OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of child maltreatment in the United States and examine its relationship to sociodemographic factors and major adolescent health risks. METHODS The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health is a prospective cohort study following a national sample of adolescents into adulthood. The wave III interview, completed by 15 19...

BACKGROUND In Bangladesh, particularly in urban slums, married adolescent women's human rights to life, health, and reproductive and sexual health remain adversely affected because of the structural inequalities and political economic, social and cultural conditions which shape how rights are understood, negotiated and lived. METHODS The focus of the research and methods was anthropological. ...

The present study examines the relations between adolescent motherhood and children's behavior, substance use, and internalizing problems in a sample of 1,368 children of 712 female twins from Australia. Adolescent motherhood remained significantly associated with all mental health problems, even when using a quasiexperimental design capable of controlling for genetic and environmental confound...

The U.S. has the highest adolescent pregnancy rate in the industrialized world, and adolescent motherhood is associated with increased risk for child mental health problems. The present study examines the relations between adolescent motherhood and children’s behavior, substance use, and internalizing problems in a sample of 2,553 children of 887 twin pairs. Adolescent motherhood remained signi...

BACKGROUND Few tools exist to directly measure the microsocial and physical environments of adolescents in circumstances where participatory observation is not practical or ethical. Yet measuring these environments is important as they are significantly associated with adolescent health-risk. For example, health-related behaviors such as cigarette smoking often occur in specific places where sm...

BACKGROUND Self-rated health (SRH) is a known important predictor of later mortality, morbidity, and health service attendance. From adolescence onwards, this multifactorial composite seems to be relatively stable. Therefore, it is important to study how SRH is also shaped and influenced by parental factors. METHODS Analyses were based on data from the Nord-Trøndelag Health studies in Norway ...

Adolescent health care providers frequently care for patients who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgendered (LGBT), or who may be struggling with or questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity. Whereas these youth have the same health concerns as their non-LGBT peers, LGBT teens may face additional challenges because of the complexity of the coming-out process, as well as...

This study investigates the association between school context and adolescent alcohol misuse. Data are from the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 10,574 adolescents nested within 128 schools). Multilevel multinomial logistic regression is used to assess the association between school-level characteristics and the risk for non-, moderate, and heavy drin...

1Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, London, UK; 2Department of Palliative Care & Psychooncology, Tata Medical Centre, Kolkata, India; 3South West, Yorkshire NHS Foundation, Trust, Wakefield, UK; 4Central & North West Community Mental Health Team, Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust, Leeds, UK; 5Forensic Psychiatry, Institute of Mental Health, Nott...