Sentences with phrase «young adolescents aged»

As of 2016, an estimated 545 million very young adolescents aged 10 — 14 live in developing regions.

: Guidance to support country implementation, reveal stark differences in causes of death when separating the adolescent group by age (younger adolescents aged 10 — 14 years and older ones aged 15 — 19 years) and by sex.

In Africa and Asia, younger adolescents aged 15 — 17 have higher unmet need for modern contraception than do older adolescents aged 18 — 19, suggesting greater barriers to use among younger women; in Latin America and the Caribbean, these proportions are about the same.

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.

Children whose creativity is nurtured at a young age are also often found to have more confidence as they mature and develop through their adolescent years.

Adapted from CARING FOR YOUR BABY AND YOUNG CHILD: BIRTH TO AGE 5, Fifth Edition, edited by Steven Shelov and Tanya Remer Altmann © 1991, 1993, 1998, 2004, 2009 by the American Academy of Pediatrics and BRIGHT FUTURES: GUIDELINES FOR HEALTH SUPERVISION OF INFANTS, CHILDREN, AND ADOLESCENTS, Third Edition, edited by Joseph Hagan, Jr., Judith S. Shaw, and Paula M. Duncan, 2008, Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.

This may be a particularly attractive option for adolescents who are preparing to leave the family home for a more independent living arrangement, for young adults with disabilities who prefer to be with people their own age, or even aging populations with mild to moderate memory loss because it gives them an opportunity to experience new surroundings, different expectations, peer relationships and even cognitive and emotional stimulation.

While they specialize in treating the sleep problems of young children, they also address sleep difficulties arising in children of all ages, from infants to adolescents.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

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.

As adolescents have a low prevalence of infections such as pneumonia and gastroenteritis compared with younger children, and of chronic disease compared with ageing people, they have generally been given little health and nutrition attention, except for reproductive health concerns.

Given the relatively young ages of children at follow - up assessment, longer term evaluations of these cohorts will be important to see if these findings remain as children enter the more behaviourally challenging late middle childhood and adolescent years when emotional and behavioural problems often become more pronounced.

This event focused on what we know about the causes, effects and treatments of mental illness, from young children, to adolescents, to middle - age and elderly patients.

A new study by researchers at Dartmouth has found that adolescents living in medical marijuana states with a plethora of dispensaries are more likely to have tried new methods of cannabis use, such as edibles and vaping, at a younger age than those living in states with fewer dispensaries.

They included 122 adolescents (ages 13 - 18) and 172 young adults (ages 18 - 24).

This was especially true for adolescents who started having sex at a very young age, and for females.

«What's especially important is the finding that around 1.5 percent of boys aged 10 - 18 are on antipsychotics, and then this rate abruptly falls by half, as adolescents become young adults.»

Blum said the work shows a need to rethink adolescent health interventions, which typically focus on youth 15 years or older, so that they target a much younger age group.

Of the 1,518 participants (753 girls [average age, 11.4 years]; 451 boys [average age, 11.5 years]; and 314 adolescent girls and young women [average age, 21 years]-RRB-, 1,474 completed the study and data from 1,377 were analyzed.

For this study, conducted at 52 ambulatory care sites in 15 countries, five groups were enrolled: (1) girls ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 6 months apart (n = 301); (2) boys ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 6 months apart (n = 301); (3) girls and boys ages 9 to 14 years to receive 2 doses 12 months apart (n = 301); (4) girls ages 9 to 14 years to receive 3 doses over 6 months (n = 301); and (5) a control group of adolescent girls and young women ages 16 to 26 years to receive 3 doses over 6 months (n = 314).

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

The researchers broke down findings into five age groups: children (ages six to 11); adolescents (ages 12 to 19); young adults (ages 20 to 29); adults at midlife (ages 31 to 59); and older adults (age 60 through age 84).

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.

The study tracked social networks of 102 survivors of adolescent and young adult cancer ages 18 to 30 and a similar group of 102 young adults with no cancer history.

It found that ageist stereotypes in children and adolescents generally decrease around ages 10 to 12, and that young people who say they have very good contact with their grandparents have the lowest levels of ageism.

But while young athletes are susceptible to the ankle sprains, wrist fractures and other acute injuries that are common among competitors of all ages, numerous studies indicate that approximately half of the sports - related injuries among children and adolescents in this country are caused by overuse.

«We found that the blood pressure of young adults aged 20 to 24 who binge drink was 2 to 4 millimetres of mercury higher than non-binge drinkers,» says Jennifer O'Loughlin, senior author of a study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

Children diagnosed with depression as preschoolers are likely to suffer from depression as school - age children and young adolescents, research shows.

The consistent pattern emerging across several studies is that while intrinsic functional connectivity in adolescents and adults with autism is generally reduced compared with age - matched controls, functional connectivity in younger children with the disorder appears to be increased.

«We see an increased opportunity to bring the advances that occur in children into the adolescent and young adult age group.»

Crohn's is most commonly diagnosed in adolescents and young adults, but it can strike at any age.

One Polish study on humans found that although probiotics did not have an effect on young children, but it did help with adolescents over the age of 14.

There's a concern that this issue is growing among the young male segment, with as many as 43 % of «normal - weight» adolescent and college - age boys believing themselves to be underweight and reporting a desire to increase muscle mass through weight training.

Two - thirds of the U.S. adult population is either overweight or obese while a growing number of adolescents are climbing into the danger range, many developing type 2 diabetes at younger and younger ages.

Kids under the age of 18 are particularly vulnerable to images of high - wattage stars smoking cigarettes on the big screen, partly because adolescents, similar to very young children, are prone to mimic behaviors they see others trying, Sargent says.

About Blog Youth Coalition is an international organization of young people (ages 18 - 29 years) committed to promoting adolescent and youth sexual and reproductive rights at the national, regional and international levels.

As a window into the auteur's late - career preoccupation with adolescent angst, «Bertolucci Makes The Dreamers» is illuminating, bookended as it is by telling quotes («When I'm with these kids, I feel the same age» and «Maybe I didn't talk enough about young people when I was young») that make one wish Bertolucci would do a film about the vanishing act of youth rather than these pitiful attempts to trap it in a jar.

In this year's other powerful Margaret Atwood adaptation about men abusing women — based on a true 19th - century crime — Gadon convincingly ages from innocent adolescent to (possibly) murderous young woman to manipulative middle - aged convict, adding layers, delivering chills and leaving just enough room for doubt.

An adolescent girl left to care for her younger brother after their parents» death is convinced by some unscrupulous acquaintances to seduce and help rob a blind, aging B - movie star.

Another character, Vic, is central to the book: he appears as an awkward adolescent fixated on unattainable older girls, as a young man coping with the legacy of his father's alcoholism and abandonment, and as a middle - aged man unable to come to terms with his past.

The answer will also depend on the age of the student and the student's particular areas of strength and weakness — adolescents have different needs than younger students and students who already are competent in a requisite category of soft skills have different needs than those who are not.

From legislative frameworks to classroom practices, gender - sensitive curricula, sexual and reproductive health information, education and services, and data collection, the new Joint Programme will provide a coordinated and collaborative response to the persistent gender gap in education — with a specific focus on adolescent girls and young women between the ages of 10 and 24.

Children, adolescents, and young adults demonstrate clear spurts in optimal performance for particular skills at the ages of 3 1/2 -4 1/2, 6 - 7, 10 - 12, 14 - 16, 19 - 21, and 24 - 26 years.

«If we believe that young children need teachers with special training in early - childhood education, why would we not think young adolescents need and deserve teachers trained to teach this special age group?»

The MLER SIG is an international group of researchers who focus specifically on issues relevant to the education and well - being of young adolescents, youth 10 to 15 years of age.

DId you know that brain development in the young adolescent is second only to birth to two years of age?

Our NWCA campus provides services for children, adolescents and young adults, ages 3 through 21 with extraordinary needs including Autism, Multiple Disabilities and Other Health Impairments.

This program provides academic and therapeutic services for children, adolescents and young adults ages 3 through 21 with extraordinary needs including Autism, Specific Learning Disabilities, Intellectual Disabilities, Traumatic Brain Injuries and Emotional Disabilities.

First, acknowledging that middle level students (age 10 - 14) learn differently than their elementary and high school friends and siblings, they began by reviewing the developmental research on young adolescents and taking those unique learning needs as a starting point for planning changes in classroom instruction, increasing electives, providing intervention, reviewing their discipline procedures, and attending to the social and emotional needs, a key to success with middle level student success.

Coming of age: The education and development of young adolescents.