Adolescent Health

Journal Article

Assessing Measurement Invariance of Familism and Parental Respect Across Race/Ethnicity in Adolescents — Sep 1, 2012

Familism and parental respect are culturally derived constructs rooted in Hispanic and Asian cultures, respectively.

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Is There a Robust Relationship Between Neighbourhood Food Environment and Childhood Obesity in the USA? — Sep 1, 2012

To the extent that there is an association between food environment and youth obesity, the existence of more types of food outlets in an area, including supermarkets, is associated with higher BMI.

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Racial/ethnic Differences in the Influence of Cultural Values, Alcohol Resistance Self-Efficacy, and Alcohol Expectancies on Risk for Alcohol Initiation — Aug 6, 2012

Cultural values affect the likelihood that adolescents will begin to use alcohol.

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Peer Influence on Youth's Snack Purchases: A Laboratory Analog of Convenience Store Shopping — Aug 1, 2012

This paper reports the results of two experiments using a laboratory analog to examine the influence of taxes and subsidies on youth's snack food purchases when alone and when in the presence of a same-gender peer.

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Legacy for Children: A Pair of Randomized Controlled Trials of a Public Health Model to Improve Developmental Outcomes Among Children in Poverty — Aug 1, 2012

The Legacy for Children(TM) model was developed in response to this need and marries the perspectives of epidemiology and public health to developmental psychology theory in order to better address the needs of children at environmental risk for poor developmental outcomes.

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Content

Exploring the Relationship Between Media and Adolescent Health — Jul 20, 2012

Today's adolescents live in an unprecedented, media-rich environment. Technology has greatly increased the volume of available content, much of which can now fit in a pocket. RAND Health explores the growing role of media in determining adolescent health.

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Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation — Jun 1, 2012

Exposure to movies that portray motivations for smoking places adolescents at particular risk for future smoking.

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Influence of Peers and Friends on Children's and Adolescents' Eating and Activity Behaviors — Jun 1, 2012

In this article, we synthesize the empirical literature on the influence of peers and friends on youth's eating and physical activity.

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Assessing Motivational Interviewing Integrity for Group Interventions with Adolescents — May 28, 2012

This study demonstrates that it is possible to determine whether group motivational interviewing (MI) is implemented with integrity in the group setting and that MI in this setting is different from what takes place in usual care.

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Concurrent Mental Health Therapy Among Medicaid-enrolled Youth Starting Antipsychotic Medications — Apr 1, 2012

The authors of this study examined the extent to which youths being prescribed antipsychotic medications were receiving concurrent mental health therapy.

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A Matrix of New Media Use Measures and Brief Media Survey — Mar 19, 2012

The authors developed this matrix of measures to summarize the state of measurement in the arena of new media use and its potential relationship with adolescent sexual risk behavior and sexual health and set the stage for further research efforts.

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News Release

Web-Based Tool for Parents of Children with Flu-Like Symptoms Piloted at DC-Area Hospitals — Mar 15, 2012

Researchers from the RAND Corporation and other institutions have begun pilot-testing a web-based tool designed to help parents and adult caregivers determine whether to seek urgent medical attention for a sick child with flu-like symptoms.

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Self-competence Among Early and Middle Adolescents Affected by Maternal HIV/AIDS — Mar 1, 2012

Adolescent children of mothers with HIV face a host of stressors that place them at increased risk for poor outcomes.

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Cognitive Vulnerability, Stress Generation, and Anxiety: Symptoms Clusters and Gender Differences — Mar 1, 2012

The aim of the present study was to examine whether low perceived control, a cognitive vulnerability factor, contributes to stress generation.

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Resisting Smoking When a Best Friend Smokes: Do Intrapersonal and Contextual Factors Matter? — Mar 1, 2012

The strong link between having a best friend who smoked and increased adolescent smoking isn't affected by individual factors such as self-esteem, depressing and access to cigarettes.

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Does Neighborhood Food Environment Predict Youth Diets? — Feb 29, 2012

It's widely assumed that living near fast-food restaurants and convenience stores encourages overconsumption, while supermarkets encourage healthier diets. However, an analysis found no robust link between food environment and consumption in youths, indicating a more complicated relationship than some theories suppose.

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Voluntary After-School Program Can Reduce Alcohol Use Among Middle School Children — Feb 8, 2012

If prevention researchers build programs with developmentally relevant content, and provide this content in an engaging, confidential, and non-judgmental way, it can help middle school-aged children avoid alcohol.

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Voluntary After-School Program Can Reduce Alcohol Use Among Middle School Children — Feb 8, 2012

If prevention researchers build programs with developmentally relevant content, and provide this content in an engaging, confidential, and non-judgmental way, it can help middle school-aged children avoid alcohol.

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Treatment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Patterns of Evolving Care During the First Treatment Episode — Feb 1, 2012

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