Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 2014"

TL;DR: Results of moderation analyses highlight the need for greater consensus in measurement approaches for both cyber and traditional bullying and suggest that polyaggression involvement should be a primary target for interventions and policy.

TL;DR: Self-report surveys in late adolescence reveal high rates of lifetime experience with sexual abuse and sexual assault at the hands of both adults and peers, particularly among the oldest youth.

TL;DR: The first nationally representative survey to report the health and well-being of students who report being transgender found that transgender students and those reporting not being sure are a numerically small but important group.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that friends' online behaviors should be considered a viable source of peer influence and that increased efforts should focus on educating adolescents on the negative effects of risky online displays.

TL;DR: The DSM-5 diagnosis of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) in children and adolescents with poor eating not associated with body image concerns was evaluated, finding patients with ARFID were demographically and clinically distinct from those with AN or BN.

TL;DR: Some Korean adolescents may be responding to advertising claims that e-cigarettes are a cessation aid: those who had made an attempt to quit were more likely to use e-cigarette but less likely to no longer use cigarettes.

TL;DR: Although the media has portrayed sexting as a problem caused by new technology, health professionals may be more effective by approaching it as an aspect of adolescent sexual development and exploration and, in some cases, risk-taking and psychosocial challenge.

TL;DR: Examination of key indicators in outcomes, behaviors, and health care over the past decade for U.S. adolescents and young adults shows that young adulthood continues to entail greater risk and worse outcomes than adolescence.

TL;DR: This study did not find increases in adolescent marijuana use related to legalization of medical marijuana and found no statistically significant differences in marijuana use before and after policy change for any state pairing.

TL;DR: The importance of considering factors such as perceived outcomes of reporting, perceived norms, and self-efficacy, in addition to knowledge, when analyzing concussion underreporting among adolescent athletes is suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, a longitudinal study examined the association between participation in school sport during adolescence and mental health in early adulthood and found that participation in sport was a statistically significant predictor of lower depression symptoms, lower perceived stress, and higher self-rated mental health.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present normative values of mean sleep duration from adolescence through young adulthood (ages 13e32 years), prevalence of short ( 10 hours) sleep durations, and differences in each by sex and race/ethnicity.

TL;DR: Among youth who report being bullied, differential power and repetition are useful in identifying youth who are more or less affected by the victimization experience and bullying and more generalized peer aggression are distinct or overlapping constructs.

TL;DR: Key strengths of this research are the large number of randomized controlled trials, the common use of multiple follow-up periods, and attention to a broad range of programs delivered in diverse settings.

TL;DR: Although heavier SNS use is associated with higher social competence for older adolescents, it is also associated with increased internalizing problems and diminished competencies in academics and activities, especially for younger adolescents.

TL;DR: Interventions targeting perpetration and victimization of IPV among adolescents can be effective, and are more likely to be based in multiple settings, and focus on key people in the adolescents' environment.

TL;DR: Having had any harassment experience was significantly associated with a variety of negative health and well-being outcomes among adolescents, and risk for these outcomes increases with the number of harassment types an adolescent experiences.

TL;DR: Investigating self-reported barriers to medication adherence among chronically ill adolescents found some barriers seem to be specific to adolescence; for example, relations to parents and peers and adolescent development.

TL;DR: Interventions that include parents of youth disproportionately affected by HIV/STIs and designed to improve parent-child communications about sex can effectively reduce sexual risk for youth.

TL;DR: Overall, sexual minority young women-especially those who identified as bisexual-were at higher sexual and reproductive risk than their heterosexual peers.

TL;DR: A multisectoral response is needed to prevent GBV against young women, mitigate its health impact, and hold perpetrators accountable even in disadvantaged urban settings that present a range of competing health threats.

TL;DR: Education and policy discouraging secondary task engagement, particularly for prolonged periods, is warranted because the longer the duration of eye glance away from the road the greater the risk, regardless of type of secondary task.

TL;DR: Elevated perceptions of having a caring female adult in the home and feeling connected to their neighborhoods were positively associated with adolescents' levels of hope across the sites while negatively associated with depression and posttraumatic stress symptoms with some variation across sites and gender.

TL;DR: History of concussion was associated with a higher prevalence of diagnosed depression in a large nationally representative adolescent data set and Clinicians should screen for depression in their adolescent patients with concussion.

TL;DR: Significant deterioration in glycemic control marks the first 6 years of diabetes for adolescents, and psychosocial burden, particularly poor diabetes-specific QOL, is a contributor to suboptimal glycemic outcomes.

TL;DR: Observed parallel increase in e-cigarette use and smoking prevalence does not support the idea that e-cigarettes are displacing tobacco cigarettes in this population of students in Poland.

TL;DR: Adolescent risk perception and descriptive norms are important predictors of adolescent distracted driving, but parent approval and peer approval of DDB were not predictive.

TL;DR: These findings underscore the significance of evaluating and monitoring bedtime in adolescents and the importance of intervention strategies that target bedtimes in an effort to reduce associated functional impairments, and improve academic and emotional outcomes.

TL;DR: The global trends and factors influencing self-medication (SM) among adolescents, including female gender, older age, maternal education, and familial practices, were reviewed to understand the links between various factors promoting SM.

TL;DR: Data was evaluated of patients with restrictive eating disorders to analyze demographics of diagnostic categories and predictors of weight restoration at 1 year, and only %MBMI at intake was a significant predictor of weight recovery.