INTRODUCTION Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages has increased among youth in recent decades, accounting for approximately 13% of total calories consumed. The Boston Public Schools passed a policy restricting sale of sugar-sweetened beverages in Boston schools in June 2004. The objective of this study was to determine whether high school students' consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages d...

BACKGROUND Injury risk from car-bicycle collisions is particularly high among youth with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Here, we capitalized on advances in virtual environment technology to safely and systematically examine road-crossing behavior among child cyclists with and without ADHD. METHODS Sixty-three youth (26 with ADHD, 37 non-ADHD controls) ages 10-14 years crosse...

Objective: to analyze the reasons for senior schoolchildren’s interest destructive social groups dedicated challenges, criminal culture, weapons, erotic and sex, dangerous leisure, death suicide, mass killings violence, drugs; describe hierarchy of interests life values adolescents based on research results (questionnaire survey schoolchildren multidimensional content analysis VKontakte network...

BACKGROUND Injuries to youth rugby players have become an increasingly prominent health concern, highlighting the importance of developing and implementing appropriate preventive strategies. A growing body of evidence from other youth sports has demonstrated the efficacy of targeted exercise regimens to reduce injury risk. However, studies have yet to investigate the effect of such intervention...

BACKGROUND New Mexico has consistently high rates of drug-induced deaths, and opioid-related treatment admissions have been increasing over the last two decades. Youth in New Mexico are at particular risk: they report higher rates of nonmedical prescription opioid use than those over age 25, are more likely than their national counterparts to have tried heroin, and represent an increasing propo...

Few studies have examined the effects of household change on adolescent development. We study household composition change and its effect on development, as measured by both internalizing symptoms and externalizing behaviors, in a sample of urban African American adolescents. Household change was defined based on the movement in or out of the household of one of the two most important adults ad...

How has the youth climate movement in US grown since Climate Strikes began and what ways did it change as grew? This article takes advantage of a unique dataset that includes surveys from activists who organized nationally coordinated strikes with Fridays for Future spring 2019. Building on research alliance building strategic coalitions, this analyzes how patterns participation changed over pe...

This report describes a national lived experience advocacy movement generated by the work of National Council Youth in Care Advocates to support equitable transitions adulthood for youth care Canada. The emergence at beginning COVID-19 pandemic is presented, as well ongoing progress and achievements best practice efforts local jurisdiction levels. article, three members Council, first provide a...