Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 1991"

TL;DR: The findings suggest that Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) prevention programs for incarcerated adolescents that emphasize training in communication skills and modifying perceptions of peer normative behavior may be more effective in increasing the adoption and maintenance of condom use.

TL;DR: Gay male street youth may have been forced out of their homes because of their sexual orientation, and are more likely to engage in survival sex (prostitution) than their nongay male counterparts.

TL;DR: The results showed that homeless teens tended to be younger, female, and white compared to their nonhomeless counterparts, and were more likely to have dropped out of school and be depressed and actively suicidal.

TL;DR: The data from this study further corroborate the growing belief that health-risk behaviors tend to cluster together in vulnerable adolescents and demonstrate that abnormal eating attitudes and behaviors may be part of this cluster, especially in females with low self-esteem and high levels of anxiety.

TL;DR: Students who reported having had an unwanted sexual experience were more likely to report current risk taking behaviors, school problems, and health problems that those who had not had such experiences.

TL;DR: According to the data from an adolescent risk profile interview, homeless youth involved in prostitution are at greater risk for a wide variety of medical problems and health-compromising behaviors, including drug abuse, suicide, and depression.

TL;DR: The coupling of HIV in inner-city populations with a high frequency of risk behaviors in adolescents demands an immediate public health response.

TL;DR: Sixth grade girls responded to questions about their weight, body image, dieting practices, and attitudes toward weight and eating suggested that feeling too fat and wishing to lose weight were becoming normative for young adolescent girls.

TL;DR: In the United States, the number of gonorrhea cases reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declined from about 1 million to 750000 and from 200000 adolescents to 175000 adolescents during 1975-89 and during the 1980s adolescent rates increased among males and females compared to other age groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the reasons for delay in accessing contraceptive services and found that the perception of birth control as dangerous is a barrier to contraception among those who had never used clinical services.

TL;DR: The data suggest that when education is presented by peer counselors, adolescents may be more likely to see AIDS as a personal danger and that peer counselors should be considered when designing comprehensive AIDS education programs.

TL;DR: An HIV peer education program is developed and pilot-test its effect on knowledge and sexual behavior and in routes by which HIV is not transmitted, methods of prevention, individuals at risk, and general information about AIDS is tested.

TL;DR: The present results are consistent with suggestions that meal size supplement has an effect on cognitive function.

TL;DR: Indicators related to behavioral and environmental variables that may help in the development of intervention and prevention strategies for this population of homeless and runaway youth are identified.

TL;DR: Patients with diabetes who reported drug use or who reported they live in an environment of substance abuse had poorer diabetes control than patients who did not.

TL;DR: Although single school-based AIDS/HIV education programs may increase knowledge, more extensive education may be needed to change the behavior and attitudes of older high school students.

TL;DR: Comparisons of clinic users and nonusers revealed differences in health- and mental health-related knowledge and behavior and access to needed care.

TL;DR: The Division of Adolescent Medicine, Childrens Hospital of Los Angeles, has learned a good deal about how to intervene effectively withaways and homeless young people and divert them from high-risk behaviors such as prostitution and drug abuse.

TL;DR: It is indicated that small but significant improvements in aerobic function can be expected from walking training in sedentary adolescents.

TL;DR: The homeless pregnant youths were younger, primarily white, and from outside Los Angeles County, and more likely to be diagnosed as depressed, to have previously attempted suicide, to having histories of sexual and physical abuse, and to being diagnosed as drug abusing.

TL;DR: The Safe Times Questionnaire is a potentially useful instrument to efficiently screen adolescents and had significantly higher accuracy in identification of subjects at risk for depression and family conflict.

TL;DR: In this paper, a questionnaire was sent to 1090 families with children attending two public high schools in a suburban community to determine how important the parents of teenagers consider adolescent health issues to be and the kind of involvement they would like from their schools and physicians.

TL;DR: Although there has been much progress, alcohol and other drug use and abuse in adolescents remains a major medical and public health problem and effective physician education strategies are needed to ensure appropriate practice behaviors among health care providers.

TL;DR: A 15-year-old female with acquired von Willebrand disease associated with hypothyroidism is presented and discussed and coagulation abnormality resolved.

TL;DR: The PAF showed that irrespective of diagnosis, severity of symptoms was not significantly different between adolescents and adults; however, when daughters and mothers were grouped according to mother's diagnosis, the PMS mother/daughter dyads experienced significantly more premenstrual symptoms when compared to the non-PMS mother/ daughter dyads.