Activity Card SortoccupationparticipationEmerging adulthood defines transition to employment, higher education, and domestic life. This study describes the development of an assessment of self-reported participation in a range of age-appropriate activities. Item selection was established from literature review...
The Adolescent Girls Empowerment Program (AGEP) was designed to address these challenges by building girls’ social, health and economic assets in the short term and improving sexual behavior, early marriage, pregnancy and education in the longer term. The two-year intervention included weekly, ...
The association between preference for having a different physician than parents and involvement in potential health risk activities such as drinking and drug use persisted, even after controlling for grade level. Age was the only statistically significant variable for boys, with younger boys more ...
We performed RNA-seq in 62 breast tissue samples from adolescent girls/young women (ADOL; mean age 17.8 years) who underwent reduction mammoplasty. Thirty-one subjects were non-overweight/obese (NOB; mean BMI 23.4 kg/m2) and 31 were overweight/obese (OB; BMI 32.1 kg/m2). We...
Protein levels and enzyme activities of the individual complexes of the respiratory chain (complex I to IV), succinate: Cytochrome C oxidoreductase (SCC), and citrate synthase (CS; a marker of the number of mitochondria37) in the 600 g supernatant were measured spectrophotometrically, after three...
The mean age (SE) of the sample was 13.6 (± 0.02) years and they spent less than 5% of their waking hours in MVPA (4.85 ± 0.06). Discussion Girls in Sport will test the effectiveness of schools working towards the same goal, but developing individual, targeted interventions that bring ...
Intervention in year 7 (ages 12–13) was timed to occur before the mean age of onset for mental disorders. Health4Life has been evaluated in a cluster-randomized controlled trial (CRCT), including 71 schools across three Australian States (New South Wales, NSW; Queensland, QLD; Western ...
The spiritual health module consisted of eight questions adapted (for age-appropriate literacy and brevity) from Fisher׳s Spiritual Well-being scale for secondary students (Gomez & Fisher, 2003). Two items were asked for each of the four standard domains. Students responded to these questions ...
The proportion of regular smokers varied inversely with age. While 13.2% of 13- to 14-year-olds were regular smokers, one quarter of 17- to 18-year-olds were regular smokers. The greatest proportion of regular smokers was among white adolescents (25.6%), more than 14 percentage points great...
Findings suggest that when interacting with children and caregivers, practitioners should place a critical focus on promoting healthy device habits, which can include moderating daily use; choosing age-appropriate programs; promoting device-free time, sleep, and physical activity; and encouraging children...