It seems possible that social and cultural shifts that redefine masculinity and male roles in relation to childcare and family life may support positive changes in
health behaviour among fathers, including their smoking practices (Bottorff et al, 2006).
Not exact matches
• A controlled trial of a brief (one postpartum session) group intervention with mothers and fathers, addressing infant
behaviour and couple - relationship management, found dramatically lower instances of depression / anxiety
among women who had attended the couples - group - session than
among those who had met with a
health visitor at home (Fisher et al, 2010).
«Even when adjusted to take into account socioeconomic factors and
health behaviours (physical activity, tobacco, alcohol, nutrition) in adulthood, associations remained very significant, especially
among women, who were often less susceptible to benefit from social mobility.»
Taxes on soft drinks, alcohol and tobacco have the potential to produce major
health gains
among the poorest in society, according to the most comprehensive analysis to date of evidence on expenditure,
behaviour and socio - economic status, and how Read more about Taxing our unhealthy habits is a
health boost for the poor - Scimex
The study is the first to estimate the overall prevalence of a wider range of risk
behaviours and lifestyles and their association with symptoms of mental ill -
health among European adolescents.
According to Rebecca Johnson, a professor at the MU college of Veterinary Medicine, the study explored the link between dog ownership and pet bonding with walking
behaviour and
health outcomes
among older adults.
StatsCan's
Health Reports delivered a one - two punch today with its interrelated reports on «Screen time
among Canadian adults: A profile» [or PDF] and «Sedentary
behaviour and obesity» [or PDF]:
Insurance companies already offer
health - and wellness - based discounts to individuals including spa coupons, gym membership discounts,
among others, to inculcate healthy
behaviour among customers.
Anticipated
health behaviour changes and perceived control in response to disclosure of genetic risk of breast and ovarian cancer: a quantitative survey study
among women in the UK
The Nurturing Programme seeks to promote mental wellbeing
among parents and children as well as
behaviour management (increasing life - course resilience to mental
health problems such as anxiety and depression).
Bullying
among Greenlandic schoolchildren: development since 1994 and relations to
health and
health behaviour.
Long - term effects of childhood sexual violence include substance misuse, early sexual debut, more sexual partners, trading sex for financial gain and less use of contraception, as well as interpersonal difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal
behaviour.44 — 51 Our results imply that interventions to reduce peer - related violence
among primary school children could be beneficial for mental
health, as well as for sexual and reproductive
health in this population.
Multivariate logistic regression analyses * assessing impact of unawareness of the
health consequences of tobacco use on attitudes and
behaviour towards tobacco control programmes
among school personnel from 29 African countries, 2006 — 2011 (n = 17 929)
The study aimed to identify risks of subsequent suicidal
behaviour among Northern Territory residents admitted to hospital with diagnoses of suicidal ideation and / or intentional self - harm and to describe the association between patterns of
health service usage and these outcomes in order to identify opportunities for improved preventive follow - up care.
Most trials of the effectiveness of parenting programmes have been conducted in North America, and have taken a secondary preventive (indicated) approach (working with parents of children who already have
behaviour problems) or a selective primary preventive approach working with parents at high risk.11 A recent study in the UK has shown the effectiveness of the Webster - Stratton parenting programme in an indicated approach
among parents of children who had been referred to child mental
health services.16
Adolescents»
behaviour may vary from one context to another, or from one interaction partner to another, and informants» reports may be affected by their own perspectives.13 Because there is no gold standard for psychiatric disorders, and reports from different informants tend to correlate only moderately, using information from multiple informants seems the best strategy to chart mental
health.14
Among other things, adherence to this first principle is expressed in the use of child (Youth Self - report; YSR), and parent (Child Behavior Checklist; CBCL) questionnaires on child / adolescent mental
health, which are part of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA), 15,16 and the use of a teacher - report (Teacher Checklist of Psychopathology), which was developed for TRAILS on the basis of the Achenbach Teachers Report Form.17 It is also expressed in the use of peer nominations to assess adolescents» social status at school.
Compared to non-LD peers, youth with LD frequently report feelings of loneliness, stress, depression and suicide,
among other psychiatric symptoms.15, 16 For example, in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent
Health, the LD sample was twice as likely to report a suicide attempt in the past year.16 Longitudinal research on risk - taking indicates that, compared to non-LD peers, adolescents with LD engage more frequently in various risk
behaviours.17 Therefore, the presence of LD in childhood appears to confer a general risk for adverse outcomes throughout adolescence and into adulthood.
Depression has also been associated with a number of
health risk
behaviours including use of alcohol, tobacco and illicit drugs, and is more common
among women who are overweight or obese.
Cross-national analysis of the associations
among mental disorders and suicidal
behaviour: findings from the WHO World Mental
Health Surveys
Finally, a group of studies concerned social relationships in and around the classrooms, expressed for instance in bullying versus victimization of bullying, 35 antisocial vs prosocial
behaviour36 and classroom social status.37 These studies have demonstrated how important the school social environment is for the development of mental
health problems in adolescents, and how important the familial background is for predicting who
among the adolescents develops antisocial
behaviour (or bullying
behaviour) and who becomes the victim of other children's
behaviour.
This is the first time when temporarily interpretable patterns of association between hazardous drinking and history of TBI
among adolescents were examined in the context of co-occurring mental
health and problem
behaviours in a population - based study.
This implies that parenting may help to explain some of the inequalities in child
health behaviours linked to family adversity, particularly
among those families experiencing higher levels of adversity.
Higher rates of fair or poor
health and
health risk
behaviour were reported
among Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander people who had been exposed to these stressors.
Societal concern about antisocial
behaviours of children and adolescents has increased over the years, in part due to the enormous financial costs of youth crime.1 Conduct problems (especially
among boys) are the most frequent childhood behavioural problems to be referred to mental
health professionals.2 Aggressive and disruptive
behaviour is one of the most enduring dysfunctions in children and, if left untreated, frequently results in high personal and emotional costs to children, their families and to society in general.
The growing trend in multipartnered fertility, along with high rates of nonmarital births, means that many men are fathering children from multiple women at a distance, 45,46 a trait that is associated with greater externalizing
behaviours and poorer
health among children.47
However, less is known about potential adverse
health outcomes
among the much larger subset of individuals with antisocial
behaviour limited to adolescence.
Bullying
behaviour and psychosocial
health among school students in New South Wales, Australia: cross sectional survey
Our study sought to identify the prevalence of bullying
behaviours among schoolchildren in New South Wales, Australia, and the association of bullying with psychological and psychosomatic
health.