Pediatrics News

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommended that primary care clinicians provide interventions to prevent school-aged children and adolescents from using tobacco, such as offering education or brief counseling. However, the task force said there is insufficient evidence to support primary care interventions for the cessation of tobacco use among children who already smoke.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, psychiatrists, health care professionals and organizational leaders should utilize evidence-based population mental health interventions to augment clinical care, according to a presenter at the American Psychiatric Association Spring Highlights Meeting.

A systematic review and meta-analysis of 29 studies published over the course of 30 years showed that sexual health interventions among black adolescents were significantly associated with improvements in abstinence, condom use and sexual health knowledge.

Healio Psychiatry has compiled a list of its top five most-viewed stories in April.

Among matched full and half siblings at high risk for major depression, those raised in adoptive homes had a significantly reduced risk compared with those raised in their home environment, according to findings of a high-risk home-reared and adopted-away co-sibling control study published in American Journal of Psychiatry.

Higher socioeconomic status had been widely regarded to garner better psychological and CV health, but a recent analysis demonstrated that upwardly mobile individuals who achieve greater income than their parents may have adverse cardiometabolic health, more in line with disadvantaged people than consistently advantaged people.

Although substance use is less prevalent among pregnant women than nonpregnant women, use during pregnancy has significant adverse effects on maternal, as well as fetal, neonatal and childhood health outcomes, according to a presenter at the American Psychiatric Association Spring Highlights Meeting.

Life histories of most mental disorders involved various successive disorders, according to results of a cohort study published in JAMA Network Open.

Parents who suppress feelings of stress around their children may increase their children’s stress, according to study findings published in Journal of Family Psychology.

Suicidal acts have increased among women, adolescents and older adults, according to findings of a cross-sectional study published in JAMA Psychiatry.