Case ReportJournal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP2025

Sexual Health and Transition Needs in an Adolescent Girl With Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Smith-magenis Syndrome.

Veronica Meneses, Julia C Durante, Gabriela Granados García, Elizabeth Diekroger, Jason Fogler

PMID 41396259

WHAT IT FOUND

This paper describes the care plan for one adolescent with Smith-Magenis syndrome and ADHD.

It lists recommended evaluations and therapies but reports no results. No evidence is provided that these interventions improved the patient's function or symptoms.

What this paper is

This is a case report describing the management needs of one adolescent girl with Smith-Magenis syndrome and ADHD. It outlines potential interventions for occupational therapy, sexual health, and psychiatric care but reports no outcomes or effectiveness data. There are no findings here to change clinical practice.

The easy way to misread this

Do not treat the recommendations in this case report as evidence-based interventions that produce specific outcomes. The paper describes what clinicians thought might help one patient, not what actually worked.

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Certainty of evidence
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    Veronica Meneses, Julia C Durante, Gabriela Granados García, et al. Sexual Health and Transition Needs in an Adolescent Girl With Attention-deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Smith-magenis Syndrome. Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP. 2025.

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