Sentences with phrase «among young adolescents»

Our measures of emergent cultural identity were generally unrelated to substance use trajectory classes among these young adolescents.

[jounal] Herman - Stahl, M. / 1996 / The protective role of coping and social resources for depressive symptoms among young adolescents / Journal of Youth and Adolescence 25: 659 ~ 665

[jounal] Herman - Stahl, M / 1996 / The protective role of coping and social resources for depressive symtems among young adolescents / Journal of Youth and Adolescence 25: 649 ~ 665

Sexual Activity Among Young People in the U.S. Source: Finer LB and Philbin JM, Sexual initiation, contraceptive use, and pregnancy among young adolescents, Pediatrics, 2013, 131 (5): 886 — 891.

«Bullying among Young Adolescents: The Strong, the Weak, and the Troubled.»

The relationship between early age of onset of initial substance use and engaging in multiple health risk behaviors among young adolescents

Other types of prevention programs may be necessary to reduce more normative types of disruptive behavior among young adolescents.32 In light of the impact of this program on maternal and youth crime and corresponding government expenditures, 8,33 the US Department of Justice is now supporting an effort to make this program available to a larger number of high - crime communities.34

For instance, in their prospective study among young adolescents, Garber and Flynn (Garber and Flynn, 2001) found that negative self - worth develops as an outcome of low maternal acceptance, a maternal history of depression and exposure to negative interpersonal contexts, such as negative parenting practices, early history of child maltreatment, negative feedback from significant others on one's competence, and family discord and disruption.

Teachers must use the CCSS to plan and implement instruction and assessment that honors the wide diversity among young adolescents.

Only among the youngest adolescents (ages 12 — 14) did we find a significant deleterious impact of overweight and obesity on depression, self - esteem, and school / social functioning.

In contrast, firm control among younger adolescents who require more maternal assistance may be experienced as supportive, and may provide the scaffolding necessary to achieve competence and self - reliance as children mature.

Firm control was strongly associated with greater depressed mood and poorer self - efficacy among older adolescents, less strongly among younger adolescents.

Not exact matches

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

Among adolescents and young adults, 67.2 percent and 70.3 percent, respectively, reported that they never watched religious programs compared to 25.7 % of older adults who said they never watched.

Among fathers of young adolescents, negative work - to - family spillover has been found to predict (low) paternal knowledge of their children's daily activities — indirectly, via father - child acceptance and fathers» involvement in joint activities with them (Bumpus et al, 2006).

Such approaches have yielded some success among young children, but a meta - analysis showed null effects for adolescents (3).

While energy drinks have become extremely popular among adolescents and young adults in recent years, with many young athletes seeing them as a quick and easy way to maximize athletic performance, many groups, including the National Federation of High School Associations (NFHS), recommend against their use for re-hydration and warn that consumption may hurt not help athletic performance by causing side effects as bloating, abdominal cramping, diarrhea, light headedness, and impaired sleep.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

The report said that in the 2016 UN Political Declaration on Ending AIDS, countries committed to reducing the number of new HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women from 390 000 in 2015 to below 100 000 in 2020.

In line with this, there is the need to stop new HIV infections among adolescents, most especially, young women and e

Among those students, adolescents and young people who relied on gist measures of online risk - taking were more «protective» when asked about their intentions of engaging in future risky online behavior.

«Our findings clearly support the contention that child or adolescent maltreatment specifically is an important risk factor for maladaptive functioning in young adulthood among women with childhood ADHD, particularly with respect to depression, anxiety, and suicidal behavior,» Guendelman said.

«Homicide is a leading cause of death in U.S. adolescents and young adults, especially among African Americans, but the factors influencing violence are complex,» said corresponding author Alison J. Culyba, M.D., M.P.H., an adolescent medicine specialist and epidemiologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).

Young Minds is a UK charity seeking to promote better mental health among adolescents.

Researchers conducted a unique linkage of more than 52,000 electronic health records (EHR) of children born from 1987 to 1995 and New Jersey driver licensing data to determine current rates and patterns of licensure among adolescents and young adults with ASD (without intellectual disability) and those without ASD.

But while young athletes are susceptible to the ankle sprains, wrist fractures and other acute injuries that are common among competitors of all ages, numerous studies indicate that approximately half of the sports - related injuries among children and adolescents in this country are caused by overuse.

«It would be worthwhile to examine these relationships among older adolescents and young adults with food allergy who are at the peak of risk for depression onset, especially because early anxiety is associated with increased risk for subsequent onset of depression,» said Jonathan Feldman, PhD, professor of Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University.

It is important to avoid e-cigarettes becoming a trend among adolescents and young adults, or to introduce non-smokers to nicotine addiction and tobacco use,» says Dr. Camilla Stoltenberg, Director - General at the NIPH.

The HIV prevention advocacy group AVAC called the change a «potentially profound development» that stands to greatly expand PrEP among adolescents and young

Marijuana use is common among adolescents and young adults, with 19.8 million current users according to federal estimates, and growth in use in recent years.

While cigarette use has declined in recent years in the United States, the use of e-cigarettes is increasing, especially among adolescents and young adults.

Researchers worry that because of advertising and of similarities in both form and function, e-cigarettes may promote use of traditional cigarettes among adolescents and young adults.

«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.

Studies have suggested that active video games are particularly helpful when working towards health and fitness goals, especially among children, adolescents and young adults.

A study in the Journal of Adolescent Health shows negative experiences on Facebook, in particular, can be linked to an increase in depression among young adults.

There's a concern that this issue is growing among the young male segment, with as many as 43 % of «normal - weight» adolescent and college - age boys believing themselves to be underweight and reporting a desire to increase muscle mass through weight training.

Teen Dating Violence (TDV), also known as Adolescent Relationship Abuse (ARA), can be defined as violence and / or abuse among two #NotJustPhysical is a social media advertising campaign to educate young adults about the signs of teen dating abuse and where to get help.

Drawing on participant observation among, interviews with, and resurveys of the same people surveyed in 1999, she is now examining how the parenting, gender socialization, educational experiences, academic achievement, and academic interests they had as adolescents shape their decisions about work, transnational migration, childbearing, parenting, health habits, and elder care now that they are young adults.

In describing middle schools as ineffective without addressing the variability represented among schools with those two words on the sign out front, the authors use a broad brush — some would argue a bucket of mud — to splatter aspersions on every school that educates young adolescents within a distinct structure.

The articles also do not take up what is happening inside the classrooms and in interactions between and among educators and young adolescents, nor the organizational structure of the schools, nor the policy and community contexts within which those schools reside.

The completed puzzle includes a school in which young adolescents are recognized as unique learners who need strong teacher involvement, a responsive student - centered learning climate, a school with a strong parent - community network, and school leadership that builds collaboration among stakeholders.

Understanding and responding to the unique developmental characteristics of young adolescents is central among the tenets of middle level education.

Among the cases Stevenson cites: a 14 - year - old condemned to death for killing his mother's abusive boyfriend and a mentally ill adolescent girl condemned to life in prison for second - degree murder for the death of young boys killed in a fire she started accidentally.

Describes the development of SCI Hard — a serious came created to enhance self - management skills among adolescents and young adults with spinal cord dysfunction.

Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the second leading cause of death among 15 — 19 - year - old women, 1 and babies born to adolescent mothers face greater health risks than those born to older women.2, 3 Moreover, adolescent childbearing is associated with lower educational attainment, and it can perpetuate a cycle of poverty from one generation to the next.4, 5 Thus, helping young women avoid unintended pregnancies can have far - reaching benefits for them, their children and societies as a whole.

In this episode, Dr. Janis Whitlock discusses the disturbing phenomenon of self - injurious behavior among adolescents and young adults.

Among the limits of the present study, it is possible to point out the necessity: 1) to replicate this investigation with a large number of Italian healthy adolescents for the representativeness of the sample; 2) to adopt the double analysis both for positive and negative affect, considering that literature review seems to indicate these two aspects as separate but equally important variables; and, finally, 3) to carry out a longitudinal study, from early adolescence to young adulthood, in order to emphasize the change in these aspects of youth development.

Stöckl H et al., Intimate partner violence among adolescents and young women: prevalence and associated factors in nine countries: a cross-sectional study, BMC Public Health, 2014, 14:751, http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2458-14-751.

In Africa and Asia, younger adolescents aged 15 — 17 have higher unmet need for modern contraception than do older adolescents aged 18 — 19, suggesting greater barriers to use among younger women; in Latin America and the Caribbean, these proportions are about the same.

Linear regression models adjusted for socio - demographic characteristics and baseline behavior were used to examine the association of Time 1 parental factors with behavioral outcomes among adolescents and young adults five years later (Time 2).