An Open Trial of the Anxiety Action Plan (): A Brief Pediatrician-Delivered Intervention for Anxious Youth.

Background: Anxiety disorders in youth are among the most common psychiatric disorders, yet the majority of affected youth do not receive treatment. One approach to improving access to care is identification and intervention within the primary care setting.

Objective: This manuscript presents data from a single group pre-post open trial of the (), a brief pediatrician-delivered intervention to reduce anxiety in youth who present in the primary care setting.

Integrating mental health into adolescent annual visits: impact of previsit comprehensive screening on within-visit processes.

Purpose: To evaluate how a comprehensive, computerized, self-administered adolescent screener, the DartScreen, affects within-visit patient-doctor interactions such as data gathering, advice giving, counseling, and discussion of mental health issues.

Methods: Patient-doctor interaction was compared between visits without screening and those with the DartScreen completed before the visit. Teens, aged 15-19 years scheduled for an annual visit, were recruited at one urban and one rural pediatric primary care clinic.

Dysphagia in old-old women: prevalence as determined according to self-report and the 3-ounce water swallowing test.

Objectives: To determine whether symptoms and clinical signs of swallowing dysfunction could be easily identified in community-dwelling elderly adults and to examine the association between self-report and direct observation of symptoms and signs of swallowing dysfunction.

Design: Physiological substudy conducted as a home visit within an observational cohort study.

Setting: Baltimore City and County, Maryland.