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Teens   Healthcare Provider Challenges

 General Reports
 Access to Care
 Palliative Care
Reproductive Counseling/Care
Provider Characteristics
Confidentiality
Violence Screening
Alcohol Screening
Risk Behaviors
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Care
 
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Last Update:  July 14, 2007.
General Reports
 

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Practitioner review: assessment and treatment of refugee children and adolescents who have
experienced war-related trauma.
Ehntholt KA, Yule W.  
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2006 Dec;47(12):1197-210
Abstract
 
A national needs assessment of nurses providing health care to adolescents.
Saewyc EM, Bearinger LH, McMahon G, Evans T.
J Prof Nurs. 2006 Sep-Oct;22(5):304-13
 Abstract

FULL TEXT ARTICLE
Violence against children and adolescents: a challenge in the daily work of the nursing
team.
Algeri S, Souza LM. |
Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2006 Aug;14(4):625-631.
 Paper
Access to Care
 

         Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters 

  A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
The effect of Hurricane Katrina on sexual behavior and access to care for adolescent and
young women in New Orleans
P Kissinger , N Schmidt , C Sanders, et al 
(2006 National STD Prevention Conference)
Abstract
Palliative Care
 

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Care of the dying adolescent: special considerations.
Freyer DR.
Pediatrics. 2004 Feb;113(2):381-8
 Abstract 
Reproductive Counseling/Care
 

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Ethical issues in gynecology: adolescent confidentiality, provider conscience and
abortion, and patient choice of provider gender.
 Adams KE.
Curr Womens Health Rep 2002 Dec;2(6):423-8
 Abstract 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
 Doctors should advise adolescents to abstain from sex
Stammers T,  Ingham R
BMJ 2000 321: 1520-1522.
Paper
 
FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Consultation patterns and provision of contraception in general practice before
teenage pregnancy: case-control study
Churchill D, Allen J, Pringle P
 BMJ 2000;321:486-489
 Paper
  
Provider Characteristics
 

           Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 

Important Health Provider Characteristics: The Perspective of Urban Ninth Graders.
Ginsburg KR, Forke CM, Cnaan A, Slap GB.
J Dev Behav Pediatr 2002 Aug;23(4):237-243
 Abstract 

 
Confidentiality
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
Forgone health care among U.S. adolescents: associations between risk characteristics
and confidentiality concern.
Lehrer JA, Pantell R, Tebb K, Shafer MA.  
J Adolesc Health. 2007 Mar;40(3):218-26
 Abstract 

Adolescent health risk behavior: when do pediatric psychologists break confidentiality?
Rae WA, Sullivan JR, Razo NP, et al.
J Pediatr Psychol 2002 Sep;27(6):541-9
 Abstract 

 
Alcohol Screening
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Screening and counseling for adolescent alcohol use among primary care physicians in the United States.
Millstein SG, Marcell AV.
Pediatrics 2003 Jan;111(1):114-22
 Abstract  		 
Violence Screening
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Provider willingness to screen all sexually active adolescents for chlamydia.
Boekeloo BO, Snyder MH, Bobbin M, et al.
Sex Transm Infect 2002 Oct;78(5):369-73
 Abstract  		 
STI/STD Screening
 

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Parental screening for intimate partner violence by pediatricians and family physicians.
Borowsky IW, Ireland M. 
Pediatrics 2002 Sep;110(3):509-16
 Abstract  		 
Risk Behaviors
 

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  The pediatrician and the adolescent risk behaviour
Saggese G, Bertelloni S.
Minerva Pediatr 2002 Dec;54(6):483-8
 Abstract		  
Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual Care
 

         Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Adolescent health care experience of gay, lesbian, and bisexual young adults.
Allen LB, Glicken AD, Beach RK, Naylor KE.
 J Adolesc Health 1998 Oct;23(4):212-20
 Abstract		  

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