BACKGROUND Prevalence of tobacco use among adolescents in India is very high. Despite many epidemiological studies exploring tobacco use among youth, there is no published data on adolescents' perceptions about smokers in Indian society and its implications on tobacco control. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted using a stratified random sampling with probability proportional to sch...

OBJECTIVE This study explores the factors that influence adolescents' help-seeking intentions. Specifically, the study investigates the extent to which perceived benefits of help seeking, stoicism, gender and symptoms of psychological distress are associated with intentions to seek professional help for emotional problems. DESIGN AND SETTING A cross sectional self-report questionnaire was adm...

BACKGROUND A total of 1.7 million youth are homeless in America and nearly half are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. The purpose of this study is to investigate survival strategies, anxiety, and self-esteem among male homeless adolescents. OBJECTIVES This study tested two hypotheses: (a) Survival strategies of homeless adolescents differ by sexual orientation/gender identity. (b) There...

PURPOSE Vitamin D deficiency is a common condition that is associated with diabetes and insulin resistance. However, the association between vitamin D and insulin resistance has not been fully studied, especially in the general adolescent population. Therefore, we assessed the association between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] level and insulin resistance among apparently healthy Korean ad...

INTRODUCTION Nutrition during adolescence plays an important role in the individual's life. There are different factors that affect nutritional status of adolescents. Socio Economic Status, age, sex and mothers' educational level are among the important determinants factors of nutritional status of adolescents. Younger adolescents tend to be more undernourished than older adolescents, and, cont...

The purpose of this study was to report on the estimates and distribution of body mass index in a sample of Malaysian adolescents. The study utilized a cross-sectional design and multi-stage random sampling of secondary schools to select 5 urban and 9 rural schools in Kedah and Penang. A total of 6555 male and female adolescents (11-15 years old) of Malay, Chinese and Indian ethnic groups were ...

A population of 12-19 year-old adolescents (n=994) was selected from a pool of 7264 students in order to study adolescent’s perception of autonomy. Eleven behavioural autonomy items were elected by the adolescents and used to evaluate the frequency of desire, achievement and disobeying parents in early (12-13 yearold) and late (18-19 year-old) adolescents. Statistical comparison of the two age ...

Publisher rights Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Prue, G., and Santin, O. (2015) HPV vaccine acceptance in male adolescents. Psycho-Oncology, doi: 10.1002/pon.3961, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pon.3961/abstract. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in acc...

Our objective was to examine the relationship between pregnancy desire among female adolescents and their perception of desire for pregnancy in their male partners. This is an observational cross-sectional study which examined 92 surveys administered to adolescent women between the ages of 14 to 19 years at two obstetrical care services serving a population from limited socioeconomic background...

PURPOSE The Cebu Longitudinal Health and Nutrition Survey included self-report measures and objective measures (Caltrac accelerometer) of Filipino adolescent (ages 14-16) physical activity (PA) in 1998-99. The purpose of this subanalysis was to compare objectively monitored PA of adolescents who differed by their self-reported habitual commuting mode to school, specifically commuting by walking...