Arch Pediat Adol Med
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Arch Pediat Adol Med · Feb 2007
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialA randomized trial of a multicomponent intervention for adolescent sun protection behaviors.
To evaluate a multicomponent primary care-based intervention to increase sun protection behaviors among adolescents. Excessive sun exposure in childhood increases the lifetime risk of melanomas and other forms of skin cancer. Interventions to improve sun protection behaviors in childhood have been based primarily in school and community settings, with little attention to the role of primary care physicians. ⋯ Primary care counseling coupled with a minimal-intensity expert system intervention can improve adolescents' sun protection behaviors.
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Arch Pediat Adol Med · Feb 2007
Reporting and disclosing medical errors: pediatricians' attitudes and behaviors.
To characterize pediatricians' attitudes and experiences regarding communicating about errors with the hospital and patients' families. ⋯ Pediatricians are willing to report errors to hospitals and disclose errors to patients' families but believe current reporting systems are inadequate and struggle with error disclosure. Improving error reporting systems and encouraging physicians to report near misses, as well as providing training in error disclosure, could help prevent future errors and increase patient trust.
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Arch Pediat Adol Med · Feb 2007
Physical and emotional health of mothers of youth with functional abdominal pain.
To determine if mothers of youth with functional abdominal pain (FAP) experience more anxiety, depressive, and somatic symptoms and disorders than mothers of unaffected children. ⋯ Functional abdominal pain may be better conceptualized as a disorder of emotion than a narrowly defined disorder of gastrointestinal function. Low rates of mental health service use by mothers of youth with FAP suggest that family health and illness attitudes deserve study.