• This study examined the association between cognitive control capacities, suicidal thoughts and attempts, and depressive symptoms during late adolescence and young adulthood. (unc.edu)
  • Suicidality in late adolescence predicted depressive symptoms in young adulthood. (unc.edu)
  • Teenage girls are vulnerable to high levels of depression during middle to late adolescence. (mightynatural.com)
  • Findings suggest that cognitive control capacities developed in adolescence differentially predict depressive symptoms, suicidal thoughts, and suicide attempts in young adulthood. (unc.edu)
  • The current understanding of the neighborhood contexts wherein adolescent substance use emerges remains limited by conflicting findings regarding geographic variation in, and neighborhood effects on, both the prevalence of and risk factors for such use. (unc.edu)
  • Adolescent precursors of cannabis dependence: findings. (cambridge.org)
  • Findings indicate that adolescent dating and sexual behaviour patterns vary according to age and sex of the respondent. (ubc.ca)
  • Our findings support strong calls for increased competence regarding gender and sex trading or exploitation in clinical and school-based settings to decrease health disparities among TGD youths. (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition to working papers , the NBER disseminates affiliates' latest findings through a range of free periodicals - the NBER Reporter , the NBER Digest , the Bulletin on Retirement and Disability , the Bulletin on Health , and the Bulletin on Entrepreneurship - as well as online conference reports , video lectures , and interviews . (nber.org)
  • These findings underscore the roles of reserve capacity and school achievement during adolescence as likely causal or modifying factors in SES-health inequalities. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Our findings suggest that surveillance for and interventions to prevent cannabis use are warranted for youth younger than 12 years. (canada.ca)
  • The findings provide possible targets for child and adolescent interventions to promote positive development in early adulthood. (springer.com)
  • The findings suggest a strong association between a teen's having a secure attachment - or perspective on attachment relationships as supportive - and the development of the capacity to provide empathic support to close friends across a 4-year period of adolescence. (attachmentparenting.org)
  • These were among study findings published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology . (pulmonologyadvisor.com)
  • The findings suggest that adolescence may be a critical developmental period for the screening and treatment of depressive symptoms given higher baseline levels of depressive symptoms and the identified decelerations in depressive symptoms across adolescence and into young adulthood. (pulmonologyadvisor.com)
  • An AYA Health Research Network ("Network") can help integrate developmental science into health services research and translate findings into practice. (hrsa.gov)
  • Findings from this study provide valuable insights for designing targeted interventions to reduce cigarette smoking among adults and adolescents in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • Methods: Using data from the Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study, 1169 adolescents (12-18 years old) were followed into their young adulthood (28-32 years old), from 2002 to 2016. (who.int)
  • Methods Register-based cohort study. (bmj.com)
  • METHODS: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey included a nationally representative sample of US high school students during the COVID-19 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: The study analyzed data from the Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey, conducted in January-June 2021. (cdc.gov)
  • METHODS: The Youth Risk Behavior Survey was implemented in participating local education agencies in 2015 and 2017 to assess student behaviors and experiences, whereas the School Health Profiles surveys assessed school policies and practices in 2014 and 2016. (cdc.gov)
  • This study is among the first to examine associations of attachment with the development of empathic support using longitudinal methods and observations of empathic support for friends across mid-adolescence. (attachmentparenting.org)
  • METHODS: Participant-level data were integrated from three longitudinal studies from Australia and New Zealand (Australian Temperament Project, Christchurch Health and Development Study, and Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study). (edu.au)
  • Between August 1992 and December 1998 we conducted a seven-wave cohort study of adolescent health in Victoria, Australia. (cambridge.org)
  • In this prospective cohort study, we used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, a nationally representative sample of US adolescents from whom data were collected during adolescence (ages 11-18 years) and adulthood (ages 24-32 years). (nih.gov)
  • Statin Use and Skin Cancer Risk: A Prospective Cohort Study. (who.int)
  • Our healthcare system does not have enough information about how people with ASD develop over time from childhood to adolescence and adulthood. (cdc.gov)
  • The SEED Follow-up Study will also provide information on how people with ASD differ from those with other developmental delays or disabilities and from the general population at key points in life-childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood. (cdc.gov)
  • The Director-General has the honour to transmit to the Sixty-ninth World Health Assembly the report of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity (see Annex). (who.int)
  • The overarching goals of the Commission on Ending Childhood Obesity are to provide policy recommendations to governments to prevent infants, children and adolescents from developing obesity, and to identify and treat pre-existing obesity in children and adolescents. (who.int)
  • The aims are to reduce the risk of morbidity and mortality due to noncommunicable diseases, lessen the negative psychosocial effects of obesity both in childhood and adulthood and reduce the risk of the next generation developing obesity. (who.int)
  • The prevalence of infant, childhood and adolescent obesity is rising around the world. (who.int)
  • 180 online comments (see Appendix 1), the Commission has developed a set of recommendations to successfully tackle childhood and adolescent obesity in different contexts around the world. (who.int)
  • Over the next decade, the National Institutes of Health is funding the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study -a major longitudinal study that will track a large sample of young Americans from late childhood (before first use of drugs) to early adulthood. (nih.gov)
  • Overtiredness in childhood has predicted lower response inhibition in adolescence, which in turn predicted number of illicit drugs used in young adulthood. (health.am)
  • Overtiredness in childhood has also directly predicted the presence of binge drinking, blackouts, driving after drinking alcohol, and number of lifetime alcohol problems in young adulthood. (health.am)
  • Long-term adult outcomes of peer victimization in childhood and adolescence: Pathways to adjustment and maladjustment. (mcmaster.ca)
  • Being overweight during childhood and adolescence increases the risk of developing high cholesterol, hypertension, respiratory ailments, orthopedic problems, depression and type 2 diabetes as a youth. (hhs.gov)
  • 14 Specific causes for the increase in prevalence of childhood obesity are not clear and establishing causality is difficult since longitudinal research in this area is limited. (hhs.gov)
  • Childhood obesity is a major public health concern with increasing global prevalence. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A notable feature of the global obesity epidemic is the appearance of overweight and obesity in childhood and early adulthood. (nature.com)
  • Mounting evidence that health during childhood sets the stage for adult health not only reinforces this perspective, but also creates an important ethical, social, and economic imperative to ensure that all children are as healthy as they can be. (nih.gov)
  • Incidence rates and cumulative incidences of the full spectrum of diagnosed mental disorders in childhood and adolescence. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Childhood obesity rates have in- track into adulthood. (who.int)
  • The trends in childhood obesity) is an important contributor estimated the global, regional, and obesity rates and the large variations to adult obesity, diabetes, and other national prevalence of overweight in the rates and trends between noncommunicable chronic diseas- and obesity in children and adults countries provide useful insights into es worldwide. (who.int)
  • Of 1601 young adults, 115 met criteria for cannabis dependence. (cambridge.org)
  • We created a measure of gender expression that was based on the degree to which male and female adolescents and adults behave in stereotypically masculine (for men) or feminine (for women) ways relative to their same-gender peers. (nih.gov)
  • However, higher masculine gender expression in adult men was negatively associated with diagnosed depression and high cholesterol in adulthood, and masculine gender expression in adolescent and adult men was negatively associated with high blood pressure in adults. (nih.gov)
  • Addiction and mental health services for teens, young adults and their families. (hazeldenbettyford.org)
  • There is fair evidence that overweight adolescents and children eight years of age and older are at increased risk for becoming obese adults. (aafp.org)
  • The goal of SEED Follow-Up is to better understand ASD as children become adolescents and young adults. (cdc.gov)
  • Among nearly 4,000 young adults in the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study tracked over a 25-year period until mid-adulthood, cumulative lifetime exposure to marijuana was associated with lower scores on a test of verbal memory but did not affect other cognitive abilities such as processing speed or executive function. (nih.gov)
  • Prior research has shown that poor sleep can predict alcohol-related problems and illicit drug use among adolescents and young adults in high-risk samples. (health.am)
  • The rate of sleep problems in this sample of adolescents is quite similar to that of adults," added Roehrs, "about 10 percent chronic insomnia and about 30 percent occasional insomnia. (health.am)
  • Parenting programs, family therapy when needed, and school-based interventions that help young teens feel safe and supported in their relationships with adults - not only parents but teachers, mentors, and extended kin - may equip teens to 'pay it forward' in their empathy and care for others. (attachmentparenting.org)
  • Investigators sought to identify depressive symptom trajectories in those with and without asthma, and to determine predictors of depression at baseline and over time in adolescents and young adults with asthma. (pulmonologyadvisor.com)
  • Looking at the long-term consequences, overweight adolescents have a 70 percent chance of becoming overweight or obese adults, which increases to 80 percent if one or more parent is overweight or obese. (hhs.gov)
  • Social networks, especially quality of interactions, may improve detecting adolescents and young adults at-risk for suicide behaviors. (cambridge.org)
  • Most are adults younger than age 35 when they return home from service. (cdc.gov)
  • Young adults find themselves facing many new challenges, including making the transition to adult health care, post-secondary education or vocational training, employment, independent living all while navigating adult social and romantic relationships. (canchild.ca)
  • Young adults with CP often have lower rates of employment or post-secondary education and less participation in social activities and they tend to rely more heavily on their families for living arrangements. (canchild.ca)
  • To understand the cigarette smoking trajectories and their predictors among adolescents and young adults in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • Citation: Masihay-Akbar H, Razmjouei S, Ainy E, Cheraghi L, Azizi F, Amiri P. Cigarette smoking trajectories among adolescents and young adults in the Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • Islamic Republic of Iran, the prevalence of smoking and experimentation with tobacco products and established daily cigarette smoking among adults in 2016 were 14.1 smoking behaviour that occurs during young adulthood and 9.7%, respectively. (who.int)
  • The chapter concludes with an examination of why critical differences between children and adults establish the need for children's health to be held to a standard different from that used for adults. (nih.gov)
  • To better understand HIV infection among adolescents aged 13-17 years and young adults aged 18-29 years in the United States and identify ideal ages to target primary HIV prevention efforts, CDC analyzed data from the National HIV Surveillance System (NHSS)* using narrow age groups. (cdc.gov)
  • The strong effect of family structure is not explained by the lack of paternal involvement that generally comes with fathers' absence, even though adolescents, especially boys, who spend time doing things with their fathers usually have better outcomes. (nber.org)
  • Previous research has documented differences in health behaviours between men and women, with differential risks and health outcomes between the sexes. (nih.gov)
  • Although some sex-specific differences in health outcomes are caused by biological factors, many others are socially driven through gender norms. (nih.gov)
  • We therefore aimed to assess whether gender expression as an adolescent, determined by the degree to which an individual's behvaiours were typical of their gender, were associated with health behaviours and outcomes in adulthood. (nih.gov)
  • Individuals who are highly masculine or feminine seem to be at greatest risk of adverse health outcomes and behaviours. (nih.gov)
  • The USPSTF concludes that the evidence is insufficient to recommend for or against routine screening for overweight in children and adolescents as a means to prevent adverse health outcomes. (aafp.org)
  • Add Health combines longitudinal survey data on respondents' social, economic, psychological and physical well-being with contextual data on the family, neighborhood, community, school, friendships, peer groups, and romantic relationships, providing unique opportunities to study how social environments and behaviors in adolescence are linked to health and achievement outcomes in young adulthood. (aapidata.com)
  • An Advisory Committee will include representatives of three Maternal and Child Health research networks (Lifecourse, Child Health Measurement and Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics), and the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs, Society for Research on Adolescence and SAHM's Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Project. (hrsa.gov)
  • The Medical Research Charities Group (MRCG) is the national organization of 35 patient groups and foundations which promote an improved environment for medical research in general and for charities in particular, obtain funding for research projects, bring together organizations working in the field and disseminate the outcomes. (hrb.ie)
  • MILESTONE focuses on current service provision in Europe, new transition-related measures, long term outcomes of young people leaving CAMHS, improving transitional care through 'managed transition', ethics of transitioning and the training of health care professionals. (biomedcentral.com)
  • MILESTONE will provide evidence of the organisational structures and processes influencing transition at the service interface across differing healthcare models in Europe and longitudinal outcomes for young people leaving CAMHS, solutions for improving transitional care in a cost-effective manner, training modules for clinicians, and commissioning and policy guidelines for service providers and policy makers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Purpose: This study examines adolescents' self-reported school-based developmental assets and four intersecting social positions as they relate to prevalence of bullying involvement. (bvsalud.org)
  • and/or mental health/behavioral/emotional problems) associated with the highest prevalence of involvement as physical and relational bullies, victims, and bully-victims. (bvsalud.org)
  • Results: Adolescents with 2+ marginalized social positions who often lacked school-based developmental assets were part of nearly all the highest prevalence bullying involvement groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • TGD and gender questioning adolescents, Native American youth, and youth living with both physical disabilities/chronic illness and mental health/emotional/behavioral problems-most of whom had additional marginalized social positions and lacked school-based assets-were particularly overrepresented in high prevalence groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • To describe the prevalence of sex trading by gender and by associations with mental health concerns and protective factors. (bvsalud.org)
  • In addition, the prevalence of all mental health concerns was high among TGD students who traded sex (e.g., 75.9% reported a lifetime suicide attempt, as compared with 45.9% of cisgender students who traded sex). (bvsalud.org)
  • In this study, we have presented unique prevalence estimates of mental health disparities among TGD students in the United States who trade sex. (bvsalud.org)
  • The number of children and adolescents who are overweight has more than doubled since the early 1970s, with the prevalence of overweight (i.e. (aafp.org)
  • however, among LGBQ students who experienced abuse, the prevalence of poor mental health and suicidality reached crisis levels. (cdc.gov)
  • Prevalence and Stability of Sexual Orientation Components during Adolescence and Young Adulthood," Archives of Sexual Behavior , 2007. (str.org)
  • Over the 30 years ending in 2004, the prevalence of adolescents and children with significant weight problems nearly tripled (Inge, et al. (theravive.com)
  • The number of adolescents who are overweight has tripled since 1980 and the prevalence among younger children has more than doubled. (hhs.gov)
  • A complex array of factors that include sociocultural background, personality traits that may be more common to people who join the military, combat exposure, military culture, reintegration challenges, military career path, alcohol abuse, and emotional or mental health issues likely underlies this high prevalence of tobacco use, which has also been observed in prior conflicts (4,5). (cdc.gov)
  • Lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in US adolescents: Results from the National Comorbidity Study - Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A). J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 49(10): 980-989, 2010. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The prevalence of sepsis and septic shock in our study is comparable to other published series. (bvsalud.org)
  • BMI (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) percentile for age and sex is the preferred measure for detecting overweight in children and adolescents because of its feasibility, reliability, and tracking with adult obesity measures. (aafp.org)
  • Among the noncommunicable disease risk factors, obesity is particularly concerning and has the potential to negate many of the health benefits that have contributed to increased life expectancy. (who.int)
  • Obesity can affect a child's immediate health, educational attainment and quality of life. (who.int)
  • With the number of adolescents and even younger children developing obesity rising over the past years, the question of the best way to address it has been examined recently. (theravive.com)
  • The dramatic increase in adolescent obesity has been labeled an epidemic, a surge, and a crisis (Hofman, 2013). (theravive.com)
  • The very serious health issues that come with obesity are well recognized. (theravive.com)
  • A year earlier, another study showed overweight/obesity rates to be nearly 33% in the United States (Zwintscher, et al. (theravive.com)
  • Although the rate of adolescent obesity is dramatically increasing, the use of surgery for weight loss among adolescents is still not common (Mann, 2014). (theravive.com)
  • 2015). With the dramatic increase in adolescent obesity has come a dramatic increase in significant physical illnesses related to obesity.Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and type 2 diabetes among them. (theravive.com)
  • Overweight and obesity in children are significant public health problems in the United States. (hhs.gov)
  • One disease of particular concern is Type 2 diabetes, which is linked to overweight and obesity and has increased dramatically in children and adolescents, particularly in American Indian, African American and Hispanic/Latino populations. (hhs.gov)
  • 11 Obesity in adulthood increases the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, asthma, arthritis, and a general poor health status. (hhs.gov)
  • Compared with their nonveteran peers, young adult veterans may be more affected by stress, depression, substance and alcohol abuse, and sleep loss, all of which have been linked to weight-related behaviors and obesity (14). (cdc.gov)
  • Our results offer a new perspective on the genetic and dietary basis of changes in adolescent obesity status. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It is useful for measuring overweight, and obesity in adolescents in clinical practice, and a persistent increase in the TMI growth trajectory during adolescence can predict diabetes in early adulthood more accurately than can BMI [ 9 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Researchers have identified more than 1,000 possible obesity-related loci [ 15 ] after the publication of the first obesity-related genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 2007, which demonstrated BMI-associated single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the FTO gene [ 16 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We conducted a prospective longitudinal study to construct TMI growth trajectories among adolescent participants and then investigated the association between 17 obesity-related genetic polymorphisms and the different trajectory groups. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A new study finds that adipocyte SLC7A10 impairments may impact lipid accumulation during insulin resistance in patients with obesity. (medscape.com)
  • Is metabolic and bariatric surgery a safe and effective therapeutic option for adolescents with severe obesity? (medscape.com)
  • This stabilization in some ing countries, and thus it is an op- high-income countries is due in part The obesity epidemic has become a portune moment for researchers to to campaigns and policy changes global public health crisis. (who.int)
  • made by those countries within the obesity (including overweight and A recent comprehensive study past decade. (who.int)
  • epidemic towards decreased physical activity in 2013, 23.8% (95% uncertainty levels - because of the increasing- interval [UI], 22.9-24.7%) of boys Obesity is a result of a positive en- ly sedentary nature of recreational and 22.6% (95% UI, 21.7-23.6%) ergy balance (i.e. energy intake that activities, changing modes of trans- of girls were overweight or obese. (who.int)
  • not only is the preva- and short sleep duration (which re- lence of obesity increasing, but sults in a positive energy balance, A large body of evidence, including also no national success stories and thus excessive weight gain), studies on twins, siblings, nuclear have been reported during the past as well as other factors, such as families, and extended pedigrees, three decades. (who.int)
  • Internal locus of control was associated with decreased depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts/attempts in young adulthood. (unc.edu)
  • Title : Mother-Child and Father-Child Connectedness in Adolescence and Disordered Eating Symptoms in Young Adulthood Personal Author(s) : Hazzard, Vivienne M.;Miller, Alison L.;Bauer, Katherine W.;Mukherjee, Bhramar;Sonneville, Kendrin R. (cdc.gov)
  • Poor mental health and depressive symptoms may also be associated with the recent increase in midlife premature deaths of despair due to suicide, alcohol and drugs. (theconversation.com)
  • Some small cross-sectional studies with clinical and community samples suggest that being part of a close and cohesive family in adolescence helps alleviate depression symptoms for teenagers. (theconversation.com)
  • Our results indicate that TGD students who trade sex are at risk for mental health symptoms and that sensitivity to both gender and sex trading or exploitation will be critical to meeting the needs of this group in clinical as well as school-based settings. (bvsalud.org)
  • Do Recent Experiences of Sexual Violence and Co-Occurring Depression and Anxiety Symptoms Predict Poorer Functioning One Year Later During the Transition to Young Adulthood? (rand.org)
  • Females experienced significantly higher levels of depressive symptoms than males between early adolescence and their early 40s. (mightynatural.com)
  • The overall trajectory of depressive symptoms was high in adolescence, fell in the early 20s, and then slowly rose again in the late 30s. (mightynatural.com)
  • Longitudinal reciprocal prospective relationships between depressive symptoms and response styles were examined in a community sample of 1343 adolescents. (mdpi.com)
  • Racial marginalization and socioeconomic disadvantage are associated with greater baseline depressive symptoms in individuals with asthma, with depressive symptoms decelerating across adolescence and into young adulthood and then increasing across young adulthood and into adulthood. (pulmonologyadvisor.com)
  • This implies that adolescents with same-sex attraction (SSA) or homoerotic dreams are manifesting symptoms of an underlying reality: They are homosexual. (str.org)
  • Adams SH, Schaub JP, Nagata JM, Park MJ, Brindis CD, Irwin CE Jr. Young Adult Anxiety or Depressive Symptoms and Mental Health Service Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (hrsa.gov)
  • In people with CP, it is sometimes easy for doctors, caregivers, or the person themselves to overlook the importance of mental health, or assume that any symptoms experienced by a person with CP are caused by their CP. (canchild.ca)
  • Learning to recognize when someone is at risk, or is displaying symptoms, of behavioral and emotional problems is a key part of improving mental health, as early intervention is critical to prevent short-term difficulties from becoming prolonged and debilitating mental health conditions. (canchild.ca)
  • Another recent Canadian paper looking at changes in mental health over time found that youth with chronic health conditions, including CP, developed depressive symptoms more rapidly than their peers during early adolescence and didn't show the same decline in those symptoms in later adolescence. (canchild.ca)
  • The researchers also found another increase in depressive symptoms in those with chronic health conditions in their mid-twenties. (canchild.ca)
  • Background: This study is the first effort in the Middle East to identify cigarette-smoking trajectories and their predictors, from adolescence to young adulthood. (who.int)
  • Citation: Masihay-Akbar H, Razmjouei S, Ainy E, Cheraghi L, Azizi F and Amiri P. Cigarette smoking trajectories from adolescence to young adulthood: first report from the Middle East. (who.int)
  • Add Health participants, who were not asked about their sexual identities until Wave III, could identify as 100 percent heterosexual, mostly heterosexual, bisexual, mostly homosexual, and 100 percent homosexual. (sexualdiversity.org)
  • In each wave of Add Health that McClintock used for her study, participants were also asked if they had ever experienced same-sex attraction or participated in same-sex sexual activity. (sexualdiversity.org)
  • Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. (who.int)
  • Participants in the AdoQuest study (n = 1852) were recruited in 2005 from among Grade 5 students in 29 French-language elementary schools in Montréal, Canada. (canada.ca)
  • CDC serves as an intramural study site - collecting data from participants in Georgia and California. (cdc.gov)
  • The sample consisted of 511 males and 647 females who were participants in the Australian Temperament Project, a population based longitudinal study that has followed young people's psychosocial adjustment from infancy to early adulthood. (springer.com)
  • Also, the ability to draw definitive conclusions about marijuana's long-term impact on the human brain from past studies is often limited by the fact that study participants use multiple substances, and there is often limited data about the participants' health or mental functioning prior to the study. (nih.gov)
  • Wave 3 data, representing young adulthood, were collected from 2001 to 2002 (participants 18 to 26 years of age) and wave 4 data (adulthood) were collected in 2008 (participants 24 to 32 years of age). (pulmonologyadvisor.com)
  • Receiving a university education decreased the odds of being in the escalator trajectory for 18% (OR = 0.82, 95% CI: -0.04-0.96, P = 0.002) of the study participants. (who.int)
  • The current study examined child and adolescent precursors of positive functioning in emerging adulthood, including individual characteristics, relationship factors, and connections to the community, using a multidimensional positive development measure at 19-20 years. (springer.com)
  • Higher levels of positive development in emerging adulthood were associated with stronger family and peer relationships, better adjustment to the school setting, higher family socioeconomic status, and better emotional control. (springer.com)
  • Emerging adulthood: A theory of development from the late teens through the twenties. (springer.com)
  • We examined the extent to which adolescent cannabis or alcohol use predicts educational attainment in emerging adulthood. (edu.au)
  • LGBTQ youth also lack the social support and peer connections enjoyed by hetero-normative young people. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, 31.1% of TGD or gender questioning youth of color living with both types of disabilities/health problems who did not feel strongly that school was safe reported involvement as physical bully-victims-nearly six times the sample average rate. (bvsalud.org)
  • We investigated if well-established risk factors for cannabis, alcohol and/or tobacco use during adolescence are associated with ever use of cannabis in youth aged 12 years. (canada.ca)
  • International Journal of Adolescence and Youth , 27 (1), 385-399. (uu.nl)
  • Data will be collected via systematic literature reviews, pan-European surveys, and focus groups with service providers, users and carers, and members of youth advocacy and mental health advocacy groups. (biomedcentral.com)
  • and for understanding health disparities among the young as both causes and consequences of social stratification. (dukeupress.edu)
  • Research has identified discrimination and a lack of knowledgeable providers as major barriers for transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals seeking care, which contributes to greater stress and significant health disparities affecting this population. (bvsalud.org)
  • PURPOSE: A number of factors may contribute to disparities in mental health and suicidality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and questioning (LGBQ) students, including parental abuse. (cdc.gov)
  • But the country should not be blinded by these facts-several indicators of children's health point to the need for further improvement, children in the United States do not fare as well as their European counterparts on many aspects of health, and there are marked disparities in health among children in the United States. (nih.gov)
  • We conducted Taiwan Puberty Longitudinal Study, a prospective cohort that recruited 1,135 children since 2018. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We identified five studies that included a well-defined sample drawn from population-based registers or cohorts and used prospective measures of cannabis use and adult psychosis. (cambridge.org)
  • A previous review paper, published more than a decade ago, reached no firm conclusion regarding causality and stressed the importance of prospective longitudinal population-based cohort studies to elucidate a possible causal association ( Reference Thornicroft Thornicroft, 1990 ). (cambridge.org)
  • Sixteen years after the publication of the first evidence that cannabis may be a causal risk factor for later schizophrenia ( Reference Andréasson, Allebeck and Engström And réasson et al , 1988 ), four recent prospective epidemiological studies have provided further evidence. (cambridge.org)
  • Serum MicroRNA-191-5p Levels in Vascular Complications of Type 1 Diabetes: the EURODIAB Prospective Complications Study. (medscape.com)
  • We wanted to see if we could identify family processes that might protect teens from depression in adolescence and later. (theconversation.com)
  • It is well known from the scientific evidence that close family relationships reduce the risks of depression during adolescence, a life stage when depression often begins, especially for girls. (theconversation.com)
  • Depression often first appears in adolescence and can come back throughout young adulthood and even middle age. (theconversation.com)
  • High femininity (vs low femininity) in adolescent or adult women was positively associated with high cholesterol and blood pressure (both adult gender expression only), depression, migraines (adult gender expression only), and physical limitations (ie, health problems that limited their daily activities). (nih.gov)
  • Several classes of antidepressants, including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs), bupropion, mirtazapine, and vilazodone, have been used in the treatment of depression, although not all have been studied in the pediatric population. (medscape.com)
  • Fluoxetine has been the most studied agent for pediatric depression, and, in the 2022 AACAP clinical practice guidelines, fluoxetine is preferred over other SSRIs for the treatment of pediatric depression. (medscape.com)
  • It selectively inhibits presynaptic serotonin reuptake with minimal or no effect on the reuptake of norepinephrine or dopamine and has been the best studied agent for pediatric depression. (medscape.com)
  • It has better evidence for efficacy in child and adolescent depression than other SSRIs except for fluoxetine. (medscape.com)
  • Adolescent onset of the gender difference in lifetime rates of major depression. (springer.com)
  • Asthma accompanied by depression is associated with greater asthma morbidity and health care utilization. (pulmonologyadvisor.com)
  • [ 47 ] More studies that compare the complementary and differential effects of the various types of psychotherapy in children and adolescents with depression are needed. (medscape.com)
  • A Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews study found that both targeted and universal depression prevention programs may effectively prevent the onset of depressive disorder in children and adolescents when compared with no intervention. (medscape.com)
  • In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that 322 million people worldwide experience depression and a further 250 million people have an anxiety disorder [1] . (canchild.ca)
  • While chronic health conditions such as Cerebral Palsy (CP) can increase the risk of developing anxiety or depression, untreated anxiety or depression can also contribute to poor physical health. (canchild.ca)
  • However, people with disabilities or chronic health conditions may be as much as 3-4 times more likely to develop depression and anxiety disorders [2] , [3] . (canchild.ca)
  • It is during this period that many young people first develop anxiety or depression. (canchild.ca)
  • Young people at the highest risk of depression were those who scored less well in family functioning questionnaires, whose parents were also depressed, and who had other family stressors such as low income or single-parent families [8] . (canchild.ca)
  • The studies mentioned above are part of a growing body of research suggesting links between cerebral palsy, a young person's levels of social support and activity, and an increased risk of anxiety or depression. (canchild.ca)
  • Comorbidity of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: 20 years after. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Although more research is needed to identify causal mechanisms, our results suggest that those designing health behaviour interventions should carefully consider integrating gender transformative components into interventions. (nih.gov)
  • This statement summarizes the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendations on screening and interventions for overweight in children and adolescents and the supporting scientific evidence, and it updates the 1996 recommendations contained in the Guide to Clinical Preventive Services, 2nd ed. 1 Explanations of the ratings and of the strength of overall evidence are given in Tables 1 and 2 , respectively. (aafp.org)
  • The USPSTF found insufficient evidence for the effectiveness of behavioral counseling or other preventive interventions with overweight children and adolescents that can be conducted in primary care settings or to which primary care physicians can make referrals. (aafp.org)
  • The conclusion that there is insufficient evidence to recommend for or against screening for overweight in children and adolescents reflects the paucity of good-quality evidence on the effectiveness of interventions for this problem in the clinical setting. (aafp.org)
  • This article responds to recent calls for a focus on successful development in young people and examination of its developmental precursors, in order to identify potentially modifiable targets for interventions. (springer.com)
  • Current evidence-supported interventions include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), pharmacotherapy, or a combination of both should be offered as treatment for children and adolescents with major depressive disorder (MDD). (medscape.com)
  • due to the complex interactions of societal, social, and individual factors, interventions to prevent or reduce adolescents' substance consumption are difficult to design, implement and evaluate [ 19 , 20 ]. (springer.com)
  • 22 ] that included 12 randomized controlled trials not assessed in Foxcroft and Tsertsvadze's study, 7 of these 12 additional reviewed interventions were more effective than control groups. (springer.com)
  • However, few studies have examined the health behaviors of young veterans, and, perhaps as a result, few programs, interventions, and policies are designed to promote healthful behaviors for recently returned veterans. (cdc.gov)
  • The negative health consequences of cigarette smoking interventions for many years. (who.int)
  • Evidence is also presented on the linkages between health trajectories during adolescence and the transition to adulthood and social stratification in adulthood. (dukeupress.edu)
  • We found compelling evidence that adolescent gender expression is correlated with health in adulthood independently of gender expression as an adult. (nih.gov)
  • The USPSTF found fair evidence that body mass index (BMI) is a reasonable measure for identifying children and adolescents who are overweight or are at risk of becoming overweight. (aafp.org)
  • There is little evidence for effective, family-based, or individual approaches for the treatment of overweight in children and adolescents in primary care settings. (aafp.org)
  • Substantial evidence from animal research and a growing number of studies in humans indicate that marijuana exposure during development can cause long-term or possibly permanent adverse changes in the brain. (nih.gov)
  • Evidence-based services informed by developmental science (including neuroscience) can improve health through prevention and coordinated care for AYAs with chronic conditions, including mental conditions. (hrsa.gov)
  • Moreover, there is evidence that knowledge acquisition, learning, and memory are vulnerable to alcohol use during adolescence [ 15 ]. (springer.com)
  • We review the evidence from these studies within the framework of established criteria for determining causality. (cambridge.org)
  • We further extend the reserve capacity framework to include health behaviour since psychosocial resources underlie these factors and operate through them [ 20 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Approximately 15 percent of children and adolescents six to 19 years of age are overweight and are at risk of diabetes, elevated blood lipids, increased blood pressure, and their sequelae, as well as slipped capital femoral epiphysis, steatohepatitis, sleep apnea, and psychosocial problems. (aafp.org)
  • Exposure to psychosocial stress has been identified by several recently conducted studies as a possible stroke risk. (bmj.com)
  • However, these 5-year age groups encompass multiple developmental stages and potentially mask trends associated with the rapid psychosocial changes during adolescence through young adulthood. (cdc.gov)
  • Tests of the association between social knowledge and patterns of sexual behaviours in adolescence were conducted using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. (ubc.ca)
  • Results suggest that older female adolescents, in contrast to younger female and male adolescents, engage in patterns of dating and sexual behaviours that resemble adult romantic relationships. (ubc.ca)
  • Do First Generation Immigrant Adolescents Face Higher Rates of Bullying, Violence and Suicidal Behaviours Than Do Third Generation and Native Born? (mcmaster.ca)
  • They suggest many Australian males experiencing adverse health or engaging in certain risk behaviours can become stuck in an unhealthy cycle. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Data collected in future waves of the Ten to Men study will further help improve understanding of pathways of alcohol use and other health-related behaviours among Australian males. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Depressive disorders are highly prevalent during adolescence and they are a major concern for individuals and society. (mdpi.com)
  • Although citalopram is not FDA approved for use in children, various clinical trials have shown efficacy in the treatment of moderate-to-severe major depressive disorder (MDD) in children and adolescents. (medscape.com)
  • Depressive symptom trajectories from adolescence through adulthood are similar between individuals with and without asthma. (pulmonologyadvisor.com)
  • However, studies of depressive symptom trajectories in individuals with asthma are lacking. (pulmonologyadvisor.com)
  • Alcohol abuse and dependence constitute important health threats across the life course. (alkoholpolitik.ch)
  • The purpose of this study is to identify the determinants of DSM-IV alcohol abuse and dependence among young men from adolescence to young adulthood. (alkoholpolitik.ch)
  • De estos, 117 informaron haber mante- nido relaciones sexuales bajo la influencia del alcohol en los últimos seis meses (51% fueron chicas). (adicciones.es)
  • Haber mantenido relaciones sexuales bajo la influencia del alcohol en los últimos seis meses se relacionó con una actitud negativa hacia el uso del condón cuando existen obstáculos para su uso y menor uso consistente del preservativo. (adicciones.es)
  • Los adolescentes que combinaron sexo y alcohol presentaron en mayor medida características asociadas con el riesgo sexual. (adicciones.es)
  • Sexual uses of alcohol and drugs and the associated health risks: A cross sectional study of young people in nine European cities. (adicciones.es)
  • Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 14 (Supl. (adicciones.es)
  • A new study has found that sleep difficulties and hours of sleep can predict a number of specific problems, including binge drinking, driving under the influence of alcohol, and risky sexual behavior in a nationally representative sample. (health.am)
  • The purpose of this study was to examine whether sleep difficulties and hours of sleep prospectively predicted several serious substance-related problems that included binge drinking, driving under the influence of alcohol, and risky sexual behavior. (health.am)
  • This study has added to the existing literature by establishing the relationship between two sleep variables - sleep difficulties and hours of sleep - and the odds of serious alcohol- and drug-related problems in a nationally representative sample. (health.am)
  • Two other measures of alcohol use in adolescence were also examined. (edu.au)
  • In contrast, adjusted associations for all measures of adolescent alcohol use were inconsistent and weaker. (edu.au)
  • Attributable risk estimates indicated adolescent cannabis use accounted for a greater proportion of the overall rate of non-progression with formal education than adolescent alcohol use. (edu.au)
  • Adolescent cannabis use is a better marker of lower educational attainment than adolescent alcohol use and identifies an important target population for preventive intervention. (edu.au)
  • The aim of the study was to address the lack of evaluations of school-based substance use prevention programs and to conduct a quasi-experimental evaluation of the alcohol use part of the Triad intervention. (springer.com)
  • In light of this, preventing adolescents from starting to use alcohol or other substances, or delaying the onset of use, is a fundamental task for public health work. (springer.com)
  • A Cochrane review [ 21 ] of the effectiveness of universal alcohol abuse prevention programs for children and adolescents found that less than half of the included studies (43.4%) reported significant beneficial results. (springer.com)
  • The latest Ten to Men: The Australian Longitudinal Study on Male Health report found alcohol use to be prevalent among adult males, with around nine in ten (88%) Australian men aged 18 and over having consumed alcohol in the past 12 months. (aifs.gov.au)
  • AIFS Research Fellow, Dr Brendan Quinn, said that while the majority of Australian men typically drank at levels considered to be 'low risk', young adult males aged 18-24 were significantly more likely to engage in moderate-to-high risk alcohol use than older men. (aifs.gov.au)
  • National guidelines 2 recommend that adolescents and children avoid alcohol until the age of 18 years. (aifs.gov.au)
  • However, approximately four in 10 [41%] adolescent Australian males aged 15-17 years were estimated to have consumed alcohol in the past 12 months. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Of adolescent males aged 15-17 years who had drunk alcohol in the past year, 31 per cent drank on a monthly basis, and a further 17 per cent drank weekly or more often. (aifs.gov.au)
  • The report, which investigated the drinking habits of Australian males aged 10 years and older, also found that drinking before the recommended age of 18 years was associated with more frequent alcohol use in early adulthood. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Almost half of adolescent drinkers surveyed in 2013/14 had gone on to drink alcohol at moderate-to-high-risk levels in early adulthood - compared to just 20% who had not been drinking at all in adolescence. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Our research shows that males who start drinking in adolescence are likely to carry high risk patterns of alcohol use into adulthood. (aifs.gov.au)
  • It is important that parents and adolescents understand that avoiding alcohol until adulthood is best to prevent harmful habits forming early," she said. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Ms Hollonds said the negative consequences of alcohol use in Australia were well known, but that risks were heightened for young adult men. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Compared to females, males, and especially young males who binge drink, are more commonly affected by alcohol-related harms. (aifs.gov.au)
  • The Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey was a 1-time, cross-sectional, online survey that used a stratified, 3-stage cluster sample to obtain a nationally representative sample of high-school students in the U.S. This study was limited to public-school students (n=7,379). (cdc.gov)
  • The current study addresses this gap in the literature by making use of a monozygotic twin difference scores approach to explore the association between IQ and a variety of outcome measures, including general health, substance use, relationships, sexual behaviors, educational attainment, economic well-being, and criminal justice contacts. (bvsalud.org)
  • Opportunities to reduce young adult college students' COVID-19-related risk behaviors: insights from a national, longitudinal cohort. (hrsa.gov)
  • School health programs can help children and adolescents attain full educational potential and good health by providing them with the skills, social support, and environmental reinforcement they need to adopt long-term, healthy eating behaviors. (cdc.gov)
  • respondent age 24-33 years) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. (unc.edu)
  • The data we used come from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health , a nationally-representative study that has followed over 20,000 adolescents starting in 1995 into adulthood. (theconversation.com)
  • McClintock's study relies on data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) and considers its first (1994-1995), third (2001-2002), and fourth (2007-2008) waves. (sexualdiversity.org)
  • 54.58% females, baseline) from Waves I-IV of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, 1994-2008. (cambridge.org)
  • The study also compared sexual attraction at ages 17 and 22, with similar results. (str.org)
  • While having secure family relationships at age 14 predicted greater empathy with peers across adolescence, those teens who did not have secure family relationships in early adolescence showed a pattern of catching up, increasing their empathy toward close friends as they developed. (attachmentparenting.org)
  • Investing in the quality of teens' family relationships early in adolescence may be important for building empathy and positive interactions with peers," Stern said. (attachmentparenting.org)
  • Since adolescence is a critical period in developing sound psychological and behavioural patterns and adolescent markers of SES were seldom used, we determine if family SES in adolescence predicts later mortality. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Overweight in children and adolescents is generally caused by a lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating patterns resulting in excess energy intake, or a combination of the two. (hhs.gov)
  • however, their influence on adolescent growth patterns has rarely been explored. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, these factors may not completely explain the different growth patterns in adolescents. (biomedcentral.com)
  • An understanding of the adolescent antecedents of dependence can inform the extent to which substance exposures increase risks for dependence as opposed to other factors such as intercurrent emotional or behavioural disorders ( Reference Fergusson and Horwood Fergusson & Horwood, 2000 ). (cambridge.org)
  • Between 2000 and 2003, bariatric surgery for weight loss in adolescents increased more than threefold, but still was seen rarely in that population. (theravive.com)
  • This study focused on cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents who were severely obese, along with safety and health effects of weight-loss surgery procedures for that population. (theravive.com)
  • The study highlighted the need for medical intervention into the risk factors for CVD among severely obese adolescents. (theravive.com)
  • Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans in a US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) sample were more likely to be overweight but less likely to be obese compared with national same-age samples (11). (cdc.gov)
  • It often begins during adolescence, especially for females, may continue or recur in adulthood and tends to become a lifetime chronic health condition. (theconversation.com)
  • Cannabis use typically begins during adolescence. (canada.ca)
  • However, most studies examining these associations have employed correlational statistical techniques which tend to confound environmental and genetic influences. (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of this study was to analyze self-esteem among Brazilian adolescents and also verify possible associations between the variables: the need for orthodontic treatment and bullying. (bvsalud.org)
  • Longitudinal associations of plasma metabolites with persistent fatigue among colorectal cancer survivors up to 2 years after treatment. (who.int)
  • and after further adjustment for markers of development and disease in adolescence (blood pressure, cognitive function and pre-existing cardiovascular disease) to 1.30 (1.18 to 1.45). (bmj.com)
  • 32-34 Cognitive impairments in adult rats exposed to THC during adolescence are associated with structural and functional changes in the hippocampus. (nih.gov)
  • Several studies, including two large longitudinal studies, suggest that marijuana use can cause functional impairment in cognitive abilities but that the degree and/or duration of the impairment depends on the age when a person began using and how much and how long he or she used. (nih.gov)
  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy has been shown in multiple randomized clinical trials to be effective in the treatment of mild-to-moderate MDDs in children and adolescents. (medscape.com)
  • Mental health issues can disrupt sleep schedules, affect appetite, impact energy levels and disrupt cognitive processes and planning abilities. (canchild.ca)
  • Motor impairments such as CP, and any associated physical, cognitive or health complications, can intensify these challenges, and the stress they can put on a young person's mental health can quickly compound any mental health problems or vulnerabilities. (canchild.ca)
  • Romantic relationships among male adolescents are less influenced by social knowledge of a dating partner. (ubc.ca)
  • 2004). The likelihood of these overweight adolescents and children continuing to be significantly overweight into adulthood was placed at 50-77% in this same study. (theravive.com)
  • Developmental studies have shown that early adverse exposures to poor environments could activate adaptive responses or mechanisms that provide long-term health advantages [ 12 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A developmental psychopathology perspective on adolescence. (springer.com)
  • This is particularly true among young males, who tend to have higher levels of abuse and dependence than females of all ages. (alkoholpolitik.ch)
  • Our results suggest that the presence of a father figure during adolescence is likely to have protective effects, particularly for males, in both adolescence and young adulthood. (nber.org)
  • The study featured a sample of 184 adolescents (86 males, 98 females) recruited from a public middle school (7th and 8th grades) in suburban and urban populations from the southeastern United States. (attachmentparenting.org)
  • For example, 75% of adolescent males with SSA at age 17 had opposite-sex attraction at age 22. (str.org)
  • Anne Hollonds, Director of AIFS, said that reducing the number of males starting to drink in adolescence was crucial to the long term health of men. (aifs.gov.au)
  • Data on time use and background characteristics were collected through online surveys in 2015 and 2016 among adolescents aged 13-21 ( N = 2555), including both the dropped outs and those who still continued membership of their football or tennis clubs. (biomedcentral.com)
  • I use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, or Add Health, as an example of an integrative approach to health and of the importance of adolescence and the transition to adulthood years for setting health trajectories into adulthood. (dukeupress.edu)
  • In the general population, the transition from adolescence to young adulthood is a time of increased risk for behavioral chronic disease risk factors such as excess weight gain and tobacco use escalation. (cdc.gov)
  • The transition to adulthood can be stressful. (canchild.ca)
  • Transition from distinct Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) to Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS) is beset with multitude of problems affecting continuity of care for young people with mental health needs. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Transition-related discontinuity of care is a major health, socioeconomic and societal challenge globally. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The overall aim of the Managing the Link and Strengthening Transition from Child to Adult Mental Health Care in Europe (MILESTONE) project (2014-19) is to improve transition from CAMHS to AMHS in diverse healthcare settings across Europe. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We use a life course perspective in our research, meaning that we use longitudinal data to follow individuals as they move through various stages of life and examine how the social contexts they experience influence their health. (theconversation.com)
  • Data for the study are from four waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). (alkoholpolitik.ch)
  • Data on 7 mental health measures and 4 school-related and health care-related protective factors were collected. (bvsalud.org)
  • Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we find that adolescent boys engage in more delinquent behavior if there is no father figure in their lives. (nber.org)
  • This research uses data from Add Health, a program project directed by Kathleen Mullan Harris and designed by J. Richard Udry, Peter S. Bearman, and Kathleen Mullan Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and funded by grant P01-HD31921 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, with cooperative funding from 23 other federal agencies and foundations. (nber.org)
  • Information on how to obtain the Add Health data files is available on the Add Health website (http://www.cpc.unc.edu/addhealth). (nber.org)
  • A longitudinal study was designed by linking baseline data on 12 to 18 year-old Finns in 1985-95 ( N = 41,833) from the Adolescent Health and Lifestyle Surveys with register data on mortality and SES from Statistics Finland. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The new data from the 2017 round of interviews have enabled us to examine how what happens in adolescence matters for later life mental health. (mightynatural.com)
  • The data sets used and/or analysed during the study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. (who.int)
  • We used data from this final wave and from baseline, and our study represents a secondary analysis of these data. (nih.gov)
  • Wong and her co-authors analyzed data collected via interviews and questionnaires from 6,504 adolescents (52% girls, 48% boys) participating in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. (health.am)
  • Data were collected for three waves - 1994-1995, 1996, and 2001-2002 - and study authors used sleep difficulties from a previous wave to predict substance-related problems at a subsequent wave, while controlling for substance-related problems at the previous wave. (health.am)
  • Study limitations include under-representations of individuals with racial/ethnic minority backgrounds, the use of self-reported asthma diagnoses, lack of accounting for disease severity, and lack of asthma medication data. (pulmonologyadvisor.com)
  • But the data is from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a project by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and mandated by the United States Congress. (str.org)
  • data for 1966-70 are for adolescents 12-17 years of age, not 12-19 years. (hhs.gov)
  • To examine adolescent precursors of young-adult cannabis dependence. (cambridge.org)
  • Some studies have also linked marijuana use to declines in IQ, especially when use starts in adolescence and leads to persistent cannabis use disorder into adulthood. (nih.gov)
  • However, not all of the studies on the link between marijuana and IQ have reached the same conclusion, and it is difficult to prove that marijuana causes a decline in IQ when there are multiple factors that can influence the results of such studies, such as genetics, family environment, age of first use, frequency of use, having a cannabis use disorder, duration of use, and duration of the study. (nih.gov)
  • RESULTS: After covariate adjustment using a propensity score approach, adolescent cannabis use (weekly+) was associated with 1½ to two-fold increases in the odds of high school non-completion (OR=1.60, 95% CI=1.09-2.35), university non-enrolment (OR=1.51, 95% CI=1.06-2.13), and degree non-attainment (OR=1.96, 95% CI=1.36-2.81). (edu.au)
  • Background: Debate continues about the consequences of adolescent cannabis use. (edu.au)
  • Nonetheless, comparative studies of homosexual and heterosexual couples have found few differences in relationship intensity, quality, satisfaction, or commitment. (wikipedia.org)
  • The inventory of parent and peer attachment: Individual differences and their relationship to psychological well-being in adolescence. (springer.com)
  • 38,39 Other studies have not found significant structural differences between the brains of people who do and do not use the drug. (nih.gov)
  • INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic has had unprecedented socioeconomic and health impacts in the U.S. This study examined racial/ethnic and school poverty status differences in the relationship between parent job loss, experiences with hunger, and indicators of mental health problems among public high-school students nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • Analysis of monozygotic twin pairs from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) revealed that between-twin differences in IQ have little effect on the majority of the examined outcome measures. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study examines adolescent social networks predicting suicide ideation and attempt trajectories transitioning to adulthood, while revealing differences across racial/ethnic, sex, sexual identity, and socioeconomic status. (cambridge.org)
  • Although feminine gender expression in adolescents was predictive of adult recreational and prescription drug and marijuana use and experience of sexual violence, feminine gender expression in adulthood was negatively associated with adult substance use and experience of sexual violence, suggesting that expressions of femininity typical of adolescents impart risks that expression of femininity as an adult does not. (nih.gov)
  • Does Socioeconomic Advantage Lessen the Risk of Adolescent Substance Use? (hazeldenbettyford.org)
  • The association between poor sleep and substance use has also been found in younger age groups. (health.am)
  • The greatest reduction followed further adjustment for markers of physical fitness (BMI and physical working capacity) in adolescence to 1.16 (1.04 to 1.29). (bmj.com)
  • To accomplish this goal, SEED Follow-Up is surveying families of children who were previously in SEED 1, 2, and 3 (when they were 2-5 years of age) when they are 8-21 years of age to learn more about them through adolescence and young adulthood. (cdc.gov)
  • Young children Those less than 5 years of age. (who.int)
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) defines adolescents as those between 10 and 19 years of age. (who.int)
  • The majority of adolescents are, therefore, included in the age-based definition of "child", adopted by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, as a person under the age of 18 years. (who.int)
  • Because sexual orientation is fixed at birth (so the theory goes), these desires will endure through their teenage years and into adulthood. (str.org)
  • One study* followed approximately 10,800 adolescents between the ages of 16 and 22 years old. (str.org)
  • Dr. Neil Whitehead, a research scientist who worked for the New Zealand government for 24 years and the United Nations for another four years, analyzed this study. (str.org)
  • Ten years later, the U.S. Surgeon General's report suggested that more than 12.5 million young people age 2 to 19 are overweight (Cleveland Clinic, 2014). (theravive.com)
  • The adolescent and young adult (AYA) years are the second critical period of the lifecourse, bringing challenges and opportunities with lifelong implications for health. (hrsa.gov)
  • 6,7 In a national survey of American Indian children 5-18 years old, 39 percent were found to be overweight or at risk for overweight. (hhs.gov)
  • In recent years, there has been an increased focus on issues that affect children and on improving their health. (nih.gov)
  • Average concentrations of lead in the blood of children younger than 5 years dropped 78 percent between 1976-1980 and 1992-1994 ( U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2000a ). (nih.gov)
  • All over Europe, those with persisting mental health needs usually move from Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) to Adult Mental Health Services (AMHS) around the critical age of 16-18 years. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The cross-sectional, population-based epidemiological study consisted of a sample composed of adolescents from 11 to 16 years of age, enrolled in the public school system of a medium-sized municipality in the northwest of the State of São Paulo, Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • This was a cross-sectional, monocentric and descriptive study, lasting 12 months, including patients aged at least 18 years admitted to ICU for sepsis or septic shock. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is important to measure and monitor growth over time in all children as an indicator of health and development. (aafp.org)
  • These medications are beginning to be used to treat the same problems in children and adolescents. (medscape.com)
  • Beyond the "villiage" rhetoric: Creating healthy communities for children and adolescents. (springer.com)
  • National polls indicate that 27 percent of school-aged children and 45 percent of adolescents do not sleep enough," said Maria M. Wong, professor and director of experimental training in the department of psychology at Idaho State University. (health.am)
  • Particularly, participation in organized sports has been found to be associated with greater psychological and social benefits in children and adolescents compared to individual, unorganized types of sports [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • About 74% of all Dutch children aged 6-11, and 58% of adolescents aged 12-20 participate in sports at least once a week as member of a sports club [ 14 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Bullying and mental health amongst Australian children and young people with cystic fibrosis. (mcmaster.ca)
  • Safety is always the first concern in the evaluation of MDD in children and adolescents. (medscape.com)
  • However, the use of this index in adolescents and children is less convenient because the growth chart for the same sex and age is required as a reference. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Yet communities vary considerably in their commitment to the collective health of children and in the resources that they make available to meet children's needs. (nih.gov)
  • This is reflected in the ways in which communities address their collective commitment to children, specifically to their health. (nih.gov)
  • Within this context, it is reasonable to ask what it means for children to be healthy and whether the United States is adequately assessing and monitoring the health of its children. (nih.gov)
  • This chapter starts with what is known about the health of children. (nih.gov)
  • Older children and adolescents often become anxious when giving a book report in front of their classmates. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Because diet influences the potential for learning as well as health, an objective of the first national education goal is that children 'receive the nutrition and health care needed to arrive at school with healthy minds and bodies' (3). (cdc.gov)
  • Research has extensively demonstrated the relationship between health and socioeconomic status (SES), often measured through income, education or occupation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The dynamicity of smoking behaviour makes it behaviour that follows a progressive pattern throughout logical to examine its longitudinal pattern to understand the life course (5) . (who.int)
  • High reserve capacity and good school achievement in adolescence significantly reduce the risk of mortality. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Time spent together and emotional closeness in adolescence significantly influenced all five aspects of sibling relationship quality in young adulthood. (mirasmart.com)
  • however, LGBQ students experienced substantially more abuse and had significantly poorer mental health and greater suicidality than heterosexual students. (cdc.gov)
  • Les patients qui ont accepté de participer après apptéléphonique ont été inclus de janvier à mai 2021.Les variables d'étudeétaient: âge, sexe, acuité visuelle (AV), caractéristiques de la LCET selon Diallo, pronostic fonctionnel et anatomique en post puberté (plus de 15 ans). (bvsalud.org)
  • The push for prevention and early, affordable and feasible intervention is stronger than ever, especially for young people. (theconversation.com)
  • The lack of positive effects highlights the need for policy-makers and public health officials need to carefully consider and evaluate prevention programs in order to ensure that they are worthwhile from school, health, and societal perspectives. (springer.com)
  • Avoidance of overweight from adolescence onwards is likely important for cardiovascular disease prevention. (nature.com)
  • Dramatic improvements have occurred over the past several decades in such areas as reducing infant mortality, reducing mortality and morbidity from many infectious diseases and accidental causes, increasing access to health care, and reducing environmental contaminants, such as lead ( Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999b , 2000a ). (nih.gov)
  • Improving transitional care can facilitate not only recovery but also mental health promotion and mental illness prevention for young people. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Because dietary factors 'contribute substantially to the burden of preventable illness and premature death in the United States,' the national health promotion and disease prevention objectives encourage schools to provide nutrition education from preschool through 12th grade (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusion: Iranian adolescents follow three trajectories - non-smokers, experimenters and escalators - into young adulthood. (who.int)
  • Not only does it contradict the widely held belief that homosexuality is unchangeable, but it demonstrates that change is prevalent in adolescence. (str.org)
  • Arrhythmia risk is especially pertinent in overdose, and suicide risk must always be considered when treating a child or adolescent with mood disorder. (medscape.com)
  • Treatment of a child or adolescent who is depressed should occur within a biopsychosocial context. (medscape.com)
  • The clinician should weigh factors such as the child's ability to function and the stability of the family, plus any history of previous suicide attempts, when determining whether or not a child or adolescent should be hospitalized. (medscape.com)