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To enhance their understanding of issues around adherence to treatment, eight health professionals adhered to a randomly selected six-week treatment regimen suitable for patients with type 1 diabetes. These regimens are designed to promote optimal diabetes control and promote patient...
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PMID: 21678716
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Since publication of the Social Exclusion Report in 1999, the adverse outcomes associated with young pregnancy have been a focus for Government policy. The ensuing Teenage Pregnancy Strategy sought to reduce social exclusion of young parents and their children.
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PMID: 21485898
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Most research regarding sport participation and suicide risk found protective relationships. However, all studies in this area were based on cross-sectional designs.
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PMID: 21721357
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The increasing popularity of text messaging has made this mode of communication the preferred interaction portal for teens. Virtually every teenager has a cell phone with an unlimited text messaging plan. Text messaging easily facilitates communication between individuals without much interruption in...
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PMID: 21721366
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Measuring adolescent perceptions of physical education (PE) activities is necessary in understanding determinants of school PE activity participation. The purpose of this study was to test initial estimates of reliability and validity of a new scale assessing high school adolescent perceptions of sch...
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PMID: 21560899
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Sexual violence against women and girls in Israel is rather prevalent. To address this problem, the Association of Rape Crisis Centers in Israel (ARCCI) provides rape prevention programs for middle to high school teens. These programs have been in place for several decades, but their effectiveness ha...
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PMID: 21846018
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Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is subjective concept and, therefore, should be captured directly from the patient. However, proxy reporting of HRQL is widespread, particularly in pediatric studies where children have been considered unreliable respondents. This study assessed the level of agr...
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PMID: 21150532
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We used the National Young Driver Survey (NYDS), a nationally representative (N=5665) cross-sectional study of adolescent driving behavior, to examine potential psychosocial correlates of cell phone use while driving (CPWD). Results indicated that stronger beliefs about the advantages of abstention...
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PMID: 20728605
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This study analyzed the relationship between social interaction styles and sociometric types in a sample of 1,349 (51.7% boys, and 48.3% girls) Spanish adolescents. The results revealed that the proportion of prosocial adolescents nominated as liked by peers was significantly higher than prosocial w...
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PMID: 20977022
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The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not the social physique anxiety level and gender have an influence on psychological characteristics and health related behavior of adolescents. Five hundred and ninety eight female (M(age) = 14.95, SD = .70 years) and three hundred and eighty four...
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PMID: 20977023
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This article represents an empirical study of adolescent's self-relation in a family where the mother has re-married. In many studies self-awareness and its functional aspect--self-relation--are selected as new stages in adolescence. The family is considered to be the most important factor in a chil...
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PMID: 20977021
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The aim of this study was to analyse the prevalence of victimization through mobile phone and internet. The differences of gender and academic year in the type of electronic aggression were also examined. The sample comprised 2001 adolescents of both genders and ages between 11 and 17 years. Results...
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PMID: 21044514
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We used a sample of 1392 pupils of both sexes, belonging to second and fourth grades of Secondary School of Galicia (Spain). The students were assessed with a battery of instruments that provided data about a range of variables such as family system, personal characteristics, social relationships, g...
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PMID: 21044515
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Adolescents' drug use has huge social and personal implications, so it is essential to identify risk and protective factors. In this research, the CTCYS was used with 2440 adolescents to detect risk and protective factors for drug use in the community, family, school and peers/individual; difference...
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PMID: 21044480
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The aim of this study is to evaluate the relation between gender and sex with the sexual behavior of adolescents. The sample comprised 815 teenagers (M=15.65, Sd.=1.42). The assessment instruments were the BEM Sex Role Inventory, the Sexual Opinion Survey, the Questionnaire of Risk Perception of Bay...
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PMID: 21044486
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Failure to adhere to medication regimens can lead to unnecessary disease progression, disease complications, reduced functional abilities, lower quality of life, and even death. Medication adherence for children taking psychotropic agents poses many special challenges for health care professionals,...
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PMID: 20873702
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Adolescents are frequently accompanied by a third party in consultation. Their stated reason for consulting is rarely psychological. However, many adolescents experience distress or impaired well-being that practitioners fail to detect.
To study the ability of adolescents to express personal concern...
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PMID: 20547496
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1,163 middle school students (586 girls, 577 boys; Grades 6-8) were selected through a stratified random sampling method to examine their attitudes toward physical education (PE) by grade, student's sex, sports participation characteristics, and teacher's sex. They were administered the Attitude Tow...
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PMID: 21162436
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This study tested the efficacy of an Internet-based prevention program, Trouble on the Tightrope: In Search of Skateboard Sam, on pubertal knowledge, body esteem, and self-esteem. One hundred and ninety participants (mean age 11.6 years) were randomized to either an intervention or a...
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PMID: 20638919
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The Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) is an 18-item self-report tool designed to measure the construct of anxiety sensitivity (i.e. the belief that anxiety may have harmful consequences such as sickness, embarrassment, or loss of control) in children and adolescents. Previous factor analyti...
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PMID: 20645196
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Sources of Strength is the first suicide prevention program involving peer leaders to enhance protective factors associated with reducing suicide at the school population level....
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PMID: 20634440
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This paper engages into a global assessment of statistics and their potential uses, ranging from 19th century accounts of "suicidal acts" by the central services of criminal justice in France, to European comparative data on suicide in the years 2000. The most recent facts and figures about teenager...
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PMID: 20598866
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The objectives of this study were to compare the personality profiles of adolescent males with and without Internet addiction disorder (IAD), and to determine if IAD is associated with specific parental rearing behaviors. A total of 304 subjects (204 IAD positive and 100 IAD negative controls) compl...
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PMID: 20712498
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Research and interventions that focus on understanding and mitigating risk behaviors by partner type, especially those that tackle the unique risks incurred with main partners, may make important contributions to risk reduction among transgender female youths....
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PMID: 20622176
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Hispanic/Latino (H/L) vs. European American (EA) perceptions of current and ideal body image as well as body dissatisfaction were examined in 416 adolescents aged 12-15 years. Gender, culture, and body mass index (BMI) were hypothesized to affect measures of self-perceived body image and dissatisfac...
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PMID: 20693729
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We tested the hypotheses that both acculturation and inner-city risk factors impact substance use largely because they undermine family relationships. Mothers and youth completed self-report measures of acculturation and enculturation. Youth completed questionnaires of family relationships, inner-ci...
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PMID: 20658884
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This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
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This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
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This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
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This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
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This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
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This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
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This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.
Abstract
This study examines how active coping and withdrawal, psychological (internalizing and externalizing) symptoms, and glycemic control (A1C values) influence each other across time in adolescents with type 1 diabetes.
One hundred and nine adolescents participated in a f...
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PMID: 20357383
PDF is available here.