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Open research questions in Child and Adolescent Health

359 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 2,474 Child and Adolescent Health papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.

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  • Evidence remains limited, however, and several studies have found no or negligible effects when using designs that address unobserved confounding.

    Parental Health Shocks and Child Outcomes at Ages 17–25: Evidence From Germany · 2025 · DOI

  • BACKGROUND: The prescribing of antidepressants and antipsychotics to children has increased worldwide, but little is known about how changes in drug funding policy influence the practice.

    Association between a publicly funded universal drug program and antipsychotic and antidepressant medication dispensing to children · 2025 · DOI

  • BACKGROUND: Medical curricula include advocacy competencies, but how much physicians engage in advocacy and what enables this engagement is not well characterized.

    Physician engagement in reproductive health advocacy: findings from a mixed methods evaluation of a leadership and advocacy program · 2024 · DOI

  • The paper notes the challenges associated with routinely collected data, such as quality, completeness, and comparability. It highlights the importance of high-quality and unbiased data. The approach may be limited by the availability of high-quality data.

    Towards evidence-based medicine for paediatricians · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies the challenge of conducting trials that are unreasonable or unfunded. It highlights the need for alternative approaches, such as target trial emulation.

    Towards evidence-based medicine for paediatricians · 2026 · DOI

  • Data gaps have widened due to cuts in funding. Disruptions to funding of the UN's normative work to strengthen data collection, analysis, and dissemination are undermining the monitoring of child and adolescent survival.

    After remarkable progress, newborn, child, and adolescent survival is now at risk · 2026 · DOI

  • Strengthening national health information systems through increased domestic financing and legislative mandates for routine data collection. Investing in science-based interventions to reduce preventable child deaths.

    After remarkable progress, newborn, child, and adolescent survival is now at risk · 2026 · DOI

  • There is a need for research on medical malpractice in child mental health. The study aims to fill this gap by investigating the characteristics of medical malpractice claims in this area.

    Examination of Medical Malpractice and Related Factors in Child Mental Health · 2026 · DOI

  • The paper identifies a gap in the use of screening tools for early identification of children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The paper highlights the need for successful screening tests to have high sensitivity and specificity.

    SCREENING TOOLS IN PEDIATRIC PHYSICAL MEDICINE · 2026 · DOI

  • The gap between the introduction of legislation to reduce children's exposure to social media harms and the actual impact of such legislation. The need for complementary efforts to create a safe and healthy digital environment.

    Early data from Australia indicate that social media companies can’t be relied on to protect children · 2026 · DOI

  • Lack of information and misguidance make the diagnostic process difficult. ADHD can accompany LD and make the diagnosis difficult. Appointment accessibility and institutional coordination are critical factors in the diagnostic process.

    Diagnosis of Specific Learning Disability: Opinions and Recommendations of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists · 2026 · DOI

  • BackgroundSocioeconomic deprivation is associated with childhood morbidity, but nationwide evidence on critical illness and death in a health system with universal insurance coverage is scarce.

    Socioeconomic deprivation and time trends in pediatric hospital admissions, intensive care treatment, and mortality: a nationwide population-based study in Germany · 2026 · DOI

  • The lack of emphasis on education for health in Pediatric Primary Care. The need for effective communication and empathy in building trust with children and families.

    Del protocolo a la dimensión humana: la educación para la salud como eje de la Pediatría de Atención Primaria · 2026 · DOI

  • BACKGROUND: Children in contact with children's social care (CSC) services have high levels of hospital utilisation, but patterns before and after referral remain insufficiently understood.

    Healthcare utilisation among children in contact with social services in England: An interrupted time series using ECHILD · 2026 · DOI

  • One of the reasons paediatric research agendas are being designed is to create a clear overview of what the research questions are that need to be investigated - if this question is left unanswered, why bother designing the agendas at all? Therefore, we developed a 5-step tool to identify these agendas and to describe their impact.

    The academic impact of paediatric research agendas: a descriptive analysis · 2024 · DOI

  • The model does not account for the unique physical and mental needs of individual children, nor does it address the increasingly precarious commitment to, and financing of, pediatric subspecialty care in the US health care system impacting market demand.

    Child Health and the US Pediatric Subspecialty Workforce: Planning for the Future · 2024 · DOI

  • During a recent grand rounds held in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, the speaker noted that the crisis is not limited to the United States, global estimates are that pediatric anxiety and depression have doubled during the past year (Dwyer, 2021).

    The Children's Mental Health Crisis and Pediatric Mental Health Care Programs: An option for expanded treatment options · 2021 · DOI

  • There is a need for advocacy in pediatric emergency medicine - Pediatric medical providers have a unique role in advocating for children and their families

    Advocacy in Pediatric Emergency Medicine · 2020 · DOI

  • The purpose of this article is to provide an example of nursing involvement in PM, specifically as related to gathering biospecimens (saliva) from vulnerable, understudied adolescents with disruptive behavior disorders and their family members.

    Raising the Level of Nursing Involvement in the National Precision Medicine Initiative: An Example · 2016 · DOI

  • When evaluating the body of evidence using the Evidence Alert Traffic Light Grading System (Bower, McLellan, Arney, & Campbell, 1996), the assigned traffic code is Yellow, that is, conflicting evidence exists; therefore, we should measure the outcomes of intervention carefully.

    Evidence to Practice Commentary: Is More Therapy Better? · 2012 · DOI

  • A positive relationship between the mental health consultant (MHC) and early care and education staff is considered important for achieving positive early childhood mental health consultation outcomes, but little is known about the attributes of MHCs that contribute to relationships with staff and to staff-reported child outcomes.

    A multilevel analysis of consultant attributes that contribute to effective mental health consultation services · 2012 · DOI

  • Methodology – This chapter will present an argument for the concept of child inclusion by presenting limited data from research at a private clinic in the state of Florida, USA.

    Remembering the Child Patient · 2011 · DOI

  • Although anencephalic infants and patients in the persistent vegetative state (PVS) have often been suggested as paradigmatic cases for discussing the issue of medical futility, there is no consensus among physicians or ethicists that treatment of such patients is futile and courts have not supported the futility argument.

    The Role of Dissertation Self-Efficacy in Increasing Dissertation Completion: Sources, Effects and Viability of a New Self-Efficacy Construct · 2010 · DOI

  • The escalation of mental health admissions through adolescence is 14-fold by the age 15. There is a high prevalence of psychopathology among adolescents. The current training programmes may not be effective in addressing the needs of the participants.

    Strengthening the Paediatricians Project 1: The need, content and process of a workshop to address the Priority Mental Health Disorders of adolescence in countries with low human resource for health · 2010 · DOI

  • There is a need to expand training for paediatricians from various backgrounds in adolescent psychiatry. The current training programmes may not be effective in addressing the needs of the participants.

    Strengthening the Paediatricians Project 1: The need, content and process of a workshop to address the Priority Mental Health Disorders of adolescence in countries with low human resource for health · 2010 · DOI

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