Illustrative Quotes from COCONet Stakeholder Interviews on Priority Issues in Pediatric Health
| Topic Area | Subtopic | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| Pediatric health issues | Immunization refusals | “Your decision about immunization has ripple impacts on other children.” –Parent |
| Mental health | “There is a gigantic void and I think we don't address mental health.”–Parent | |
| “Like I said earlier, I have a friend with really bad social anxiety and it's bad enough to the point where if they're around more than three or four people that they know, they disappear to themselves. They don't speak. I just feel like other health topics than ADD or depression should be touched on in schools.” - Adolescent | ||
| Obesity, food, and nutrition | “How can we get kids involved, get them healthy, before obesity becomes an issue?” - Parent | |
| Sexual health | “…getting [data] into the hands of parents to ensure age appropriate sexual health education is going on.”–Provider | |
| “… there should be more education for everyone about birth control 'cause I don't know a lot of guys that know things about birth control.”–Adolescent | ||
| Drug and substance use/abuse | “… since the legalization of marijuana anecdotally it seems like there is easier access to pot by kids”–Provider | |
| “You always hear, “Don't do drugs. Don't do it.” But you never hear, “This is why you don't want to do it.” […] they should explain to you why.”–Adolescent | ||
| Health care system | Care coordination | “I think it's always a struggle in a complex system like we've built.”–Child Health Advocate |
| Patient-provider relationships | “It's just really important to us to have communication going between parents and the doctor.”–Parent | |
| “every time I went to the doctor, it was a different doctor, so I never really was able to get a connection with my doctor,”–Adolescent | ||
| Provider-to-provider communication | “There needs to be more collaboration.”–Provider | |
| Access/availability of care | “There's not a pediatric provider within the county.”–Parent | |
| “[There should be] health care and all those kinds of things accessible to kids who don't have the kind of parents who can afford it, free or at school or something or based on donations.”–Adolescent | ||
| Early childhood education | “It goes back to parent education about developmental milestones.”–Provider | |
| Parent education on child health | “Parenting doesn't come with a guidebook,' but maybe it could, a little bit more.”–Parent | |
| Emerging research questions | How can parents be better advocates for their child's health in the health care setting? (Or teens for their own health?) | “How are they [parents] supposed to be effective advocates for their kid?”–Parent |
| How can we improve the doctor-patient relationship in pediatric settings? Does this improve health outcomes? | ||
Data source: Interview transcripts from COCONet stakeholder interviews collected from 2015 to 2016. ADD, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder.