RT Journal
A1 Belamarich PF
T1 Is there a “bright future” for another screening test in pediatrics?: Comment on: “the parenting responsibility and emotional preparedness (prep) screening tool”
JF Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
JO Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
YR 2012
FD August 1
VO 166
IS 8
SP 755
OP 756
DO 10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.762
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpediatrics.2012.762
AB 
In this issue of the Archives, Lanzi et al1 present a 3-question screening tool (the PREP) that, when given to pregnant adolescents, identifies those whose infants are at increased risk for a host of adverse socioemotional and cognitive outcomes. These findings are timely and relevant to the aims of pediatrics. Improving the socioemotional outcomes of young children and preventing toxic stress has been recently promoted in a policy statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics.2