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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
Methodology
Questions used to obtain the national baseline data
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%.