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About the National Data
Data
Baseline: 38.4 percent of adolescents aged 12 to 17 years spoke privately with a physician or other health care provider without another adult in the room during a preventive medical visit in the past 12 months in 2016-17
Target: 43.3 percent
Numerator
Number of adolescents aged 12 through 17 years who had private time with the physician or other health care provider during the last preventive health check-up visit.
Denominator
Number of adolescents aged 12 through 17 years who had a preventive health check-up visit in the past 12 months.
Target-setting method
Percentage point improvement
Target-setting method details
Percentage point improvement from the baseline using Cohen's h effect size of 0.10.
Target-setting method justification
Trend data were not available for this objective. A percentage point improvement was calculated using Cohen's h effect size of 0.1. This method was used because it was a statistically significant improvement from the baseline. The target is consistent with the guidance by the Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau for all objectives derived from National Survey of Children's Health data.
Methodology
Questions used to obtain the national baseline data
(For additional information, please visit the data source page linked above.)
From the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health:
Numerator and Denominator:
At his or her last preventive check-up, did this child have a chance to speak with a doctor or other health care provider privately, without you or another adult in the room?- Yes
- No
Methodology notes
This measure is based on the parent's/guardian's response to the survey question regarding their adolescent child.
1. Effect size h=0.1 was chosen to correspond with 10% improvement from a baseline of 50%.
