Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 1994"

TL;DR: The published literature suggests that prenatal care regimens which provide social and behavioral services along with medical care could improve both the health of the mother and the outcome of her pregnancy.

TL;DR: The high consumption of carbonated beverages and the declining consumption of milk are of great public health significance for girls and women because of their proneness to osteoporosis in later life.

TL;DR: Although adolescents with chronic conditions do less well than adolescents without chronic conditions, having a disability is not the most influential factor on emotional well-being and family connectedness is of fundamental importance for adolescents' emotional health.

TL;DR: Data support the hypothesis that exposure to, and being a victim of, violence is associated with the frequency of fighting by adolescents, and adolescents who are future-oriented and goal-directed and from more secure families are hypothesized to report less fighting behavior.

TL;DR: Intensive AIDS education provided in jail can be useful in reducing certain HIV risk behaviors of criminally-involved male adolescents, particularly around condom use and positive attitudes towards condoms.

TL;DR: Given the importance of some of the undesirable consequences of sexual activity in adolescents, such as AIDS and unwanted pregnancy, accurate and up-to-date information on sexual behavior of this age group is crucially important.

TL;DR: The absence of negative attitudes toward having babies rather thannegative attitudes toward contraceptives is the most commonly cited reason for nonuse of contraceptives among childbearing adolescents, which may enable health care and social service providers to design more effective programs for preventing first and subsequent adolescent pregnancies.

TL;DR: Evidence also supports the existence of sex-related differences in pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic differences, with women appear to be more prone to develop torsades de points from drugs such as quinidine and procainamide than men.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the transfer needs/concerns of adolescents and young adults with sickle cell disease (SCD) and their primary caretakers with regard to transfer to adult care.

TL;DR: Participants' sexual histories and behavior emphasize the need for concern regarding AIDS risk in this population of sexually active, adolescent girls and programs aimed at AIDS prevention among urban minority adolescents need to be cognizant of the larger personal and sociocultural context.

TL;DR: The nutrition and fitness messages in this magazine for adolescent women emphasize body shape and appearance, similar to findings from adult women's magazines, and contribute to the cultural milieu in which thinness is an expectation for women.

TL;DR: Adolescent health care providers should assess patients for sexually coercive behavior if they report childhoodSexual abused adolescents were twice as likely to report sexual aggression, and six times more likely toReport sexual victimization and the co-occurrence of sexual aggression and victimization.

TL;DR: Interventions designed to increase condom use among sexually active incarcerated adolescents should include a component addressing sexual communication practices, according to respondents who communicated with their sex partner(s) about each others' sexual history.

TL;DR: On average, the adolescents consumed diets that were low in several essential vitamins and minerals and high in some nutrients related to increased incidence of chronic disease, in particular the black and Southern females.

TL;DR: Compliance with HIV risk reduction improved over time and Constructive change most often involved the practices of anal intercourse and, to a lesser extent, oral sex.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that many runaway and homeless adolescents have obtained an HIV antibody test and that those with known risk factors are more likely to have been tested, which supports the need for community-based expansion of HIV-related services for homeless youth.

TL;DR: Owing to its effectiveness, acceptability, and low cost, this program may become useful in reaching adolescents unable to participate in longer-term sex education programs in Peru and elsewhere.

TL;DR: The daughters of short women matured early and continued growing heavier, but they stopped growing taller and were overtaken in height by the later-maturing daughters of tall women.

TL;DR: Variables representing conventional sociological theories have often been treated as the immediate causal factors in juvenile delinquency, but their impact may be mediated through factors such as impulsiveness and an attraction to thrill-seeking and risk-taking.

TL;DR: Interventions targeted at African-American and white males and females in detention need not differ greatly in content as long as they include the most salient concerns of each group, including the two protective benefits of condom use and STD prevention.

TL;DR: Early environment and race influence later sexual behavior and early age at first sexual intercourse are shown to be significant predictors of having multiple recent sex partners.

TL;DR: A checklist was developed to assist physicians and other health care professionals in posing appropriate questions when reading or reviewing research articles to cast doubts on the stated conclusions.

TL;DR: New information on background levels of adolescents' knowledge of, attitudes about and experience with violence and regression analyses suggest that preventive interventions should be directed to both improving adolescents'knowledge and understanding of personal risk and increasing their repertoire of conflict-resolution skills.

TL;DR: Adolescent psychotropic drug use was related to current depressive mood or somatic complaints, and to consumption of psychotropic drugs during childhood, and current depression and past psychotropic use between the ages of 6-12 years were the major associated factors of adolescent consumption.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that street youths are at higher risk for HIV infection than their home-based peers and indicates a need for HIV prevention programs targeting this population.

TL;DR: Analyzing food preferences, eating patterns, and physical activity patterns in a cohort of adolescent females and males participating in a longitudinal study of the developmental antecedents of eating disorders showed similar factor structures for food preferences and eating patterns among males and females.

TL;DR: This negative result implies that the dis-inhibiting effect of alcohol is not a major factor in the failure of young adults to use condoms, and weakens the hypothesis that they are causally related.

TL;DR: Assessment of changes in aggressive behaviors as related to progression from early to late puberty in normal adolescents suggests that groups of boys and girls who report similar aggression characteristics and have similar growth and pubertal characteristics can be identified.

TL;DR: Results indicate that for some mothers there exists a triple jeopardy of low parenting confidence, high parenting stress, and inappropriate parenting values and suggest the presence of meaningful patterns of convergence and within-group variation for the psychological qualities of adolescent mothers' parenting.

TL;DR: Among adolescents who obtained prenatal care in a multidisciplinary adolescent-oriented maternity program, the offer of an incentive significantly improved compliance with the 6-week postpartum appointment.