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..A model psycho-educational day treatment program. City Lights, is highlighted as an approach to serving inner-city African American adolescents with a profile of services and of the types of youth best served by such a program...

..To compare adolescents' report of topics they wanted to discuss with their providers with what they actually discussed, and whether they talked to their providers about their self-reported health risks...

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..This study examined whether the discussion of sensitive health topics during primary care visits was associated with youth's perceptions of the provider and of participation in treatment...

..Traditionally, urban youth are believed to be difficult to engage in health-related programs, both in terms of connecting and convincing...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate a competitive voucher program intended to make sexual and reproductive health care (SRHC) accessible to adolescents from disadvantaged areas of Managua...

..Issues raised during the early stages of implementation may have important implications for the preparation and development of professionals who undertake the role...

..Enough is known to recommend that a priority for the future is to ensure that each country, state, and locality has a policy and support to encourage provision of innovative and well assessed youth-friendly services...

..To understand why Canadian adolescents go or do not go to see family physicians for annual checkups using the Theory of Planned Behavior as a conceptual framework...

..As communities seek to meet the needs of this population, they are learning important lessons about providing acceptable, accessible, and comprehensive services and about implementing quality assurance mechanisms...

..To assess the role that school-based health centers (SBHCs) play in facilitating access to care among low-income adolescents and the extent to which SBHCs and a community health center network (CHN) provide similar or complementary care...

..Integrating these issues into programmes is likely to be an essential element in developing health services and programmes which can reach out to the majority of adolescents in school settings in India...

..To facilitate development of treatments with real-world applicability, we describe a model involving the testing of treatments in real-world settings. We also discuss limitations to this project...

..To determine the association of parent, family, and adolescent variables with adolescent mental health service need and utilization...

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..With increased attention and resources devoted to performance outcome assessment, it is concerning that most clinicians perceive little clinical utility of outcome measurement...

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..Multiple quality improvement strategies are illustrated in the context of a model that outlines four phases of evidence: data, information, knowledge, and wisdom...

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..Future efforts should thus focus on assuring access to timely, comprehensive and high-quality reproductive health education for all teenagers and reducing gaps in access related to gender and school attendance...

..Clinic Initiative (NAFCI) is an accreditation programme designed to improve the quality of adolescent health services at the primary care level and strengthen the public sector's ability to respond to adolescent health ..

..Varying patterns by service sector, diagnosis, and across time indicate different needs for youth with different conditions and at different ages and can provide important information for prevention and treatment researchers...

..These findings underscore the need for comparison groups when evaluating interventions and suggest the need for better understanding of community level changes in perceived healthcare access and use...

..A significant programme of research is required if the potential for child and adolescent mental health services in primary care is to be realized in an effective and efficient way...

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..No annual national population estimates exist of the numbers of adolescents who think they need but do not receive health care or their risk of health problems...

..To determine the association of parent, family, and child factors with mental health services need and utilization...

..The implications of these findings for child psychiatric treatment and services are discussed...

..The purpose of this study was to examine the potential role general academic teachers may play in facilitating adolescent health promotion efforts...

..Despite the recent declines in rates of teenage pregnancy, relatively little is known about the few programs that have been successful in reducing adolescent pregnancy...

..In contrast, youths enumerated from the juvenile justice system tended to have the lowest rates of use. Additional research is needed to refine our understanding of the factors associated with the observed patterns of service use...

..In this review, we summarize findings from recent surveys of providers and adolescents, discuss barriers to STD screening, and offer strategies for individual clinicians to improve STD screening rates in practice...

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..Yet, they are typically the early adopters of new technology (eg, the Internet). This creates important opportunities for engaging youths via eHealth...

..To evaluate whether participation in a competitive voucher programme designed to improve access to and quality of sexual and reproductive health care (SRH-care), prompted changes in doctors' knowledge, attitudes and practices...

..To assess whether equity is achieved in use of general practitioner, outpatient, and inpatient services by children and young people according to their ethnic group and socioeconomic background...

..The aim of this paper is to describe functional, critical, and interactive health literacy challenges experienced by adolescent students when using the Internet for online health information...

..Many young people think about and take steps to obtain adequate protection only after having sexual intercourse for the first time. Consequently, they are at increased risk of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections...

..To examine differences by income in insurance coverage, health care utilization, expenditures, and quality of care for children in the United States...

..This article defines key terms, offers historical perspective and provides a specific approach and set of models to implement an effective social marketing strategy in a range of contexts...

..This study chose the Verona Service Satisfaction Scale (VSSS as a template for the development of a new CAMHS Satisfaction Scale (CAMHSSS)...

..Extensive practical suggestions for how to overcome the barriers that constrain university faculty from developing service-oriented programs in the community are also emphasized...

..However, managed care had pronounced effects on use of case management services. We also document differences in access and mix of behavioral services used over time by race, sex, age, and Medicaid enrollment category...

..Carise & O. Gurel, 2003) show that providers' perception of need, and their knowledge of resources, and their environment are related to the decision to offer or refer to services, supporting key aspects of the Model...

..The mission of SBHCs to contribute to the health of children by providing access to primary health care and preventive health care services is being actualized...

..This article explores the various federal, state, and local funding sources, and the technical assistance resources and opportunities available to SBHCs and their staff...

..In addition, one school health center's initiative to outreach culturally diverse students into health careers is highlighted...

..Because many SBHCs provide services beyond traditional primary care, there is great need to support and increase the number of SBHC prevention programs targeted at communities at risk...

..This inquiry provides a metasynthesis of the literature and will review, examine, and summarize the literature relating to the effect of school-based clinics on teenage pregnancy and parenting outcomes...

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..This work updated previous work by the authors and further investigated which program and student characteristics were associated with the most positive outcomes...

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..Little is known about the impact of health insurance on health care for adolescents. We assessed the impact of New York's State Children's Health Insurance Program on access, use, and quality of care for adolescents...

..Data supporting ACT is presented, with implications for further program development and evaluation. Finally, parent education, theory and research, and professional services related to violence prevention are discussed...

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..Nevertheless, these views are of value in relation to the development of service provision...

..To examine racial and ethnic differences in unmet need for vision care among children with special health care needs...

..Issues related to family versus individual behavior change are discussed, along with implications for managing behaviorally based activity and nutrition interventions within a rural community...

..Further exploration of the needs and expectations of young people who have behavioural difficulties is necessary so that their needs are better understood and expectations met...

..Level of complaints tended to be reduced as an effect of access to the school nursing service. Sense of humor at follow-up tended to buffer health complaints and negative moods...

..These results provide an empirical foundation for tailoring community-wide efforts to prevent substance abuse to the specific profiles of risk and protective factors experienced by youths in different communities...

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..Mental health issues and partnership roles in school communities...

..National household survey...

..disparities associated with sociodemographic characteristics are well known, almost no information exists about another potentially important source of disparity for children: How does state of residence affect mental health service use?..

..These policies, along with scientific advances in child mental health, social changes, and health policy more generally, have contributed to an improvement in child mental health services over the past fifteen years...

..The effectiveness of interventions used in the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity published in a recent issue of Effective Heath Care is reviewed...

..Critical research gaps exist in a number of areas with the prevention and early intervention area representing a particularly important missed opportunity...

..This lack of attention has occurred despite considerable attention to this issue in the planning documents of many federal agencies...

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..This study tested the effectiveness of two culturally appropriate substance abuse prevention intervention programs for African American girls...

..The findings suggest that attitudes and expectations may influence parents' decision to seek mental health care for their child...

..Nine issues that will help shape the future of international school psychology are also identified. The importance of psychology, including school psychology, in promoting children's needs and rights is underscored...

..Nearly two-thirds of units reported that they would not accept emergency admissions. CONCLUSIONS: A national approach is needed to the planning and commissioning of this specialist service...

..To examine changes in insurance coverage, health care utilization, perceived quality of care, and expenditures for children and youth in the United States using data from 1987-2001...

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..The purpose of this article is to encourage mental health professionals to mobilize their efforts to help children, adolescents, and their families cope with the effects of community violence...

..Further expansions of Medicaid and implementation of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) have opened new avenues for increasing coverage rates...

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..To examine the effect of recent federal and state policy changes on adolescents' eligibility and enrollment in Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)...

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..Although the magnitude of these effects is small relative to the direct effect of providing insurance to either the child or parent, they should be considered in analyses of costs and benefits of proposed policies...

..This will in long-term have an impact on the reduction of morbidity and mortality among adolescent mothers and their newborns...

..This paper presents results of a project which piloted a package of adolescent health services with the aim of identifying the best approach for providing quality, accessible, and affordable ..

..To describe patterns of health care use by adolescent males in the United States and clinical practice characteristics associated with their use of adolescent-specific programs...

..A healthy environment for children und families was promoted. For the KJGD the conceptual work with distributors in leading positions led to initiatives for communal health promotion making time-saving use of existing resources...

..health care professionals in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have a clear perception about the need for specialized adolescent health services. Therefore, provision of adolescent health services should be supported by health policy-makers.

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..Additionally, since alternative therapies can have potentially serious side-effects or drug interactions, insight into how and when alternative medicine use is disclosed may help clinicians provide better care to adolescents. ..

..Studying clinician interventions in primary care community-based pediatric practice has the potential to lead to improved clinical preventive services for tobacco cessation and also to rapid dissemination of effective interventions. ..

..Additionally, Digital Partners will assist the HHPC and its community advisory board in developing, implementing, evaluating and disseminating research findings. ..

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..Data will be analyzed using mixed effects regression models to examine how variations in treatment elements are related to outcome trajectories. ..

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..The findings of this study will strengthen the evidence base for symptom-based STI testing of SA adolescent females and will promote care that addresses both individual patient and public health needs. ..

..Through this project, we will identify an intervention fits with this community's strengths and needs. This work will also allow us to start developing this intervention for testing and use in this and other Al communities. ..

..The relationships of the interventions, socio-demographics, attitudes and behaviors to the outcome measures will be assessed with multiple logistic regression (MLR) and path analysis via structural equation modeling. ..

..The proposed study will provide important information of use to those designing preventive and treatment interventions for substance abuse and dependence. ..

..Thus, the training opportunity would enable Dr. Diaz to acquire mentored research skills to enhance the health and well- 0being of abused adolescents, and learn how to assess abuse and diagnose its effects. ..

..This will be piloted as a prospective longitudinal study of adolescent females. ..

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..This proposal is for secondary prevention of diabetes complications, targeting a population known for health disparities and a high burden from this chronic disease. ..

..Phase 4 data analyses will examine rates of research and treatment attrition, mean number of research and treatment sessions completed, mean treatment satisfaction ratings, and estimate the effect size of the intervention. ..

..The expected outcomes of the study are the refinement of a theoretical model of sexual health practices that will provide a framework for interventions to reduce the prevalence and incidence of STDs in vulnerable homeless adolescents. ..

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..Measurement and analyses are guided by the investigator's social development model, which organizes empirical findings of risk and protective factors into a causal theory (Catalano & Hawkins, 1996). ..

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..Outcomes will be measured at the state and community levels using archival indicators of risk and substance abuse-related outcomes and data from school surveys of risk, protection, and substance use. ..

..Previous measurement was guided by the investigators' social development model, which organizes empirical findings of risk and protective factors into a casual theory (Catalano & Hawkins, in press). ..

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..This proposal offers innovative features that hold great promise for an effective intervention strategy, considerable commercial potential, and significant benefits for populations of pregnant women and infants. ..

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..Preliminary analysis of data from our current study indicates positive effects for the COPE program on key outcome variables and creates a compelling case for more long-term follow-up. ..

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..S. to improve health outcomes for our nation's children and adolescents. ..

..A control Sample (N=280) of age-gender matched children whose mothers have never been incarcerated will be recruited in the same geographical area. ..

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..A control Sample (N=280) of age-gender matched children whose mothers have never been incarcerated will be recruited in the same geographical area. ..

..If successful, this project will help advance the current clinical guidelines for treating obese adults with asthma, which, in turn, may lead to reduced morbidity and mortality associated with asthma and obesity. ..

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..Subsequent research will examine how child welfare and mental health agencies collectively affect children. ..

..NY Office of Mental Health has agreed to delay the statewide rollout of the CPG until summer, 2003. This application constitutes a time-critical opportunity for carrying out the proposed research. ..

..These findings will inform managers of related health and social services.yield actionable guidance to child welfare agency managers and policy makers in allocating scarce resources. ..