Guardian Reasons for Accessing Their Transgender and Gender-Diverse Adolescent's Patient Portal Account.

Purpose: To understand if and why guardians access their adolescent child's electronic health record patient portal account.

Methods: Guardians of transgender and gender-diverse adolescents completed a survey regarding patient portal use. Descriptive statistics were used to describe items related to guardian access to adolescent portal accounts.

HIV preexposure prophylaxis in adolescents and young adults: an update.

Purpose Of Review: This review provides an update of evidence for HIV preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP), including efficacy and safety of newly available medications. It discusses barriers to care that are unique to adolescents and young adults as well as interventions that may help increase uptake, adherence, and retention in care.

Recent Findings: Tenofovir alafenamide-emtricitabine and cabotegravir are both newly approved medications for the prevention of HIV and are well tolerated and effective for adolescents.

Acceptability and Utility of a Digital Group Intervention to Prevent Perinatal Depression in Youths via Interactive Maternal Group for Information and Emotional Support (IMAGINE): Pilot Cohort Study.

Background: Perinatal depression (depression during pregnancy or the first year postpartum) affects 10%-25% of perinatal individuals, with a higher risk among youths aged <25 years. The Mothers and Babies Course (MB) is an evidence-based intervention for the prevention of perinatal depression, grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment theory, and psychoeducation.

Objective: We developed a digital adaptation of MB (Interactive Maternal Group for Information and Emotional Support [IMAGINE]) and evaluated it in a pre-post mixed methods pilot among young perinatal people in the United States.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Child Health, and the Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce.

Using multiple metrics, the diversity of the pediatric population in the United States is increasing. However, recent data suggest significant disparities in both the prevalence and management of child health conditions cared for by pediatric subspecialists. These inequities occur across multiple dimensions of diversity, including race and ethnicity, country of origin, socioeconomic status, sex and gender, and disability.

Just-in-Time Strategies to Reduce the Effect of Interviewer Bias During Trainee Recruitment.

Bias impacts all aspects of medical trainee applications, from grades to narrative reviews. Interviews provide an avenue to become acquainted with applicants beyond their written application, but even the most egalitarian interviewers are subject to implicit biases, including those who hold marginalized identities themselves. Simply building awareness around implicit bias is inadequate to reduce the effect.

Adolescent patient portals and concerns about confidentiality.

Purpose Of Review: To better understand confidentiality issues that arise from adolescent access to patient portals.

Recent Findings: Studies have evaluated the views of teens, parents, providers, and institutional leadership on adolescent patient portals and the risks they pose to adolescent privacy. Additional investigations have shown that teen portal accounts are often inappropriately accessed by parents.

Utilization of Mental Health Services Among Black Adolescents During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Narrative Review of the Literature.

Purpose Of Review: Black youth have disproportionately experienced inequities and barriers to care in accessing mental health services. The purpose of this review is to offer a summary of the currently available literature on mental health service utilization by Black youth during the COVID-19 pandemic, compared to prior. A narrative review was conducted in PubMed, Web of Science, psychINFO, and Embase from March 1, 2020 to September 1, 2022, to find studies that examined differences in the utilization of mental health services among Black youth.

Does Exposure to Pediatrician or Parent Blog Content Influence Infant Safe Sleep Practices?

Objective: To examine whether exposure to safe sleep recommendations using a blog format changed infant sleep practices.

Methods: We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial via Qualtrics, a web-based platform, with a national sample of parents of children < 1 year old. Survey questions about infant sleep practices included: bed-sharing, location, position and objects present.

Safe Sleep Behaviors and Factors Associated With Infant Second Sleep Practices.

Objectives: To examine the prevalence and safety of infant second-sleep practices.

Methods: A cross-sectional online survey of parents with infants ≤12 months assessed parent-reported sleep practices: position, use of a separate sleep surface, and sleep location at 2 time points (sleep onset and after nighttime waking). A composite score examined if all 3 safe sleep practices were used at each time point.

The Expansion of Pediatric Care Through Digital Technology.

In this commentary, we hope to offer examples of how technology is building connections and agencies are working creatively to reduce disparities in digital technology access to improve the lives of children and adolescents across the globe.

Evaluating the Educational Impact of Telehealth on Adolescent Medicine Trainees: a Qualitative Approach.

Purpose Of Review: Telehealth has been swiftly incorporated into clinical practice since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with limited understanding of how it affects trainees' educational experiences. Our study evaluates the impact of telehealth on clinical education in pediatric and Adolescent Medicine trainees during the pandemic.

Recent Findings: Previous literature on telehealth focused on provider and patient perceptions in addition to clinical education for students, though none has evaluated the experiences of medical residents and fellows in Adolescent Medicine.

The Impact of Telehealth on Clinical Education in Adolescent Medicine During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Positive Preliminary Findings.

Following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, much of clinical care rapidly transitioned to telehealth, shifting the clinical training milieu for most trainees. In the wake of this shift, educators have attempted to keep learners engaged in patient care and optimize medical education as much as possible. There is, however, limited understanding of the effect of telehealth on clinical education.

Provider Language Proficiency and Decision-Making When Caring for Limited English Proficiency Children and Families.

Objective: To examine associations between self-assessed language ability and provision of clinical care without professional interpretation.

Methods: We conducted an anonymous web-based survey of pediatric residents at a large pediatric training program. Respondents self-rated their language ability, and then reported on their willingness to deliver clinical care without professional interpretation in standardized clinical scenarios.

Understanding Online Resource Use by Transgender Youth and Caregivers: A Qualitative Study.

This study assessed what online resources transgender youth and their caregivers use to acquire information about transgender health. Through a variety of settings, including subspecialty clinics, support groups, and online solicitation, we recruited caregivers of transgender youth aged 22 years or younger and self-identified transgender youth aged 14-22 years. We used a mixed methods approach of conducting in-person focus groups, interviews in person or through phone, and an online survey that allowed for increased flexibility for participants and to triangulate key themes from multiple data sources.

Health care utilization in homeless youth.

To examine common reasons for utilization of health care services at a free homeless youth clinic. This is a retrospective chart review for visits over a 1 year period. Data on age, gender, and up to 3 chief complaints per visit were collected from the electronic medical record.