UGA study explains why anti-smoking ads backfire or succeed
...are simply ineffective, while others actually make youth more likely to light up. Fortunately, some are suc...-smoking ads are most effective when they convince youth that their friends are listening to the ads. Otherwise, the ads appear to stimulate the rebellious a...Shoulder tapping -- Young males are most willing to purchase alcohol for underage youth
Many underage youth obtain their alcohol through social sources. A n...earch scientist at the Prevention Research Center, youth are more likely than adults to drink heavily and to the point of intoxication. Overall, it has been...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...rea, our results are likely generalizable to urban youth across the United States, the authors conclude. Qu...ns, educators and other professionals working with youth should be trained to routinely screen for violence victimization and should have a low threshold for...Leading prevention researchers meeting in Washington, D.C., May 30-June 1, 2007
...ings on a wide variety of health challenges facing youth and families. More than 250 researchers will prese...s may lie in research on preventing violence among youth in general. Researchers from one of the largest tests of violence prevention efforts to date will p...Access to alcohol among middle school children
...y has followed young, racially diverse, poor urban youth over a two and a half year period, observing patterns of social and commercial alcohol access in this manner. "Early onset of drinking leads to a long list of alcohol-related problems. It is important to educate parents about the consequences of a...Steps needed to reduce smoking in the US
...s. Launching additional efforts aimed at curbing youth interest in smoking and access to tobacco, includi...y not drop significantly below 15 percent and that youth smoking rates may not fall permanently below 20 percent unless the basic legal framework of the toba...Chunky adolescents' cardiovascular health is headed in wrong direction
...at risk of overweight compared with healthy-weight youth appear to have increased cardiovascular risks," the researchers write. "Although there is a continuum of cardiovascular risk across all levels of (body mass index), our data suggest that the at-risk-of-overweight status already has clinical implicati...Curb the pocket money, curb the problem drinking
...vention, and Policy. Teenagers who were members of youth groups or who had alcohol bought for them by parents were more likely to drink sensibly, the study also revealed. The authors highlight a number of potential interventions including limiting and monitoring young people's funds, upping the cost of ...Simple screening can help decrease teen risk behaviors
...ns be safer and healthier. Researchers studied 134 youth ages 12 to 19 with psychiatric disorders. Each study participant was given the adolescent risk inventory (ARI) (a paper and pencil measure). The ARI included questions about sexual history (have you ever been pregnant or been a dad?), self-harm (have...US child health system needs total overhaul, UCLA researchers say
...agnosable mental health and behavioral problems in youth has climbed to more than 20 percent, creating the ...e illnesses or infections, but todays children and youth face more chronic conditions that will impact them for the rest of their lives diseases like asthma...Conference honoring UH professor attracts researchers from United States, abroad
...lenging conditions during World War II as a Jewish youth in Nazi-occupied France, Glowinski went on to earn a bachelor's degree in communication engineering and worked as an engineer for the French broadcasting system. After earning master's and doctoral degrees in applied mathematics, he served from 19...Teenagers with retail, service jobs at risk of injury, robberies, sleep deprivation
... robberies were the cause of up to one half of all youth fatalities in the retail trade. "Many teenagers start working at an early age, and most find jobs in retail or service industries. Our aim is to examine the conditions under which they are working, and suggest ways to protect them at work," said le...Joint Principles of PC-MH released by organizations representing more than 300,000 physicians
...providing comprehensive primary care for children, youth and adults in a health care setting. The PC-MH facilitates partnerships between individual patients and their personal physicians and when appropriate the patients family. The Joint Principles define the following key characteristics of the PC-MH...Early sex may lead teens to delinquency, study shows
...arch shows. A national study of more than 7,000 youth found that adolescents who had sex early showed a ...tealing, or selling drugs. The study found that youth who had their sexual debut between the first and second surveys showed a 58 percent increase in deli...Wartime raises stress, blood pressure rates in military offspring
...d mounting casualties, these findings suggest that youth with family members in the military, particularly those deployed overseas, may warrant increased attention of parents, educators and counselors during this period of active conflict," researchers write. "Further research is warranted to determine whe...Treatment for homeless youth pays off in long run, study finds
...the few studies examining methods to help homeless youth found that a comprehensive intervention program ca...life situation. The six-month study of homeless youth in Albuquerque found that teens who completed the program significantly reduced their substance abus...Youth are receiving shorter inpatient stays for mental health treatment
...s have found that the inpatient length of stay for youth with mental illness fell more than sixty percent b...he average length of inpatient hospitalization for youth undergoing mental health treatment declined from 12.2 days to 4.5 days. "These trends prompt serious...UCLA study finds a need for services that help homeless youth obtain health insurance
...redictor of outpatient service use was whether the youth had health insurance, which those aged 18 and older were likelier to have compared with their younger peers. IMPACT: Youth with a history of homelessness are a vulnerable population at high risk for negative health outcomes. The findings suggest t...Effect of tobacco ads may backfire
...d on this study, which is the first to examine how youth are affected by parent-targeted ads sponsored by t...sure to tobacco company prevention advertising and youth smoking-related beliefs, intentions and behaviors. Researchers linked these data with Nielsen Media ...RAND study shows solitary drug, alcohol and cigarette use puts adolescents at higher risk
...f the study. "Solitary use is a warning sign that youth will be less productive and have more problems as young adults -- more problems, even, than others who also used substances during childhood. The challenge is to identify these at-risk children and find out what type of assistance might benefit them...