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Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 2003"


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TL;DR: Researchers should familiarize themselves with the threats to validity inherent in this type of assessment and design research that minimizes these threats as much as possible.

1,288 citations


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TL;DR: Parental presence at the evening meal is positively associated with adolescents' higher consumption of fruits, vegetables, and dairy foods and Nutrition and health professionals should educate parents about the role of family mealtimes for healthy adolescent nutrition.

728 citations


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TL;DR: Self-reported height, weight, and BMI calculated from these values were highly reliable but were discrepant from measured height, Weight, and BMIs calculated from measured values, which underestimate the prevalence of overweight in adolescent populations.

574 citations


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TL;DR: Although monitoring is an important practice for parents of older adolescents, managing their behavior through negotiation of unsupervised time may have mixed results leading to increased experimentation with sexuality and substances, but perhaps in a more responsible way.

565 citations



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TL;DR: The notion that mothers who communicate with their daughters about sex can affect their daughters' sexual behaviors in positive ways support the design and implementation of family-based approaches to improve parent-adolescent sexual risk communication as one means of reducing HIV-related sexual risk behaviors among inner-city adolescent females.

422 citations


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TL;DR: Examination of the relationship between adolescent sexual risk-taking and perception of parental monitoring, frequency of parent-adolescent communication, and parenting style found that parenting style, gender, age and ethnicity are all important variables to consider when examining sexual risks among adolescents.

403 citations


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TL;DR: College students who reported that they were exposed to "wet" environments were more likely to engage in binge drinking than were their peers without similar exposures, and finding held up in multivariate analyses that included variables describing person and social group characteristics.

346 citations


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TL;DR: A shift in thinking about what youth need for successful (productive) adulthood is behind recent efforts to increase the supply of afterschool activities, such as the federal government’s funding of 21st Century Learning Centers.

343 citations


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TL;DR: This position statement represents a consensus from Adolescent Medicine specialists from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia regarding the diagnosis and management of eating disorders in adolescents.

302 citations


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TL;DR: These guidelines provide a framework to interpret the federal regulations for protection of human subjects in light of the unique legal, ethical, developmental, contextual, and racial issues that affect adolescents.

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TL;DR: Despite the marked increase in risk behaviors during mid-adolescence, monitoring and peer involvement both influenced adolescent behaviors across each cohort.

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TL;DR: The number of interventions that have undergone rigorous evaluations has increased significantly during the last decade and in this article this emerging body of evidence is reviewed and synthesized with an eye toward advancing the understanding of “what works” in ARH programming in developing countries.

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TL;DR: A population with potentially high levels of information need who are facing considerable barriers to addressing these needs is highlighted, and steps taken to improve adolescent-health professional communication need to address a range of practical, attitudinal and behavioral factors.

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TL;DR: Results indicate that adolescents who had higher religiosity scores were significantly more likely to have higher self-efficacy in communicating with new, as well as steady male partners about sex; about STDs, HIV, and pregnancy prevention; and in refusing an unsafe sexual encounter.

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TL;DR: Teasing about body weight was consistently associated with low body satisfaction, low self-esteem, high depressive symptoms, and thinking about and attempting suicide, even after controlling for actual body weight.

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TL;DR: This study supports the view that SBHCs provide complementary services and shows their unique role in improving utilization of mental health services by hard-to-reach populations.

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TL;DR: Discriminant functions using constructs of the Theory of Planned Behavior, as well as the need for intimacy in relationships and motives for sex, were found to distinguish significantly between adolescents who always had protected sexual intercourse and adolescents who did not.

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TL;DR: Results suggest that a significant minority of adolescents have some ambivalence toward pregnancy relative to their peers and that these attitudes are predictive of the occurrence of pregnancy.

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TL;DR: It is necessary to identify the factors that protect black female adolescents from substance use and address demographic factors such as race classification and gender analytically if one is to avoid obscuring differences among groups.

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TL;DR: Adolescents who engage in sequential or concurrent sexual relationships differ in some important demographic, behavioral, and social characteristics and have a significantly greater risk for STDs over and above the number of sexual partners.

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TL;DR: Gender and racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of cigarette smoking for weight loss or control in an adolescent population-based sample are described, and relationships among heavy smoking, weight concerns and smoking to lose or control weight are evaluated.

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TL;DR: The Gatehouse Project drew on both health and education research to develop and coordinate a broad-based school health promotion intervention and represents a promising new direction for school-based preventive work.

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TL;DR: The literature pertaining to two DSM-IV-defined disorders (anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa), a DSM- IV-defined research disorder (binge eating disorder), and three DSM-PC- defined disorders (dieting/body image and purging/binge-eating behaviors) are reviewed, highlighting those findings that pertain to disordered eating in adolescent boys.

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TL;DR: A need for health care providers and parents to have open discussions about the nature and extent to which providers assist families in key transition activities is suggested.

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TL;DR: Overall, a greater level of acculturation was associated with greater alcohol use, but when parental attachment was taken into account, highly acculturated adolescents with moderate or high parental attachment had no greater risk than adolescents with same levels of parental attachment who were less accULTurated.

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TL;DR: Results point to several smoking-related attitudes, social influences, and behaviors that prevention efforts may target to curb the escalation of smoking.

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TL;DR: The workplace may be an appropriate venue for establishing substance use prevention and early intervention programs focused on younger workers, including adolescents who work part time, according to secondary analysis of data from the 1995 and 1996 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse.

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TL;DR: The findings demonstrate a cardiovascular vagal hyperactivity in AN, which appears to influence the ventricular diastolic dynamics, and HRV and diastolics function analysis may represent useful tools in monitoring anorexia-induced cardiac modifications.

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TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated the pattern of weight perception and its relationship with psychological distress among Chinese adolescents. And they found that perceived underweight was more likely to occur in boys and perceived overweight in girls, whereas relatively more boys misclassified their weight status as underweight.