Sentences with phrase «measures of adolescent»

The current study seeks to address this gap by examining the extent to which sleep functioning mediates the effects by parental warmth on different measures of adolescent problem behaviors.

We summed the number of smoking occurrences in each movie viewed by the survey respondent as the measure of adolescent exposure to movie smoking.

The SAS - A (22 items) is a self - report measure of adolescents» feelings of social anxiety in the context of their peer relations.

Validation of a brief measure of adolescents» parent attachment based on Armsden and Greenberg's three - dimension model

We used glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) as an objective measure of adolescents» glycemic control over the most recent 8 — 12 weeks.

In this study, we used school - functioning as a measure of adolescent well - being and showed that «family exposure» to the disaster influenced adolescent school - functioning up to 10 years both directly and indirectly through a combination of parental mental health and adolescent behavior and mental health.

Model of Associations Between Psychosocial Variables and Health - Outcome Measures of Adolescents with IDDM

Not exact matches

Rather than adopting specific short - term approaches to problems of adolescent sexuality, Congress opted in this Act to authorize a series of grants for research and services directed to the discovery of fundamental causes and long - term remedial measures.

So we watch players priced and measured for market hustling alongside first - teamers that have just changed out of their flip - flops, convalescents passing to adolescents, reserves tackling contract rebels; those going, those gone and those still here, minds all firmly elsewhere.

But a new study finds that poor adolescents who live in communities with more social cohesiveness and control get some measure of protection; they're less likely to smoke and be obese as adolescents.

Our adolescent success measure, for example, is to graduate high school with a GPA of at least 2.5 and without either becoming a parent or getting a criminal record.

Nutritional quality was calculated using a nutritional index designed to measure nutrients important for children and adolescents (MAR) and a nutritional index designed to measure the calorie content per weight of food (ED).

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.

In trials involving two groups of diabetic patients, adults and adolescents, the bionic pancreas provided tighter control of blood glucose than standard measures such as insulin pumps and blood - sugar monitors.

The adolescents were fitted with a physical activity monitor, which was worn 24 hours a day for seven days, to measure typical patterns of physical activity and sleep.

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.

At this point in time the aim was to measure the scores of the children on the so - called Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), which is a tool for screening children and adolescents's behavior, emotions and peer relationships.

The study, published in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, measured the impact of polyvictimization — exposure to multiple forms of victimization — on school climate at the middle and high school levels.

Measuring behavior change is a critical component of dating violence prevention research and is rarely found in studies of adolescent dating violence prevention programs.

In the study, the researchers used a survey to measure strength of family obligations and cultural orientation among 105 early adolescents (10 to 14 years) in rural Haiti.

Researchers measured an epigenetic marker, DNA methylation levels, in obese adolescents from a blood sample at baseline and again at the end of the 10 - week program.

While increasing body mass index (BMI), a measure of obesity, was associated with increased risk for high blood pressure in all four examined ethnic groups, the prevalence of high blood pressure was almost 6 times higher among obese Hispanic adolescents compared to normal weight Hispanics.

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.

They questioned a total of 357 children and adolescents from two different schools in Spain, along with their parents, and their happiness was assessed using a range of self - reporting measures and ratings.

Using measures of anxious personality in parents and anxiety symptoms in their offspring, adult parents from identical twin pairs were found to show greater similarity in anxiety levels to their own adolescent children than their nieces and nephews.

A new study measured the baseline body fat percentage and resting metabolic rate of 229 adolescent and college - aged women and then tracked them for up to 3 years.

Conclusions: In our study, adolescent intakes of higher saturated fat and lower mono - and polyunsaturated fat are associated with higher breast density measured approximately 15 years later.

Columbine remained a major story for days, and during that period, politicians, activists, and commentators used it as evidence to justify their calls for a wide range of measures, including tougher gun laws, restrictions on adolescents» access to violent popular culture, and so on.

A Bright Bunch: These images, from a 2005 study in Cognitive Brain Research, show horizontal slices in the brains of adolescent boys, as measured while they were doing a spatial math problem.

From the heart - rate monitors that students wear during their weekly twelve - minute run / walk (a healthier version of the traditional 1 - mile run) to a comprehensive computer - based fitness station where students measure everything from strength and flexibility to cholesterol levels, Madison has embraced the use of state - of - the - art tools to support the physical health and education of its adolescent students.

In its keys for educating young adolescents, AMLE calls for educators to use a variety of assessments in an effort to both advance and measure student learning.

Whether by school, parents or a university body, we are watched, measured and assessed for almost all of our adolescent lives.

Results showed relationships between measures of parenting and adolescent problem behavior outcomes are not uniform across reporters or across behaviors, and that, in some cases, the discrepancies between child and parent report may be important.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study examined the effectiveness of a 6 - session behavioral parent training program — Common Sense Parenting (CSP)-- with parents of adolescents.

The equivalence scale used in the current study is the European Union scale (a modification of the OECD equivalence scale) where the first adult is given a weight of 1, subsequent adults are given a weight of 0.5 and each child < 14 years of age is given the weight 0.3.40 From this measure of family income, we calculated the proportion of adolescents in relative poverty, defined as having an equivalised household income < 60 % of the equivalised national median income for that particular year (eg, to calculate relative poverty proportions for 2004, we used the median income for 2004).

However, studies of this association in children and adolescents are often restricted by the use of global measures of mental health problems and aggregation of SES - indicators.

The effect of each adolescent drinking measure was estimated in a separate model.

Among the main strengths of the current study are the large sample size and use of well - validated measures of mental health problems developed for use with adolescents.

Patients completed a measure of depressive symptoms, the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), a 27 - item self - report symptom - oriented scale used with children and adolescents with at least a first - grade reading level (Kovacs, 1992).

In conclusion, the present results demonstrate that quality improvement interventions for adolescent depression are feasible in primary care settings and associated with benefits on measures of depression, quality of life, and satisfaction with mental health treatment.

Assessing mindfulness in children and adolescents: development and validation of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM).

We first estimated the effects of adolescent drinking measure after adjusting for wave and gender.

Logistic generalised estimating equations (GEEs) were used to investigate the associations between the adolescent drinking variables and the repeated binary measures of AUDs in adulthood.

We report on the development of the evidence base by examining the ACE survey scores in relationship to the established clinical measures of clinical severity, global function, and problem severity collected routinely for children and adolescents referred and accepted for treatment.29, 30 Systemwide implementation of the ACE survey, as a first step, positions CAAMHPP to become an evidence - based, trauma - informed service organization, because ACE survey scores necessarily must relate to clinical outcomes in order to evaluate the effect of trauma - focused interventions in clinical practice.

Most adolescents with suicide ideation (80.2 %), a plan (87.5 %), or an attempt (94.2 %) have received some form of treatment, although it is important to remember the caution raised in the section on measures that some proportion of the «services» received in the human services, juvenile justice, and school services sectors might not have qualified as «treatment» (Table 6).

A representative Greek sample of 1194 adolescents (aged 11 to 17 years) and their parents completed the SDQ along with other measures.

Subjects were assessed annually using the Preschool Age Psychiatric Assessment (parent interview, age 3 - 8 years) and Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment (parent / child interview, age ≥ 9 years).24 Both measures also reliably capture experiences of stressful and traumatic life events.25, 26 Life events between baseline and time of scan were used for the current analysis.

Parenting attitudes and competence were assessed at 6 and 12 months using the Adult Adolescent Parenting Inventory.25 Parenting competence / confidence and experiences were measured at 12 months using the Parenting Sense of Competence scale26 and What Being the Parent of a Baby is Like (WBPB).27

For example, adolescent depression may be efficiently measured as a multidimensional entity.2 Such arguments represent a false dichotomy, and more modern algorithmic approaches to diagnosis and treatment take into account the multiaxial nature of mental disorders.3 - 7

Main Outcome Measures Adolescent assessment of school grades, standardized test scores, absences, suspensions, aggression, anxiety / depression, other psychological problems, drug use, trouble with police, pregnancy, running away, gang membership, and educational aspirations.