Sentences with phrase «as adolescents reported»

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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.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

From the statistics, and after analysis from the American Linacre Centre, Lawler reports that: «Faced with that statistic, some analysts began to say that what had been seen as a crisis of paedophilia was really a matter of ephebophilia», a term meaning the sexual attraction of men towards adolescent boys.

In 2012 there were more than 1/3 of all children and adolescent reported as overweight or obese.

The result was a report titled «Teaching Adolescents to Become Learners,» published in June 2012, which for the first time represented noncognitive skills — or «noncognitive factors,» as the report called them — not as a set of discrete abilities that individual children might somehow master (or fail to master), but as a collection of mindsets and habits and attitudes that are highly dependent on the context in which children are learning.

The report outlines how some sports and all energy drink products are being misused, discusses their ingredients, and provides guidance on their appropriate use, as in the case of sports drinks, and on how to decrease or eliminate consumption by children and adolescents, in the case of energy drinks.

The report recommends that children and adolescents be taught to drink water «routinely as an initial beverage of choice» and «generally [as] the appropriate first choice for hydration before, during, and after most exercise regimens.»

Simple, Low - Cost Steps Enhance Adolescents» Health Simple, low - cost measures such as wearing a pedometer to inspire walking and spending a few minutes a day meditating can put adolescents on the track toward better health, researchAdolescents» Health Simple, low - cost measures such as wearing a pedometer to inspire walking and spending a few minutes a day meditating can put adolescents on the track toward better health, researchadolescents on the track toward better health, researchers report.

In fact, a study published in The Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine reported that infants who sleep under a ceiling fan reduce their risk of SIDS by as much as 72... MORE percent!

A recently published report from the Committee on Nutrition and the Council on Sports Medicine and Fitness recommended that children avoid sports and energy drinks during meals, snacks, and as a replacement for low - fat milk or water because they increase the risk for overweight or obesity in children and adolescents (12).

The psychosocial outcome receiving the most attention from researchers is problem behaviour, with most studies finding perceived negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.

Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50

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

Reports by Project Ready researchers have been published in academic journals such as Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of Adolescent Research, Journal of Family Psychology and other peer - reviewed publications.

First, fathers» interactive play during toddlerhood has been longitudinally associated with attachment security in later childhood and adolescence.17 Second, fathers» speech and language interactions with infants have been positively associated with language development, and paternal depression has been shown to adversely impact this process.18, — , 20 Third, discipline practices, such as corporal punishment, have been longitudinally associated with increased child aggressive behavior.21 In addition, paternal depressive symptoms have been longitudinally associated with harsh paternal discipline practices in older children and subsequent child and adolescent maladjustment.11 Finally, as an indicator of fathers» interactions with pediatric providers, we also examined the proportion of depressed fathers that reported talking with their children's doctor within the previous year.

«For adolescent inmates, Rikers Island is broken,» said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara today, as he presented a truly horrifying report detailing how teenagers are treated in New York City jails.

On Monday, a damning report by the office of Preet Bharara, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, about the «deep - seated culture of violence» against adolescent inmates at Rikers Island singled out the episodes as particularly deplorable.

In a nationwide survey in 2015, 40 percent of adolescents who identified as one of these sexual minorities or said they were unsure of their orientation reported seriously considering suicide.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration originally approved the drug in 1999, but subsequent case reports of abnormal behavior in adolescents who used the medication led the agency in 2006 to require that all packaging of the drug include a warning label about potential neuropsychiatric side effects, such as hallucinations, delirium, self - harm and even suicide.

But in 12 - week clinical trials in people, mavoglurant did not improve behavioral symptoms such as irritability or hyperactivity in 175 adults and 139 adolescents with fragile X syndrome, researchers report January 13 in Science Translational Medicine.

Analyzing data from 6.9 million adolescents and adults from all over the country, Twenge found that Americans now report more psychosomatic symptoms of depression, such as trouble sleeping and trouble concentrating, than their counterparts in the 1980s.

Adolescents with same - sex partners, regardless of being male or female, reported more internalizing problems such as being withdrawn or being anxious and / or depressed.

The findings, reported in the June issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, suggest doctors should treat ADHD as a condition that varies in severity rather than prescribing a single drug regimen.

In a sensitive and deeply reported cover story that begins on page 26, journalist Francine Russo examines the latest research and an ongoing debate among clinicians about how best to help children and adolescents with gender dysphoria — what experts describe as the «insistent, consistent and persistent» sense that one's sex is not what was written on the birth certificate.

Six of the top 10 channels included adolescents as young as 12 years old in their primary target audience based on audience demographic data reported by a cable advertising trade group.

As a research partner of an $ 11.7 million Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) grant from the National Institutes of Health to the George Washington University Autism and Neurodevelopment Disorders Institute, the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National will continue investigations into sex differences, and aims to develop self - reporting measures for adolescents and adults that better capture additional populations — including females and non-cisgender males.

The report highlights several areas where new findings from neuroscience are becoming misinterpreted by education, including brain - related ideas regarding early educational investment, adolescent brain development and learning disorders such as dyslexia and ADHD.

«As more states legalize marijuana, adolescents» problems with pot decline: Fewer adolescents also report using marijuana.»

Recent excavations of a 30 - meter ash altar on Mount Lykaion in Greece, once worshipped as the birthplace of Zeus, have revealed a 3000 - year - old skeleton of an adolescent boy thought to be a human sacrifice, The Boston Globe reports.

The study also found that children and adolescents who experience higher levels of overt victimization report higher levels of overt aggression and lower levels of prosocial support, and exhibit more externalizing behavior such as delinquency, impulsivity, and conduct problems.

Adolescents were assessed annually, answering questions about who their closest friends were, reporting on their friendships, and participating in interviews and assessments exploring such feelings as anxiety, social acceptance, self - worth, and symptoms of depression; teens» close friends also reported on their friendships and were interviewed.

Teenage victims of cyberbullying, defined as the use of the internet or cell phones to send hurtful and harassing messages, are more likely to develop symptoms of depression, substance abuse and internet addiction, reports a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

The most common strategies children and adolescents reported using to cope with cyberbullying were passive, such as blocking the sender, ignoring or avoiding messages, and protecting personal information.

The wish to be the other gender, known as gender variance, was assessed with the Child Behavior Checklist, one of the most commonly used behavioral report inventories for children and adolescents.

As a result, many adolescents developed anxiety disorders, with females reporting a greater number of PTSD symptoms than males.

Sleepier adolescents reported significantly worse self - regulation, as did teens who tended to be «night owls» rather than «morning larks.»

«When you hear the story, which has been reported many times, that adolescents lose gray matter, you think of it as something negative.

As summarized in Table 1, studies of children under the age of 12 (presumably predominantly pre-pubertal) find considerable evidence for functional hyper - connectivity in ASD, whereas the studies reporting data collected from adolescents and adults (presumably predominantly post-pubertal) reveal functional hypo - connectivity in ASD.

As summarized in Table 1, the studies that have reported group differences in the direction of autism - related intrinsic hypo - connectivity were all conducted in either adolescent or adult high - functioning (average or above average IQ) samples.

A recent study reported in the Medical Journal of Australia found adolescents who ate a healthy, wholefood diet were nearly half as likely to suffer from depression compared with adolescents who ate a nutritionally poor diet with a lot of fast foods and calorie - laden snacks.

Although not many cases are reported as in the case of adolescents, this problem can also affect children.

QUALITY AS IMPORTANT AS QUANTITY A 2016 article in U.S. News and World Report tells adolescents, «Teens, your brain needs real food.»

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.

Changes in hormonal levels (serotonin and cortisol) after massage mostly in specific conditions such as patients with low back pain, HIV - positive patients, and depressed adolescent mothers have been reported (13,21 — 23).

Adolescents Twice as Likely to Be Out of School as Children of Primary School Age, Say UNESCO and UNICEF New report shows why «business as usual» won't lead to universal primary or secondary education Around 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 years are denied their right to an education, according tAdolescents Twice as Likely to Be Out of School as Children of Primary School Age, Say UNESCO and UNICEF New report shows why «business as usual» won't lead to universal primary or secondary education Around 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 years are denied their right to an education, according tadolescents between the ages of 12 and 15 years are denied their right to an education, according to -LSB-...]

«The profiles illustrate that adolescents who see schools as a place where they like to go, feel free from bullying and with teachers who believe that students can be a success, report higher life satisfaction,» the report notes.

As expected, adolescents who reported that good citizens exercise their right to vote also reported that they anticipate being publicly engaged on reaching adulthood.

However, scientists discovered much more than they intended as hundreds of the dog owners reported «adolescent» behavior among their pups at eight months old.

In a 2008 report, it found that as of 2006, the radiation health effects of Chernobyl were essentially limited to the more than 6,000 cases of thyroid cancer reported in children and adolescents who were exposed at the time of the accident.

A study published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology in 2006 reported that risperidone, which is Risperdal's generic form, can strongly up the prolactin levels in adolescents, with gynecomastia as a possible side effect.