The final adjusted response rate was 79.8 percent. Survey issues come from AAP committees, staff and individual Fellows. Results are sent to appropriate committees to help them develop AAP initiatives and policies. Some 26 percent think that abstinence alone should be emphasized and 11 percent are neutral. Sixty-seven percent think that the Academy should support a policy encouraging television contraceptive ads to reduce teen pregnancies and 82 percent say the Academy should support a policy encouraging television condom ads in an attempt to prevent the spread of AIDS and other STDs.
Most pediatricians are satisfied with their medical careers, survey results show.
Most of the pediatricians surveyed are in the same subspecialty fields they were in five years ago. Some 65.3 percent of those responding say they would support the new category for otherwise ineligible pediatricians who would receive only selected educational benefits. About 25.8 percent are opposed to the new category and 8.9 percent have no opinion. More than half of the pediatricians who support the new category say it offers pediatricians the opportunity to advance their knowledge and improve health care. Some 23.5 percent of those surveyed did not give reasons for their responses.