Nimisha Bajaj, Suzanne M Reed, Ross E Myers, John D Mahan, Keith Ponitz
{"title":"Exploration of What Pediatric Residents Find Most Helpful from Their Programs in Facilitating Well-Being.","authors":"Nimisha Bajaj, Suzanne M Reed, Ross E Myers, John D Mahan, Keith Ponitz","doi":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2024.102607","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Burnout is highly prevalent among residents, and although many studied interventions have targeted burnout by trying to promote well-being, it remains a substantial problem. This study utilized data from the Pediatric Resident Burnout-Resilience Study Consortium (PRB-RSC) Annual Burnout Survey to determine which program interventions categorical and non-categorical (medicine-pediatrics and combined programs) pediatric residents found most helpful to promote well-being.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a secondary analysis of an open-ended question on the PRB-RSC Annual Burnout Survey in 2019 and 2020: \"What is the most helpful thing that your program provides you for wellness?\" We performed thematic and content analysis on open-ended responses and compared distribution of themes and subthemes between years using a Chi-squared test.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In 2019, 1401 (44%) of 3159 residents from 44 programs responded to the open-ended question, with 771 (49%) of 1563 residents from 21 programs responding in 2020. Residents found wellness interventions within five themes to be the most helpful. Promotes Positive Work Environment and Optimizes Scheduling were mentioned most frequently, but residents also valued when a program Facilitates Traditional Wellness Interventions, Offers Financial Benefits, and Prioritizes Education. Themes and subthemes were mentioned with the same frequency in both 2019 and 2020.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The results of this study show which institutional interventions residents have found to be most helpful to their well-being. Program leaders can use this data as a framework to discuss interventions with their residents, allowing them to tailor wellness programs and use limited available resources for what residents believe is most impactful.</p>","PeriodicalId":50930,"journal":{"name":"Academic Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":"102607"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142752246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rise of Pediatric Inpatient Social Needs Screening and Referral Systems.","authors":"Jana C Leary, Christopher P Landrigan, Arvin Garg","doi":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102612","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102612","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50930,"journal":{"name":"Academic Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":"102612"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142717641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah L Maxwell, Alicia Fernandez, Suzanna Martinez, Amy L Beck
{"title":"An update on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children's health behaviors.","authors":"Sarah L Maxwell, Alicia Fernandez, Suzanna Martinez, Amy L Beck","doi":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2024.102613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50930,"journal":{"name":"Academic Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":"102613"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142717635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kevin H Huynh, Gina McKernan, Amy Houtrow, Justin Yu
{"title":"Predicting Emotional Well-Being in Caregivers of Children with More Complex Special Healthcare Needs.","authors":"Kevin H Huynh, Gina McKernan, Amy Houtrow, Justin Yu","doi":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acap.2024.102611","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Identify factors associated with reduced emotional well-being (EWB) among family caregivers of children with more complex special health care needs (SHCN).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We applied gradient boosted trees (GBTs) to the 2016-2021 National Survey of Children's Health to identify factors associated with questions assessing (1) global mental health, (2) parental coping, and (3) parental aggravation among family caregivers of children with more complex SHCN. We then conducted adjusted logistic regression and post-hoc margins analyses to describe the relationships between GBT-identified factors and caregiver EWB outcomes.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our GBT models' area under the curve (AUC) scores ranged from 0.69-0.77. Among our sample, (1) caregiver reported lack of emotional support, (2) increased levels of frustration and effort in getting their child needed health services, and (3) the presence of child emotional and behavioral conditions were factors associated with reduced caregiver EWB. In margins analyses of adjusted regression models, GBT-identified factors were associated with significantly higher likelihoods of adverse caregiver EWB outcomes. For example, compared to caregivers who reported a source of emotional support, the predicted probabilities of experiencing poor/fair mental health (13.7% vs. 7.8%), reduced parental coping (8.0% vs. 2.1%), and frequently feeling bothered by (9.9% vs. 5.4%) and angry with (3.5% vs. 1.5%) their child were higher among caregivers who lacked emotional support.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In addition to enhanced care coordination support, future efforts aiming to improve well-being among family caregivers of children with more complex SHCN could consider targeting caregiver emotional support and/or treatment of child emotional and behavioral conditions.</p>","PeriodicalId":50930,"journal":{"name":"Academic Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":"102611"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142717638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Variability in Invasive Bacterial Infection Proportions Among Febrile Infants Aged 8-90 Days Using Administrative Data.","authors":"Jeffrey P Yaeger, Kevin A Fiscella","doi":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102608","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102608","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Despite decades of research, knowledge is limited regarding sociodemographic risk factors (eg, sex, rural/urban residence) for invasive bacterial infections (IBIs; bacteremia, bacterial meningitis) in young febrile infants and outcomes of current management strategies. Population-based administrative datasets can provide epidemiological insights not possible with clinical data but are limited because diagnosis codes alone may not accurately reflect culture-positive bacteremia or meningitis infections. Thus, using different IBI case definitions, we report IBI and missed IBI proportions in a population of febrile infants aged 8-90 days.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>For this cross-sectional study, we used New York State's all-payer database to identify healthy, full-term infants with fever aged 8-90 days evaluated in emergency departments from 2012 to 2023. We defined IBIs and missed IBIs using previously published diagnosis codes and then restricted original case definitions to inpatient encounters with variable lengths-of-stay. For each approach, we calculated total and age-stratified IBI and missed IBI proportions and used chi square statistics to compare proportions within and across age groups.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 67,115 infants who met inclusion criteria (15,191 [23%] aged 8-28 days), total IBI and missed IBI proportions varied from 11.5-32.3/1000 febrile infants and 4.2-8.0/100 IBIs, respectively. Although IBI proportions decreased significantly with advancing age, missed IBI proportions significantly increased.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>IBI and missed IBI proportions varied widely by case definition. Missed IBI proportions increased with advancing age in a step-wise fashion regardless of case definition. Validation studies are needed to compare IBI diagnosis codes with culture results to understand the accuracy of identifying IBIs with administrative data.</p>","PeriodicalId":50930,"journal":{"name":"Academic Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":"102608"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142693873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"My Father's Daughter and Doctor.","authors":"Christy M Lucas","doi":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102610","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102610","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50930,"journal":{"name":"Academic Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":"102610"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142689521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Uchechi Oddiri, Michael S Ryan, Jolene E Collins, Peggy Han, Melissa Klein, Allison N J Lyle, Heidi M Kloster
{"title":"A Narrative Review of Key Studies in Medical Education in 2023: Applying the Current Literature to Educational Practice and Scholarship.","authors":"Uchechi Oddiri, Michael S Ryan, Jolene E Collins, Peggy Han, Melissa Klein, Allison N J Lyle, Heidi M Kloster","doi":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102605","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102605","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Pediatric clinician educators face the challenge of juggling clinical practice with teaching responsibilities. The balancing act is even more challenging when one considers the need to stay current with evidence from clinical and medical education literature. In this narrative review of 2023 medical education literature, the Academic Pediatric Association Education Committee's Top Articles team summarizes high-yield articles that possess the potential to significantly influence pediatric clinician educator teaching and practice. A standardized blinded rubric was applied to identify the most impactful articles from 19 medical education and specialty journals. Final selections were categorized into six domains: artificial intelligence and technology, belonging in the learning environment, bias in the workplace, clinical learning, curriculum and assessment, and family and community partnerships. The reviewers summarize key findings from the top articles and describe implications for pediatric clinician educator practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":50930,"journal":{"name":"Academic Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":"102605"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142689513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caitlin J Miller, Amudha Boopathi, Sara R Slovin, Zhongcui Gao, Kristin Maiden, Melissa Ray, Jonathan M Miller
{"title":"Quality Initiative to Increase Early Initiation and Series Completion of Human Papillomavirus Vaccine and its Impact on Health Disparities.","authors":"Caitlin J Miller, Amudha Boopathi, Sara R Slovin, Zhongcui Gao, Kristin Maiden, Melissa Ray, Jonathan M Miller","doi":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102609","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.acap.2024.102609","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Human papillomavirus (HPV) infection is associated with a large burden of disease prevalence, morbidity, and known disparities. HPV vaccination rates remain lower than other childhood immunizations, despite vaccine safety and effectiveness. The objective of this quality improvement (QI) intervention was to improve HPV vaccination rate by 15% over 3-years through early initiation and analyze trends across health disparities.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>QI study in ages 9 to 13 at Nemours Primary Care from 2019 to 2022, which includes rural and urban regions and diverse populations. Interventions included updating electronic health records to begin at age 9, practice-level feedback, and updated education. Primary outcome measure was the Healthcare Effectiveness Data Information Set (HEDIS) rate for HPV vaccination (proportion completed by age 13). Process measure was early HPV vaccine initiation rate (proportion aged 9-10 with at least one dose). Year-end early HPV vaccine initiation rates were analyzed to assess trends by race and ethnicity, geography, insurance, and Child Opportunity Index (COI).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The number of eligible 9 and 10 year olds ranged from 16,466 to 17,925 annually. HEDIS rates improved over three years from 49.2% to 59.5% (P < 0.0001). Early initiation increased from 13.2% in 2019 to 42.2% in 2022 (P < 0.0001) and improved significantly across demographic variables (P < 0.0001). Groups with the lowest baseline early vaccination rates increased significantly.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>HPV vaccine completion by 13 increased significantly with QI supporting early initiation. Demographic analyses showed the highest degree of improvement in populations with the lowest baseline rates. This supports altering Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendation for HPV vaccination initiation at ages 9-12.</p>","PeriodicalId":50930,"journal":{"name":"Academic Pediatrics","volume":" ","pages":"102609"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142677774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}