Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescent Health in 2021"

TL;DR: Adolescents perceived various changes in their relationships with family and friends during COVID-19 and these perceived social and emotional changes were associated with elevated depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and loneliness in April 2020, controlling for mental health problems before the pandemic.

TL;DR: Overall levels of perceived stress and general anxiety symptoms and inequalities across each of these outcomes by gender, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and household income illustrate how the COVID-19 pandemic has generated educational, economic, and environmental stressors that are affecting college students' well-being.

TL;DR: Substantial evidence supports sex education beginning in elementary school, that is scaffolded and of longer duration, as well as LGBTQ-inclusive education across the school curriculum and a social justice approach to healthy sexuality.

TL;DR: U.S. young adults experience a significant mental health burden as a result of job insecurity amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and recent direct or household employment loss and expected direct or Household Pulse Survey loss were associated with a greater risk of poor mental health.

TL;DR: Efforts should focus on helping adolescents cultivate academic skills needed during school closures, providing mental/physical health resources and helping them navigate peer relationships-especially given ongoing remote education and social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used interrupted time series regression to examine pre-and postpandemic monthly summary data of the following: (1) ED-related inpatient admissions for medical stabilization; (2) EDrelated hospital bed-days; (3) completed outpatient ED assessments; and (4) ED outpatient care-related inquiries at a children's hospital in Boston, MA.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined intraindividual changes (from pre-COVID to during COVID) in young adults' alcohol and marijuana use, perceptions of peers' use, norms, and motives for use.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the mental health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in the United Kingdom as well as social, demographic, and economic variations in the impact.

TL;DR: Examination of the association of eating to cope with the pandemic with body weight change in young adults before versus after spread of COVID-19 found that individuals with higher baseline weight gained more weight if they engaged in eating to coping behaviors versus not.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review assesses evaluations published from 2000 to 2019 to shed light on what approaches work, especially at scale and sustainably, to prevent child marriage in low and middle-income countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conducted a retrospective analysis of all mental health-related emergency department visits in two large tertiary pediatric hospital centers between January 2018 and December 2020, and found an increase in the proportion of mental healthrelated ER visits during the months of July-December 2020.

TL;DR: The most frequently cited reasons for potentially rejecting vaccination included desire to wait and see if the vaccine is safe (56%), concerns over side effects (53%), and believing others are in greater need of the vaccine (44%) as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Results suggest minimal short-term effects of RML on adolescent substance use, with small declines in marijuana use and increase in the likelihood of any e-cigarette use.

TL;DR: Spending time on physical activities and maintaining daily living routines during the quarantine appear to be practical strategies that can be used by adolescents to mitigate the association between pandemic stressors and their diminishing mental health.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors aimed to understand the potential barriers and facilitators to COVID-19 vaccination among youth and found that most youth in a national sample were willing to receive a COVID19 vaccine when they believe it is safe and recommended.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the use of the Kids Helpline during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that the number of contacts about mental health, suicide/self-harm, and family relationships increased, with mental health contacts also increasing as a proportion of total contacts.

TL;DR: For instance, this article found that the prevalence of past-year major depressive episode (MDE) increased by 7.7 percentage points from 8.1% to 15.8% between 2009 and 2019.

TL;DR: This study gives first empirical evidence from multiple countries that an interplay of social-ecological resources (such as individual skills, peer, caregiver and community support, and educational aspirations and opportunities) matter for adolescent resilience.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated changes in early adolescent substance use during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic using a prospective, longitudinal, nationwide cohort.

TL;DR: In this convenience sample, parents and caregivers overwhelmingly expressed fear that the proposed legislation will lead to worsening mental health and increased suicidal ideation for their TGDY.

TL;DR: In this paper, an observational analysis of sequential TikTok videos with #coronavirus from January to March 2020 was performed to characterize COVID-19 content posted by users and disseminated via TikTok, a social media platform for viral video-sharing.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms among adolescents in mainland China under COVID-19 and found that positive youth development (PYD) qualities, as well as the moderating effect of PYD qualities on PTSD symptoms, were studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the rates of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for pediatric eating disorders before and during the first 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the correlates of different dimensions of subjective well-being in 10- to 16-year-olds from different cultural contexts during the COVID-19 pandemic in two high-income countries from Europe and one middle-income country from South America.

TL;DR: In this paper, a longitudinal study investigated how parental employment status (i.e., job loss and WFH) influenced adolescents' daily affect indirectly through family functioning and whether these links varied by family's socioeconomic status, finding that parents who experienced job loss demonstrated increases in parent-child conflict, which in turn predicted decreases in child positive affect and increases in child negative affect.

TL;DR: GnRHa cohort youth appear to be functioning better from a psychosocial standpoint than GAH cohort youth, pointing to possible benefits of accessing gender-affirming treatment earlier in life.

TL;DR: Food insecurity is associated with risk behaviors and self-reported STIs, including HIV, in young adulthood, and health care providers should screen for food insecurity in young adults and provide referrals when appropriate.

TL;DR: A need to target or adapt direct services and programming for sexual and gender minority adolescents with a heightened risk for depression and suicidality is indicated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used logistic regression to examine changes in the receipt of formal sex education by gender and race/ethnicity for content, timing, and location of instruction.

TL;DR: Examination of transgender youths' interest in receiving gender-affirming care via telemedicine or through primary care with telehealth support found many transgender youth expressed interest in receive gender care viatelehealth, particularly for ongoing care and monitoring.