OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of psychiatric disorders among youths from the following five public sectors of care: alcohol and drug services (AD), child welfare (CW), juvenile justice (JJ), mental health (MH), and public school services for youths with serious emotional disturbance (SED) in San Diego, California. METHOD The Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children was administered be...

The current study compared the peer relationships and well-being of 60 sexual-minority (i.e., nonheterosexual) and 65 heterosexual youths between the ages of 15 and 23. Sexual-minority youths had comparable self-esteem, mastery, and perceived stress as did heterosexuals, but greater negative affect. Younger sexual-minority male adolescents had smaller overall peer networks than did young male h...

â â â â â korea’s youth unemployment problem has continued to worsen since 2004. according to an e24, j64, an analysis of raw data from statistics korea’s economically active population survey and supplementary results of the economically active population survey on youths to confirm whether youth unemployment affects all youths, more youths were delaying graduation or taking leaves of abse...

Background More than half of those newly infected with HIV are young people yet youths have lower medication adherence than adults. Short message service (SMS) based interventions have demonstrated their effectiveness in improving adherence among adults in resource limited settings, but their efficacy with youths has not been studied. This study is one of the first qualitative studies to explor...

Advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) have offered governments new opportunities to enhance citizen participation in democratic processes. The participation opportunities afforded by ICT may be particularly pertinent for youths, who are more likely to be ICT-savvy and yet are reported to show declining participation in politics. The currently increasing exclusion of yout...

CONTEXT Decades of randomized controlled trials have produced separate evidence-based treatments for depression, anxiety, and conduct problems in youth, but these treatments are not often used in clinical practice, and they produce mixed results in trials with the comorbid, complex youths seen in practice. An integrative, modular redesign may help. OBJECTIVE Standard/separate and modular/inte...

The health consequences of physical inactivity among youths are worrisome as sedentary lifestyles among youths become entrenched. Obesity rates among youths in Singapore are about 10%, but there are concerns that this rate is not sustainable over the longer term. Physical activity (PA) prevalence data in Singaporean youths are mixed as questionnaire data show adequate levels of PA engagement wh...

OBJECTIVE Although studies reveal substantial mental health treatment needs among youths in the juvenile justice system, far less is known about young offenders transferred to adult criminal court. This statewide study examined the mental health needs of young offenders who committed serious crimes and were transferred to adult court and subsequently incarcerated in a prison for adults. METHO...

INTRODUCTION Limited data on cigarette smoking among population subgroups hinder the development and implementation of intervention strategies for those subgroups. Because of small sample sizes or inadequate study formats, cigarette smoking among youths has been studied mostly among broad racial or ethnic categories (e.g., Asian, Hispanic) instead of subgroups (e.g., Vietnamese, Cuban). The obj...

BACKGROUND Our objective was to compare self- and parent-reported irritability in youths with anxiety disorders, healthy youths, and those with mood disorders characterized by irritability. Irritability is a common but relatively understudied psychiatric symptom in child and adolescent anxiety disorders. In anxious youths, little is known about the severity of irritability, its impact on functi...