Scholars@Duke
Cierra Buckman

Selected Publications

Are you asleep? Comparing sleep metrics in pediatric cardiac patients with objective and subjective indicators

Journal Article Progress in Pediatric Cardiology · June 1, 2025 Background: Examination of sleep in pediatric cardiology patients has typically relied on self-reports with unknown reliability to objective assessments. Wearable technologies provide an objective data source for evaluating sleep. Improved understanding an ... Full text Cite

Primary care follow-up among children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome in a rural region in the United States

Journal Article International Journal of Care Coordination · September 1, 2023 Introduction: Children born with neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) have lower rates of preventive care utilization than children born without NAS, a pattern which is only partially explained by differences in social determinants of health (SDH). We sought ... Full text Cite

Gender Differences in Research Productivity of Academic Physicians Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Journal Article Journal of women's health (2002) · July 2023 Objective: The gendered impact of the COVID-19 on scientific productivity has been primarily studied in nonclinical academic fields. We investigated the gendered effect of the pandemic on diverse measures of research participation among physi ... Full text Cite

Rural Perspectives on Health Services for Transgender and Gender Diverse Youth.

Journal Article Health promotion practice · July 2023 As the world grows more diverse, physicians and public health practitioners must become adept at providing care to everyone, including people who identify as transgender or gender diverse (TGD). Although this population is growing in all age demographics, ... Full text Cite

Human papillomavirus vaccine series follow-through: comparison of four clinics in an academic medical center.

Journal Article International journal of adolescent medicine and health · December 2022 ObjectiveThe Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) recommends that the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series be initiated at ages 11-12 years, but many children never follow-through with the series. By examining differences in clinic- ... Full text Cite

Prior health care utilization among adolescents treated for a suicide attempt at a rural ED.

Journal Article The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · September 2022 PurposeTo characterize prior contact with a rural academic health system among young people treated for a suicide attempt in the system's emergency departments (EDs).MethodsWe retrospectively examined electronic medical records from a hea ... Full text Cite

Medicaid expansion and adolescents' readiness for transition to adult health insurance

Journal Article World Medical and Health Policy · September 1, 2022 In participating states, Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) increased availability of health insurance to low-income young adults. We examined the impact of Medicaid expansion on low-income families' knowledge of how adolescents ages 12 ... Full text Cite

Association between asthma and influenza vaccine uptake among US adolescents: a retrospective survey study.

Journal Article The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · June 2022 ObjectiveDespite longstanding recommendations for children with asthma to receive the influenza vaccine, vaccine uptake in this population remains low. We used the nationally representative National Immunization Survey-Teen to analyze the impact o ... Full text Cite

Increasing Pediatricians' Scholarly Productivity on and off the Tenure Track.

Journal Article The Journal of continuing education in the health professions · April 2022 IntroductionPhysician faculty have increasingly been appointed to nontenure track positions, which provide limited support for scholarly activity. We evaluated how a centralized departmental research group affected the scholarly productivity of fa ... Full text Cite

Influence of measles-mumps-rubella vaccine series initiation and completion on influenza vaccination among adolescents.

Journal Article International journal of pediatrics & adolescent medicine · March 2022 BackgroundInfluenza vaccine participation in adolescents is low. Barriers to the influenza vaccine may be shared with the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine.MethodsWe studied adolescents aged 13-17 years who participated in the National ... Full text Cite

Concordance of Data on Children's Unmet Health Care Needs Between 2 National Surveys.

Journal Article Journal of public health management and practice : JPHMP · January 2022 ObjectiveWe used public data from 2 national surveys to determine how survey mode and questionnaire wording potentially impact estimated prevalence and predictors of children's unmet health care needs.MethodsData from 2016-2017 were obtai ... Full text Cite

Medical home access among children of parents in same-sex couples

Journal Article Children S Health Care · January 1, 2022 Using the 2016–2018 National Survey of Children’s Health, we examined whether children with parents in same-sex versus different-sex couples had different levels of access to a medical home. We found that relative to children with parents in different-sex ... Full text Cite

Factors Influencing US Hospital and Medical School Participation in Pediatric COVID-19 Research.

Journal Article Hospital pediatrics · January 2022 Background and objectivesLiterature suggests that funding for pediatric clinical trials is inequitably awarded. Furthermore, although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affected all hospitals, institutions with already limited resources were more ... Full text Cite

Change of address as a measure of housing insecurity predicting rural emergency department revisits after asthma exacerbation.

Journal Article The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · December 2021 ObjectiveHousing insecurity is an important socioeconomic factor that may impact emergency department (ED) use for children with asthma, but housing insecurity screening has primarily relied on patient surveys or linkage to external data sources. ... Full text Cite

The Influence of a Sister's Breastfeeding Experience on a Mother's Breastfeeding Behavior: Is There an Intragenerational Effect?

Journal Article Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · November 2021 Objective: Intergenerational transmission of breastfeeding attitudes and behaviors from mother to daughter are well known, but there is limited research on intragenerational transmission of breastfeeding attitudes or behaviors within families ... Full text Cite

Ronald McDonald House accommodation and parental presence in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Journal Article Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · October 2021 Full text Cite

Insurance coverage and health care use among children with diabetes.

Journal Article Pediatric diabetes · June 2021 BackgroundHealth insurance coverage may be associated with pediatric diabetes mellitus (DM) management. However, it is unknown how continuity of insurance coverage is associated with health care use outcomes in pediatric DM.MethodsWe used ... Full text Cite

The Impact of Medical Financial Hardship on Children's Health.

Journal Article Clinical pediatrics · December 2020 Objective. To determine whether living in a family with medical financial hardship decreases children's access to health care. Methods. We identified children aged 4 to 17 years from the 2013 to 2018 National Health Interview Surveys. Medical ... Full text Cite

Prematurity and breastfeeding initiation: A sibling analysis.

Journal Article Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · December 2020 AimStudies suggest breastfeeding initiation is less common for premature infants. This association may be confounded by socio-economic characteristics that correlate with the risk of premature birth. We compared premature and term-born children to ... Full text Cite

Documentation of drug abuse in the family or household of children admitted to the hospital for non-accidental trauma.

Journal Article Child abuse & neglect · November 2020 BackgroundDrug abuse in the family is known to increase the risk of child abuse, but its impact on outcomes of hospitalizations for non-accidental trauma (NAT) has not been characterized.ObjectiveWe aimed to identify how frequently drug a ... Full text Cite

Primary Care Use and Assessment of Adolescents' Sexual Health During Hospitalization.

Journal Article Hospital pediatrics · November 2020 ObjectivesHospitalization provides an opportunity to address sexual health needs of adolescents who may not otherwise receive regular medical care. We investigated documentation of a sexual health discussion with adolescents hospitalized at our me ... Full text Cite

The influence of local political trends on childhood vaccine completion in North Carolina.

Journal Article Social science & medicine (1982) · September 2020 BackgroundIn North Carolina (NC), a political swing state that permits both medical and religious exemptions to school vaccination, rapid changes in the electorate have coincided with a vigorous political debate over vaccine laws and an increase i ... Full text Cite

Parity and the Association Between Maternal Sociodemographic Characteristics and Breastfeeding.

Journal Article Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · July 2020 Objective: Although clinicians recognize the importance of breastfeeding for child health, breastfeeding initiation can be limited by maternal characteristics such as race/ethnicity, age at first birth, and educational attainment. We hypothes ... Full text Cite

Help wanted: Lessons on prevention from young adults with a sexual interest in prepubescent children.

Journal Article Child abuse & neglect · July 2020 BackgroundAdolescents and young adults with a sexual interest in young children represent an underserved population. The needs of this group, and their implications for child sexual abuse prevention program development, are not well understood. Full text Cite

Social Determinants of Health and Emergency Department Use Among Children With Sickle Cell Disease.

Journal Article Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology · January 2020 Sickle cell disease (SCD) is associated with disproportionate emergency department (ED) use. This study described the social determinants of health associated with ED visits and hospital admission from the ED among children with SCD using a nationally repr ... Full text Cite

National Trends in Pediatric Headache and Associated Functional Limitations.

Journal Article Clinical pediatrics · December 2019 Objective. Frequent or severe headaches are associated with school absenteeism and functional limitation in children, but trends in headache prevalence are uncertain. We used nationally representative data to describe trends in pediatric headache pr ... Full text Cite

Effects of juvenile sex offender registration on adolescent well-being: An empirical examination

Journal Article Psychology Public Policy and Law · February 1, 2018 For decades, commentators have drawn attention to the potentially harmful effects of subjecting children to sex offender registration and notification policies. To date, however, these concerns have received limited empirical attention. This study is the f ... Full text Cite