Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 2018"

TL;DR: The prevalence and incidence of youth homelessness reveal a significant need for prevention and youth-centric systems and services, as well as strategies to address disproportionate risks of certain subpopulations.

TL;DR: For transgender youth who choose a name different from the one given at birth, use of their chosen name in multiple contexts affirms their gender identity and reduces mental health risks known to be high in this group.

TL;DR: College students of color represent a disparities population based on greater levels of unmet mental health needs relative to white students, and this paper takes an important step toward understanding these needs and points to implications for future research and practice.

TL;DR: A call is made for focused development of policy, theory, and evaluation of targeted interventions for this population, including gender-synchronized service model reform and training of staff, including the e-health domain, to yield significant social and economic benefits.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that 70.5% of TGNC adolescents were interested in adoption and 35.9% in biological parenthood; more gender-nonconforming adolescents than transgender youth expressed interest in biological fertility.

TL;DR: Sextortion incidents were serious victimizations, and often co-occurred with teen dating violence, and are described so that practitioners can help victims find support and legal advice and remove posted images.

TL;DR: Harmful impacts were manifest across a range of parent concerns and behaviors and are strong correlates of psychological distress, suggesting a need to consider pathways to citizenship for Latina/o parents so that these parents may effectively care for their children.

TL;DR: The current evidence base is equivocal with respect to changing overall dietary behaviors, as increasing intakes of desirable food groups were more successful than decreasing unfavorable food habits.

TL;DR: Among young people in Great Britain, ever e-cigarette use is associated with smoking initiation, and ever smoking is associated at follow-up with e-cigarettes initiation.

TL;DR: Gender- and sexuality-based harassment at school independently or interactively produced LGBT disparities in substance use and reducing these types of discrimination in schools will likely mitigate these disparities.

TL;DR: Despite national survey data suggesting no appreciable difference in adolescent marijuana use, the data demonstrate a significant increase in adolescentarijuana-associated emergency department and urgent cares visits in Colorado.

TL;DR: Concerns about confidential reproductive health care and experience with time alone with a provider and the association of these confidentiality issues with receipt of contraceptive services were examined to examine whether confidentiality issues were associated with obtaining contraceptive services among females.

TL;DR: Marginalized young people experience barriers in addition to those common to all young people, and the role of technology in access, engagement, and health system navigation should be considered.

TL;DR: AMSM's app-related sexual and HIV/sexually transmitted infection prevention decision-making should be investigated to guide sexual health education efforts for AMSM.

TL;DR: Improvements in contraceptive use-including increases in use of long-acting reversible contraception and withdrawal in combination with another method-appear to be driving recent declines in adolescent birth and pregnancy rates.

TL;DR: Young adults had significantly higher incidence rates than youth to initiate ever and current use of each/all tobacco products for all comparisons, a marked departure from prior decades of research.

TL;DR: Adolescents with endometriosis had significantly lower physical component summary and mental component summary scores compared to controls, as well as lower scores on all eight subscales of the Short Form-36, a widely used measure of health-related QOL.

TL;DR: Modator analyses indicated that prevalence rates for unwanted online exposure and solicitation have decreased over time, and prevalence varied as a function of gender (solicitations were higher for males), but not age or geographical location.

TL;DR: As students moved to higher grades, school connectedness decreased, and the likelihood of being a less frequent smoker, marijuana user, and binge drinker, and meeting physical activity guidelines declined, providing prospective evidence supporting the protective effects of schoolconnectedness on substance abuse and physical activity.

TL;DR: Addressing Gender Socialization and Masculinity Norms Among Adolescent Boys: Policy and Programmatic Implications Avni Amin, Ph.D.

TL;DR: After 15 years of research on youth-focused technology-based interventions, this meta-analysis demonstrates their promise to improve safer sex behavior and cognitions and adaptation to extend their protective effects over time.

TL;DR: JUUL's official Twitter account is being followed-and its messages are being shared-by adolescents, and Rigorous policies and prevention programs are needed to curb adolescent exposure to JUUL content and discussions online.

TL;DR: This study provides the first evidence linking SCT to suicidal behaviors in young adults with a substantial minority of college students report suicidal behaviors, with sex differences dependent on the specific behavior examined.

TL;DR: It is argued that more athletes and sports organizations should stop promoting unhealthy foods and beverages and work with health experts to encourage healthy eating habits among youth.

TL;DR: There were considerable differences in primary reasons for vaping and risk for traditional cigarette and other substance use, suggesting different intervention strategies may be needed for different subgroups of vapers.

TL;DR: Sexting increases significantly over the course of adolescence and educational efforts should pay attention to demographic and psychological characteristics of adolescents to tailor preventive programs and prevent possible negative outcomes of engaging in sexting.

TL;DR: Transgender/nonbinary students were significantly more likely to report sexual violence in athletic contexts and during volunteering activities compared to their cisgender peers, while variation occurred with regard to vulnerability across sexual identity subgroups.

TL;DR: This study demonstrates a significant rate of CST among patients presenting to emergency departments (for sexual violence complaints), child advocacy centers, and teen clinics, and one of the first CST screening tools specifically developed and evaluated in the healthcare setting.

TL;DR: Exploratory analyses suggest that weight labeling from family members is more strongly associated with disordered eating than labeling from nonfamily members.

TL;DR: Suicide admission counts following March 2017 were higher than predicted using the optimal model, suggesting an effect that temporally coincides with the release of 13 Reasons Why.