Major research interests involve the identification of high - risk
factors for adolescent substance use and other problem behaviors.
Children's aggressive behavior and reading difficulties during early elementary school years are risk
factors for adolescent problem behaviors such as delinquency, academic failure, and substance use.
We examined all publications from the ROOTS study up to July 2015, selected those examining adolescent mental health, and classified them as investigating (a) childhood risk
factors for adolescent depression, (b) genetic and cognitive vulnerability to depression in adolescence, (c) genetic markers, childhood adversities, and neuroendophenotypes, (d) morning cortisol and depression, (e) physical activity and depression symptoms, and (f) the underlying structure of mental health in adolescence.
Understanding the prevalence and risk -
factors for adolescent problem gambling is an important issue which ultimately may help reduce the social cost associated with both adolescent and adult gambling problems.
Brief interventions targeting personality risk
factors for adolescent substance misuse reduce depression, panic and risk - taking behaviours
Beyond Correlates: A Review of Risk and Protective
Factors for Adolescent Dating Violence Perpetration.
A Review of Risk and Protective
Factors for Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Developing Countries: An Update.
The goal of the therapy sessions was to improve the girls» behavior problems by improving family interactions to reduce risk factors and strengthen protective
factors for adolescent drug abuse and other behavioral problems.
Specific risk
factors for adolescent depression include having low self - esteem, being female, developing a negative body image, low social support, a negative cognitive style, and ineffective coping.
Callous - Unemotional Traits and Conduct Disorder Symptoms as Prospective Risk
Factors for Adolescent Sexual Activity.
Distal and Proximal Religiosity as Protective
Factors for Adolescent and Emerging Adult Alcohol Use (2015)
A Tailored Web - Based Intervention to Improve Parenting Risk and Protective
Factors for Adolescent Depression and Anxiety Problems: Postintervention Findings From a Randomized Controlled Trial.
Identify empirically validated risk
factors for adolescent development of eating disordered behavior.
The intervention sought to reduce specific empirically identified risk
factors for adolescent health and behavior problems: persistent physically aggressive behavior in the early elementary school grades,9 - 11 academic failure, 12 and poor family management practices including unclear rules, poor monitoring of behavior, and inconsistent or harsh discipline.13, 14 Because being raised in poverty increases risk for crime, school failure, and school dropout,15 - 17 effects of the intervention on children from low - income families were of particular interest.
Risk
factors for adolescent pregnancy reports among African American males.
Studies have also found that poor parent - child communication is a risk
factor for adolescent suicide, 58 and not talking about suicidal ideation is associated with suicide attempts among adolescents.59 Psychopathology, primarily depression, has been found to characterize most adolescent suicides.8, 60,61
Beside family support, peer support also is very important
factor for adolescents.
The review also states: ``... Negative attachment styles and family conflict are risk
factors for adolescents with SUDs, and a strong parent - child bond is a protective factor.
Inadequate parental monitoring has similarly been implicated as a contributing
factor for adolescents» illegal and violent behavior (see Dahlberg, 1998, and Dishion & McMahon, 1998, for reviews), and these domains of family functioning have also been consistently associated with suicidal ideation and behavior (see Wagner, 1997, for a review).
Results also suggested that community disadvantage was a significant risk
factor for adolescents» substance use.
In sum, our findings revealed that the attractiveness of a potential partner is an important
factor for adolescents» dating desire, whereas social status seems to be less important.
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.
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.
Helping
adolescent males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child health perspective: research that controlled
for maternal age and other key
factors found teenage fatherhood associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death (Chen et al, 2007).
The
factors which are responsible
for the consistent use of contraceptive among
adolescents are academic success, anticipation
for successful future, and involvement in a stable relationship.
These researchers found that when receptors
for insulin - like growth
factor were decreased (such as, perhaps, when there was too much insulin - like growth
factor circulating during
adolescent breast development), the body adapted by making fewer receptors, resulting in fewer alveoli (milk - making sites in the breast — glandular tissue).
In with respect to the quality of mother - infant relations, a prospective longitudinal study of around 1000 young New Zealanders found a small but significant association between breastfeeding duration and
adolescents» perceptions of maternal care, with a longer duration of breastfeeding being associated with increased
adolescent perceptions of maternal nurturance.9 This association persisted after statistical control
for a wide range of the selection
factors noted above.
A new study led by researchers at the University of Granada has analysed the link between egg intake in
adolescents and the main risk
factors for developing cardiovascular diseases, such as lipid profile, excess body fat, insulin resistance and high blood pressure.
Studying
adolescents in Southern California, researchers found that the association between sleep and alcohol / marijuana use was consistent even after controlling
for other known risk
factors, such as depression.
Researchers from Warwick Medical School found that
adolescent cannabis use is an independent risk
factor for future hypomania — periods of elated mood, over-active and excited behaviour, and reduced need
for sleep that are often experienced as part of bipolar disorder, and have a significant impact on day - to - day life.
The Warwick research is the first to test the prospective association between
adolescent cannabis use and hypomania in early adulthood, whilst controlling
for important other
factors that might explain this connection (e.g psychotic symptoms).
Disruptive behaviour that starts in childhood is also connected to
adolescent intoxication, smoking from an early age, poor life management skills and excess weight, which are central risk
factors for health problems later in life.
«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.
«While we found
adolescent exercise to be associated with lowered risk of death from cancer and cardiovascular disease as adults, some associations were attenuated after adjusting
for adult
factors that may influence mortality later in life, such as exercise, diet, body mass index [BMI], socioeconomic status, and a history of chronic diseases.
After analyzing the medical records of more than 1,000 women who gave birth between the ages of 15 and 24, investigators from the University of Michigan conclude that physicians caring
for adolescent women should use BMI before pregnancy as a strong predictor of whether a young mother will gain too much weight during pregnancy, a risk
factor for later obesity.
Dr Evans said: «Future studies we do will investigate if our findings with young
adolescents hold true
for older
adolescents, or whether we detect new risk
factors.
After adjusting
for socioeconomic
factors in adult life, women who participated in team sports as
adolescents had a 14 percent lowered risk
for death from cancer, and a 10 percent lowered risk
for death from all causes.
The effect of parental smoking and dependence persisted after controlling
for factors such as
adolescent use of alcohol and other drugs.
Development of low back pain in
adolescents is a substantial risk
factor for the possibility of low back pain as an adult.
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.
Risk
factors for sebaceous gland diseases and their relationship to gastrointestinal dysfunction in Han
adolescents.
Skipping breakfast, alcohol consumption and physical inactivity as risk
factors for overweight and obesity in
adolescents: results of the E-MOVO project
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for adolescent dating violence: An international review ☆
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This is a potentially very important finding given that low - grade depressive symptoms not only impair functioning but are also a powerful risk
factor for depression in
adolescents and adults.»
In addition, the onset of puberty brings two
factors that can make this adjustment particularly difficult
for adolescents: an increase in the amount of sleep needed and a change in the natural timing of the sleep cycle.
The study by researchers from the Australian Council
for Educational Research and the University of Western Australia is the first to examine the effects of the school environment and peer relationships on early
adolescents» wellbeing after controlling
for the influence of family
factors.
Violence continues to cause serious health problems
for U.S.
adolescents and is a prominent
factor in the declining health of that age group, a study published last week says.
In testing whether
adolescents attending schools with a strong civic climate were more likely to envision themselves as active citizens, I control
for differences in a wide variety of individual and contextual
factors that could also affect anticipated engagement.