Time Alone for Adolescents With Their Providers During Clinical Encounters: It Is Not That Simple!

Parents’ Participation in School Health Examinations for Their Adolescent Children in Finland

“…but still offer the adolescent the important possibility for a confidential conversation with school health services personnel (Patton et al, 2016;Irwin, 2018). Our findings highlight that parents' non-participation in the health examination was associated not only with the sociodemographic background but also with the student's health, well-being, and gender.…”

“…In our study, heavy drinking was associated with non-participation. Nevertheless, health examinations can give family members a chance to discuss health and well-being and also risk behavior, but still offer the adolescent the important possibility for a confidential conversation with school health services personnel ( Patton et al, 2016 ; Irwin, 2018 ).…”

The Developmental Aspects of Patients Spending Time Alone With Physicians

“…As recently summarized by Irwin [12], time alone for adolescents with their providers during clinical encounters is not that simple. In addition to the complexities of implementing time alone for adolescents and young adults with providers in clinical settings, there are multiple system-level issues that complicate the ability to actually deliver confidential health care to adolescents and young adults [13,14].…”