State legislation linked to increase in HPV vaccination in teenage girls
1. A greater proportion of teenage girls initiated the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine series in states where the tetanus, diphtheria, ...
Tag: adolescent health
NIH report highlights strategies for optimizing youth suicide prevention programs
1. Linking suicide prevention programs to external data systems may enable longer-term assessment of suicide outcomes from such programs. ...
Physical/psychological symptoms similar in atypical and full-threshold anorexia nervosa
1. Adolescents with atypical anorexia nervosa (restrictive eating disorder but patients are normal weight) were more likely to have been ...
Alcohol abuse linked to teens’ early maturation, minimal supervision
1. Girls who experienced pubertal maturation early in life and reported the least amount of parental supervision were at the ...
High schoolers use e-cigarettes to vaporize cannabis
1. In this cross-sectional sample of high school students, 1 in 20 reported using electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) to vaporize cannabis. ...
Unmet healthcare need in adolescence linked to poor adult outcomes
1. Almost one in five adolescents report unmet healthcare needs for a variety of reasons, the most common of which ...
Poor adolescent health linked to negative education, employment outcomes
Systematic review and meta-analysis of 27 studies suggested that poor health in adolescence was associated with decreased education and employment ...
Self-inflicted injuries among adolescents trending upwards
1. Emergency department visits for self-inflicted injury among adolescents during 2009-2012 were examined using a national trauma database. The number ...