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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Despite 3-17% of adolescent and young adult males (AYAMs) experiencing sexual violence, there is a paucity of information regarding their sexual violence experiences leaving them vulnerable to dangerous and detrimental sequelae. RECENT FINDINGS: There is underreporting and under-discussion of AYAMs' experiences of sexual violence, with disclosure influenced by societal perceptions of male sexuality, shame, and fear of discrimination. AYAMs experience sexual violence from individuals known to them, with many experiencing physical violence, threats, coercion, and electronic harassment. Intersectionality, previous traumas, inappropriate childhood exposures to sexually explicit situations, select online media consumption, and adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) increase the risk of sexual violence. AYAMs who experience sexual violence are at increased risk of re-victimization, perpetrating sexual violence, experiencing bodily harm, contracting sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and experiencing internalizing and externalizing symptoms, which can lead to significant morbidity and mortality. Research on male-specific protective and resilience factors is scarce and represents an ongoing need. SUMMARY: After reviewing AYAMs' experiences of sexual violence, including risk and protective factors, media influences, detrimental sequelae, and resilience factors, we provide a screening framework to empower the healthcare provider (HCP) to champion tailored prevention, screening, intervention, and advocacy efforts to support AYAMs.
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Bullying , Vítimas de Crime , Delitos Sexuais , Adolescente , Pessoal de Saúde , Humanos , Masculino , Comportamento Sexual , Adulto JovemAssuntos
Vesícula , Serviço Hospitalar de Emergência , Adolescente , Vesícula/diagnóstico , Vesícula/etiologia , HumanosRESUMO
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess willingness to provide medication abortion among North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology (NASPAG) clinicians caring for adolescents and young adults (AYA) following Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization DESIGN: Cross-sectional online survey METHODS: Potential participants received an e-mail invitation via the NASPAG listserv. A 43-item questionnaire queried demographics, practice setting, abortion training and practice, willingness to provide medication abortion, potential or real barriers to providing medication abortion, and sentiments of abortion. Descriptive statistics, χ2, and Fisher's exact tests were used. RESULTS: Of the 70 participants, 51% were willing to provide a medication abortion for an adolescent who requested it in their clinical practice. The most common barriers to providing medication abortion were legislative restrictions (47%) and dispensing pills from clinic (33%). Participants' willingness to provide a medication abortion differed by type of practice (pâ¯=â¯.001), availability of mifepristone (pâ¯=â¯.006), perception of state's abortion policy (pâ¯=â¯.001), concern about legislative restrictions (pâ¯=â¯.008), experience providing abortion (pâ¯=â¯.04), and receipt of medication abortion training (pâ¯=â¯.02). Willingness to provide medication abortion also differed based on various sentiments of abortion measured but not on opinion regarding legality of abortion for adolescents (pâ¯=â¯.49). CONCLUSIONS: Perception of state's abortion rights and concern about legislative restrictions influenced NASPAG clinicians' willingness to provide medication abortion for adolescents. Interventions to minimize legislative interference with medical care, increase abortion training, and implement medication abortion in pediatric settings may expand AYA medication abortion access.
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This article examines British media coverage of women's association football during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, to identify how the media framed the women's game and how these frames could shape the public perceptions of it. Through a database search of British-based news coverage of women's football, 100 news articles were identified in the first 6 months after the start of the pandemic. A thematic analysis was conducted, and five dominant frames were detected in the context of COVID-19: 1) financial precariousness of women's football; 2) the commercial prioritisation of men's football; 3) practical consideration of the sport (e.g., alterations to national and international competitions); 4) debating the future of women's football and 5) concern for players (e.g., welfare, uncertain working conditions). These frames depart from the past trivialisation and sexualisation of women's sport, demonstrate the increased visibility of women's football, and shift the narrative towards the elite stratum of the game. Most of this reporting was by women journalists, while men were shown to write less than women about women's football. This research advocates continued diversification of the sports journalism workforce to dissolve the hegemonic masculine culture that still largely dominates the industry.
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Reforma dos Serviços de Saúde , Sistema de Fonte Pagadora Única/organização & administração , Planos Governamentais de Saúde/organização & administração , Comitês Consultivos , Humanos , Medicaid/economia , Sistema de Fonte Pagadora Única/economia , Sistema de Fonte Pagadora Única/legislação & jurisprudência , Planos Governamentais de Saúde/legislação & jurisprudência , Estados Unidos , VermontRESUMO
Rates of sexual activity, pregnancies, and births among adolescents have continued to decline during the past decade to historic lows. Despite these positive trends, many adolescents remain at risk for unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This technical report discusses the new data and trends in adolescent sexual behavior and barrier protection use. Since 2017, STI rates have increased and use of barrier methods, specifically external condom use, has declined among adolescents and young adults. Interventions that increase availability of or accessibility to barrier methods are most efficacious when combined with additional individual, small-group, or community-level activities that include messages about safer sex. Continued research informs public health interventions for adolescents that increase the consistent and correct use of barrier methods and promote dual protection of barrier methods for STI prevention together with other effective methods of contraception.
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Preservativos Femininos , Preservativos , Comportamento Sexual , Adolescente , Fatores Etários , Preservativos/estatística & dados numéricos , Preservativos Femininos/estatística & dados numéricos , Comportamento Contraceptivo/estatística & dados numéricos , Pessoas com Deficiência/estatística & dados numéricos , Feminino , Conhecimentos, Atitudes e Prática em Saúde , Humanos , Relações Interpessoais , Profilaxia Pré-Exposição , Gravidez , Gravidez na Adolescência/estatística & dados numéricos , Gravidez não Planejada , Fatores Raciais , Sexo Seguro , Autoimagem , Educação Sexual , Minorias Sexuais e de Gênero/estatística & dados numéricos , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/epidemiologia , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/prevenção & controle , Apoio SocialRESUMO
Rates of sexual activity, pregnancies, and births among adolescents have continued to decline during the past decade to historic lows. Despite these positive trends, many adolescents remain at risk for unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). When used consistently and correctly, latex and synthetic barrier methods reduce the risk of many STIs, including HIV, and pregnancy. This update of the 2013 policy statement is intended to assist pediatricians in understanding and supporting the use of barrier methods by their patients to prevent unintended pregnancies and STIs and address obstacles to their use.
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Preservativos Femininos , Preservativos , Comportamento Sexual , Adolescente , Feminino , Humanos , Gravidez , Gravidez não Planejada , Sexo Seguro , Infecções Sexualmente Transmissíveis/prevenção & controleRESUMO
Pediatricians are encouraged to address male adolescent sexual and reproductive health on a regular basis, including taking a sexual history, discussing healthy sexuality, performing an appropriate physical examination, providing patient-centered and age-appropriate anticipatory guidance, and administering appropriate vaccinations. These services can be provided to male adolescent patients in a confidential and culturally appropriate manner, can promote healthy sexual relationships and responsibility, can and involve parents in age-appropriate discussions about sexual health.
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Comportamento do Adolescente/psicologia , Saúde Reprodutiva/tendências , Comportamento Sexual/psicologia , Saúde Sexual/tendências , Adolescente , Comportamento do Adolescente/fisiologia , Aconselhamento/métodos , Aconselhamento/tendências , Humanos , Masculino , Comportamento Sexual/fisiologiaRESUMO
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have demonstrated the prevalence of social media use and identified the presence of high-risk behaviors among adolescents, including self-harm and sharing of sexually explicit messages. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to identify patterns in the amount of time spent on social media by adolescents who engage in high-risk behavior and the extent to which they use social media as a platform for sharing such behaviors. METHODS: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study of 179 adolescents seen in a pediatric clinic at an urban medical center. We used an anonymous self-report survey to obtain demographic characteristics, rates of self-harm thoughts and behaviors, sharing of sexually explicit messages, and social media use as determined by total hours spent on social media per day and the number of applications used. RESULTS: Most adolescents reported spending 3 to 5 hours on social media each day and using 3 or more social media applications. Almost 1 in 8 (22/179, 12.3%) adolescents self-reported having ever engaged in self-injury with a mean age of onset of 11.8 years. Over a quarter (49/179, 27.4%) of adolescents reported sharing sexually explicit messages. Relative risk of engaging in self-injury and or sharing sexually explicit messages increased with the use of 4 or more social media applications (1.66; CI 1.11-2.48). CONCLUSIONS: Results show a relationship between the number of social media applications used and increased rates of high-risk behaviors. We identified relevant risk factors that clinicians can use to screen for high-risk behavior and parents can monitor to encourage education about healthy online practices.
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Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a pediatric and adolescent problem as most young adults (aged <25 years) in treatment programs report initiating use before 25 years of age, and there are lifelong impacts from early substance use necessitating early screening for opioid use and subsequent treatment. Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) is a highly effective intervention for OUD, and there is strong evidence for its use with adolescents; however, most adolescents with OUD are unable to access MAT or remain in MAT long term to achieve substantial recovery. Using case examples drawn from a pediatric and adolescent physician's experiences proving MAT to adolescents and young adults (ages 16-24 years), this article explores the personal and socioeconomic determinants in MAT of OUD in adolescents and young adults and provides suggestions for advocacy areas and resources to improve MAT with this population.
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Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Opioides/tratamento farmacológico , Adolescente , Adulto , Humanos , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Adulto JovemAssuntos
COVID-19 , Feminino , Humanos , Adolescente , Saúde Reprodutiva , Pandemias , Populações Vulneráveis , Comportamento SexualRESUMO
Importance: Annual preventive health visits provide an opportunity to screen youths for unhealthy substance use and intervene before serious harm results. Objectives: To assess the feasibility and acceptability and estimate the efficacy of a primary care computer-facilitated screening and practitioner-delivered brief intervention (CSBI) system compared with usual care (UC) for youth substance use and associated risk of riding with an impaired driver. Design, Setting, and Participants: An intent-to-treat pilot randomized clinical trial compared CSBI with UC among 965 youths aged 12 to 18 years at 5 pediatric primary care offices and 54 practitioners. Patients were randomized to CSBI (n = 628) or usual care (n = 243) groups within practitioner with 12 months of follow-up. Data were collected from February 1, 2015, to December 31, 2017. Data analysis was performed January 1, 2018, to March 30, 2019. Interventions: Patients self-administered a computer-facilitated substance use screening questionnaire before their annual preventive health visits. Immediately after completing the screening, they received their score and level of risk and viewed 10 pages of scientific information and true-life vignettes illustrating health risks associated with substance use. Trained practitioners received the screening results, patients' risk levels, talking points designed to prompt brief counseling, and recommended follow-up plans. Main Outcomes and Measures: Feasibility and acceptability were assessed using adolescents' postvisit ratings. Days of alcohol use, cannabis use, and heavy episodic drinking were assessed at baseline and 3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-month follow-ups using Timeline Followback, and riding in the past 3 months with a driver who was impaired by use of alcohol or other drugs was assessed using 2 self-report items. The primary outcome was the intervention effect among at-risk youths who reported using alcohol or other drugs in the past 12 months or riding with an impaired driver in the past 3 months at baseline. The secondary outcome was the prevention effect among those with no prior use or risk. Results: Among 871 youths screened, 869 completed the baseline assessment; 211 of the 869 reported alcohol or cannabis use in the past 12 months at baseline (mean [SD] age, 16.4 [1.3] years; 114 [54.1%] female; 105 [49.8%] non-Hispanic white). Of the 211 youths, 148 (70.1%) were assigned to the CSBI group and 63 (29.9%) were assigned to the UC group. Among youths in the CSBI group, 105 (70.9%) reported receiving counseling about alcohol, 122 (82.4%) reported receiving counseling about cannabis, and 129 (87.2%) reported receiving counseling about not riding with an impaired driver. Adjusted hazard ratios for time to first postvisit use of alcohol or other drugs for CSBI vs UC were as follows: alcohol use, 0.69 (95% CI, 0.47-1.02); heavy episodic drinking, 0.66 (95% CI, 0.40-1.10); and cannabis use, 0.62 (95% CI, 0.41-0.94). At 12-month follow-ups among 99 youths who reported having ridden in the past 3 months at baseline with an impaired driver (64 in the CSBI group; 35 in the UC group), adjusted relative risk ratio of riding in the past 3 months with an impaired driver for CSBI vs UC groups was 0.58 (95% CI, 0.37-0.91). No intervention effect was observed among youths who reported no prior use of alcohol or other drugs (n = 658) or not having ridden with an impaired driver (n = 769) at baseline. Conclusions and Relevance: The CSBI system is a feasible and acceptable option for screening youths in primary care practice for use of alcohol and other drugs and for risk of riding with an impaired driver, and the estimated efficacy in this sample warrants further testing in larger samples. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00227877.
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Terapia Comportamental/métodos , Uso da Maconha/terapia , Psicoterapia Breve/métodos , Terapia Assistida por Computador/métodos , Consumo de Álcool por Menores/prevenção & controle , Adolescente , Criança , Aconselhamento/métodos , Dirigir sob a Influência/prevenção & controle , Diagnóstico Precoce , Estudos de Viabilidade , Feminino , Promoção da Saúde/métodos , Humanos , Masculino , Educação de Pacientes como Assunto/métodos , Projetos Piloto , Atenção Primária à Saúde/métodosRESUMO
OBJECTIVE: Strategic Incremental Rehearsal (SIR) is an effective method for teaching sight-word acquisition, but has neither been evaluated for use in adults with an intellectual disability, nor directly compared to the ongoing instruction in the natural environment. METHODS: Experimental analysis of sight word acquisition via an alternating treatment design was conducted with a 23-year-old woman with Down syndrome. SIR was compared to the current reading instruction (CRI) in a classroom for young adults with intellectual disabilities. CRI procedures included non-contingent praise, receptive touch prompts ("touch the word bat"), echoic prompts ("say bat"), textual prompts ("read the word"), and pre-determined introduction of new words. SIR procedures included textual prompts on flash cards, contingent praise, corrective feedback, and mastery-based introduction of new words. RESULTS: The results indicated that SIR was associated with more rapid acquisition of sight words than CRI. CONCLUSION: Directions for future research could include systematic comparisons to other procedures, and evaluations of procedural permutations of SIR.
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Síndrome de Down/reabilitação , Educação de Pessoa com Deficiência Intelectual/métodos , Leitura , Feminino , Humanos , Adulto JovemRESUMO
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of providing standardized counseling to improve the rates of contraception initiation and utilization among detained young women. This was a quality improvement (QI) project conducted at a large urban juvenile short-term detention center. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, INTERVENTIONS, AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The intervention included educating all staff and care providers, counseling detained young women on various contraceptive options, and offering contraception initiation with oral contraceptive pills or depot medroxyprogesterone acetate injection. Retrospective chart review before February 2012 established baseline contraception initiation and utilization rates. The QI intervention began in February 2012 and continued for 6 months followed by chart review. Outcomes measured included number of patients counseled about contraception, started contraception, and overall contraception utilization. RESULTS: We reviewed 120 and 186 charts before and after intervention, respectively. Compared with baseline data, the intervention group had statistically significant (P < .05) higher proportions of patients counseled (10% [10/120] baseline vs 84% [156/186] intervention) and who started contraception (7% [8/120] baseline vs 52% [97/186] intervention). CONCLUSION: This contraception QI intervention showed significant improvement in the rates of contraception counseling, contraception initiation, and utilization among detained young women. Most of youths' guardians were supportive and approved contraception initiation. This project showed it is feasible for health care providers to include contraception services for all intake assessments at juvenile detention facilities.
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Comportamento Contraceptivo/estatística & dados numéricos , Anticoncepção/estatística & dados numéricos , Aconselhamento/métodos , Adolescente , Criança , Anticoncepção/métodos , Aconselhamento/estatística & dados numéricos , Serviços de Planejamento Familiar/métodos , Serviços de Planejamento Familiar/estatística & dados numéricos , Feminino , Humanos , Prisioneiros/educação , Prisioneiros/estatística & dados numéricos , Melhoria de Qualidade , Estudos RetrospectivosRESUMO
The efficacy and efficiency of telehealth and in-person training were compared while teaching seven undergraduate students to implement components of discrete trial training. A multiple-baseline design across skills with elements of multiple probe and delayed multiple baseline combined with an alternating-treatments design was used to evaluate the effects of behavioral skills training (BST) on (a) implementing a multiple stimulus without replacement preference assessment, (b) setting up an instructional context, (c) delivering antecedent prompts, and (d) delivering consequences for accurate and inaccurate responding. Two skills were trained via telehealth and two skills were trained in-person using BST procedures with a mock student. All participants provided high acceptability ratings for both training procedures. Results also showed that telehealth training was as efficacious and efficient as in-person training for all skills across all participants. Five of six participants showed high levels of maintenance of the newly acquired skills; these five also exhibited the skills during a novel instructional task.