Sentences with phrase «proportion of adolescents»

A limitation of our study is the proportion of adolescents who returned for follow - up testing at 6 months (56.6 %).

Right, Proportion of adolescents engaging in anal sex by level of monitoring and communication about sexual risks.

The proportion of adolescents still meeting diagnosis criteria was significantly reduced at posttreatment and continued to decline over the 24 - month follow - up period.

On average, the programs did not, however, affect the proportion of adolescents who dropped out of, were suspended from, or completed school.

The proportion of adolescents that self - harmed weekly fell from 25.8 % (94/364) at baseline to 15.4 % (56/364) after 6 months and to 7.7 % (28/364) after 1 year.

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).

Although the study was designed to shed light on group performance in the context of army combat teams, the researchers believe these findings are relevant across various settings, including restaurants and retail stores, which employ a relatively high proportion of adolescents.

«Our results indicate that a substantial proportion of adolescents with ASD do get licensed, and support is needed to help families make the decision whether or not to drive before these adolescents become eligible for a learner's permit.»

The proportion of adolescents who regularly got seven hours of sleep was defined as a frequency of every day or almost every day versus sometimes, rarely, or never.

While levels of condom use with casual partners and the proportion of people reporting multiple sexual partners remained largely unchanged, the proportion of adolescents ages 15 to 19 who reported never having sex rose from 30 percent in 1999 to 55 percent in 2016.

A 1980 survey in a wide range of countries showed the proportion of adolescents reported to have experienced premarital intercourse varied from about 35 per cent (in France) to 80 per cent (among Kenyan males).

In the three geographic regions included in the current study, a greater proportion of adolescent females had had sex before age 15 in Brong Ahafo (21 %) than in Greater Accra (5 %) or Northern (8 %); among adolescent males, 23 % had had sex before this age in Greater Accra, as had only 7 % in Brong Ahafo and 3 % in Northern.

The proportion of adolescent women in need who are not using modern contraceptive methods is higher in Asia (69 %) and Africa (68 %) than in Latin America and the Caribbean (36 %).10 In all regions, unmet need is higher among adolescent women wanting to avoid pregnancy who live in rural areas and who live in poorer households.

Not exact matches

The disparity between widespread adolescent sexual activity and the blinders worn by most parents and adults has created a generation gap of unprecedented proportions.

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.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestylOF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestylof vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestylof teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

OK, a huge proportion of films are made for adolescent boys, and there's nothing necessarily wrong with making films for adolescent girls, as this surely is.

Intellectual disability (ID) affects 143/10 000 children1 and is associated with a range of comorbid health conditions.2 — 4 It is heterogeneous, 5 and clustering of some medical conditions may be associated with particular disorders such as Down syndrome6 or Prader - Willi syndrome.7 While epilepsy and sensory impairments often occur in association with specific syndromes or more severe cognitive impairment, conditions such as fractures or obesity may develop as secondary to medication use, nutritional deficiency or lack of mobility.2 Consequently, children with ID may face greater health challenges than typically developing children and use healthcare systems more frequently.8, 9 Mental health problems are also common in people with ID.10 For instance, in a Canadian adolescent and adult population with ID, a high proportion of hospitalisations was attributed to the presence of psychiatric conditions.11

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).

This proportion is approximately double that of children found to be at high risk in the general New South Wales population (15 %) 27 but similar to the proportion noted in other studies of Aboriginal children (24 %, 5 22.5 % 28 and among Aboriginal participants in the New South Wales Population Health Survey).27 There is only one other study to date that has measured the factors associated with Aboriginal child and adolescent mental health.5 SEARCH makes an important, new contribution to this emerging area of research by considering, for the first time, the impact of carer psychological distress.

Between 3 % and 23 % of adolescent females aged 13 — 17 in developing countries report having experienced sexual violence in the past year; proportions range from 0 % to 13 % among adolescent males.

Adolescents also have the highest proportion (64 %) of legal abortions compared with other age - groups.

The incidence of HIV has reached epidemic proportions in Washington, DC, where African - American women, men and adolescents represented more than 80 percent of people with new diagnoses of HIV between 2001 and 2006.

Based on movies the adolescent had seen, movie reckless driving exposure was calculated as the proportion of the characters they had seen that had engaged in reckless driving and trimmed at the 95th percentile to limit high outlier influence [40].

State estimates for the proportion of children who have ever lived with someone who had a problem with alcohol or drugs are available from the Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health.

These data corroborate similar results, as in the study from South Africa which pointed out that a significantly higher proportion of female adolescents reported having already physically assaulted their partner (Flisher, Myer, Mèrais, Lombard, & Reddy, 2007).

Similarly, the frequencies of adolescents» cigarette use, heavy episodic drinking, and marijuana use were strongly related to the proportion of their friends who used illegal substances.

Consistent with past research, strong significant associations indicated that adolescents who carried a weapon or engaged in high frequencies of physical aggression also had high proportions of friends who engaged in deviant behavior.

A previous study found a greater proportion of frequent, compared with infrequent, bedwetters among older children and adolescents [44].

Reducing the prevalence of adolescent behaviour problems will require that a large proportion of the population be reached with effective parenting strategies.8, 11 A population approach to parenting programmes for parents of adolescents seeks to optimize impact and reach a larger proportion of the general population.

During the last century, the proportion of children and adolescents who have experienced a divorce or separation between their parents has steadily increased.

Given the size and growth rate of the U.S. Hispanic population (Marotta & Garcia, 2003), as well as the large proportion of children and adolescents within this population (Ramírez & de la Cruz, 2003), identifying predictors of engagement into parent - centered preventive interventions for Hispanic youth is an important research direction.

Results indicated that adolescents spent a greater proportion of time in leisure than in work with fathers, and equal time in work and in leisure with mothers.