Pediatrics News

Compared with the general population, global subpopulations of children in care, correctional, special education, specialized clinical and Aboriginal populations had significantly higher prevalence of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, according to study findings published in Addiction.

ATLANTA — Research presented at the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference highlighted that approximately one in 14 high school students in Washington, D.C., have exchanged sex for housing, food and other items of value. Youth with unstable housing were nearly 11 times more likely to engage in this behavior.

A Danish nationwide birth cohort study showed that the incidence rates of any mental disorder, substance use disorders, depression and anxiety disorders increased substantially by adolescence.

A recent study published in JAMA Pediatrics showed that adolescent females are disproportionately affected by intimate partner violence, or IPV.

There was a significant increase in suicide rates among U.S. children and adolescents in the month after the first season release of the Netflix series “13 Reasons Why,” findings from a study published in Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry showed.

A screening tool for adolescents presenting to pediatric EDs can effectively identify those with alcohol and cannabis use disorders, according to research published in The Journal of Pediatrics. However, the screening tool was most effective in identifying those with cannabis use disorders.

Pet therapy significantly reduced anxiety in children during hospitalization, according to a recent quasi-experimental study published in the Journal of Pediatric Nursing.

The FDA has permitted marketing of the first, prescription-only medical device for ADHD — the Monarch external Trigeminal Nerve Stimulation, or eTNS, System — for children aged 7 to12 years not currently taking prescription ADHD medication, according to a press release.

Results from a large, updated meta-analysis published in Journal of Clinical Psychiatry confirmed that the rates of bipolar spectrum disorders among youth were not higher in the United States than in other Western countries, nor were the rates increasing over time.

The prevalence of autism spectrum disorder was higher in 2014 than in 2010 among children aged 4 years, according to CDC data from the Early Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network.