Acute Medical Needs of Adolescents in an Urban Community

Health needs of adolescents: how the adolescent sees them.

“…* One hundred and eighty-five adolescents who were between 11 and 16 at the time of the Community Health Survey interview (which preceded the Adolescent interview by one and a half to two years) were assigned for interview.t Of these, 32 either could not be located or had moved out of the area, or were too old for the interview. Of the remaining sample of 153 adolescents, the 122 interviews represent a completion rate of 80 per cent; 13 In analyzing these data, emphasis was placed on the patterns of differences between ethnic groups rather than on the results of statistical tests of significance for reported percentages. As a rule of thumb, differences smaller than 20 percentage points would rarely be significant for samples of the size of the subgroups compared in this study.…”

Acute Medical Problems of Suburban Adolescents

“…1 Our study of 1,000 urban adolescents who came to the emergency unit of a neighborhood in New York City showed tl'leu difficulties were always acute, the inherent and crisesfocused needs of this age and revealing characteristics and problems specific to the neighborhoods in which they lived . 2 These observations suggested that informative medical and health information about suburban adolescents might be gathered in a similar way, using the records of the. emergency room of a suburban community hospital.…”