Experience with the transition process of adolescents with chronic diseases from pediatric to adult care in a general hospital.

Introduction: The continuity of care from pediatrics to adult medicine is key to optimal health care.

Objective: To describe the experience of the transition process of adolescent patients with chronic diseases from pediatric to adult care in a general hospital.

Population And Methods: Cross-sectional study of patients aged 16-24 years with a history of liver transplantation, kidney transplantation, endocrine, metabolic, rheumatic diseases, and myelomeningocele seen at a tertiary care teaching general hospital between 2015 and 2019 during the transition process.

Adolescent behaviors during the preventive and mandatory social isolation in Argentina in 2020.

Introduction: In March 2020, Argentina established a preventive and mandatory social isolation policy (ASPO, for its acronym in Spanish) due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Objective: To explore the behaviors and habits of the adolescent population during the ASPO and the extent of compliance.

Population And Methods: Qualitative and quantitative, cross sectional study in Argentine adolescents aged 12-20 years.

[Characteristics of the last first day of classes: a new rite of passage among students who finish high school].

Introduction: The students of the last year of high school usually hold a celebration the night before the last first day of school (LFD).

Objectives: To describe the LFD characteristics in a population of adolescents who attend a community university hospital.

Population And Methods: Cross-sectional study.