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Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 2001"


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TL;DR: It is suggested that school environments are important contexts for understanding peer group influences on adolescent cigarette smoking.

551 citations


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TL;DR: Youth identified with substance problems are more likely to engage in risky sexual behaviors during adolescence and to continue riskySexual behaviors to the extent that substance problems persist, and risk reduction education should be included with adolescent substance abuse treatment.

475 citations


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TL;DR: Longitudinal studies are needed to determine whether dissatisfaction with life is a consequence or determinant of substance abuse behavior for adolescents.

345 citations


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TL;DR: Early experimenters and smokers are more likely than nonsmokers to experience various problem behaviors by grade 12, with many of these problems evident as early as grade 7, and substance use programs that target multiple problems in addition to smoking may be most effective for these high-risk adolescents.

268 citations


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TL;DR: Teenagers who perceive that they have a better level of communication with their parents are less likely to engage in sexual intercourse.

237 citations


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TL;DR: This study suggests peers and peer group behavior may be better predictors of adolescent health-risk behaviors than parental social influences among young adolescents.

235 citations


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TL;DR: Estimates ofinternal consistency reliability suggest that many of the multi-item measures have acceptable levels of internal consistency across grade, gender, and race/ethnic groups included in this nationally representative sample of adolescents.

225 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess adolescents' sources of health care information, explore beliefs about topics which health care providers should address and about those which have been addressed, and identify topics that are embarrassing for adolescents to discuss with providers.

224 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the prevalence of inhalant abuse in the United States, summarizes the various types of substances used, highlights the major physiologic effects of inhalants, and briefly discusses associated risk behaviors, prevention and medical management.

215 citations


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TL;DR: Whether the evidence supports a public health concern that violent video games contribute to real-life aggression is reviewed to determine.

177 citations


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TL;DR: This population of homeless adolescents appears to be higher in its high rate of injection drug use and the large proportion of females who identify as lesbian or bisexual than found in other studies.

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TL;DR: Intended and actual condom use in adolescents are best predicted by self-efficacy measures that include both global and relevant specific aspects of condom use.

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TL;DR: Factors that are associated with a wide range of health risk behaviors among adolescents in Brazil appear to parallel those found in industrialized countries: access to guns, substance use, and sexual abuse.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of acculturation on a healthy lifestyle including problem behaviors (substance use and sex acts) and health-promoting behaviors (e.g., seat belt use, vitamin intake, hours of sleep per night) among Latino adolescents were examined.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the association of psychological distress and health risk behaviors among HIV-infected adolescents, and found that higher levels of distress would be associated with increased sexual risk behaviors, and increased use of alcohol and drugs.

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TL;DR: Providers need to pay particular attention to adolescents with poorer metabolic control and impact of diabetes on quality of life when they intensify their treatment because they are less likely to reach treatment goals.

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TL;DR: Among sexually active adolescents, those who expressed confidence in putting on a condom, and in being able to refuse sex with a sexual partner, and who expressed more favorable outcome expectancies associated with using a condom were more likely to use condoms consistently.

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Charles J. Glueck1, Ping Wang1, Robert N. Fontaine1, Trent Tracy1, Luann Sieve-Smith1 •
TL;DR: Metformin safely ameliorates the endocrinopathy of PCOS in previously oligo-amenorrheic teenage females with PCOS, facilitating resumption of normal menses in most girls.

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TL;DR: Health insurance and family income are most consistently related to adolescents' use of preventive medical and dental care, however, the relationship between lack of dental care and place of birth emphasizes the need to improve access to dental services for immigrant teens.

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TL;DR: Overall, the project provides evidence that peer education is most effective at improving knowledge and promoting attitudinal and behavior change among young people in school settings.

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TL;DR: Students attending alternative high schools were at significantly greater risk than students in regular high schools for violence-related injury; suicide; human immunodeficiency virus infection or other sexually transmitted diseases; pregnancy; and development of chronic disease related to tobacco use, unhealthy dieting practices, and lack of vigorous activity.

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TL;DR: What distinguished each group of young people with disabilities from peers is that they reported significantly more exposure to risk factors and significantly fewer protective factors.

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TL;DR: Adolescents' perceptions of parental worry, lack of understanding, and resulting intrusive and blaming behaviors are major areas of conflict that need to be addressed in the management of type 1 diabetes.

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TL;DR: The neuropsychiatry of traumatic stress is underscored and more esoteric resiliency-building activities are discussed.

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TL;DR: The self-report CHQ is a reliable and seemingly valid measure of health and well-being for adolescent health research, although additional measures may be required where scales have high ceiling values.

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TL;DR: The framework of QoL proved useful in the evaluation of adolescents' engagement in health-risk behaviors and may provide information for planning interventions aimed at risk reduction among engagers and experimenters.

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TL;DR: Whether adolescents understand the risks of smoking when they decide to start is evaluated and perceptions of both personal and objective risks are related to plans to quit, particularly to the individual smoker.

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TL;DR: The strong association of prior smoking behavior and intentions with later smoking status among both adolescents and young adults underscores the importance of starting smoking prevention early and continuing it through high school.

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TL;DR: Adolescent vegetarians are at greater risk than others for involvement in unhealthy and extreme weight control behaviors and vegetarianism among adolescents may be a signal for preventive intervention.

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TL;DR: Computer users tended to engage in social-physical activities more frequently and had higher social support than nonusers, but among computer users, the amount of time spent daily on the computer was not associated with lifestyle.