Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 2005"

TL;DR: Parental expectations of adolescent alcohol use significantly moderated all structural relationships, and greater parental disapproval was associated with less involvement with friends and peers who use alcohol, less peer influence to usealcohol, greater self-efficacy for avoiding alcohol use, and lower subsequent alcohol use and related problems.

TL;DR: Self-report bias had significant consequences for the accuracy of a screen for overweight and obesity, and self-reports will remain an important health surveillance tool but should not be relied on exclusively to detect weight problems.

TL;DR: Pledgers are consistently less likely to be exposed to risk factors across a wide range of indicators, but their STD infection rate does not differ from nonpledgers.

TL;DR: Among the 8 programs that have follow-up data to age 18 or 12th grade, little to no evidence of long-term effectiveness is found, and only one study showed decreased smoking prevalence in the intervention group.

TL;DR: The mass media may be serving as a kind of sexual super peer for girls who enter puberty sooner than their age-mates, especially for earlier maturing girls, and these findings give cause for concern.

TL;DR: Girls who reported being teased by at least one sibling demonstrated significantly higher levels of body dissatisfaction, comparison, thin-ideal internalization, restriction, bulimic behaviors, depression, and significantly lower levels of self-esteem than those girls who reported they were not teased by their siblings.

TL;DR: Focus groups and individual interviews explored parental views on the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and found parents were generally positive about the HPV vaccine.

TL;DR: The present findings indicate that parent smoking contributes to the onset of daily smoking in their teenagers even if parents practice good family management, hold norms against teen tobacco use, and do not involve their children in their own tobacco use.

TL;DR: Youth-reported depressive symptomatology is associated with differences in online interactions and self-disclosure practices, and most gender-related variation reflected differences in the magnitude of Internet associations with depressive symptoms rather than the types of Internet use, access, or online communications.

TL;DR: The prevalence of six major-risk behaviors in adolescents in Bangkok was significantly high and several risk factors were identified, the knowledge from which may help to form preventive measures in this population.

TL;DR: Vaccination initiatives directed toward pediatricians that focus on modifiable predictors of intention to vaccinate, such as HPV knowledge and attitudes about vaccination, may facilitate adherence to emerging national immunization guidelines.

TL;DR: A qualitative review of the relevant literature, including research on knowledge and attitudes about HPV infection and its clinical sequelae, the acceptability of HPV vaccination to individuals and parents, and health care providers' attitudes about recommending HPV vaccination, suggests that most parents are interested in having their preadolescent and adolescent children vaccinated against HPV.

TL;DR: Nonmedical use of prescription opioids is a recurrent epidemic and valuable lessons from past epidemics of this nature can be learned if historical data are studied.

TL;DR: Most adolescent dating violence victims and perpetrators do not seek help, but males were more likely to seek help from professionals than females, and friends and family members are more common sources for help-seeking than professionals.

TL;DR: Most of these adolescents reported some connection with religious and spiritual concepts, and those with higher levels of spiritual well-being had fewer depressive symptoms and fewer risk-taking behaviors, supports the inclusion of these concepts in the efforts to help promote resilience and healthy adolescent development.

TL;DR: It was found that relative weight was associated with depressive symptoms for girls but not boys, and for both, the association between overweight status and symptoms of depression was stronger among adolescents in lower grades.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured popularity as the number of times a student was chosen as a friend and used multivariate logistic regression to correlate popularity with susceptibility to smoke and smoking at follow-up.

TL;DR: School-sponsored, male-dominated sports appeared to be associated with an increased substance use risk for males, whereas out-of-school, mixed-gender sports appearedto be for females.

TL;DR: HPV infection and the causal role that HPV plays in the development of low- and high-grade genital lesions, cervical cancer, and genital warts are discussed.

TL;DR: Future health promotion programs should consider factors of after-school programs such as quality, cost, and presence of safe adults when attempting to increase and maintain youth physical activity in lower income areas.

TL;DR: All published randomized controlled trials of secondary-school-based teen pregnancy prevention programs in the United States that used sexual behavior, contraceptive knowledge, contraceptive use, and pregnancy rates as outcomes are reviewed.

TL;DR: Social disadvantage is associated with increased stress, regardless of whether disadvantage is defined in terms of race or SES, which suggests that race and SES measure adversity in the social environment, and therefore, serve as risk markers, rather than risk factors.

TL;DR: Exploring the challenges faced when adolescents search for online health information indicates deficiencies regarding health literacy skills, and the Internet may offer opportunities for identifying such deficiencies and building better health Literacy skills among adolescents.

TL;DR: Future research should focus on the exact delineation of various subtypes of clinical presentations in partial ED and on evidence-based treatment and follow-up of these various situations.

TL;DR: Fewer adolescent girls than boys report high self-esteem, and adults may foster self- esteem in adolescents by providing positive communication through supportive and caring relationships.

TL;DR: School-based life skills education appears capable of communicating key information and helping youth develop skills relevant to reducing HIV risk, however, the South African national program has yet to be fully implemented and whether this initiative will result in sustained behavior modification among youth on a sufficient scale to affect the HIV/AIDS epidemic is uncertain.

TL;DR: Although a history of forced sexual intercourse affects a small number of adolescents, it is an important public health issue and the psychological and behavioral correlates of forced sexuality suggest that these youth have been harmed and may further place themselves in harm's way.

TL;DR: Parents' attitudes and behavioral factors associated with parental intent to vaccinate their adolescent children against sexually transmitted infections and adolescent intent to accept vaccination for the prevention of STI were identified.

TL;DR: Logistic regression analyses of 1996 cross-sectional data from 973 sexually active, dating female adolescents surveyed for wave II of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Public Use Dataset concluded physical abuse by an intimate partner is associated with pregnancy and current involvement in a verbally abusive relationship is associatedwith decreased condom use among sexually experienced female adolescents.

TL;DR: Regression modeling demonstrated that DCD was associated with increased body fat and low cardio-respiratory fitness, and physical activity was a significant mediator in the DCD-CF relationship.