Publications by authors named "Kelly A Courts"

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  • Research on the healthcare experiences of transmasculine individuals in India is limited, despite recent government efforts to improve access to gender-affirmative care.
  • A study involving 40 qualitative interviews and a survey of 377 transmasculine people highlighted challenges in accessing care, including financial barriers and varying quality between public and private healthcare systems.
  • While many faced stigma and disempowerment during psychological assessments, those who accessed care reported improved well-being; however, a notable percentage still expressed dissatisfaction with surgical outcomes.
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Objectives: Screening for parental adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in pediatric settings can be burdensome because of the questionnaire's length and sensitive nature. Rapid screening tools may help address these challenges. We evaluated a 2-item short ACE measure developed for adults in a cross-sectional sample of mothers of young children in an urban pediatric emergency department.

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Comprehensive social risk screening has become standard practice in primary care. Evidence is lacking, however, on whether and how interventions provided for positive screens are being utilized. This study aimed to create a standardized follow-up process to evaluate caregiver perspective and usage of community resources provided during well-child visits.

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Objective: The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends screening for food insecurity (FI) at all well-child visits due to well-documented negative effects of experiencing FI in childhood. Before age 3, children have twelve recommended primary care visits at which screening could occur. Little is known regarding the stability of FI status at this frequency of screening.

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The number of women who enter medical school has been on par with the number of men for almost 20 years, but parity in training has not translated to equity in professional life. To capitalize on the perspective of women faculty with established careers in academic medicine and to bring theory to the largely descriptive research on gender inequity in academic medicine, the authors used the Theory of Gendered Organizations to demonstrate how academic medical centers function as inherently gendered organizations. The authors recruited women faculty with established careers at one academic medical center based on purposeful and snowball sampling and interviewed 30 participants in Summer/Fall 2018.

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