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Showing 1 to 20 of 132 for “"adolescent health"”.
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Adolescent Health Care and Health Risk Screenings
It is well documented that adolescents are at risk for participating in high-risk health concerns. Few studies have examined health risk factors that are screened for by health care providers. The objective of this study was: to identify the high-risk health factors that were being screened for, …
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The use of e-learning to increase adolescent health literacy
… the change in each student's knowledge and health literacy regarding nutrition and whether students' behavioral intentions towards eating more nutritiously changed over time. Students who completed at least three of the 18 knowledge questions on the pre-test and post-test were included in …
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Adolescent Health, Future Outcomes, and Mechanisms Linking Health and Education
<p>Even though the relationship between the health of infants/children and future outcomes has been established in many studies, little evidence has shown the impact of adolescent health. We extend the literature by exploiting the data from Add Health. We show that poor adolescent health has a …
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Differing Religious Motivations are associated with Adolescent Health Behavior through Self-regulation
… However, how religiousness benefits health is not as well known. It has been proposed that self-regulation is the linking mechanism and the current study sought to confirm this theory. Furthermore, religious motivation has been found to have differential effects on a variety of …
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Examining student engagement and its influence in a social contextual model of adolescent health behavior change
Current theoretical models of health behavior change frequently serve as the theoretical backdrop to adolescent health promotion programs. Yet, despite that each main theory was developed with adults and for adults, appropriate and necessary changes for adolescents are often neglected. The unique …
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A Four Year Longitudinal Follow-Up Study of Adolescent Health Characteristics and Behavioral Risk Indicators (Attitudes)
… the development and maintenance of behaviors in adolescents conducive to cardiovascular health. The study also focused on monitoring and tracking the previously classified (1981/82) "at-risk" students.
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Putting teeth into the developmental origins hypothesis: A longitudinal study of early childhood malnutrition, enamel hypoplasia and adolescent health in Amazonian Bolivia
… malnutrition and thus predictor of long-term health. This dissertation sought to investigate associations between malnutrition-related early childhood exposures and dental enamel hypoplasia (EH) and to evaluate EH as a predictor of adolescent anthropometrics and biomarkers. We conducted …
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Effects of Family Ses, Multiple Types of Child Abuse, and Parental Attachment On Early Sexual Activity: Analysis of the National Longitudinal Study On Adolescent Health (Add Health)
… conducted on the National Longitudinal study of Adolescent Health data. The study sample consisted of mainly Caucasian adolescents with an average age of 16 years, living mostly with biological parents and in households of about three persons. The majority of adolescents in the study sample …
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Participatory theater in community health
… describes the need for innovative strategies in health education through a comprehensive literature review, detail of forty-three participatory theater activities for use in a health context, and field observations of employing participatory theater activities at three different application …
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Topical content in sexuality education and sexual health outcomes.
… of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health is used to examine possible explanatory variables for sexual health outcomes. Linear and logistic regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between sexual health outcomes and topical content in sexuality …
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Finding Myself: The Maturation of Spirituality and its Influence on Behavior During Late Adolescence
… of spirituality and/or religiosity on late adolescent behavior. Multiple quantitative research studies have linked spirituality and/or religiosity with both decreased health-risk behaviors and increased health-promotion behaviors during adolescence. However, as reductionist methods have not …
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AN EXAMINATION OF FACTORS PREDICTING PARTICIPATION IN INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS DURING ADOLESCENCE
… data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), I investigated several theories which had previously been researched using data of inferior quality, or only in the context of marriage relationships. I found that macrostructural and contact theories of race …
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Expanded adolescent STI health education and screening pilot project: program evaluation
The Expanded Adolescent STI Health Education and Screening Pilot Project was designed by the Adolescent Health Program of the Chicago Department of Public Health and the Chicago Public School’s Office of Special Education and Supports to combat the documented high rates of gonorrhea and chlamydia …
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Interactionist Labeling: A Structural Equation Model of Formal Labeling, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality
… utilizing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The labeling perspective is outlined as it was originally presented, and the theoretical elaborations that have taken place since are highlighted. Distinctions are made between formally applied criminal justice labels …
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Pathways to Turning Points: Exploring the Relationship between Self-Control and Thoughtfully Reflective Decision Making
… data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study investigates the relationship between self-control and thoughtfully reflective decision making (Paternoster and Pogarsky, 2009; Paternoster, Pogarsky, and Zimmerman, 2010) in the likelihood of entering into marriage and …
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The Protective Factors and Life Outcomes of Youth Exposed to Community Violence
… data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health studies. A nested multiple regression model was used to evaluate the data. The results show that individuals with mentors are more likely to be civically engaged during young adulthood.</p>
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The Influence of Physical Activity and Television on the Intention and Self-Efficacy to Engage in Health-Enhancing Behaviors
… focused on identifying causal risk factors among adolescents. However, theories of health behavior change also stress the intermediary factors of intention and efficacy for effective behavior change. Existing research supports the potential of physical activity (PA), particularly learned through …
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