conclusions rising youth awareness, creating a positive attitude, and appropriate knowledge about safe sex practices are seminal. it is also vital to ensure access to gender specific sexual and reproductive health services for youths, empower women, and strengthen their sexual assertiveness as well as the elimination of all forms of gender-based inequalities. background there are restrictions a...

background: the pregnancy was a risk factor for excessive weight gain for women. however, there is no information about the prevalence of obesity and its relationship with a history of pregnancy in girls. therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate differences in the prevalence of obesity in adolescent females with a history of pregnancy and fac­tors associated with it, in korea. me...

background: this study investigates whether the amount of time that korean adolescents spend on the internet per day is related to their weight status. methods: for this purpose, we analyzed data from the 2009 korea youth risk behavior web-based survey-v (kyrbws-v), in which 72,399 students from the 7 th to the 12 th grade participated. we assessed the relationship between the amount of time sp...

background: the purpose of this study was to investigate the association between physical inactivity and academic record in korean adolescents. methods: adolescent students from the first grade of middle school to the third grade of high school (n=75,066) participated in the 5th korea youth risk behavior web-based survey project in 2009. the association between physical inactivity and academic ...

A distinction between parental behavioral control and psychological control has been elucidated in the literature, yet far less is known about the role of psychological control in youth adjustment broadly or risky behavior in particular. We examined the interrelationship of maternal psychological control, youth psychosocial adjustment, and youth risk behaviors among African American single moth...

the purpose of this study was to examine whether the frequency of breakfast consumption was related to academic performance in healthy korean adolescents.we analyzed data from the seventh korea youth risk behavior web-based survey conducted in 2011, in which 75,643 adolescents from school grades 7-12 participated. we assessed the association between the frequency of breakfast consumption (per w...

Adolescent male youth in high-crime neighborhoods are at the greatest risk for personal victimization and violent behavior. The temporal relationship between victimization and violent behavior for minority youth in high-crime neighborhoods was examined to determine whether victimization is a risk factor for or by-product of violent behavior. Whether parenting and other control factors moderated...

PURPOSE Suicide is the third leading cause of death among older adolescents, and represents a significant public health problem. Preventing suicidal behavior depends on an understanding of the developmental transitions in suicide risk and whether the likelihood of a suicide attempt can be predicted prospectively. METHODS Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were used...