Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 2013"

TL;DR: There appears to be a substantial, although not perfect, overlap between involvement in traditional bullying and cyberbullying and the physical, psychological, and academic correlates of the two types of bullying resembled one another.

TL;DR: The summary concludes with a brief look at global and regional initiatives that provide a window of opportunity for stepping up action in this important area.

TL;DR: Treatments focusing on enhancing perceived meaning in life and building positive relationships with others, particularly parents, may be particularly effective in reducing suicide risk among youth with a history of NSSI.

TL;DR: CB is predictive of some significant psychological and behavioral health problems among adolescents and intervention efforts should pay attention to these in the prevention and treatment of consequences of CB.

TL;DR: Parental support is associated with higher quality of life and is protective against depression in transgender adolescents, and interventions that promote parental support may significantly affect the mental health of transgender youth.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the association between social networking site (SNS) use and depression in older adolescents using an experience sample method (ESM) approach and found no associations were seen between SNS use and either any depression ( p =.519) or moderate to severe depression (p =.470).

TL;DR: Results suggest that sexting is robustly associated with high-risk sexual behavior, and at least some participants in this study were incurring new sexual risks after sexted.

TL;DR: These eight domains provide a practical framework for assessing how well services are engaging young people and should address universally applicable indicators of youth-friendly care and may benefit from additional questions that are specific to the local health setting.

TL;DR: The results suggest that sexting is not related to sexual risk behavior or psychological well-being, and suggest directions for further research on sexted are proposed.

TL;DR: There are several barriers to concussive symptom reporting in high school athletics, and athlete concussion knowledge does not seem to be a barrier, but coach approachability may be an issue.

TL;DR: The results of the study suggest that child marriage is significantly associated with a history of rapid repeat childbirth, current modern contraceptive use, female sterilization, not using contraception before first childbirth, pregnancy termination, unintended pregnancy, and inadequate use of maternal health services, although the associations are not always consistent across countries.

TL;DR: The results of this study indicate that the onset of depression during adolescence may be indicative of problems of adaptation that persist at least a decade into early adulthood.

TL;DR: Screen-based sedentary behavior is associated with a range of adverse health consequences, but additional longitudinal studies are needed to better understand the health impacts.

TL;DR: Results suggest that SS-SSTP holds promise as an efficacious prevention program to reduce physical aggression in adolescent youth and note significant reductions in self-reported physical aggression within a 1-year period.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed original research published in peer-reviewed journals between 1985 and 2010 to synthesize evidence about the association of adolescent health-risk behaviors and academic achievement.

TL;DR: Adolescents involved in DV had similar probabilities of reporting perpetration and victimization, suggesting violence within relationships may be mutual, and the three-class model distinguished involvement in verbal and physical acts.

TL;DR: Inclusive anti-bullying policies may exert protective effects for the mental health of lesbian and gay youths, including reducing their risk for suicide attempts.

TL;DR: Among the nearly two-thirds of adolescents with management and control that do not meet treatment targets, modifiable and nonmodifiable factors may signal the need for prevention or intervention.

TL;DR: This study addresses a gap in evidence regarding the nature and origins of the phenomenon of sexting from the perspective of young people, and highlights the theme of pressure experienced by both young women and young men to be involved in the behavior.

TL;DR: Leftover prescription opioids from previous prescriptions represent a major source of nonmedical use of prescription opioids among high school seniors and indicate that enhanced vigilance is needed when prescribing and monitoringcription opioids among adolescents, to reduce leftover medications and non medical use.

TL;DR: Findings highlight that at a bivariate level, involvement in bullying in any capacity is linked to increased risk for suicidal ideation and behavior, and echoes previous literature documenting particularly strong mental health implications for bully-victims.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that family functioning may be protective for adolescent weight and weight-related health behaviors across all race/ethnicities, although assumptions regarding family functioning in the homes of overweight children should be avoided, given small effect sizes.

TL;DR: In this article, a narrative systematic review was conducted to assess the effectiveness of interventions involving parents or carers intended to improve the sexual health of their children, and they identified adequately robust evaluations of 44 programs, delivered in diverse settings.

TL;DR: Results suggest that certain types of SSNRs between parents and other adults may decrease maltreatment continuity, which is consistent with several other studies, which find that child malt treatment in one generation is positively related to child maltreatment in the next generation.

TL;DR: Most adolescent males were aware of e-cigarettes, and a substantial minority were willing to try them, and regulatory and behavioral interventions are needed to prevent "gateway" use by adolescent nonsmokers.

TL;DR: The findings from this national study of 10th-grade students indicate high rates of substance and polysubstance use and the high level of depressive and somatic symptoms among polySubstance users indicates the need for mental health screening and referral.

TL;DR: A range of risk and protective factors were associated with suicidal ideation and a suicide attempt among youth involved in verbal and social bullying and parent connectedness was a cross-cutting protective factor.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that being victimized by a dating partner may result in detrimental consequences for adolescents, and the importance of identifying and implementing evidence-based interventions for preventing dating abuse, including efforts to prevent psychological abuse specifically.

TL;DR: Proposed DSM-5 criteria substantially decreased the frequency of ED not otherwise specified diagnoses and increased the number of cases of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa in a population of young patients presenting for ED treatment.

TL;DR: Safe, stable, nurturing relationships between intimate partners and between mothers and children are associated with breaking the cycle of abuse in families.