Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 1996"

TL;DR: The Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development as mentioned in this paper was established by Andrew Carnegie to stimulate sustained public attention to the risks and opportunities of the adolescent years and generate public and private support for measures that would facilitate the critical transition to adulthood.

TL;DR: It is suggested that future investigations consider the nature of the sexual relationship, and go beyond studying the length or status of the relationship to explore how variation in relationship dimensions such as trust and intimacy affect adolescents' sexual behavior.

TL;DR: Findings suggest Hispanic and Asian girls may be at greater risk for adopting eating disorder behaviors than previously recognized and body dissatisfaction is not limited to white girls in middle and upper socioeconomic strata.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that adolescents with chronic conditions are at least as sexually involved as their peers, and significantly more likely to have been sexually abused than their non-chronic conditions.

TL;DR: With further validation, the QOLPAV could be used to assess current states of coping and functioning, identify adolescents' service needs, develop health enhancing environments, and assess the effects of illness and treatments.

TL;DR: There are a number of critical areas of risk for adolescents with physical disabilities to which health promotion efforts should be directed, including lower levels of peer integration, heightened adult orientation, low educational aspirations, and poor knowledge of sexuality.

TL;DR: The strong links between violence, drug use, and delinquency argue for prevention/intervention programs that take into account the clustering of these behaviors, while the contribution of weak familial and school bonds point to the need for efforts to strengthen these institutions.

TL;DR: Different aspects of adolescents' food consumption behavior may be influenced by different factors, which may vary between males and females, and nutrition and health professionals should tailor educational and treatment strategies according to both the gender of their patients and the specific desired dietary outcomes.

TL;DR: Chronic illnesses were associated with substantive emotional distress and suicide ideation in females but not in males, suggesting serious shortcomings in identification of "at-risk" youth and effective outreach to this population.

TL;DR: Temporal linkages among childhood precursors and adolescent sexual behaviors were identified as critical to understanding adolescent risk behaviors and may identify potential targets for future intervention/prevention efforts among high risk subsamples of children and adolescents.

TL;DR: School-based health centers can increase students' health knowledge and access to health-related services, but more intensive or different services are needed if they are to significantly reduce risk-taking behaviors.

TL;DR: It is concluded that self-esteem does not follow the same developmental pattern in black as in white girls and a reason for black girls' higher and more stable self-worth and their greater satisfaction with their physical appearance compared to white girls may be racial differences in attitudes toward physical appearance and obesity.

TL;DR: Data from the 1990 North Carolina Youth Risk Behavior Survey were used to examine adolescents' perceptions of relative weight and the relationship of these perceptions to physical activity levels, efforts to lose weight, and time spent viewing television.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors determined the prevalence of abnormalities in weight, eating attitudes, and eating behaviors among an urban teenage population and found that 25% of students were obese, 18% were overweight, and 5% were underweight.

TL;DR: Primary care physicians provide STD/HIV preventive services to adolescents at rates far below those recommended by current guidelines, and variation owing to physician and practice-related factors is identified.

TL;DR: A young father's financial insecurity or confusion about child care was most likely to lead to a stated disinterest, and that disinterest predicted uninvolvement in child rearing.

TL;DR: The changing alliance over time between men who father their babies and the young mothers and their children is discussed, with a focus on the relationship between partner support and three outcomes for the mothers: educational outcomes, economic outcomes, and psychological well-being.

TL;DR: Among this population of urban teenagers there are many who have witnessed violence and a subgroup who are at increased risk for mental health problems and a comprehensive medical and psychosocial history should include a violence assessment for all urban teens.

TL;DR: Interventions designed to increase the consistency with which adolescents use condoms should take into account the different types of sexual relationships, each with distinct expectancies about the consistency of condom use.

TL;DR: Although multigenerational families may be protective for some teen parents and their young children, grandmother co-residence was not associated with maternal warmth and was associated with less optimal motor development with the added stress of a poorly growing child.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided descriptive, longitudinal data on the substance use behavior of a cohort of adolescent mothers, and found that regular use before and after pregnancy, but not during it, was the most common pattern of substance use.

TL;DR: Access to school-based, primary health care for adolescents was associated with increased use of primary care, reduced use of emergency rooms, and fewer hospitalizations.

TL;DR: The data indicate that most of these urban youth had athletic involvement, many had unrealistic expectations for their futures, and some utilized unhealthy behaviors in an attempt to enhance performance.

TL;DR: The conflict resolution curriculum was more effective in reducing the frequency of fights resulting in an injury requiring medical treatment in the previous 30 days, but both curricula were successful in reducing three indicators of violence.

TL;DR: The data suggest that social cognitive behavioral models that incorporate intentions and perceptions are appropriate as the theoretical basis for interventions targeting these young adolescents.

TL;DR: Diverse literatures and cross-disciplinary perspectives are organized into an integrative framework for the study of resilience among African-American youth exposed to violence to address the meaning of competence and mechanisms of familial and external support that are salient within the African- American community.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the reasons for discontinuation of the long-acting contraceptives Depo-Provera and Norplant in adolescents, and assessed the adolescents' experience after discontinuation.

TL;DR: Given that PTB contributes heavily to infant mortality, the program's effect on PTB is promising, and these findings were supported by analyses using a second comparison group.

TL;DR: Adolescents in this study were at high risk for cervicitis, particularly as a result of C. trachomatis, and the importance of repeat screening for sexually transmitted infections and treatment of contacts of adolescent females is underscore.