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Annotation: This toolkit is designed to help health professionals address the unique health care needs of adolescents and young adult males (AYAs) ages 10 to 26. Contents include a checklist covering nine health domains; client interview questions and supporting materials for each domain including background information, practice tools, and references; and a video library containing presentations for continuing medical education and client education. Topics include healthy eating and physical activity, sexual and reproductive health, trauma, mental health, developmental disorders, sexual biologic basics, normal pubertal concerns and genital abnormalities, and labs and immunizations. A tutorial is also available.

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Keywords: , Adolescent health, Adolescent males, Comprehensive health care, Continuing medical education, Evidence based health care, Health examinations, Immunizations, Interviews, Medical history taking, Men's health, Screening, Young adults

Annotation: This brief presents initial findings from interviews with providers and mothers with Medicaid in Texas about the implementation of the state's Medicaid 12-month postpartum extension. Interviewees identified significant implementation challenges, including lack of awareness, confusion about which providers should serve postpartum women, and administrative hurdles. The document also highlights the need for more mental health supports for new mothers and additional Medicaid benefits and providers, particularly in rural areas. It offers policy recommendations to increase awareness of the postpartum benefit, support mental health through community programs, and improve access to services and providers in the Medicaid network.

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Keywords: Healthcare reform, Interviews, Medicaid, Postpartum care, Quality improvement, State initiatives, Texas

Annotation: This thesis presents a research study examining birthing people's experiences with the health care system during prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods. The study used patient journey mapping, surveys, and interviews to capture experiences at multiple time points. Participants included six prenatal and four postpartum patients, with a focus on Black birthing people. Key findings revealed challenges with insurance access, getting questions answered between appointments, and a lack of racial concordance with health care workers. Participants also reported feeling unprepared for unexpected events, accepting care that did not align with their needs, and inconsistent mental health and intimate partner violence screenings. The thesis discusses implications for improving maternal care, such as offering low-cost services, implementing telehealth, ensuring universal screenings, and increasing workforce diversity.

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Keywords: Access to care, Barriers, Blacks, Childbirth, Health care systems, Interviews, Perinatal care, Postpartum care, Pregnant women, Prenatal care, Surveys, Toronto Canada

Annotation: This report summarizes findings from key informant interviews conducted to improve understanding of pediatricians’ provision of preventive oral health care for children ages 5 and under and to assess pediatricians’ familiarity with and use of silver diamine fluoride. Interviews were conducted to learn more about pediatricians’ oral health training experiences; their provision of oral health care and guidance to families of children ages 5 and under; and their perceptions of silver diamine fluoride as a treatment option in the medical setting, including anticipated startup needs and challenges.

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Keywords: Interviews, Oral health, Pediatricians, Prevention, Silver diamine fluoride, Treatment, Young children

Annotation: This animated video presents an example of how to use motivational interviewing techniques. It depicts a conversation between a health professional and a parent about stopping the routine of giving a child a bottle at bedtime. The conversation is structured around Brief Action Planning, a systematic approach to patient-centered goal setting, and is guided by active listening, with the objective of identifying a specific, patient-directed goal. The video is available in Chinese, English, and Spanish.

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Keywords: Infant health, Interviews, Non English language materials, Oral health, Prevention, Spanish language materials, Videos, Young children

Annotation: This report provides information from a 50-state survey and a set of interviews with select states and family-focused organizations. The purpose of the survey and interviews was to increase understanding of strategies being used by state Medicaid agencies to engage with youth with special health care needs and families of children with special health care needs. The report highlights findings from the survey and interviews, including engagement themes, challenges, and recommendations for state Medicaid agencies, youth with special health care needs and families of children with special health care needs, and funders.

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Keywords: Adolescents, Children, Interviews, Medicaid, Special health care needs, Surveys, Young adults

Annotation: This document describes the value of interviewing childbearing parents/families after the death of an infant, challenges, and steps in the process, including the parental interviewer; locating and contacting families; confidentiality, consent, and ethical considerations; conducting the interview; alternative methods; bereavement support and resources, and self-care. Appendices include sample position descriptions for interviewers, protocols, handouts and forms. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Bereavement, Child death review, Infant death review committees, Interviews, Manuals

Annotation: This environmental scan summarizes themes that emerged during interviews with key informants on the implementation of telehealth solutions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The brief describes several themes that emerged across multiple programs: (1) There is significant variance in the level of telehealth implementation occurring across jurisdictions; (2) Systemic and widespread connectivity issues exist for families and some programs; (3) There is a lack of evidence by which to make decisions about if and how to continue or expand telehealth to best meet families’ needs; and (4) Improved mechanisms are needed to connect available educational and training resources with the providers and staff who need them, when they need them. Contributors include representatives from Title V and children and youth with special health care needs (CYSHCN) programs, newborn screening functions, and maternal, infant, and early childhood home visiting (MIECHV) services.

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Keywords: Barriers, Child health, Children with special health needs, Health care delivery, Interviews, Maternal health, Telecommunications, Telemedicine, Youth

Annotation: The customizabl Key Informant Interview Guide () and Community Health Center Baselline Survey () are intended for use with community health centers (CHCs) participating in the Rocky Mountain Network of Oral Health Integration project, part of the Networks for Oral Health Integration (NOHI) Within the Maternal and Child Health Safety Net. The interview guide can be used in interviews with participating CHCs to learn about factors that might impact the successful implementation of the project. The survey includes questions about dental referrals, fluorides, oral health care for young children and pregnant women, anticipatory guidance, and participant characteristics. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Anticipatory guidance, Community health centers, Fluoride, Infant health, Interviews, Oral health, Pregnant women, Referrals, Regional programs, Service integration, Surveys, Young children

Annotation: This document summarizes common themes derived from telephone interviews with 28 oral health stakeholders in Kentucky. Common themes discussed include oral health literacy, oral health status, service integration, oral health access, geographic disparities, dental insurance status changes resulting from implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the oral health safety net, school-based and portable oral health programs, the oral health work force, and scope of practice regulations.

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Keywords: Access to health care, Barriers, Dental insurance, Geographic factors, Health care reform, Interviews, Kentucky, Oral health, Regulations, Service integration, Work force

Annotation: This report presents findings from focus groups and surveys with parents and children in low-income households and interviews with community stakeholders to gather information about the barriers that families with low incomes face when trying to support children's physical activity. Topics include the types of activities children are doing to be physically active, what parents and children value about physical activity, the challenges parents and children face in their personal lives and their communities that make it difficult to support children's physical activity, and what communities can do to make it easier for children to be active. The appendices contain the study methodology, parent and youth survey results, focus group guides, parent and child surveys, and community stakeholder interview guide.

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Keywords: Barriers, Children, Colorado, Families, Focus groups, Interviews, Low income groups, Physical activity, Surveys

Annotation: This report presents parents' of children with special health care needs (CSHCN), physicians', and policymakers' responses to and reflections on six ethnographic models illustrating the experiences of individuals and families as a means to support efforts to improve the system of care for CSHCN. Contents include reflections and responses to each model and to the models as a whole, a summary of the findings, and recommendations. Topics include the stages of patient and family experience, resource needs and availability, perspective on resources, system friction, family-system interaction, and hope.

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Keywords: Children with special health care needs, Focus groups, Health care systems, Interviews, Models, Systems development

Annotation: This training toolkit is aimed at improving the communication skills of medical, nursing, and mental health trainees and professionals and facilitating their ability to interview adolescent boys effectively during clinical visits. Included in the toolkit are online vignettes (in video format with accompanying scripts) to help clinicians communicate effectively and gather important health information from adolescent boys and young men. The vignettes include an introduction to a preventive services visit; effective approaches when asking about depression or sexual activity; an introduction to a mental health assessment; and an assessment for depression during a mental health visit. The toolkit also contains handouts such as a mental health assessment tool, a substance abuse screening interview, and a checklist of important elements of communication for clinical interviews with adolescent boys.

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Keywords: Adolescent health professionals, Adolescent males, Communication, Interviews, Mental health, Primary care, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This research brief reports on what Child Trends learned through focus groups and interviews with Latino teens and parents about their values, ideals, and attitudes about teen parenthood, teen dating and sex, and the use of birth control by teens. It discusses the potential implications of these values, ideals, and attitudes for teen pregnancy prevention programs.

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Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Adolescent sexuality, Adolescents, Behavior, Hispanic Americans, Interviews, Prevention, Research

Annotation: This report discusses the evaluation of a policy implemented by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) in March 2011 that calls for the completion of a "new birth assessment" every time a DCFS adolescent becomes a parent, whether by giving birth or by fathering a child. In addition to providing background and context, the report discusses the new birth assessment, study purpose and methods, specialty worker and supervisor interviews, young parent interviews, analysis of data from agency records, and implications for research and practice.

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Keywords: Adolescent attitudes, Adolescent behavior, Adolescent fathers, Adolescent mothers, Adolescent parents, Adolescent pregnancy, Evaluation, Illinois, Interviews, Research, State programs

Annotation: This toolkit, which is intended to serve as a resource for health professionals in school-based health centers who are working to reduce childhood obesity, discusses screening for overweight and obesity and associated conditions, nutrition and fitness recommendations, motivational interviews and goal setting, stages of treatment, healthy lifestyle after-school programs, and coding for information related to childhood obesity. The toolkit also includes description of and links to other resources.

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Keywords: Adolescent health, Child health, Goals, Interviews, Nutrition, Obesity, Physical activity, Programs, Resource materials, School health, Screening, Treatment

Annotation: This is a collection of interviews with five experts in the field of adolescent health. The interviews -- conducted by public radio performer Karen Brown -- focus on planning effective programs for adolescents based on lessons learned about their physical, mental, and emotional development. Included are interviews with the following health experts: (1) Angela Diaz, MD, MPH, Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine; (2) Shay Bilchik, JD, Founder and Director, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University Public Policy institute; 3) Richard Kreipe, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Golisano Children's Hospital; (4) Jane Brown, Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication; and Abigail English, Director, Center for Adolescent Health and the Law. This paper was commissioned by the Partners in Program Planning for Adolescent health (PIPPAH) initiative. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescent health, Adolescent health programs, Adolescent mental health, Health promotion, Interviews, Model programs

Annotation: This report presents findings from interviews conducted with opinion leaders from a cross section of businesses, colleges, and military branches to gain their perspectives on how well adolescents are doing in terms of their physical, mental, and emotional health. The report also discusses these opinion leaders' views on health education and wellness for adolescents and ways to create a culture of health.

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Keywords: Access to care, Adolescent health, Business, Colleges, Emotional development, Health education, Interviews, Mental health, Military, Public policy

Annotation: This report describes findings from focus groups and interviews with a diverse cross section of mothers of infants in MInnesota. The research -- conducted by the Minnesota Department of Health’s Physical Activity and Nutrition Unit and Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program in partnership with Wilder Research -- is based on questions that centered on the supports for and challenges of breastfeeding infants, particularly in relation to their experiences with health care settings, worksites, and social influences. The report discusses the characteristics of participants; their perceived knowledge of infant feeding; the knowledge and influence of health care providers; and worksite support and other social influences for infant feeding; Included are a summary of findings among specific populations (Native American women; Latina women; Somali women; Hmong women; and women with low levels of education). Recommendations are included.

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Keywords: Breastfeeding, Focus groups, Infant feeding, Interviews, Minnesota, Research, State initiatives

Annotation: This document contains presentation slides from a webinar presented to the National Head Start State Collaboration Office Network on November 1, 2010. The content focuses on the use of parent engagement and motivational interviewing to improve oral health among children in Head Start. Topics include an overview of Head Start’s oral health policy and sample tools and models from states.

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Keywords: Families, Family centered services, Head Start, Interviews, Methods, Motivation, Oral health, Parent participation, Program improvement, Resources for professionals