Browsing by Subject "Adolescent Behavior"
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Association of MDMA/ecstasy and other substance use with self-reported sexually transmitted diseases among college-aged adults: a national study.
(Public health, 2009-08-04)MDMA/ecstasy use among college students has increased and reportedly leads to risky sexual behaviours. However, little is known about its association with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). To evaluate this public health ... -
Community-wide job loss and teenage fertility: evidence from North Carolina.
(Demography, 2013-12)Using North Carolina data for the period 1990-2010, we estimate the effects of economic downturns on the birthrates of 15- to 19-year-olds, using county-level business closings and layoffs as a plausibly exogenous source ... -
Construct and differential item functioning in the assessment of prescription opioid use disorders among American adolescents.
(Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2009-05)OBJECTIVE:To examine the psychometric properties of diagnostic criteria for prescription analgesic opioid use disorders (OUDs) and to identify background predictors of a latent continuum for OUD liability. METHOD:Data were ... -
Correlates of handgun carrying among adolescents in the United States.
(Journal of interpersonal violence, 2012-07)Weapon-related violence, especially the use of handguns, among adolescents is a serious public health concern. Using public-use data file from the adolescent sample (N = 17,842) in the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and ... -
Effectiveness of mentoring programs for youth: a meta-analytic review.
(Am J Community Psychol, 2002-04)We used meta-analysis to review 55 evaluations of the effects of mentoring programs on youth. Overall, findings provide evidence of only a modest or small benefit of program participation for the average youth. Program effects ... -
Effects of statewide job losses on adolescent suicide-related behaviors.
(Am J Public Health, 2014-10)OBJECTIVES: We investigated the impact of statewide job loss on adolescent suicide-related behaviors. METHODS: We used 1997 to 2009 data from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey and the Bureau of Labor Statistics to estimate ... -
Factors Affecting Adolescents' Willingness to Communicate Symptoms During Cancer Treatment: A Systematic Review from the Children's Oncology Group.
(Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology, 2019-04)The purpose of this systematic review is to (1) synthesize evidence facilitators and barriers affecting adolescent willingness to communicate symptoms to health care providers (HCPs) and (2) create practice recommendations. ... -
Identifying Adolescent Patients at Risk for Sexually Transmitted Infections: Development of a Brief Sexual Health Screening Survey.
(Clinical pediatrics, 2015-08)This study examined the association between survey responses to health behaviors, personality/psychosocial factors, and self-reported sexually transmitted infections (STIs) to create a brief survey to identify youth at risk ... -
Psychiatric symptoms and substance use disorders in a nationally representative sample of American adolescents involved with foster care.
(The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2006-04)To ascertain the prevalence of psychiatric symptoms and substance use disorders among adolescents with a lifetime history of foster care placement, using data from a nationally representative sample of U.S. adolescents.We ... -
Risk profiles among adolescent nonmedical opioid users in the United States.
(Addictive behaviors, 2012-08)Although prior research has provided data on nonmedical use of opioids in adolescents, studies examining the heterogeneity of risk are limited. The present study extends prior research by deepening the understanding of adolescent ... -
Sex, temperament, and family context: how the interaction of early factors differentially predict adolescent alcohol use and are mediated by proximal adolescent factors.
(Psychol Addict Behav, 2011-03)Adolescent alcohol use is common and has serious immediate and long-term ramifications. While concurrent individual and context factors are robustly associated with adolescent alcohol use, the influence of early childhood ... -
The relationship between employment and substance use among students aged 12 to 17.
(The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2003-01)PURPOSE:To examine the association between employment status and substance use among students aged 12 to 17 years. METHODS:Secondary analysis of data from the 1995 and 1996 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse was conducted. ... -
This is your teen brain on drugs: In search of biological factors unique to dependence toxicity in adolescence.
(Neurotoxicology and teratology, 2020-09)Response variability across the lifespan is an important consideration in toxicology and risk assessment, and the toxic effects of drugs and chemicals during adolescence need more research. This paper summarizes a workshop ... -
Treatment use and barriers among adolescents with prescription opioid use disorders.
(Addictive behaviors, 2011-12)This study examined national trends, patterns, correlates, and barriers to substance abuse treatment use by adolescents aged 12-17 years who met at least one of the past-year criteria for prescription opioid abuse or dependence ...
