Estimates indicate that approximately 1.7 million youth are homeless in the United States. Many associated risk factors have been identified for adolescent homelessness, including family conflict, leaving foster care, running away or being thrown away, physical or sexual abuse, and coming out to parents as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or questioning one's sexual identity (GLBTQ). The pu...

PURPOSE Primary care providers' (PCPs') provision of time alone with an adolescent without the parents present (henceforth referred to as "confidential care") has a significant impact on adolescents' disclosure of risk behavior. To inform the development of interventions to improve PCPs' delivery of confidential care, we obtained the perspectives of adolescent males and their mothers about the ...

OBJECTIVE To compare rates of avoidable mortality in adolescence in child welfare recipients and intercountry adoptees with the general population. DESIGN A register study of the entire national cohort of 989 871 Swedish residents born 1973-82 in the national census of 1990. Multivariate Cox analyses of proportional hazards were used to analyse avoidable deaths between 13 to 27 years of age d...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to assess diet quality among adolescents with HIV/AIDS. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted involving patients with HIV/AIDS treated in a referral hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Eighty-eight adolescents (10-19 years of age) participated in the study. Information on disease history and use of medication were obtained from medical records. The participants re...

Adolescents are developmentally sensitive to pathways that influence alcohol and other drug (AOD) use. In the absence of guidance, their routine engagement with social media may add a further layer of risk. There are several potential mechanisms for social media use to influence AOD risk, including exposure to peer portrayals of AOD use, socially amplified advertising, misinformation, and preda...

Recognising the link between HIV infection in adolescents / especially girls / and cross-generational relationships, Save the Children has been working with local partners to develop locally appropriate strategies that help to protect girls and to foster their ability to ensure the safety of these relationships, or to enable them to make alternative choices. This article addresses youth, gender...

Aims: This study sets to discover the socio-environmental factors as determinants of social well-being adolescents in foster homes Southwestern Nigeria.
 Study Design: was a descriptive survey.
 Area: The carried out six States Methodology: participants were selected among using stratified, proportionate and simple random sampling techniques, data collection done Questionnaire (which ...

Adolescence is a transition period from childhood to adulthood, development as preparation for entering adulthood. Individuals will experience physical, sosial, and psychological/emotional changes, but it also an excellent opportunity grow develop. Adolescents are at risk of experiencing problems, including reproductive health problems the sexual life. Approaches through biological religious as...