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Adolescents With Jobs Are More Likely to Begin Smoking

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Evidence is mounting that something happens when youth start working that compels them to smoke. With this trend in mind, it's worth exploring potential strategies to prevent smoking among youth who enter the workforce.

How Do Movie Characters' Motives for Smoking Affect Adolescents?

Research has uncovered links between the motives movie characters convey for smoking on the silver screen and real-world smoking risk among middle school students.

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The Carrot and the Stick: A Cross-Sectional Study of the Influences on Responsible Merchant Practices to Reduce Underage Drinking — Apr 2, 2013

Merchants who hold more pro-enforcement attitudes engage in more responsible beverage service training practices, which in turn is associated with greater enforcement of underage drinking. These attitudes are potential targets of prevention efforts.

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How Much Does "How Much" Matter? Assessing the Relationship Between Children's Lifetime Exposure to Violence and Trauma Symptoms, Behavior Problems, and Parenting Stress — Apr 1, 2013

The study explores whether and how lifetime violence exposure is related to a set of negative symptoms: child internalizing and externalizing behavior problems, child trauma symptoms, and parenting stress.

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How Do Military Teens' Environments Affect Their Exercise and Nutrition? — Feb 27, 2013

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M-TEENS, the Military Teenagers' Environments, Exercise, and Nutrition Study, will examine how military adolescents' schools and neighborhoods influence their physical activity, eating behaviors, and more.

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Smoke Alarm: Clocking in Could Prove Hazardous to a Teen's Health — Feb 5, 2013

A teen who starts working for pay while still in school may be more than eight times as likely to report tobacco use than peers who don't start working while in school.

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Children's Exposure to Violence: Frequency May Not Be the Best Predictor of Negative Symptoms — Feb 4, 2013

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Whether at home, at school, or in the community, exposure to violence raises concerns about not just the potential for physical harm, but also the longer-term developmental and mental health risks for children.

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Assessing Programs Designed to Improve Outcomes for Children Exposed to Violence: Results from Nine Randomized Controlled Trials — Feb 1, 2013

The study tests whether participation in interventions offered by a subset of sites from the National Safe Start Promising Approaches for Children Exposed to Violence initiative improved outcomes for children relative to controls.

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Translational Research Applications for the Study of Adolescent Sexual Decision Making — Feb 1, 2013

Although the initiation of sexual behaviors in adolescence is normative, adverse sexual health outcomes disproportionately affect adolescents relative to adults.

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The Effects of Employment Among Adolescents At-Risk for Future Substance Use — Jan 9, 2013

This paper explores the association between work intensity, alcohol and/or other drug (AOD) use, and related risk factors and consequences among an at-risk youth sample that has received a first-time AOD offense.

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Parental and Peer Factors Associated with Body Image Discrepancy Among Fifth-Grade Boys and Girls — Jan 1, 2013

Getting along with peers as well as fear of being viewed negatively by them may influence the discrepancy between how adolescents view their body size and what they think the ideal size should be. Adolescents who have warm and nurturing parents are more likely to have positive views about their body size.

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Cost of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: A Worksite-Based Intervention to Promote Parent-Adolescent Sexual Health Communication — Jan 1, 2013

To examine the cost and cost-effectiveness of implementing Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program designed to help parents address sexual health with their adolescent children.

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Emerging Adults with Type 1 Diabetes: A Comparison to Peers Without Diabetes — Jan 1, 2013

This longitudinal study compared emerging adults with and without type 1 diabetes on life path decisions, health behaviors, and psychological well-being during the transition out of high school.

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Evaluating the Impact of Getting to Outcomes—Underage Drinking on Prevention Capacity and Alcohol Merchant Attitudes and Selling Behaviors — Jan 1, 2013

Assessed whether providing prevention coalitions with Getting To Outcomes-Underage Drinking (GTO-UD) helped improve implementation of two common EAP strategies, responsible beverage service training (RBS) and compliance checks.

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Association Between Perceived Discrimination and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Problem Behaviors Among Preadolescent Youths — Jan 1, 2013

We examined the contribution of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination to disparities in problem behaviors among preadolescent Black, Latino, and White youths.

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Enhancing Quality Interventions Promoting Healthy Sexuality (EQUIPS): A Novel Application of Translational Research Methods — Jan 1, 2013

Overviews the study Enhancing Quality Interventions Promoting Healthy Sexuality (EQUIPS), which tests how well a community-based setting conducts an EBP, Making Proud Choices, that aims to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections.

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Intervening with Practitioners to Improve the Quality of Prevention: One-Year Findings Form a Randomized Trial of Assets-Getting to Outcomes — Jan 1, 2013

This article reports interim findings from a randomized controlled trial evaluating Assets-Getting To Outcomes (AGTO)

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Teen Employment May Not Always Be a Boon for At-Risk Youth — Dec 18, 2012

For all teens, and especially those who have already experienced problems related to alcohol and drug use, it is essential to monitor the quality of work experiences and keep in mind that some work environments might increase risk for substance use.

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Understanding Pregnancy-Related Attitudes and Behaviors: A Mixed-Methods Study Homeless Youth — Dec 1, 2012

Effective and accessible pregnancy prevention and family planning programs for homeless youth are needed.

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Are Social Network Correlates of Heavy Drinking Similar Among Black Homeless Youth and White Homeless Youth? — Nov 1, 2012

Understanding factors associated with heavy drinking among homeless youth is important for prevention efforts.

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Nonmedical Interventions for Children with ASD: Recommended Guidelines and Further Research Needs — Nov 1, 2012

The creation of treatment guidelines and recommendations for future research represents an effort by leading experts to improve access to services for children with ASDs while acknowledging that the research evidence has many gaps.

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