Trajectories of
Adolescent Alcohol Use by Gender and Early Initiation Status.
Not exact matches
Examining more than 20 years of national data for U.S.
adolescents, a research team led
by Andrew Subica at the University of California, Riverside reports that
adolescents have high prevalence of
alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana
use, and concerning rates of suicide - related thoughts and behaviors.
A recent study
by an Indiana University researcher has found that
adolescents»
alcohol use is influenced
by their close friends»
use, regardless of how much
alcohol they think their general peers consume.
While the «high» risk group is easily identified
by behaviour such as
alcohol and drug
use, parents and teachers are probably not aware of that
adolescents in the «invisible» risk group are at risk», says Vladimir Carli, at the National Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of Mental Ill - Health (NASP) at Karolinska Institutet, first author of the study.
She has also developed and evaluated interventions for preventing
adolescent alcohol use and her general school - based health promotion approach constituted the frame - work for the national Child and Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) funded by NHLBI in 1986, the largest school - based intervention study to reduce cardiovascular risk through diet, activity and tobacco p
adolescent alcohol use and her general school - based health promotion approach constituted the frame - work for the national Child and
Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) funded by NHLBI in 1986, the largest school - based intervention study to reduce cardiovascular risk through diet, activity and tobacco p
Adolescent Trial for Cardiovascular Health (CATCH) funded
by NHLBI in 1986, the largest school - based intervention study to reduce cardiovascular risk through diet, activity and tobacco prevention.
Instruction And Management E506:
Alcohol and Other Drug
Use by Adolescents With Disabilities (1991) E529: Assistive Technology For Students With Mild Disabilities (1995) E538: Cluster Grouping of Gifted Students: How to Provide Full - time Services on a Part - time Budget (1996) E530: Connecting Performance Assessment to Instruction (1995) E531: Creating Meaningful Performance Assessments (1995) E504: Developing Effective Programs for Special Education Students Who Are Homeless (1991) E507: HIV / AIDS Prevention Education for Exceptional Youth (1991) E521: Including Students with Disabilities in General Education Classrooms (1992) E509: Juvenile Corrections and the Exceptional Student (1991) E464: Meeting the Needs of Able Learners through Flexible Pacing (1989) E532: National and State Perspectives on Performance Assessment (1995) E533:
Using Performance Assessment in Outcomes - Based Accountability Systems (1995)
A study revealed the reason why
adolescents from rural area were at higher risk of
alcohol use was likely that rural
adolescent and peer attitudes regarding
alcohol use are influenced
by lower levels of parental less disapproval of
adolescent alcohol use and the higher tolerance for
alcohol use in rural communities [9].
Assessments conducted at earlier phases are specified in previous articles.7, 8 At the 15 - year follow - up assessment,
adolescents completed interviews that measured whether they had been adjudicated a person in need of supervision (PINS) resulting from incorrigible behavior such as recurrent truancy or destroying parents» property; their frequency of running away from home; and the number of times they had been stopped
by the police, arrested, convicted of a crime or of probation violations, and sent to youth correctional facilities.14 They also reported on their disruptive behavior in school; number of school suspensions; delinquent and aggressive behavior outside school; experience of sexual intercourse; rates of pregnancy; lifetime number of sexual partners; and frequency of
using cigarettes,
alcohol, and illegal drugs during the 6 - month period prior to the 15 - year interview.15
The BEST intervention was originally developed
by Toumbourou and Bamberg as a professionally led, multifamily group education program for parents, with content focussed on
Alcohol and Drug (AOD)
use by adolescents.
Teens have specific needs and experiences as part of their
adolescent development, which can be easily and quickly affected
by alcohol and drug
use.
Linear and logistic regression models were
used to determine if 6 types of adverse experiences including physical abuse, sexual abuse
by family and / or other persons, witnessing abuse, and household dysfunction caused
by family
alcohol and / or drug
use were significantly associated with risk of
adolescent violence perpetration after adjustment for demographic covariates.
Percentage of
adolescents (N = 1359) with a specified number of inattentive (IN), hyperactive - impulsive (HI), and conduct disorder (CD) symptoms who develop nicotine dependence (A),
alcohol use disorder (B), or cannabis
use disorder (C)
by 18 years of age.