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Adolescents, Volume 4, Issue 3

September 2024 - 9 articles

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Articles (9)

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
12,816 Views
13 Pages

Prevalence of Early Sexual Debut among Young Adolescents in Ten States of the United States

  • Sadandaula R. Muheriwa-Matemba,
  • Elizabeth Anson,
  • Holly A. McGregor,
  • Chen Zhang,
  • Natasha Crooks and
  • Natalie M. LeBlanc

21 September 2024

Sexual debut among young adolescents is under-investigated. In this quantitative descriptive study, we examined the 2019 Middle School Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) data of 66,366 young adolescents aged 10–14 from 10 states to determine the...

  • Essay
  • Open Access
1,818 Views
14 Pages

2 September 2024

According to Young Minds, ‘everyone gets angry sometimes’. Their website offers a number of de-escalating strategies, including staying calm, managing responses, and setting limits to help young people who most deem resistive. Yet, Young...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,598 Views
16 Pages

31 August 2024

(1) Background: Adolescent girls have increasingly faced mental health challenges. We examined prevalence trends and associated risk factors for depression among adolescent girls. (2) Methods: Data for girls aged 12 to 17 years (N = 4346) from the 20...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,906 Views
14 Pages

Individual and Environmental Determinants of the Consumption of Iron-Rich Foods among Senegalese Adolescent Girls: A Behavioural Model

  • Jérémie B. Dupuis,
  • Aminata Ndène Ndiaye,
  • Nafissatou Ba Lo,
  • El Hadj Momar Thiam,
  • Mohamadou Sall and
  • Sonia Blaney

27 August 2024

To improve adolescent nutrition, it is crucial to understand factors underlying food behaviours. This study aims to identify pathways by which the environment and individual factors interact to affect the consumption of iron-rich food (IRF) among Sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,839 Views
10 Pages

27 August 2024

In the current information society, digital literacy has become an indispensable part of individuals’ overall literacy. Thus, investigating the factors influencing digital literacy is of theoretical and practical significance, especially for de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,355 Views
11 Pages

Building Parental Capacity: Outcomes of a Therapeutic Parent Group Run Concurrently with a Social Skills Group for Their Young Person

  • Marcella van Mourik,
  • Jenny-Maree Marshall,
  • Liza Hopkins,
  • Michelle Kehoe and
  • Richard Whitehead

21 August 2024

Introduction: Raising a child with social communication and emotion regulation challenges, such as those experienced in the context of an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), is associated with family disruption and parental stress. Research shows that pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,520 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2024

Background: Cyberbullying and nighttime phone use are independently detrimental to sleep and psychological wellbeing, but whether in combination they might be more disruptive remains unknown. Methods: Students aged 7–19 years (N = 53,734) compl...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,319 Views
20 Pages

It has been suggested that adolescents’ mental health challenges account for half of the disease burden in the world’s adolescents and young adults. In addition to psychological and medical interventions employed to prevent and treat ment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,808 Views
11 Pages

Pilot Study Outcomes and Recommendations from Developing an Australian Residential Treatment for Eating Disorders

  • Sinead Day,
  • Catherine Houlihan,
  • Deborah Mitchison,
  • Janet Conti,
  • Katherine Gill,
  • Haider Mannan,
  • Kirsten McMahon,
  • Lucie Ramjan,
  • Rebekah Rankin and
  • Wadad Kathy Tannous
  • + 2 authors

Individuals with eating disorders often face difficulty accessing sufficiently intensive, recovery-focused treatment. Residential treatment may fill a gap in the spectrum of care, offering 24-h support in a more home-like environment than a hospital...

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