Publications by authors named "Filoteia Popescu"
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic affected child health behaviors, leading to worse physical health. Given the importance of good family health in improved child health outcomes, this secondary cohort analysis tested the hypothesis that family health would improve from baseline to 12-week follow-up after participation in a novel family nutrition program.
Methods: Diverse parent-child dyads participated in a home-based virtual Teaching Kitchen Outreach (vTKO) program (11 weekly healthy, low-cost recipes, cooking videos, and associated groceries delivered).
Objective: To assess pre and postself-reported counseling outcomes for Safer: Storing Firearms Prevents Harm, an American Academy of Pediatrics universal firearm safe storage counseling training for pediatric clinicians providing health maintenance in outpatient settings.
Study Design: Safer was developed by a national multidisciplinary committee of firearm injury prevention experts with input from firearm-owning families and launched in June 2021. Pediatric clinicians completed baseline and 1-month posttraining surveys after signing up for the Pedialink course from February through June 2022.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to gather insights from Head Start families and employees about their experiences with food and nutrition insecurity and how the program addresses these issues.
- Four virtual focus groups were conducted with 27 participants, and the analysis involved both inductive and deductive methods to draw conclusions.
- The findings highlighted the effectiveness of Head Start's two-generational approach, emphasizing the importance of family advocates, access to healthy foods, and the need for skills and education to break unhealthy generational patterns.
Importance: Virtual home-based interventions may bolster protective factors, such as family health and resilience, during stressors such as the COVID-19 pandemic; however, their effectiveness is unknown.
Objective: To examine the effectiveness of a virtual health coaching intervention on family health and resilience during the pandemic.
Design, Setting, And Participants: In this parallel-group, single-site randomized clinical trial, 123 parents and their 2- to 8-year-old children were enrolled at a pediatric clinic or community partner site in Tennessee from March 10 to August 11, 2021.
Objectives: To assess the relationship between an Area Deprivation Index (ADI) and a Social Determinant of Health (SDoH) measure within a diverse sample. A prescreening tool based on routinely collected information could reduce clinical burden by identifying patients impacted by SDoH for comprehensive assessment.
Study Design: In total, 499 consented pediatric patient-families who spoke English, Spanish, or Arabic and had a child ≤12 years receiving primary care at a large academic institution were enrolled.
Background: With increased reliance on digital health care, including telehealth, efficient and effective ways are needed to assess patients' comfort and confidence with using these services.
Objective: The goal of this study was to develop and validate a brief scale that assesses digital health care literacy.
Methods: We first developed an item pool using existing literature and expert review.
Introduction: Although a number of contraception methods exist, long-acting reversible contraceptives have been recommended for female adolescents owing to their low failure rates. However, concern exists that the increasing use of long-acting reversible contraceptive among female adolescents may have unintended consequences of decreasing condom use for the prevention of sexually transmitted infections. Despite this concern, few studies have directly explored the relationship between the use of long-acting reversible contraceptive versus other forms of contraception and diagnosis of sexually transmitted infections in female adolescents.
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