Sentences with phrase «adolescent use of alcohol»

The influence of parent, sibling, and peer modeling and attitudes on adolescent use of alcohol.

The effect of parental smoking and dependence persisted after controlling for factors such as adolescent use of alcohol and other drugs.

Not exact matches

For example, a study tracking the behavior of Swedish adolescents found that authoritative parenting was linked with less frequent use of alcohol.

One group that spends a lot of time listening to teenagers is the Freedom Institute, a New York - based group that focuses, in its Independent School Program, on adolescents at risk for alcohol and drug use.

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.

To reduce suicide among school youth, we might consider paying closer attention to preventing their use of alcohol and cigarettes and implementing these prevention programs in school settings to reach vulnerable adolescents at risk for suicide.»

According to a study published online Monday in Annals of Emergency Medicine, dating violence among adolescents was also strongly associated with alcohol, illicit drug use and depression.

«Our findings suggest that prevention and intervention efforts may benefit from targeting depressive symptoms and alcohol and marijuana use to potentially reduce adolescent use of SCs.»

The Effect of Alcohol Use on Human Adolescent Brain Structures and Systems.

Previous research has shown that adolescents who drink alone consume more alcohol and drink more frequently than their social - drinking peers, and that heavier alcohol use in adolescence is associated with a greater risk of developing alcohol problems in adulthood.

For the study, the researchers first surveyed 709 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 at the Pittsburgh Adolescent Alcohol Research Center (PAARC), asking them to report on their alcohol use in the pasAlcohol Research Center (PAARC), asking them to report on their alcohol use in the pasalcohol use in the past year.

Then at the age of 15, the adolescents reported the frequency of their alcohol use.

After adjusting for confounding factors such as maternal depression, family income and parental alcohol use, the researchers found that for every 3 - point (one standard deviation) increase on the Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ; a commonly - used measure of depressive symptoms) on the part of fathers, there was an associated 0.2 - point increase in the adolescent's MFQ score.

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.

Beckmeyer presented his study, «Comparing perceptions of how many peers and friends use alcohol: Associations with middle adolescents» own alcohol use» on Nov. 19 at the American Public Health Association's Annual Meeting and Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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.

«While more research is needed, accumulating evidence exists to suggest that energy drink consumption is linked to adverse cardiovascular events, sleep disturbances, and other substance use among adolescents,» says Amelia Arria, director of the University of Maryland School of Public Health's Center for Young Adult Health and Development and co-author of the recent energy drink and alcohol study.

In the 2003 study, the use of drugs and alcohol was correlated most strongly to the adolescents» levels of inattention, which, along with impulsivity - hyperactivity, is considered one of the main characteristics of ADHD.

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)

Exploring the Role of Self - Esteem and Parenting Patterns on Alcohol Use and Abuse Among Adolescents.

Sensitive periods for adolescent alcohol use initiation: Predicting the lifetime occurrence and chronicity of alcohol problems in adulthood

This is the first study to show dose - response relation between alcohol drinking and medical services use among a large sample of Chinese adolescents in an Asian city with low adult drinking prevalence.

Adopted adolescents generally are less depressed than children of single parents and are less involved in alcohol abuse, vandalism, fighting, police trouble, use of weapons, and theft.

Other studies have found that greater frequency of parental monitoring in the home is associated with somewhat less frequent cigarette, alcohol, and marijuana use among adolescents (Chilcoat & Anthony, 1996; Kafka & London, 1991; Resnick et al., 1997).

Two recent longitudinal studies have found that parental disapproval of adolescent alcohol use deters later adolescent drinking (Ary, Tildesley, Hops, & Andrew, 1993; Reifman, Barnes, Dintcheff, Farrell, & Uhteg, 1998).

The results of the current study with regards to gender differences in adolescent DSH / SA are consistent with previous findings, in that adolescent girls showed a higher prevalence of DSH5 28 and SA.7 29 30 With respect to the personality characteristics, low self - esteem has been associated with both DSH4 and SA.29 Cross-sectional surveys of adolescents have consistently found that depression is strongly correlated with DSH4 5 and SA.29 30 Tobacco smoking has also been previously identified to be a risk factor for DSH5 31 and SA, 32 33 along with alcohol use for DSH5 28 31 and SA.32 33 When we analysed the data according to gender, we found that tobacco smoking and alcohol use were especially important risk factors for DSH / SA in girls (tables 2 and 3).

Poor impulsivity and other factors such as female gender, low self - esteem, poor academic performance, depression and tobacco / alcohol use were significant risk factors in the final model of adolescent DSH.

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].

Recent research has also focused on circadian rhythms in adolescents as a function of puberty; the role of circadian phase preference on daytime sleepiness patterns; and the influence of alcohol use and the history of parental alcohol use on sleep patterns and circadian rhythms of young people.

Prevalence and Timing of Diagnosable Mental Health, Alcohol, and Substance Use Problems Among Older Adolescents in the Child Welfare System

Prevalence and Timing of Diagnosable Mental Health, Alcohol, and Substance Use Problems Among Older Adolescents in the Child Welfare System Keller, Salazar, & Courtney (2010) Children and Youth Services Review, 32 (4) View Abstract Reports the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, alcohol abuse / dependence, and substance abuse / dependence diagnoses assessed with a structured clinical interview protocol in a population - based, multi-State, age cohort of older adolescents about to exit child welfare sAlcohol, and Substance Use Problems Among Older Adolescents in the Child Welfare System Keller, Salazar, & Courtney (2010) Children and Youth Services Review, 32 (4) View Abstract Reports the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, alcohol abuse / dependence, and substance abuse / dependence diagnoses assessed with a structured clinical interview protocol in a population - based, multi-State, age cohort of older adolescents about to exit child welfaAdolescents in the Child Welfare System Keller, Salazar, & Courtney (2010) Children and Youth Services Review, 32 (4) View Abstract Reports the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), major depression, alcohol abuse / dependence, and substance abuse / dependence diagnoses assessed with a structured clinical interview protocol in a population - based, multi-State, age cohort of older adolescents about to exit child welfare salcohol abuse / dependence, and substance abuse / dependence diagnoses assessed with a structured clinical interview protocol in a population - based, multi-State, age cohort of older adolescents about to exit child welfaadolescents about to exit child welfare systems.

The research compared a community group of adolescents (n = 462) to a similar aged clinical group of adolescents in residential treatment for substance misuse (n = 30) in the South and South East of Ireland on substance use behaviour, coping style, motivations for alcohol and drug use and family functioning.

To determine whether universal school - based interventions designed to enhance resilience are efficacious relative to a comparison group in reducing the extent of adolescent tobacco, alcohol or illicit drug use.

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

Despite this associative evidence, to the authors» knowledge, existing systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness of school - based substance use interventions have not reported the effectiveness of universal resilience - based interventions on adolescent substance use.4 — 6, 37 Three existing Cochrane reviews have individually examined the efficacy of school - based tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use programmes.4 — 6 Such reviews have not reported outcomes for universal resilience - based interventions specifically, but have included such interventions in broader categories of intervention type for subgroup analysis.

Depression and Alcohol Use in a National Sample of Hispanic Adolescents.

Objectives This study examines associations between different dimensions of consumerism and tobacco and alcohol use among Scottish early adolescents.

The concept of resilience and closely related research regarding protective factors provides one avenue for addressing mental well - being that is suggested to have an impact on adolescent substance use.8 — 17 Resilience has been variably defined as the process of, capacity for, or outcome of successful adaptation in the context of risk or adversity.9, 10, 12, 13, 18 Despite this variability, it is generally agreed that a range of individual and environmental protective factors are thought to: contribute to an individual's resilience; be critical for positive youth development and protect adolescents from engaging in risk behaviours, such as substance use.19 — 22 Individual or internal resilience factors refer to the personal skills and traits of young people (including self - esteem, empathy and self - awareness).23 Environmental or external resilience factors refer to the positive influences within a young person's social environment (including connectedness to family, school and community).23 Various studies have separately reported such factors to be negatively associated with adolescent use of different types of substances, 12, 16, 24 — 36 for example, higher self - esteem16, 29, 32, 35 is associated with lower likelihood of tobacco and alcohol use.

This systematic review will be the first internationally to examine the effectiveness of universal school - based resilience interventions in reducing the prevalence of adolescent tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use.

Evidence suggests that media portrayals of tobacco and alcohol use are important predictors of adolescent smoking and drinking.

The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.

Does your adolescent seem naïve about the potential harm in using drugs or alcohol before the executive functioning part of their brain is fully developed (this doesn't happen until mid-twenties)?

This study examines the influence of gender, adversity, and social learning on the development of drug and alcohol - use patterns in a sample of adolescents.

Alcohol and drug use was assessed with the appropriate module of the Comprehensive Adolescent Severity Inventory (CASI).

Children and adolescents with antisocial behavior disorders have an increased risk of accidents, school failure, early alcohol and substance use, suicide, and criminal behavior.

Her etiological research has included identifying determinants, at multiple ecological levels, of violence between adolescent dating couples, adolescent cigarette smoking and alcohol use, and adolescent sexual behavior.

Teens have specific needs and experiences as part of their adolescent development, which can be easily and quickly affected by alcohol and drug use.

The Novato Youth Center offers an award winning 10 - week series for parents of adolescents dealing with truancy, failing grades, drug and alcohol use and parent - child conflict.

Previous research has shown that depression, anxiety, ADHD or combinations of these conditions are risk factors for hazardous drinking among adolescents because some youth use drinking as a coping strategy for dealing with internal distress.39 — 41 Evidence also shows that adolescents diagnosed with mental disorders, including anxiety, depression and ADHD, have significantly elevated rates of alcohol problems.42, 43

Trajectories of Adolescent Alcohol Use by Gender and Early Initiation Status.