STUDY OBJECTIVES Early high school start times may contribute to insufficient sleep leading to increased teen crash rate. Virginia Beach (VB) and Chesapeake are adjacent, demographically similar cities. VB high schools start 75-80 minutes earlier than Chesapeake's. We hypothesized that VB teens would manifest a higher crash rate than Chesapeake teens. METHODS The Virginia Department of Motor ...

Facebook is the most popular social media site among teens; it is important thatparentsunderstandrecentchangesto itsprivacyrules that affect teens.Manyparents knowFacebook allows users to create an online profile that includes personal information.Most social media allow users to choose how much information they want to share publicly with theWorldWideWeb through privacy settings. Privacysettin...

The present paper examines the role of children in the propagation of chain shifts. Males and females in three age groups, children (6-11), teens (13-15), and parents, are compared to determine which age and sex group is the most advanced in an ongoing chain shift in standard Canadian English: the Canadian Shift (CS) (Clarke, Elms and Youssef 1995, Labov, Ash and Boberg 2006). The CS minimally ...

American Indians have the highest smoking rate of all major racial/ethnic groups in the US, despite significant variation across tribes and regions of the country. Yet, little research has been conducted on smoking initiation among American Indian adolescents. In an effort to identify the mechanisms through which families influence teen smoking, both positively and negatively, 20 focus groups w...

About half of the almost 1 million US teenagers who become pregnant each year carry their pregnancies to term and give birth. However, after years of steady increases, teen birthrates in the US are lower and pregnancy rates have fallen to their lowest level in 20 years. Teenage sexual activity is also declining. Over the period 1991-96, the birthrate in the US among teens declined from the 2...

INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study is to examine the relevance of non-specific safety belt use data for interventions to rural teens and to pilot a data collection project to provide more specific data to traffic safety stakeholders and educators in rural areas. METHODS Twelve high schools in Southeast Georgia were used for observed safety belt data collection over a 16 month period. Obse...

An increasing number of countries are requiring an extended learner permit prior to independent driving. The question of when drivers begin the learner permit period, and how long they hold the permit before advancing to independent licensure has received little research attention. Licensure timing is likely to be related to "push" and "pull" factors which may encourage or inhibit the process. ...

Background Food allergic teens are at increased risk for fatal anaphylaxis [1]. Food allergy education is needed to address the transition of care from their parents to the teens. Teen input into education approaches is essential in order to effectively develop programs that will modify behavior. Allergy educators will need to be familiar with effective approaches to education for this importan...

Adolescents undergo significant physical and cognitive changes during their pubertal development. These changes contribute to and impact their future development. Educating adolescents at an early age about their expected development decreases the possible anxiety associated with this period of life and also helps adolescents make better choices in regards to their sexuality. In order to assess...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Early high school start times (EHSST) may lead to sleep loss in adolescents ("teens"), thus resulting in higher crash rates. (Vorona et al., 2011). In this study, we examined two other adjacent Virginia counties for the two years subsequent to the above-mentioned study. We again hypothesized that teens from jurisdictions with EHSST (versus later) experience higher crash...