Meaningful Work, Career Fit, and Professional Well-Being of Pediatric Academicians in the United States.

Objective: Examine associations between time spent in academic activities perceived as meaningful and professional well-being among academic pediatrics faculty.

Methods: The sample comprised 248 full-time pediatric faculty (76% female, 81% white, non-Hispanic, 41% instructor or assistant professor) across the United States who completed an online survey in November 2019. Survey items included sociodemographic and professional characteristics, professional well-being measures (Stanford Professional Fulfillment Index; Maslach Burnout Inventory; Intention to Leave Academic Medicine), perceived meaningfulness of academic activities and assigned time to those activities.

Family, Neighborhood and Parent Resilience Are Inversely Associated With Reported Depression in Adolescents Exposed to ACEs.

Objective: To examine the association of 1) extrinsic resilience factors and 2) adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with a caregiver reported diagnosis of depression in a nationally representative sample of adolescents.

Methods: A cross sectional analysis of the 2016-2017 National Survey of Children's Health, restricted to adolescents 12 to 17 years old was conducted. The dependent variable was caregiver reported depression: no current diagnosis vs.

Associations of Pediatric Symptom Checklist Scores with Sexual Activity and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Urban Adolescents.

Objective: To assess the association between the Youth Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 (YPSC-17) and adolescents' reports of ever having sex and with having positive testing results for sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Methods: Analyzed electronic data from primary care clinics for 27,901 adolescents aged 13-17 years with responses to the YPSC-17 and urine screen results for gonorrhea/chlamydia.

Results: On the YPSC-17 in total 8.

Primary Care Providers as Mental Health Counselors: Views from Urban, Minority Adolescents.

Objective: To examine urban, minority adolescents' preferences for receiving guidance for mental health (MH) issues from primary care providers (PCPs) or from mental health providers (MHPs).

Methods: Adolescents (13-21 years) from three community clinics and one school-based health center (SBHC) in the Bronx, N.Y.

Adolescents' views on barriers to health care: a pilot study.

Objectives: To determine from adolescents using health care their: 1) perceptions of barriers to obtaining health services, 2) views on how to overcome the barriers and 3) views on how to create an adolescent-friendly primary care practice.

Design: Six focus group interviews.

Methods: Adolescents 11-21 years old from three health centers in the Bronx were recruited.

Emergency contraception: are pediatric residents counseling and prescribing to teens?

Study Objectives: (1) To assess pediatric residents' attitudes and practices related to counseling about and prescribing emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) for teens. (2) To determine whether attitudes, counseling, and prescribing practices vary among different levels of residency training.

Design: Questionnaire.

Are adolescent girls with Chlamydia infection notifying their partners?

Objectives: (1) To determine the proportion of inner-city adolescent girls diagnosed with chlamydial cervicitis who notify their sex partners; (2) to examine girls' attitudes and perceptions about partner notification and treatment; and (3) to assess whether or not girls knew if their partners were treated for chlamydia infection.

Design/methods: Adolescent girls who had a positive DNA hybridization test for chlamydial cervicitis from March 2000 to May 2002 completed a 37-item self-administered survey assessing sexual behavior and partner notification, as well as the Rosenberg self esteem scale. Subjects completed the survey 1-3 months after the diagnosis of chlamydia infection.