OBJECTIVE To compare the relative importance on adolescent smoking of the influence from parental smoking and peer smoking. METHOD National New Zealand crosssectional survey of 14,936 female and 14,349 male Year 10 students (aged 14 and 15 years) who answered an anonymous self-administered questionnaire in November 2002. RESULTS Adolescents with both parents smoking had the highest smoking ...

Based on the responses of 5,557 Chinese secondary students in Hong Kong, the relationships among perceived hopelessness, family functioning, and suicidal ideation were examined. Results showed that suicidal ideation was positively related to hopelessness, but negatively related to parent-adolescent communication. Compared with father-adolescent communication, mother-adolescent communication gen...

BACKGROUND Early adolescent alcohol use is a major public health challenge. Without clear guidance on the causal pathways between peers and alcohol use, adolescent alcohol interventions may be incomplete. The objective of this study is to disentangle selection and influence effects associated with the dynamic interplay of adolescent friendships and alcohol use. METHODS The study analyzes data...

This paper presents empirical data on the prevalence of depressive symptoms among St. Kitts and Nevis adolescent students. This paper contributes to knowledge on the prevalence of adolescent depression in an under-researched Caribbean region.

This is a cross sectional study to find the prevalence of adolescent depression, suicidal ideation and associated socio-demographic factors among adolescent students. 3141 students aged between 15 to 19 years from residential and non-residential government and private schools and colleges from Davangere participated in the study. The self administered questionnaire of Beck’s depression inventor...

The School of Medicine, TCD (Trinity College Dublin) has developed the undergraduate degree in Medicine in accordance with the Medical Council and the World Federation of Medical Education guidelines. The course is 5 years. At TCD, clinical and theoretical aspects of psychiatry for 4th-year medical students are delivered during a two-month attachment. Four days of the two months are allocated e...

Embedded in the contemporary issue of gifted education is the contentious notion of ability grouping. The debate surrounding appropriate educational provision for gifted students continues to argue the cognitive and affective influences of ability grouping on gifted students. While recognising the various forms of intellectual giftedness, analysis of the research about mathematically gifted stu...

The relationship between adolescent and parental drug use was assessed among 8,865 Toronto students. A positive association was found between parental use of psychoactive drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, as reported by students and student psychoactive and hallucinogenic drug use. The relationship was strongest when students and parents both used psychoactive drugs. A family pattern, characterized ...

conclusions female and older students are at higher risk of developing unhealthy lifestyle. consequently, healthcare providers, health instructors, schoolteachers, and families must pay more attention to these students. moreover, as most of lifelong healthy and unhealthy lifestyle habits are established during adolescence, developing effective health promotion and disease prevention strategies ...