1. Disparities in Infectious Diseases Among Youth
Stephanie Addison Holt MD
Adolescent Medicine Specialist
1. Identify infectious disease disparities among youth 
2. Describe the role of school nurse in decreasing infectious disease disparity among youth 

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Stephanie Addison Holt
Planners:
Jennifer Bay, MS, BSN, RN-BC
Gail Smith, BSN, RN
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3. Objectives 1. Identify infectious disease disparities among youth
2. Describe the role of school nurse in decreasing infectious disease disparity among youth 

4. Part 1

5. Youth in Georgia (by %)
According to the 2014 American Community Survey, Georgia’s population is disproportionately made up of people of color, at 60.4 percent white, 30.9 percent Black or African American, 3.5 percent Asian, 9.1 percent Hispanic or Latino, 0.3 percent American Indian, and less than 0.1 percent Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.1
• As of 2014, just over one quarter of Georgia’s population of 9.9 million is under the age of 18.1 There are 1,422,199 young people ages living in Georgia, making up 14.4 percent of the state’s population.1
1. U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Georgia. Available at: factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/14_5YR/ DP05/ US13. Accessed 7 September 2016.

6. STD Incidence for Youth Age 15-19 (per 1000)
Data from Georgia Family Connection Parternship
Among young people ages in 2014, Georgia ranked 8th in the nation for reported cases of chlamydia, with an infection rate of 2,502.4 cases per 100,000, ranked 8th in the nation for reported cases of gonorrhea, with an infection rate of cases per 100,000, and ranked 2nd in the nation for reported cases of primary and secondary syphilis, with an infection rate of 24.3 per 100,000.5
5. NCHHSTP Atlas, “STD Surveillance Data” (Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Availble at: Accessed 7 Sept 2016.

8. Barriers Lack of transportation Inability to pay Clinic hours
Confidentiality
Embarrassment/Stigma
Lack of knowledge
The higher prevalence of STDs among adolescents may also reflect multiple barriers to accessing quality STD prevention and management services, including inability to pay, lack of transportation, long waiting times, conflicts between clinic hours and work and school schedules, embarrassment attached to seeking STD services, method of specimen collection, and concerns about confidentiality
Traditionally, intervention efforts have targeted individual level factors associated with STD risk which do not address higher-level factors (e.g., peer norms and media influences) that may also influence behaviors.4( Interventions for at-risk adolescents and young adults that address underlying aspects of the social and cultural conditions that affect sexual risk-taking behaviors are needed, as are strategies designed to improve the underlying social conditions themselves.5,6( In addition, in designing STD programs, consideration should be given to the needs of adolescent and young adult populations including extended hours, optimizing privacy in waiting rooms, and urine based specimen collection.3(
3 Tilson EC, Sanchez V, Ford CL, Smurzynski M, Leone PA, Fox KK et al. Barriers to asymptomatic screening and other STD services for adolescents and young adults: focus group discussions, BMC Public Health 2004, (4):21.

9. Part 2

10. Nursing Role in Reducing Disparities
“School nurses have always been useful in enhancing health protective behavior as well as providing one-on-one instruction and guidance to adolescents regarding their reproductive health.”
Effectiveness of Health Education Teachers and School Nurses Teaching Sexually Transmitted Infections/Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention Knowledge and Skills in High School
Journal of School Health 2015
School nurses are also likely to have more experience with facilitating the acquisition of technical skills; teaching individuals to perform technical tasks ranging from self-injection of medication to colostomy care.22,23 Nurses are recognized for their expertise in building self-efficacy and self-competence in patient encounters and interactions with individuals across healthcare and community-based settings.24 Thus, the nurses’ skill in this area may have accounted for the students reported continued confidence in their ability to use a condom (condom technical skills) at 12 months while the confidence of students who were taught by health education teachers had diminished well before that time.
skill building and reducing risky sexual health behaviors

11. Team Based Approach School Nurse Student Healthcare Provider Community
School Teacher
Healthcare Provider
School nurse- healthcare expert

12. Reducing infectious disease disparity
Technical skill building
Improving self-efficacy and competency
Reducing risky behaviors
Teaching negotiation skills
Early identification and referral
Understanding your community resources
Eliminating barriers

13. Vaccine Management Vaccine Education HPV Hep A, B
Study: School-based intervention for the prevention of HPV among adolescents: a cluster randomised controlled study. BMJ 2016
Hep A, B

14. Curriculum Development
Study: Effectiveness of health education teachers and school nurses teaching sexually transmitted infections/human immunodeficiency virus prevention knowledge and skills in high school.
Journal of School Health 2015

15. Questions

16. References
U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates. Georgia. Available at: factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/14_5YR/ DP05/ US13.
NCHHSTP Atlas, “STD Surveillance Data” (Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Availble at:
Effectiveness of Health Education Teachers and School Nurses Teaching Sexually Transmitted Infections/Human Immunodeficiency Virus Prevention Knowledge and Skills in High School
Role of the School Nurse in Providing School Health Services-Council on School Health