Sentences with phrase «risk young adolescents»

Peer group dynamics associated with iatrogenic effects in group interventions with high - risk young adolescents

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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.

Adolescents or young adults with an FASD and who never received services or were older when diagnosed can be at very high risk for psychosocial issues, such as dependent living conditions, disrupted school experiences, poor employment records, substance use, and encounters with law enforcement.

Adolescents whose parents divorced when they were 5 years old or younger were at a particularly high risk for becoming sexually active prior to the age of 16.

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.

Adolescents and young people who relied on «gist» representations of risk were less open to taking future online risks.

Their article, «Adolescents» and Young Adults» Online Risk Taking: The Role of Gist and Verbatim Representations,» recently appeared in the online version of Risk Analysis, a publication of the Society for Risk Analysis.

Schürmann added: «Since methylation of the gene already occurs very early, well before a fatty liver has developed, it would be conceivable to use this knowledge to better assess the disease risk in adolescents and young adults.

Adolescents who have engaged in past risky online behavior are much more likely than older young adults to repeat the behavior in the future, according to a new study by researchers seeking to understand the psychological mechanisms contributing to young people's online risk taking.

In their study Dr. Würtz and colleagues used a technique called Mendelian randomization to assess whether increases in BMI in 12,664 mostly non-obese adolescents and young adults causally affects multiple cardiometabolic risk markers (82 molecules measured in their blood at a single time point).

Lead author Kate Daine, a postgraduate researcher from the Centre for Evidence - Based Intervention, said: «There are no known online interventions to date that specifically target young people at risk of self - harm or suicide and yet we find that adolescents who self - harm are very frequent users of the internet.

The findings suggest frequent adolescent cannabis use is likely to be a suitable target for interventions that may allay the risk of young people developing bipolar disorder.

«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.

«Many young people who are at risk for hepatitis C may acquire the infection and then not know it, and then through drug injection practices may transmit it to others,» said Brandon Marshall, associate professor of epidemiology in the Brown University School of Public Health and corresponding author of the new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Is it the societal expectations for young adolescent girls or the way in which young girls are socialized that places them at risk for interpersonal stressors?

David Cottrell, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Leeds and one of the investigators, said: «Clinicians have not fully appreciated the risks facing children and young people who arrive in hospital emergency departments having suffered an adversity - related injury.

«Adolescents who begin drinking at a younger age are at greater risk for later alcohol problems.

«Many adolescents and young adults who are at high risk for psychosis smoke marijuana regularly or have a cannabis use disorder,» said Margaret Haney, PhD, professor of neurobiology (in Psychiatry) at CUMC and senior author of the paper.

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.

«It would be worthwhile to examine these relationships among older adolescents and young adults with food allergy who are at the peak of risk for depression onset, especially because early anxiety is associated with increased risk for subsequent onset of depression,» said Jonathan Feldman, PhD, professor of Psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University.

Living in rural households decreases a person's risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), particularly for young children and adolescents, according to a new study by researchers at the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Research Institute, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), and the Canadian Gastro - Intestinal Epidemiology Consortium (CanGIEC).

The research indicates that taking into account their family history, adolescent females already with a higher breast cancer risk, should be aware that alcohol avoidance could reduce their benign breast disease risk as young women, and later in life, a reduced breast cancer risk.

A 2008 study that followed a group of adolescent women with ADHD for five years found that the participants who had been treated with stimulants were nearly 75 % less likely to develop a substance - use disorder than those who were not, while other research has shown that the use of ADHD medication in young men reduces the risk of later substance - use disorders by 85 %.

There was a significant link between amount of alcohol consumption and further increased risk of getting benign breast disease as young women in adolescent girls having a family history of breast cancer.

Someone with early stages of iron deficiency may have no symptoms, so it is important for at - risk groups (such as adolescent girls, pregnant women, and young children) to be screened.

«Because middle school educators emphasize the negative impact of homogeneous grouping on at - risk learners, heterogeneity has become a hallmark descriptor of «good» middle schools (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989).

All transitions are imbued with risk and possibility, but for transplant recipients transition from pediatric to adult care is a decidedly perilous time when adolescents and young adults have higher mortality rates than their younger cohorts.

In an analysis of studies worldwide, the World Health Organization estimated that 29 % of ever - married women aged 15 — 19 had experienced physical or sexual intimate partner violence.19 Studies have also found that adolescents and young women face a higher risk of violence than older adult women.20, 21

Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the second leading cause of death among 15 — 19 - year - old women, 1 and babies born to adolescent mothers face greater health risks than those born to older women.2, 3 Moreover, adolescent childbearing is associated with lower educational attainment, and it can perpetuate a cycle of poverty from one generation to the next.4, 5 Thus, helping young women avoid unintended pregnancies can have far - reaching benefits for them, their children and societies as a whole.

The ARC Family Options study will further promote family - based intervention as a means of engaging young people and addressing family - based risk factors which both precipitates and perpetuates risk for adolescent depression.

Likewise, social factors including parental substance use, as well as the larger socioeconomic context of the adolescent, may raise risk for AUDs in young adulthood.

The FFCWS studies add to a large body of earlier work that suggested that children who live with single or cohabiting parents fare worse as adolescents and young adults in terms of their educational outcomes, risk of teen birth, and attachment to school and the labor market than do children who grow up in married - couple families.

Those involved in the trial including adolescents, teachers (who assisted with setting up the trial in schools) and CAMHS clinicians (responsible for referring young people and dealing with risk) were largely supportive of CCBT as a treatment for adolescent depression.

Multiple logistic regression analyses were used to determine the association between panic attacks during adolescence in 1983 and the risk of personality disorders during young adulthood in 1993, adjusting for differences in sociodemographic characteristics, adolescent personality disorders, and co-morbid depressive and substance use disorders.

This is in line with findings from the New York Child Longitudinal Study in which OAD predicted young adult depression, social phobia, and generalized anxiety.3 Together, these findings suggest that the DSM - IV GAD criteria are insufficient for assessing the full range of «generalized anxiety» in children and adolescents and fail to identify anxious children at risk for a range of later disorders.

For example, adolescents who come from single parent families, or where they have been sexually abused, are at higher risk of becoming pregnant because they tend to be sexually active at a younger age (Fraser & Meares - Allen, 2004).

It is hypothesized that pathological use of the Internet is detrimental to the mental health of adolescents such that young people who use the Internet extensively and pathologically would have an increased risk of anxiety and depression.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.

Additionally, physical activity levels tend to decrease as adolescents move into young adulthood [3], leaving them at risk for the poor health outcomes associated with physical inactivity, which include overweight and obesity [4 — 6].

Also, anxiety and depression may impair adolescents» ability to learn and thereby increase their risk of low educational attainment and school drop - out, which in turn are known to lower work participation and increase welfare dependence.28 The association between adolescent anxiety and depression symptoms and benefit receipt in young adulthood may also be influenced by factors that may increase both mental distress and the risk of receiving medical benefits such as the various somatic and psychiatric conditions that are associated anxiety and depression.

I have a special interest in working with at - risk adolescents, young adults, and the families of individuals affected by depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, adjustment disorders, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and school behavioral and / or academic concerns.

Recent studies with adolescents and young adults document elevated rates of health risks and disease among IPV victims as compared to those without such IPV histories [4, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30], suggesting that clinical settings may represent a critical opportunity for reaching this population.

Dr. Brown's research publications have included: Self - cutting and sexual risk among adolescents in intesive psychiatric treatment; Promoting safer sex among HIV - positive youth with hemophilia: Theory, intervention, and outcome; Predictors of retention among HIV / hemophilia health care professionals; Impact of sexual abuse on the HIV - risk - related behavior of adolescents in intensive psychiatric treatment; Heroin use in adolescents and young adults admitted for drug detoxification; and Children and adolescents living with HIV and AIDS: A review

Substance use disorders in adolescent and young adult relatives of probands with bipolar disorder: What drives the increased risk?.

Jennifer relocated to Eastside area from Southern California where she practiced as a Licensed MFT in an intensive outpatient program and treated at risk adolescents and young adults.»

«I have 15 years of experience working with adolescents, teens and young adults on academic adjustment and performance issues and have addressed issues of college transition, academic planning and success, communication and conflict resolution skills, and risk management for individual students and student organizations.»

The early adolescent life skills program is designed to influence the antecedents of risk - taking behaviour in later adolescent years and young adulthood, including suicide.

According to the results of this national claims - based analysis, adolescents and young adults are at high risk for repeated self - harm and suicide in the first year after self - harm.

There are sections on protective and risk factors, social and emotional wellbeing, and infants, young children and adolescents.