Toward More Equitable Care: A Closer Look at Autism Clinic Intake Practices and Paperwork.

Objective: To describe intake requirements among autism clinics and to assess how well intake paperwork aligns with national standards for enhancing language and literacy accessibility.

Methods: This was a survey of 126 autism clinics in the Children's Hospital Association, assessing intake processes and intake paperwork readability conducted between November 2021 and August 2022. Descriptive analyses characterized intake requirements and paperwork components.

Adolescent childbearing in Nicaragua: a quantitative assessment of associated factors.

Context: Nicaragua has one of the highest adolescent fertility rates in the world, but little is known about why approximately half of Nicaraguan women give birth before age 20.

Methods: Data from the 2001 Nicaragua Demographic and Health Survey were used to examine the sexual and reproductive behavior of 3,142 females aged 15-19. Age at sexual debut and age at first birth were assessed using life table analysis, and the impacts of various factors on these measures were then examined in Cox proportional hazard models.