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Betty Boyd Staples

Betty Boyd Staples

Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics, General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
betty.staples@duke.edu
DUMC Box 3951, Durham, NC 27710
1086 Yellow Zone, Duke South, Durham, NC 27710
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Selected Publications

Championing Civility in the Clinical Learning Environment: Evaluation of a Novel Training Program.

Journal Article Acad Med · September 6, 2024 PROBLEM: Incivility in the health care workplace is increasing and negatively impacts everyone in the environment, including health care team members and the patients and families they serve. This study examined the efficacy and impact of Civility Champion ... Full text Link to item Cite

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Vaccine in Children.

Journal Article Pediatr Rev · October 2021 Full text Link to item Cite

Burnout and Association With Resident Performance as Assessed by Pediatric Milestones: An Exploratory Study.

Journal Article Acad Pediatr · March 2021 INTRODUCTION: Prior work demonstrating that burnout is associated with decreased performance in medical trainees has relied on self-report and/or single-site studies. We explored the relationship between burnout status and Milestones-based scores in pediat ... Full text Link to item Cite

Burnout in Pediatric Residents: Three Years of National Survey Data.

Journal Article Pediatrics · January 2020 BACKGROUND: We aimed to describe the national epidemiology of burnout in pediatric residents. METHODS: We conducted surveys of residents at 34 programs in 2016, 43 programs in 2017, and 49 programs in 2018. Survey items included the Maslach Burnout Invento ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physician Well-being.

Journal Article Pediatr Rev · October 2019 Full text Link to item Cite

Cultivating Research Skills During Clinical Training to Promote Pediatric-Scientist Development.

Journal Article Pediatrics · August 2019 Physician-scientists represent a critical component of the biomedical and health research workforce. However, the proportion of physicians who spend a significant amount of effort on scientific research has declined over the past 40 years. This trend has b ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Do Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Predict Burnout in Pediatric Residents?

Journal Article Acad Med · June 2019 PURPOSE: Burnout symptoms are common among health professionals. Gaps remain in understanding both the stability of burnout and compassion over time and relationships among burnout, self-compassion, stress, and mindfulness in pediatric residents. METHOD: T ... Full text Link to item Cite

Burnout in Pediatric Residents: Comparing Brief Screening Questions to the Maslach Burnout Inventory.

Journal Article Acad Pediatr · April 2019 BACKGROUND: Measuring burnout symptoms is important, but the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) has 22 items. This project compared 3 single-item measures with the MBI and other factors related to burnout. METHODS: Data were analyzed from the 2016 and 2017 Pe ... Full text Link to item Cite

Variability of Burnout and Stress Measures in Pediatric Residents: An Exploratory Single-Center Study From the Pediatric Resident Burnout-Resilience Study Consortium.

Journal Article J Evid Based Integr Med · 2018 Residency is a high-risk period for physician burnout. We aimed to determine the short-term stability of factors associated with burnout, application of these data to previous conceptual models, and the relationship of these factors over 3 months. Physicia ... Full text Link to item Cite

Renal Tubular Acidosis.

Journal Article Pediatr Rev · November 2017 Full text Link to item Cite

Multicenter development, implementation, and patient safety impacts of a simulation-based module to teach handovers to pediatric residents.

Journal Article Hosp Pediatr · March 2015 OBJECTIVE: Teaching and evaluation of handovers are important requirements of graduate medical education (GME), but well-defined and effective methods have not been clearly established. Case-based computer simulations provide potential methods to teach, ev ... Full text Link to item Cite

Milestone-Based Assessments Are Superior to Likert-Type Assessments in Illustrating Trainee Progression.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · March 2015 BACKGROUND: The Pediatrics Milestone Project uses behavioral anchors, narrative descriptions of observable behaviors, to describe learner progression through the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education competencies. Starting June 2014, pediatr ... Full text Link to item Cite

Using an innovative curriculum evaluation tool to inform program improvement: the clinical skills fair.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · March 2014 BACKGROUND: Program evaluation is important for assessing the effectiveness of the residency curriculum. Limited resources are available, however, and curriculum evaluation processes must be sustainable and well integrated into program improvement efforts. ... Full text Link to item Cite

Masturbation.

Journal Article Pediatr Rev · April 2012 Full text Link to item Cite

Risk factors associated with overweight and obesity in college students.

Journal Article J Am Coll Health · 2008 UNLABELLED: College obesity is increasing, but to the authors' knowledge, no researchers to date have evaluated risk factors in this population. OBJECTIVE: The authors assessed whether abnormal eating perceptions and behaviors were associated with overweig ... Full text Link to item Cite

Drug compliance in adolescents: assessing and managing modifiable risk factors.

Journal Article Paediatr Drugs · 2002 Many studies have found that adolescence represents a problem in compliance with prescribed drug regimens. Multiple factors contribute to this problem, including the developmental evolution taking place in the adolescent physique and psyche. Health belief ... Full text Link to item Cite