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Utilization of ICDS program by adolescent girls and implementation barriers in Urban Rishikesh, India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2019
Context: Adolescent girls are at higher risk of mortality and morbidity due to childbirth. Government of India therefore initiated Adolescent girls' scheme since year 2000. However, since its inception program received various setbacks.
Meenakshi P Khapre, Surekha Kishore, Anusha Sharma   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two years and counting: The dynamics of long‐term youth mentoring and association with parent and peer relationships

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The current study seeks to explore the reciprocal associations between mentor–mentee relationship strength and relationships with parents and peers across 2 years of mentoring. It is a secondary analysis of data collected by a national mentoring organization from youth (N = 1368; M age = 11.5 years; 59% female; White [n = 629], 30% Black [n ...
Westley L. Fallavollita, Michael D. Lyons   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Facilitators’ champion behaviors for delivering an evidence‐based parenting program

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Effective implementation of parenting programs relies on multiple factors, particularly the role of facilitators who actively deliver and support the intervention. Facilitators’ champion behaviors or the efforts they make to encourage implementation, can positively impact the outcomes of these programs.
Camila Regina Lotto, Elisa Rachel Pisani Altafim, Dana Charles McCoy, Maria Beatriz Martins Linhares   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Overweight on Risky Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Girls [PDF]

We use data from The National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health to estimate effects of adolescent girls' overweight on their propensity to engage in risky sexual behavior.
Nancy Reichman, Hope Corman, Susan Averett   +2 more
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Influence of netball-based exercise on energy intake, subjective appetite and plasma acylated ghrelin in adolescent girls [PDF]

, 2013
This study explored 5-d regulation of exercise-induced energy expenditure, energy intake, and hormonal appetite, via acylated ghrelin, after acute exercise. Using a randomized crossover design, 10 female adolescents (13-15 y) completed two 7-d treatment
Stevenson, Emma, Stensel, D.J., Rumbold, P.L.S., Stensel, David, Dodd-Reynolds, C.J., Rumbold, Penny, Reynolds, Caroline, King, J.A., St Clair Gibson, Alan, King, J., Stensel, D., St Clair Gibson, A., King, James, Stevenson, E., Stevenson, E.J.   +14 more
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Place‐based risk: Examining relationships between adolescent perceptions of community risk factors and adolescent substance use across geographic contexts

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Mixed evidence for the influence of structural and social factors on adolescent substance use behaviors exists across the rural–urban continuum. Therefore, this study explores how adolescent perceptions of structural and social community risk factors are associated with lifetime and past 30‐day use of alcohol, marijuana, cigarettes, and ...
Melissa Pearman Fenton, Sarah D. Lynne, Josie L. Bryan, Catherine Woodstock Striley, Larry F. Forthun   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of modern contraceptive utilisation among adolescent girls in the fishing communities of rural northern Uganda: A community-based cross-sectional survey

Women's Health
Background Adolescent girls in rural fishing communities in Uganda engage in early sexual activity, putting them at risk of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections.
Moses Owiny, Mary Ejang, Gasthony Alobo, Bosco Opio, Eustes Kigongo, Oliver Anyeko Akello   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Looking back on childhood experiences of homelessness: Stories of ongoing residential instability and resilience

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Families' experience of homelessness is typically examined from the perspective of parents during or shortly after a shelter stay. Parents complain about rules, surveillance, crowding, and challenges to parenting in both homeless shelters and in doubling up with other households (sharing the others' homes), and relief when they attain their ...
Marybeth Shinn, Emma J. Sacks, Kayla Fike   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Firearm carrying practices and motivations: A mixed methods study among adults and youth

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this participatory action, mixed methods research study was to identify motivations related to firearm carrying from a qualitative perspective, and then to use quantitative research to characterize the patterns of motivations around carrying.
Krista R. Mehari, Colleen S. Walsh, L. Taylor Stevens, Jasmine N. Coleman, Alice Ellyson, Phillip N. Smith   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Internet use and adolescent development: A conceptual model integrating behavioral and contextual theories

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract In the digital era, adolescent development is deeply embedded in the cyber environment. Despite ongoing debate on the benefits and/or risks that Internet use brings to adolescents in empirical studies, conceptual and theoretical discussion on the influences of the intensity and modalities of Internet use is peripheral.
Linxiao Zhang, Lin Fang, Faye Mishna, Liangqi Shen   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source