OBJECTIVE To examine the risk behaviors associated with participation in the "choking game" by eighth-graders in Oregon. METHODS We obtained data from the 2009 Oregon Healthy Teens survey, a cross-sectional weighted survey of 5348 eighth-graders that questioned lifetime prevalence and frequency of choking game participation. The survey also included questions about physical and mental health,...

Adolescent poverty is associated with increased antisocial and decreased prosocial behaviors. Attenuating these negative effects is relevant for both individual and societal well-being. Research exploring how youth in poverty can escape antisocial behaviors and move toward prosocial behaviors has been limited primarily to risk factors. From a strengths perspective, we sought to understand how a...

BACKGROUND The presence of a large cavum septum pellucidum (CSP) has been previously associated with antisocial behavior/psychopathic traits in an adult community sample. AIMS The current study investigated the relationship between a large CSP and symptom severity in disruptive behavior disorders (DBD; conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder). METHOD Structural MRI scans of youth...

The present study investigated the longitudinal impact of the Project PATHS, a large-scale curriculum-based positive youth development program in Hong Kong, on the development of adolescents' risk behavior over a period of five years. Using a longitudinal randomized controlled design, eight waves of data were collected from 19 experimental schools in which students participated in the Project P...

PURPOSE The purposes of this evaluation project were to describe a group of homeless adolescents and street-involved youth who utilized a mobile unit that provided medical and mental healthcare services and to assess the efficacy of the services provided in reducing their health risk behaviors. DATA SOURCES The records of 95 youth aged 15-25 years who used the medical mobile unit for an avera...

A LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF CROSSOVER YOUTH: YOUNG ADULT OUTCOMES FOR MALTREATED YOUTH IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM By Carly Baetz Adviser: Cathy Spatz Widom, Ph.D., John Jay College Crossover youth, those with histories of childhood maltreatment and delinquency, may be at high risk for negative outcomes compared to other youth. However, very little is known about the long-term outcomes for this...

The Dysregulation Profile (DP) of the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) (previously called the CBCL-Juvenile Bipolar Disorder or CBCL-JBD profile) characterized by elevated scores on CBCL attention problems, aggressive behavior, and anxious/depressed scales is associated with severe psychopathology and suicidal behavior. The stability of this profile across informants has not been established. In...

OBJECTIVE To explore the covariation of risk behaviors in a national sample of American Indian reservation-based youth using listwise principal components factor analysis and to determine how these risk behaviors may vary by age and sex. DESIGN Analysis of data from the National Indian Adolescent Health Survey, a validated anonymous self-report questionnaire of 162 items addressing various he...

The authors assessed individual, social, and school correlates of multiple chronic disease behavioral risk factors (physical inactivity, sedentary behavior, tobacco smoking, alcohol drinking, and high body mass index) in a representative sample of Canadian youth aged 10–15 years (mean 1⁄4 12.5 years) attending public schools. Crosssectional data (n 1⁄4 1,747) from cycle 4 (2000–2001) of the Nat...

nIne Percent (9%) of PublIc hIgh school stuDents resPonDIng to the 2009 Rhode Island Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) reported that they were lesbian, gay, bisexual or unsure (LGBU) of their sexual identity. This percentage represents approximately 4,600 students statewide. The authors examined whether there were any differences in health risk behaviors and exposures for this population versus...