Adolescent Time Alone With a Provider: Adolescent-Mother Dyads' Perspectives on Its Role to Support Emerging Autonomy.

Purpose: The AAP recommends that adolescents have time to speak alone with their health care provider, although adolescent time alone is increasingly less supported. In addition to allowing adolescents space to be more forthcoming, this time alone may have additional developmental benefits.

Methods: Adolescent-mother dyads were invited from an adolescent medicine clinic in Dallas, Texas, to complete a semistructured joint interview.

Exploring adolescent contraceptive counseling: A hypothetical daughter scenario.

Objectives: We aimed to describe contraceptive methods used by clinicians who counsel adolescents to create an aggregate perspective which could be shared with patients. We also explored which method clinicians would recommend to a hypothetical daughter to identify associations between clinicians who had used long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and potential recommendations.

Methods: An online survey was sent to pediatric and adolescent gynecology academic societies and fellowship/division directors to share with their clinicians.

Mother-Daughter Dyads' Perceptions of Contraception.

Study Objective: In an increasing number of states, parents must provide permission for their daughters under 18-years-old to start contraception. We sought to understand perceptions among mother-daughter dyads about sources of information, and to describe dyadic interactions when discussing contraception.

Methods: Dyads were recruited from an adolescent medicine clinic in Dallas, TX.

Residents and Fellows’ Confidence in Prescribing Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP).

Objective: Residents and fellows are often the first health.ßcare providers to discuss sexual health and prevention with adolescents and young adults at academic institutions. This study characterized when learners in Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Family Medicine believed that one should receive training in pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and it described confidence in prescribing PrEP.

Medicaid expansion and provision of prescription contraception to Medicaid beneficiaries.

Introduction: Medicaid expansion increased access to care, but longitudinal patterns of contraception use after the Medicaid expansion have not been described.

Methods: We evaluated the effects of Medicaid expansion on the amount and type of contraceptive prescriptions using the Medicaid State Utilization Dataset.

Results: Overall long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) use increased in both expansion and non-expansion states.