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Carol A. Ford
Researcher at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Publications - 136
Citations - 5833
Carol A. Ford is an academic researcher from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Adolescent health & Health care. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 127 publications receiving 5401 citations. Previous affiliations of Carol A. Ford include North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services & University of California, San Francisco.
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Prevalence of chlamydial and gonococcal infections among young adults in the United States.
William C. Miller,Carol A. Ford,Martina Morris,Mark S. Handcock,John L. Schmitz,Marcia M. Hobbs,Myron S. Cohen,Kathleen Mullan Harris,J. Richard Udry +8 more
TL;DR: The prevalence of chlamydial infection is high among young adults in the United States, and by age, self-reported race/ethnicity, and geographic region of current residence, substantial racial/ethnic disparities are present.
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Young Age at First Sexual Intercourse and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescents and Young Adults
TL;DR: Earlier initiation of sexual intercourse is strongly associated with STIs for older adolescents but not for young adults over age 23 years, although variation by current age, sex, race, and ethnicity is examined.
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Influence of physician confidentiality assurances on adolescents' willingness to disclose information and seek future health care. A randomized controlled trial.
TL;DR: Adolescents are more willing to communicate with and seek health care from physicians who assure confidentiality and further investigation is needed to identify a confidentiality assurance statement that explains the legal and ethical limitations of confidentiality without decreasing adolescents' likelihood of seeking future health care for routine and nonreportable sensitive health concerns.
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Adolescent depression and suicide risk: association with sex and drug behavior.
Denise Dion Hallfors,Martha W. Waller,Carol A. Ford,Carolyn Tucker Halpern,Paul Brodish,Bonita J. Iritani +5 more
TL;DR: For example, this article found that adolescents engaging in risk behaviors are at increased odds for depression, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempts, while abstaining from risk behaviors, involvement in any drinking, smoking, and/or sexual activity was associated with significantly increased odds of depression.
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Confidential health care for adolescents: Position paper of the Society for Adolescent Medicine
TL;DR: Researchers should investigate the impact of providing or limiting confidential adolescent health services on specific health outcomes, inform strategies to address system-level barriers to provision of confidential adolescent services, and define ways that health care professionals can encourage parentteen communication without losing the trust of adolescent patients.