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Parental views about the content and delivery of preventive services to adolescents are not well described. Investigators analyzed responses from a Web-based national survey completed by 1025 parents of adolescents (age range, 9–17 years) in 2007. From a list of 18 topics, parents indicated which ones were “very important for the doctor to address during routine checkups for adolescents.” Parents were also asked whether adolescents should spend time alone with doctors for one-on-one discussions and how confidential information should be handled.
Topics most often considered very important by parents were diet and nutrition (75%), exercise and sports (67%), and physical changes of puberty (60%), followed by drug use (55%), tobacco use (52%), …