaw offset angles into the existing turbine control systems via a yaw-bias-look-up table, which correlates the adjustments with wind speed, and wind veer data.

Pediatric Hospital Utilization During Medical Stabilization for Patients With Eating Disorders.

Background And Objective: Few studies have examined pediatric hospital utilization across the spectrum of eating disorder (ED) diagnoses among hospitalized patients. We describe sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, hospital utilization, and enteral tube feeding and examine factors associated with hospital utilization among patients with EDs.

Methods: Using data from the Pediatric Health Information System, we included patients aged 4 to 20 years with primary ED diagnoses hospitalized from 2018 to 2022.

Continuation of the Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine Device Among Adolescents With Endometriosis.

Study Objective: To estimate the 1-year continuation rate of the levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine device (LNG-IUD) in adolescents with endometriosis, and the frequency at which additional systemic hormonal treatment (HT) is utilized.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed of patients aged 12-21 years who underwent laparoscopy for endometriosis and LNG-IUD insertion at a single tertiary care institution between 2018 and 2021.

Results: We evaluated 224 adolescents (mean age = 17.