Feasibility and Effectiveness of the Implementation of Anxiety Screening for Adolescents in a Primary Care Setting.

The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended routine anxiety screening for children and adolescents in 2022. This study describes the feasibility of routine anxiety screening in a primary care practice. It further examines the effects of routine anxiety screening on anxiety diagnoses and provider behavior in a setting in which anxiety screening was implemented five years in advance of the national guidelines.

Effects of a Primary Care-Based Engagement Intervention for Improving Use of ADHD Treatments.

Introduction: Uptake of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) treatments is low in primary care. A quasi-experimental study assessed the impact of a primary care-based engagement intervention to improve ADHD treatment use.

Method: Families of children with ADHD from four pediatric clinics were invited to participate in a two-stage intervention.

Assessment of growth and immunologic function in HIV-infected and exposed children.

Many children who are HIV infected grow poorly. An epidemiological framework guided a retrospective chart review assessing growth in three groups of children (n = 192): (a) children who were HIV infected secondary to maternal transmission (n = 77), (b) children who had been HIV-positive at birth but became seronegative and continue to be observed (seroreverters) (n = 84), and (c) HIV-infected children who had died (n = 31). Growth failure in the HIV-infected children was significantly greater than that expected in the general population.