Archives of pediatrics & adolescent medicine
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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med · Jan 2010
Health care worker knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs regarding mandatory influenza vaccination.
To determine the attitudes, beliefs, and knowledge of children's hospital health care workers toward mandatory influenza vaccination. ⋯ Approval of mandatory influenza vaccine policies was high; however, attitudes about the dangers of influenza for patients were not associated with acceptance of mandatory vaccination policies for health care workers. Educational efforts targeting health care workers' fears and misconceptions about influenza vaccines might help to decrease the reservoir of unimmunized health care workers.
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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med · Dec 2009
Effects of local institutional review board review on participation in national practice-based research network studies.
To describe the process and outcomes of local institutional review board (IRB) review for 2 Pediatric Research in Office Settings (PROS) studies. ⋯ Local IRB review was associated with lower participation rates, substantial effort navigating the process (with approval universally granted without substantive changes), and data collection delays. When considering future reforms, the national human subject protections system should consider the potential redundancy and effect on generalizability, particularly regarding enrollment of poor urban children, related to local IRB review.
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Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med · Dec 2009
Randomized Controlled TrialEfficacy of sexually transmitted disease/human immunodeficiency virus sexual risk-reduction intervention for african american adolescent females seeking sexual health services: a randomized controlled trial.
To evaluate the efficacy of an intervention to reduce incident sexually transmitted disease (STD) and enhance STD/human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-preventive behaviors and psychosocial mediators. ⋯ Interventions for African American adolescent females can reduce chlamydial infections and enhance STD/HIV-preventive behaviors and psychosocial mediators of STD/HIV-preventive behaviors. Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00633906.