Lesbian, gay, and bisexual students (LGB) and those questioning their sexual orientation are often at great risk for negative outcomes like depression, suicidality, drug use, and school difficulties (Elliot and Kilpatrick, How to Stop Bullying, A KIDSCAPE Guide to Training, 1994; Mufoz-Plaza et al., High Sch J 85:52-63, 2002; Treadway and Yoakam, J School Health 62(7):352-357, 1992). This study...

BACKGROUND At the drug scene some major shifts were observed, more and more reports highlighted the abuse of prescription medication. Despite the importance of controlled medication in treatment child and adolescent disorders, this increase may be a factor which influence misuse and nonmedical use of prescribed drugs among adolescents. SUBJECT AND METHODS Croatian data from ESPAD survey in 20...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of violence-related behaviours among adolescents and the factors associated with it. MATERIAL AND METHODS This was a cross-sectional school survey conducted on 4500 adolescent students, using a structured questionnaire. Data were collected using the supervised self-administered questionnaire [a modified version of the Youth Ri...

OBJECTIVE To determine the childcare practices of commercial sex workers (CSWs). DESIGN A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted between July and December 2000 during which a structured questionnaire was administered. SETTING Kibera slum, Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS Three hundred eighty five CSWs and four focus group discussions (FGDs) held. Health cards from 126 under five years o...

This study (1) reports frequency rates of mutually exclusive traditional, cyber and combined (both traditional and cyber) bullying roles; and (2) investigates whether adolescents belonging to particular bullying roles show higher levels of involvement in risky online activities (Compulsive Internet Use (CIU), online grooming victimization, and sexting) and risky offline activities (bad behavior...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a systematic review of rigorously evaluated school-based interventions to decrease bullying. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, PsycINFO, EMBASE, Educational Resources Information Center, Cochrane Collaboration, the Physical Education Index, and Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection were searched for the terms bullying and bully. STUDY SELECTION We found 2090 article citations and ...

The author has recently reviewed the literature on the organization and behavior of the bacterial nucleus (Knaysi, 1951). Since then the situation has been confused by claims (DeLamater, Hunter, and Mudd, 1952) that the organization and behavior of the bacterial nucleus are identical to the organization and behavior of nuclei in the cells of higher animals. These claims have not been confirmed ...

OBJECTIVE To explore the covariation of risk behaviors in a national sample of American Indian reservation-based youth using listwise principal components factor analysis and to determine how these risk behaviors may vary by age and sex. DESIGN Analysis of data from the National Indian Adolescent Health Survey, a validated anonymous self-report questionnaire of 162 items addressing various he...

AIM The main aim of the present study was to explore the potential associations between dietary habits and the presence of overweight and obesity in Chilean adolescents. METHODS For the present study dietary habits of 21,385 Chilean students were analyzed and weight and height assessed, in order to determine potential associations between eating patterns and body mass index (BMI) values. RE...