Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 2004"

TL;DR: Findings support the utility of a dual strategy of reducing risk factors while enhancing protective factors in the lives of adolescents.

TL;DR: The most consistent antecedent risk factors for starting to drink in adolescence were parental and peer approval and models for drinking and drug use as well as adolescents' own prior involvement in delinquent behavior.

TL;DR: The results suggest that physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors are strongly related to obesity in Canadian adolescents.

TL;DR: Researchers should investigate the impact of providing or limiting confidential adolescent health services on specific health outcomes, inform strategies to address system-level barriers to provision of confidential adolescent services, and define ways that health care professionals can encourage parentteen communication without losing the trust of adolescent patients.

TL;DR: Analysis of adolescent sexual risk-reduction programs that were evaluated using quasi-experimental or experimental methods and published in the 1990s suggest four overall factors that may impact program effectiveness including the extent to which programs focus on specific skills for reducing sexual risk behaviors.

TL;DR: A comprehensive literature search was conducted that included WHO's Global Burden of Disease, UNFPA's State of the Worlds' Population, Medline, Popline, Sociological Abstracts, as well as data collected from UNICEF, UNAIDS, Population Reference Bureau, and the United Nations Headquarters as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Inter-country influences on youth substance use are generally similar despite different policy directions, and existing differences suggest that the abstinence policy context is associated with higher levels of illicit drug use and stronger relations between individual indicators of social detachment and substance use.

TL;DR: Family meals have the potential to play an important role in the prevention of unhealthy weight control behaviors among youth and it is suggested that attention needs to be directed toward increasing family meal frequency and creating a positive environment for family meals.

TL;DR: The characteristics of episodes in which juveniles became victims of sex crimes committed by people they met through the Internet, including 13- through 15-year-old teenage girls who met adult offenders in Internet chat rooms are described.

TL;DR: In all surveys, nonresponse rates for orientation questions were similar to other sexual questions, but not higher; younger students, immigrants, and students with learning disabilities were more likely to skip items or select "unsure."

TL;DR: Combining various ethnic groups under a single "Asian" category obscures important group differences in BMI and body/self dissatisfaction, and study clearly demonstrates Asian ethnic subgroup differences in body/ self dissatisfaction.

TL;DR: The majority of these young people in New South Wales (particularly males) do not seek health care despite identifying a broad range of issues that affect their health.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found that consumption of presweetened cereals increased the likelihood of meeting recommendations for the essential shortfall micronutrients calcium, folate, and iron, whereas the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, sugars and sweets, and sweetened grains decreased the likelihood to meet the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI) for these nutrients.

TL;DR: Smoking was associated with both alcohol use and physical activity and therefore has a central role among health behaviors and therefore had the strongest level of continuity.

TL;DR: Psychosocial factors, particularly norms about having sex, influence initiation of sexual intercourse among middle-school, inner-city youth, and data suggest that programs to delay initiation ofSexual intercourse should reinforce norms about refraining from sex.

TL;DR: Indicators of substance abuse and other health risk behaviors were strongly associated with sexual victimization among adolescent females.

TL;DR: A reasonably coherent notion of HRQOL underlies instruments available for children and adolescents and measurement in young people is still in its developmental step.

TL;DR: A need to develop age-appropriate strategies to promote the health of refugee youth to facilitate their successful adaptation to adult life in the United States is suggested.

TL;DR: M Males reporting exclusively same-sex relationships were less likely than females to report experiencing the violence behaviors examined, and adolescents who reported that religion was important to them and teenagers who attended larger schools were at lower risk of "any violence."

TL;DR: The support needs and challenges faced by adolescent mothers and their children, the support resources available to and accessed by adolescent parents, and existing support-education intervention studies are described to provide directions for future research.

TL;DR: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder was a significant predictor of having an accident claim and ADHD patients had a greater probability of having at least one accident claim than their controls for children, adolescents, and adults.

TL;DR: A longitudinal comparison of bone mineral density in 370 adolescent girls who self-selected depot medroxyprogesterone acetate or an oral contraceptive containing 20 microg ethinyl estradiol/100 microg levonorgestrel with that in girls who received no hormonal treatment contributes to an increasing body of knowledge indicating a negative impact of DMPA on bone health in young women.

TL;DR: Specific youth assets may have a protective effect from certain sexual risk behaviors, and Peer Role Model and Family Communication assets were each significantly associated with birth control use by sexually active youth.

TL;DR: Safer Choices reduced one or more measures of sexual risk taking over 31 months among all groups of youth, and was especially effective with males, Hispanics, and youth who engaged in unprotected sex and thus were at higher risk for HIV, other STD infections and pregnancy.

TL;DR: Even teenagers without chronic illness have thoughts about end-of-life issues and have opinions remarkably similar to those of chronically ill teens, and those who are chronically ill are less likely to wish to discuss EOL issues early in their illness.

TL;DR: Perceived consequences, parent and adult relative provision of alcohol, and drinking with a parent were protective of underage drinking and providing alcohol at a party was associated with a two-fold increase in past 30-day use and binge drinking.

TL;DR: A school-based intervention targeting sedentary adolescent females can increase physical activity and prevent a decline in cardiovascular fitness and psychosocial factors related to exercise.

TL;DR: These findings may direct efforts for prevention and intervention of adolescent smoking behavior and may also provide guidance for future studies.

TL;DR: A single session school-based peer sexual health intervention resulted in the development of normative beliefs about abstinence that were sustained over a 6-month period, andNormative beliefs about condoms took longer to develop.

TL;DR: A lower educational level is associated with higher prevalence of indicators of an unhealthy lifestyle and the results are less straightforward for the relationship between SES and lifestyle behaviors.