Impact of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology Mentorship Award Program on Careers in Pediatric Dermatology: Workforce Implications.

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Online retail nudges to help parents with lower-income choose healthy beverages for their children: A randomized clinical trial.

Background: Nudges offer a promising tool to reduce sugary drink intake among children who are most at risk for diet-related disease.

Objective: To examine the impact of online store nudges on purchases of sugary drinks for children in lower-income households.

Methods: Caregivers with lower-income were recruited to an online shopping experiment and instructed to spend $10-$30 on three beverages for their child aged 1-5 years.

Examining the effects of brand and licensed characters on parents' perceptions of Children's breakfast cereals.

Brand and licensed characters frequently appear on children's breakfast cereal boxes and are known to affect children's product perceptions, selection, and consumption. However, less is known about their impact on parents' perceptions of foods they purchase for their child. The present study assessed the impact of brand and licensed characters featured on three children's breakfast cereal packages on parents' intentions and perceptions in an online experiment.

A Qualitative Exploration of Spanish-Speaking Latina Women's Experiences Participating in WIC Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: More than one-third of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) participants identify as Latino, but participation has been declining and individuals who speak predominantly Spanish face additional barriers to participation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, there were changes in WIC eligibility and benefits that may have been differentially accessible to Spanish-speaking Latina participants due to factors such as language barriers and lack of awareness of changes. Understanding Spanish-speaking Latinas' experiences with the WIC program generally and during the pandemic can inform efforts to equitably implement future emergency food response policies and improve the WIC program and Latina participant enrollment more broadly.

Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children Participant Grocery Store Purchases during the COVID-19 Pandemic in North Carolina.

Background: Families participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) experienced barriers to accessing healthy food during the COVID-19 pandemic, but we do not yet understand how WIC participant food purchases shifted during the pandemic.

Objectives: We aimed to describe the association between the initial shock of the pandemic in March 2020 and WIC shoppers' food purchases and changes in purchases before and during the pandemic at a top grocery chain and examine differences in these relationships by duration of WIC use.

Methods: We used longitudinal food transaction data from WIC shoppers ( = 2,989,116 shopper-month observations from 175,081 unique WIC shoppers) from 496 stores in a top grocery store chain in North Carolina between October 2019 and May 2021.

Association of burden with the vaginal microbiota, bacterial vaginosis, and metronidazole treatment.

Bacterial vaginosis (BV), a dysbiosis of the vaginal microbiota, is a common coinfection with (Ct), and BV-associated bacteria (BVAB) and their products have been implicated in aiding Ct evade natural immunity. Here, we determined if a non-optimal vaginal microbiota was associated with a higher genital Ct burden and if metronidazole, a standard treatment for BV, would reduce Ct burden or aid in natural clearance of Ct infection. Cervicovaginal samples were collected from women at enrollment and, if testing positive for Ct infection, at a follow-up visit approximately one week later.

Natural Claims on Sugary Fruit Drinks: A Randomized Experiment With U.S. Parents.

Introduction: Natural claims on food are largely unregulated in the U.S. This study examined the effects of natural claims on a fruit-flavored drink with added sugar (i.

Resolution of a Focal Pruritic Rash Following Neurosurgical Decompression in an Adolescent With Chiari I and Syringomyelia.

Background: Chiari I malformation (Chiari I) is defined by the downward displacement of one or both cerebellar tonsils below the foramen magnum of the skull with crowding altering cerebrospinal fluid flow. It can be associated with the development of a fluid-filled cavity within the spinal cord, syringomyelia. Neurological deficits or symptoms can occur at the level of anatomic involvement of syringomyelia.

Sociodemographic disparities in purchases of fruit drinks with policy relevant front-of-package nutrition claims.

Objective: Our objectives were to describe sociodemographic characteristics associated with the purchase of (1) any fruit drinks and (2) fruit drinks with specific front-of-package (FOP) nutrition claims.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Setting: USA.

Differences in a Chain Supermarket's Sales to SNAP Shoppers Before and Since the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objective: This study 1) compares grocery sales to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) shoppers in rural and urban grocery stores and 2) estimates changes in sales to SNAP shoppers in North Carolina (NC) since the pandemic.

Design: Weekly transaction data among loyalty shoppers at a large grocery chain across NC from October 2019 to December 2020 (n = 32; 182 store weeks) to assess nutritional outcomes.

Setting: North Carolina large chain grocery stores.

Comparing Diet Quality Indices for Low-Income 24-Month-Old Toddlers: Exploring Changes Driven by 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Background: Accurate assessment of toddler diet quality is essential for understanding current intakes and evaluating the effect of interventions and programs to promote healthy eating and prevent chronic disease.

Objectives: The goal of this article was to assess the diet quality among toddlers using two different indices appropriate for 24-mo-old toddlers and compare differences in scoring between the measures by race and Hispanic origin.

Methods: We used cross-sectional data from 24-mo-old toddlers participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices Study-2 (ITFPS-2), a national study that includes 24-hour dietary recall information from children enrolled in WIC at birth.

Prevalence and demographic correlates of online grocery shopping: results from a nationally representative survey during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of online grocery shopping in a nationally representative sample and describe demographic correlates with online grocery shopping.

Design: The Nielsen COVID-19 Shopper Behavior Survey was administered to a subset of Nielsen National Consumer Panel participants in July 2020. We used survey weighted-multivariable logistic regression to examine demographic correlates of having ever online grocery shopped.

"I Think That's the Most Beneficial Change That WIC Has Made in a Really Long Time": Perceptions and Awareness of an Increase in the WIC Cash Value Benefit.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Cash Value Benefit (CVB) for fruits and vegetables increased by roughly USD 25/month/person. We sought to understand WIC participant perceptions of this change and barriers and facilitators to using the CVB. We conducted 10 virtual focus groups (5 rural, 5 urban/suburban) with WIC participants ( = 55) in North Carolina in March 2022.

Nutrition-related claims lead parents to choose less healthy drinks for young children: a randomized trial in a virtual convenience store.

Background: Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, including fruit drinks (i.e., fruit-flavored drinks containing added sugar), contributes to childhood obesity.

Front-of-package claims & imagery on fruit-flavored drinks and exposure by household demographics.

Young children regularly consume sugary fruit drinks, in part because parents may falsely believe they are healthful due to front-of-package (FOP) claims and imagery. The goal of this study was to assess: 1) the prevalence of FOP claims/imagery on fruit-flavored beverages purchased by U.S.

Evaluation of a Case Series of Patients With Palmoplantar Pustulosis in the United States.

Importance: Palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP) is a is a chronic, orphan disease with limited epidemiological data.

Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics, treatments, longitudinal disease course, and health care utilization in adults with PPP across the US.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This retrospective, longitudinal case series from 20 academic dermatology practices in the US included a consecutive sample of 197 adults who met the European Rare and Severe Psoriasis Expert Network consensus definition for PPP between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2018.

Evaluation of a Case Series of Patients With Generalized Pustular Psoriasis in the United States.

Importance: Generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) is a chronic, orphan disease with limited epidemiological data.

Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics, treatments, longitudinal disease course, and disease-specific health care utilization among patients with GPP across the United States.

Design, Setting, And Participants: A retrospective longitudinal case series involving 95 adults who met the European Rare and Severe Psoriasis Expert Network consensus definition for GPP and were treated at 20 US academic dermatology practices between January 1, 2007, and December 31, 2018.

The Impact of Toddler Milk Claims on Beliefs and Misperceptions: A Randomized Experiment with Parents of Young Children.

Background: Toddler milk (ie, a nutrient-fortified milk-based drink marketed for children aged 12 to 36 months) has been marketed increasingly in the United States with structure/function claims on product packaging that are potentially misleading.

Objective: This study examined how structure/function claims impact parents' beliefs and perceptions about a toddler milk product.

Design: This was a 3-arm between-subjects randomized experiment.

Development and Application of a Total Diet Quality Index for Toddlers.

For the first time, the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans include recommendations for infants and toddlers under 2 years old. We aimed to create a diet quality index based on a scoring system for ages 12 to 23.9 months, the Toddler Diet Quality Index (DQI), and evaluate its construct validity using 24 h dietary recall data collected from a national sample of children from the Feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) 2016.

Toddler milk perceptions and purchases: the role of Latino ethnicity.

Objectives: Toddler milk (i.e. a nutrient-fortified milk-based drink marketed for children 12-36 months old) is increasingly being marketed in the USA despite not being recommended for young children.

Parental Perceptions and Exposure to Advertising of Toddler Milk: A Pilot Study with Latino Parents.

Marketing of toddler milk (i.e., typically sugar-sweetened nutrient-fortified milk-based drinks marketed for children 12-36 months) is an emerging public health problem in the US.

Nutrition Claims on Fruit Drinks Are Inconsistent Indicators of Nutritional Profile: A Content Analysis of Fruit Drinks Purchased by Households With Young Children.

Background: Fruit drinks are the most commonly consumed sugar-sweetened beverage among young children. Fruit drinks carry many nutrition-related claims on the front of package (FOP). Nutrition-related claims affect individuals' perceptions of the healthfulness of products and purchase intentions, often creating a "health halo" effect.