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Fifteen percent to 25% of U.S. children live in households in which at least one family member suffers from alcohol abuse or dependence, and these children are at increased risk for adverse psychosocial outcomes. However, parents with alcohol problems usually are not identified in pediatric primary care settings. To assess parents’ attitudes about being screened for alcohol problems by their children’s pediatricians, investigators asked 1028 parents who brought their children to one of three New England pediatric practices (an urban clinic, a suburban private practice, and a rural clinic) to complete an anonymous paper-based questionnaire. The questionnaire included two validated alcohol-screening tests.
Of the 929 parents who agreed to part…