• 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)
  • https://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf/recommendation/obesity-in-children-and-adolescents-screening. (cdc.gov)
  • The utility of body mass index as a measure of body fatness in children and adolescents: differences by race and gender. (cdc.gov)
  • Cardiovascular risk factors and excess adiposity among overweight children and adolescents: the Bogalusa Heart Study. (cdc.gov)
  • Beyond the "villiage" rhetoric: Creating healthy communities for children and adolescents. (springer.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Safety is always the first concern in the evaluation of MDD in children and adolescents. (medscape.com)
  • 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)
  • [ 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)
  • Older children and adolescents often become anxious when giving a book report in front of their classmates. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Comorbidity of anxiety and depression in children and adolescents: 20 years after. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The objective of this study was to determine whether children (children and adolescents aged 9-18 y) who live in a household that has healthful practices related to behaviors associated with obesity have a lower body mass index (BMI). (cdc.gov)
  • The main objective of this study was to assess whether children and adolescents who live in households that have healthful practices watch less television, engage in more physical activity, and purchase fewer sodas and snacks at school. (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • Hence, youths can be considered more susceptible to initiating at least some type of addictive behavior during the periods of adolescence and emerging adulthood. (jmir.org)
  • 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)
  • It is well known that early puberty in girls is associated with a myriad of psychosocial effects that make them vulnerable to depression and antisocial behavior during adolescence. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • Into this gap comes research from a new study that tracked the psychosocial effects of early puberty beyond adolescence and into adulthood to look at how long the psychosocial effects of early puberty may last. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • Given that more girls are entering puberty at a younger age, Mendle and colleagues highlight that a better understanding of the long-term psychosocial effects of early puberty are needed. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • 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)
  • We further extend the reserve capacity framework to include health behaviour since psychosocial resources underlie these factors and operate through them [ 20 ]. (biomedcentral.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)
  • Previous studies found that the rapid changes in physical growth and psychosocial development have placed adolescents as a nutritionally vulnerable group with unhealthy eating behaviors that did not meet dietary recommendations (Savige et al . (scialert.net)
  • Healthy eating behaviors during adolescence are not only imperative for physical and psychosocial growth and development as well as for cognitive performance, but also important for the prevention of diet-related chronic diseases in adulthood (Quatromoni et al . (scialert.net)
  • 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)
  • Addiction and mental health services for teens, young adults and their families. (hazeldenbettyford.org)
  • Association between multiple cardiovascular risk factors and atherosclerosis in children and young adults. (cdc.gov)
  • This study is the first to estimate the economic burden of health disparities for 5 racial and ethnic minority groups and 3 education groups (i.e., adults without a 4-year college degree) at the national level and for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. (nih.gov)
  • Methods: We used data from IMAGEN, a longitudinal multicenter, population-based cohort study in which 2034 healthy adolescents were investigated at age 14, and 1383 were reassessed as young adults at age 19. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • He teamed up with Paul J. Mills, a UC San Diego professor and author of a previous study showing an association between higher levels of glyphosate residue and AMPA in adults and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. (non-gmoreport.com)
  • Although there is a well-known association between cardiorespiratory endurance and health outcomes in adults, the measurement of cardiorespiratory endurance in youth and of its relationship to health outcomes is relatively new to the literature. (nationalacademies.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • This paper examines family victimization, well-being, and resilience among sexual and gender minority (SGM) adolescents and emerging adults aged 15 to 29 years. (ijcar-rirea.ca)
  • Social resource patterns and health outcomes among Canadian LGBTQ2+ adults: A latent class analysis. (ijcar-rirea.ca)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • We used data from the 2016 and 2017 SummerStyles survey (N = 4,186 and 4,066, respectively) to assess US adults' perceptions about the harms of nicotine in electronic vapor products (EVP) to the developing adolescent brain. (cdc.gov)
  • The definition of childhood schizophrenia has evolved over time and is now believed to be a virulent childhood version of the same disorder exhibited in adolescents and adults. (medscape.com)
  • 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)
  • Longitudinal reciprocal prospective relationships between depressive symptoms and response styles were examined in a community sample of 1343 adolescents. (mdpi.com)
  • 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)
  • Internal locus of control was associated with decreased depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts/attempts in young adulthood. (unc.edu)
  • Findings suggest that cognitive control capacities developed in adolescence differentially predict depressive symptoms, suicidal thoughts, and suicide 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • To examine the associations of age at menarche with development and duration of depressive symptoms and antisocial behaviors, Mendle and colleagues collected and analyzed data on 7802 female participants taken from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • To assess depressive symptoms, participants completed the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) during the first and last time periods of the study. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • Using various regression models to assess associations of age at menarche to depressive symptoms and antisocial behaviors, the investigators found a significant association between later ages of menarche and lower levels of depressive symptoms during adolescence and over time. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • For example, compared with a girl with an onset of menarche at age 12 years (the average age), a girl who has an onset of menarche at age 10 years is 8% more likely to have depressive symptoms in adolescence and 6% more likely to still have depressive symptoms in her 20s. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • When looking at a girl who begins menarche at age 8 years, the percentages of depressive symptoms increase to 25% in adolescence and 20% into her 20s. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • Here, we perform a multi-ancestry phenome-wide association study in 7789 children aged 9-12 years to examine the relationship between genetically regulated expression (GREx) of C4A , childhood brain structure, cognition, and psychiatric symptoms. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Importantly, while recent neuroimaging work suggests that C4A also affects cognition and brain structure in the general adult population [ 20 ], no study to date has examined the impact of C4A on childhood psychosis-related symptoms or brain development. (biomedcentral.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)
  • Recurrent victimization was significantly associated with higher odds of reporting internalized heterosexism, efforts to conceal gender and sexual orientation, languishing mental health, social anxiety, loneliness, and post-traumatic stress symptoms. (ijcar-rirea.ca)
  • 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)
  • A review of the data from the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study of British Children found that childhood psychotic symptoms are familial and heritable. (medscape.com)
  • 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 paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. (nber.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)
  • However, adolescent girls' behavior is largely independent of the presence (or absence) of their fathers. (nber.org)
  • There is also a link between adult delinquent behavior and adolescent family structure that cannot be explained by fathers' involvement with their adolescent sons and is only partially explained by fathers' involvement with their adolescent daughters. (nber.org)
  • Finally, the strong link between adolescent family structure and delinquent behavior is not accounted for by the income differentials associated with fathers' absence. (nber.org)
  • Parenting practices and adolescent sexual behavior: A longitudinal study. (adicciones.es)
  • Conducted between 1994 and 2008, Add Health is a national survey study that assessed adolescent health and risk behavior in a large socioeconomically, ethnically, and racially diverse cohort. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • Similar findings were seen for antisocial behavior, with younger age at onset of menarche associated significantly and linearly with a higher frequency of antisocial behavior. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • For example, the study found that compared with a girl with an onset of menarche at age 12 years, girls with early menarche at age 10 years had a 5% greater chance of displaying antisocial behavior in adolescence that persisted into their 20s (although only marginally significant). (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • Sleep is a modifiable behavior in adolescents … and, consequently, adolescent sleep may be a viable target for reducing substance use risk through, for example, policy-level changes delaying school start times," the authors concluded. (psychnews.org)
  • Adolescent cigarette smoking: health-related behavior or normative transgression? (colorado.edu)
  • Prevalence and Stability of Sexual Orientation Components during Adolescence and Young Adulthood," Archives of Sexual Behavior , 2007. (str.org)
  • Practicing healthy eating behavior is one of the important factors to meet the nutritional needs of adolescents. (scialert.net)
  • Styles is a proprietary consumer and health behavior database developed by Porter Novelli with data collected by Synovate, Inc. In 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Cancer Institute purchased the rights to analyze the de-identified data. (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • This prospective longitudinal study aims to determine patterns and predictors of change in depression and anxiety from adolescence to adulthood in individuals with language impairment (LI). (plos.org)
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence. (unc.edu)
  • 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)
  • Long-term adult outcomes of peer victimization in childhood and adolescence: Pathways to adjustment and maladjustment. (mcmaster.ca)
  • For adult delay discounting, a trend-level predictive effect of adolescent neural activity during inhibition error processing emerged. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • 32-34 Cognitive impairments in adult rats exposed to THC during adolescence are associated with structural and functional changes in the hippocampus. (nih.gov)
  • Internalizing problems from age 14-24 were studied longitudinally in a community sample (N = 585), using Achenbach's Youth Self-Report (YSR) and Young Adult Self-Report (YASR). (ed.gov)
  • Adolescence is a transitional period between childhood and adulthood, which begins from the earliest signs of secondary sexual characteristics development and ends when a person has achieved adult status (WHO, 1995). (scialert.net)
  • most adult smokers started smoking during adolescence. (who.int)
  • Some newer initiatives support research on precision medicine, child health studies examining environmental influences and cognitive brain development, and scientific workforce diversity. (nih.gov)
  • The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study will enroll 10,000+ healthy children and follow them from ages 9 to 10 into early adulthood to understand how children's experiences affect brain development. (nih.gov)
  • It has been hypothesized that a mismatch in the timing of maturation between subcortical regions (involved in affect and reward processing) and prefrontal regions (involved in cognitive control) underlies the increase in risk-taking and sensation-seeking behaviors observed during adolescence. (karger.com)
  • The developmental mismatch hypothesis proposes that, in humans, subcortical structures involved in processing affect and reward develop earlier than cortical structures involved in cognitive control, and that this mismatch in maturational timing is most exaggerated during adolescence [ 1,2,3 ]. (karger.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Hence, dramatic changes and development of the physical, emotional and cognitive functions occur during adolescence. (scialert.net)
  • Employing the cognitive discrepancy loneliness model, this study aimed to provide a social psychological perspective on youth addictions. (jmir.org)
  • 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)
  • Sources of funding for AP are the Medical Research Council (G0802307) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and King's College London. (plos.org)
  • 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)
  • Teenage girls are vulnerable to high levels of depression during middle to late adolescence. (mightynatural.com)
  • Adolescent onset of the gender difference in lifetime rates of major depression. (springer.com)
  • Those who left compulsory school provision (regardless of school type) for more choice-driven college but who were not in full-time employment or study by 24 years of age were more likely to show this depression pathway. (plos.org)
  • Botting N, Toseeb U, Pickles A, Durkin K, Conti-Ramsden G (2016) Depression and Anxiety Change from Adolescence to Adulthood in Individuals with and without Language Impairment. (plos.org)
  • A link between mental health problems and language impairment has been clearly established in childhood and adolescence [ 8 - 12 ], with anxiety and depression being particularly evident in adolescence in both community and referred samples [ 8 , 13 ]. (plos.org)
  • Other studies point to a potential relationship between cardiorespiratory endurance and other, less studied risk factors, such as those related to pulmonary function, depression and positive self-concept, and bone health. (nationalacademies.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • This program will build a diverse group of one million U.S. research participants for the study of precision medicine, an emerging approach for disease treatment and prevention that takes into account the differences in genetics, environment, and lifestyle of individual patients when choosing treatments or developing interventions. (nih.gov)
  • They reported that diet was likely a major source of glyphosate and AMPA exposure among study participants, as indicated by higher urinary glyphosate or AMPA concentrations among those adolescents who ate more cereal, fruits, vegetables, bread, and in general, carbohydrates. (non-gmoreport.com)
  • The study's implications are troubling," said Dr. Ana Maria Mora, a CERCH investigator and coauthor, "as the levels of the chemicals found in our study participants are within the range reported for the general U.S. population. (non-gmoreport.com)
  • The results show that anxiety was higher in participants with LI than age matched peers and remained so from adolescence to adulthood. (plos.org)
  • Hasler and colleagues used data from six annual assessments from 801 participants enrolled in the National Consortium on Alcohol and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence (NCANDA) study. (psychnews.org)
  • The authors defined binge drinking based on a scale determined by age, ranging from three or more drinks for participants 13 and younger, up to five or more drink for male participants 18 and older, and four or more drinks for female participants 18 and older. (psychnews.org)
  • As part of the NCANDA study, the participants were also asked about their sleep habits, including circadian preference (meaning what time participants prefer to wake up and go to bed), past-month sleep quality, daytime sleepiness, and what time participants typically went to bed and woke on both weekdays and weekends. (psychnews.org)
  • Structural trajectories of gray matter volumes were analyzed using FreeSurfer in 33 participants aged 7-30 years, each of whom had at least three high-quality MRI scans spanning three developmental periods: late childhood, adolescence and early adulthood (total 152 scans). (karger.com)
  • We then related individual developmental trajectories to retrospectively assessed self-reported risk-taking and sensation-seeking behaviors during adolescence in a subsample of 24 participants. (karger.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)
  • PGSs for alcohol, cannabis, and nicotine use/use disorder were calculated for Minnesota Twin Family Study participants ( N = 2483, 1565 monozygotic/918 dizygotic). (cambridge.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Early adolescent relationships are characterized by companionship, reciprocity, and sexual experiences. (wikipedia.org)
  • The push for prevention and early, affordable and feasible intervention is stronger than ever, especially for young people. (theconversation.com)
  • A study , which we published on Oct. 7 in JAMA Pediatrics is, so far as we know, the first to examine this topic in a nationally representative sample by tracking individuals over a 30-year life course from early adolescence to midlife. (theconversation.com)
  • The findings provide possible targets for child and adolescent interventions to promote positive development in early adulthood. (springer.com)
  • Pediatricians need a better understanding of the effects of early puberty for girls beyond adolescence into adulthood. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • A notable feature of the global obesity epidemic is the appearance of overweight and obesity in childhood and early adulthood. (nature.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)
  • New research from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health shows that childhood exposure to the world's most widely used weed killer, glyphosate, is linked to liver inflammation and metabolic disorder in early adulthood, which could lead to liver cancer, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease later in life. (non-gmoreport.com)
  • One reason for this may be the traditional conceptualization that LI is an early childhood disorder that resolves at a young age. (plos.org)
  • While clinical diagnosis typically occurs in late adolescence or early adulthood, frank psychosis is often preceded by a prodromal period of weeks to years during which gradual changes in cognition, perception, and motivation occur [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Multiple early victimization experiences as a pathway to explain physical health disparities among sexual minority and heterosexual individuals. (ijcar-rirea.ca)
  • With vertical scaling, internalizing problems peaked in mid-to-late adolescence and showed a group-level decrease from adolescence to early adulthood, a change that would not have been seen with the approach of using only age-common items. (ed.gov)
  • 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)
  • In addition, compared with the usual onset of schizophrenia in late adolescence or early adulthood, the emergence of earlier-onset schizophrenia during childhood may be due to increased genetic loading for schizophrenia or early central nervous system (CNS) damage due to an environmental factor. (medscape.com)
  • Risk Stratification for Early-Onset Colorectal Cancer Using a Combination of Genetic and Environmental Risk Scores: An International Multi-Center Study. (who.int)
  • 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)
  • Our findings suggest that surveillance for and interventions to prevent cannabis use are warranted for youth younger than 12 years. (canada.ca)
  • Cannabis use typically begins during adolescence. (canada.ca)
  • Growing longitudinal evidence indicates that late childhood and adolescent sleep characteristics predict alcohol and cannabis use and related problems in later adolescence and young adulthood," wrote Brant Hasler, Ph.D., of the University of Pittsburgh and colleagues. (psychnews.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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • These findings have implications for service provision, career/employment advice and support for individuals with a history of LI during different transitions from adolescence to adulthood. (plos.org)
  • 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: An interrupted time series analysis was used for cross-sectional data from the 2004 to 2018 National Youth Tobacco Surveys (NYTS) to assess changes in cigarette and e-cigarette use over time. (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In the following discussions, inferences regarding causality were made using the best data available in consideration of plausible biologic mechanisms, susceptibility to confounding and other aspects of the study methodology, and patterns of results. (nationalacademies.org)
  • 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)
  • Typical eating patterns among adolescents are meal skipping, snacking, eating away from home, fast food consumption for meal and snack consumption and unconventional dietary patterns such as adopting vegetarian diet, specific weight loss diet and an overall reduction of food intake (Savige et al . (scialert.net)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The study also compared sexual attraction at ages 17 and 22, with similar results. (str.org)
  • A developmental psychopathology perspective on adolescence. (springer.com)
  • 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)
  • Overcoming persistent disparities in healthcare access and health outcomes remains a foremost challenge. (nih.gov)
  • The study 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. (nih.gov)
  • Until more data are collected with which to establish criterion-referenced cut-points (cutoff scores), interim cut-points corresponding to the lowest 20th percentile of the distribution of cardiorespiratory endurance should be used to interpret results of all cardiorespiratory endurance tests and to determine whether individuals are at risk of negative health outcomes. (nationalacademies.org)
  • This chapter presents the committee's review of the scientific literature that explores the relationship between specific field tests of cardiorespiratory endurance and health outcomes in youth. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Not only was there a lack of data on long-term outcomes, but also the research community was only just beginning to understand the importance of the intrauterine environment for long-term child health. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Only by knowing the magnitude of causal relationships can one say with certainty that recommending a certain amount of GWG will result in altered frequency of adverse child health outcomes. (nationalacademies.org)
  • Recent well-powered genome-wide association studies have enhanced prediction of substance use outcomes via polygenic scores (PGSs). (cambridge.org)
  • This pattern of development did not directly relate to self-reported behaviors at an individual level in our sample, highlighting the need for prospective studies combining anatomical and behavioral measures. (karger.com)
  • We conducted Taiwan Puberty Longitudinal Study, a prospective cohort that recruited 1,135 children since 2018. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Serum MicroRNA-191-5p Levels in Vascular Complications of Type 1 Diabetes: the EURODIAB Prospective Complications Study. (medscape.com)
  • Statin Use and Skin Cancer Risk: A Prospective Cohort Study. (who.int)
  • To describe the prevalence of sex trading by gender and by associations with mental health concerns and protective factors. (bvsalud.org)
  • The aim of the present study was to examine the associations of sugary drink consumption and its substitution with alternative beverages with body weight gain among young children predisposed to future weight gain. (cambridge.org)
  • On an empirical level, relationships and changes in associations between different measures of impulsivity from adolescence into young adulthood and their relation to neural activity during inhibitory control and reward anticipation have not been fully understood. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Analysis of this smaller sample failed to find a relationship between the presence of a mismatch in brain maturation and risk-taking and sensation-seeking behaviors during adolescence. (karger.com)
  • Evidence is also presented on the linkages between health trajectories during adolescence and the transition to adulthood and social stratification in adulthood. (dukeupress.edu)
  • Although the evidence for a relationship between distance/timed runs and health is insufficient at this time, this type of test is valid and reliable and could be an alternative in schools and other educational settings. (nationalacademies.org)
  • In making its recommendations, the committee considered not only the evidence for a relationship to health, but also the scientific integrity (reliability and validity) of putative health-related tests, as well as the administrative feasibility of implementing these tests. (nationalacademies.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)
  • 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)
  • Expert Committee recommendations regarding the prevention, assessment, and treatment of child and adolescent overweight and obesity: summary report. (cdc.gov)
  • Deshmukh-Taskar P, Nicklas TA, Morales M, Yang S-J. Zakeri I, Berenson GA. Tracking of overweight status from childhood to young adulthood: the Bogalusa Heart Study. (cdc.gov)
  • Tracking of BMI in children in relation to overweight in adulthood. (cdc.gov)
  • Avoidance of overweight from adolescence onwards is likely important for cardiovascular disease prevention. (nature.com)
  • 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)
  • With this change, loneliness is becoming an unprecedented societal issue, making youth more susceptible to various physical and mental health problems. (jmir.org)
  • The worry that loneliness is on the rise in America routinely surfaces in national media. (senate.gov)
  • Loneliness is a growing health epidemic. (senate.gov)
  • LGBTQ youth also lack the social support and peer connections enjoyed by hetero-normative young people. (wikipedia.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)
  • 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)
  • Based on its relationship to health, as well as its reliability, validity, and feasibility, a timed or progressive shuttle run, such as the 20-meter shuttle run, is appropriate for measuring cardiorespiratory endurance in youth. (nationalacademies.org)
  • A 2017 study by the National Institute of Justice found that 69% of youth ages 12 to 18 who were either in a relationship or had been in the past year reported being a victim of teen dating violence. (mtshastama.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • One proposed mechanism through which normative developmental processes may contribute to schizophrenia pathophysiology is through atypical brain development and refinement of synaptic connections across childhood and adolescence [ 4 , 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The current study utilizes longitudinal structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data to describe the developmental trajectories of regions associated with risk-taking and sensation-seeking behaviors, namely, the amygdala, nucleus accumbens (NAcc) and prefrontal cortex (PFC). (karger.com)
  • An integrative approach bridges biomedical sciences with social and behavioral sciences by understanding the linkages between social, behavioral, psychological, and biological factors in health. (dukeupress.edu)
  • 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)
  • Substance use disorders (SUDs) are one of the most common and disabling behavioral health problems (Whiteford et al. (cambridge.org)
  • Depressive disorders are highly prevalent during adolescence and they are a major concern for individuals and society. (mdpi.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)
  • 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)
  • Individuals with LI originally recruited at age 7 years and a comparison group of age-matched peers (AMPs) were followed from adolescence (16 years) to adulthood (24 years). (plos.org)
  • Addictive behaviors are a continuous burden to public health, affecting millions of individuals globally. (jmir.org)
  • More than 300 million people suffer from this mental health disorder worldwide. (theconversation.com)
  • A large longitudinal study in New Zealand found that persistent marijuana use disorder with frequent use starting in adolescence was associated with a loss of an average of 6 or up to 8 IQ points measured in mid-adulthood. (nih.gov)
  • Childhood-onset schizophrenia is a severe form of psychotic disorder that occurs at age 12 years or younger and is often chronic and persistently debilitating. (medscape.com)
  • The CHAMACOS researchers reached back into their "library" of frozen biological samples from mother and child dyads, along with more than 20 years of exposure data and health records. (non-gmoreport.com)
  • Conclusion: Iranian adolescents follow three trajectories - non-smokers, experimenters and escalators - into young adulthood. (who.int)
  • 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 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)
  • A secondary aim of this study was to examine whether healthful household practices and children's behaviors were associated with lower self-reported BMI. (cdc.gov)
  • The study found that the onset of menarche was about 12 years for most of the girls (31%) followed by age 13 (24%) and age 11 (19%), but ranged from 7 to 24 years. (contemporarypediatrics.com)
  • 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)
  • The authors reported that higher levels of glyphosate residue and AMPA in urine in childhood and adolescence were associated with higher risk of liver inflammation and metabolic disorders in young adulthood. (non-gmoreport.com)
  • 2005). Additionally, the triadic problems of obesity, eating disorders and body image disturbances are associated with eating behaviors of adolescents, particularly females (Irving and Neumark-Sztainer, 2002). (scialert.net)
  • Incidence rates and cumulative incidences of the full spectrum of diagnosed mental disorders in childhood and adolescence. (msdmanuals.com)
  • 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)
  • Data for the study are from four waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). (alkoholpolitik.ch)
  • 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)
  • The data sets used and/or analysed during the study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request. (who.int)
  • 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)
  • Data are from the Manchester Language Study (MLS) whose authors may be contacted at Gina Conti-Ramsden, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Ellen Wilkinson Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK. (plos.org)
  • The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. (plos.org)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Childhood obesity rates have in- track into adulthood. (who.int)
  • Nonetheless, comparative studies of homosexual and heterosexual couples have found few differences in relationship intensity, quality, satisfaction, or commitment. (wikipedia.org)
  • McClintock's research showed that women with more education and women who were more physically attractive (as rated by their Add Health interviewers) had higher probabilities of identifying as "100 percent heterosexual" than other women in Waves III and IV of Add Health. (sexualdiversity.org)
  • Interestingly, for men: higher levels of education were associated with a lower likelihood of identifying as "100 percent heterosexual" in Waves III and IV of Add Health, physical attractiveness had no clear association with sexual identity, and those who became fathers by Wave III were more likely to identify as "100 percent heterosexual" in Wave IV. (sexualdiversity.org)
  • He notes that although a small percentage of heterosexual adolescents developed homosexuality, the vast majority transitioned in the opposite direction. (str.org)
  • Conclusion: Adolescents with multiple marginalized social positions and those lacking certain school-based assets-often overlapping categories-were involved in bullying at higher-than-average rates. (bvsalud.org)
  • Do First Generation Immigrant Adolescents Face Higher Rates of Bullying, Violence and Suicidal Behaviours Than Do Third Generation and Native Born? (mcmaster.ca)
  • 0001). A significant risk factor for non-white adolescents' very negative self-esteem (OR = 1.914) was present together with bullying victims who had had negative consequences after the episode (OR = 3.343). (bvsalud.org)
  • Those who reported negative consequences on bullying were three times more likely to present very negative self-esteem, and the chances of non-white adolescents to show negative selfesteem were almost twice as high. (bvsalud.org)
  • The study was approved by the Ethical Committee of Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences and the National Research Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran (EC 121). (who.int)
  • 1Research Center for Social Determinants of Health, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. (who.int)
  • 2002). It is noteworthy that unhealthy eating behaviors and their health compromising consequences are serious issues during adolecence and future adulthood and should be duly addressed. (scialert.net)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They assessed liver and metabolic health in the children when they were 18 years old. (non-gmoreport.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Most psychologists and relationship counselors predict a decline of intimacy and passion over time, replaced by a greater emphasis on companionate love (differing from adolescent companionate love in the caring, committed, and partner-focused qualities). (wikipedia.org)
  • This study investigated whether genetic variants could predict tri-ponderal mass index (TMI)-derived growth trajectories and the interaction between genetic and dietary factors. (biomedcentral.com)