Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: Trends in Achieving the 21 Critical National Health Objectives by 2010

Jiang, Nan; Kolbe, Lloyd J.; Seo, Dong-Chul; Kay, Noy S.; Brindis, Claire D.

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2011.04.026

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“…Of 21 objectives, 12 made differing gains towards positive progress, 4 made no progress, 2 worsened and there were no national data to test one (new HIV diagnosis). Only two reached the stated objectives, reducing riding with a driver who had drunk alcohol and physical fighting 17. Mortality rates made overall reductions (figure 1), while chlamydia rates rose almost twofold (figure 2).…”

Section: Trends In Adolescent Health Indicatorsmentioning

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Adolescent medicine in the USA: a perspective on progress and lessons learnt

Jenkins

2016

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Adolescent medicine in the USA: a perspective on progress and lessons learnt

Jenkins

2016

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“…For example, the rate of births among teens varies substantially by race and ethnicity. Accordingly, a state with a higher proportion of Hispanic teens is likely to have a higher teen birth rate because this group has the highest rate of childbearing across the major ethnic and racial groups (36).…”

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Improving Adolescent Health Policy: Incorporating a Framework for Assessing State-Level Policies

Brindis¹,

Moore

2014

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Many US policies that affect health are made at the state, not the federal, level. Identifying state-level policies and data to analyze how different policies affect outcomes may help policy makers ascertain the usefulness of their public policies and funding decisions in improving the health of adolescent populations. A framework for describing and assessing the role of federal and state policies on adolescent health and well-being is proposed; an example of how the framework might be applied to the issue of teen childbearing is included. Such a framework can also help inform analyses of whether and how state and federal policies contribute to the variation across states in meeting adolescent health needs. A database on state policies, contextual variables, and health outcomes data can further enable researchers and policy makers to examine how these factors are associated with behaviors they aim to impact.

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“…The adolescent period is the crucial time along the spectrum of transitioning between childhood and adulthood, but, for some youth living in the US, this period is challenged by mental illness and psychological symptoms [5,6]. Schools are in a unique position to affect positive outcomes for youth because of the relatively large amount of time youth spend in school [7].…”

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A Novel Heart‐Centered, Gratitude‐Meditation Intervention to Increase Well‐Being among Adolescents

Duthely

Nunn

Avella

2017

Education Research International

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Population studies paint a dismal picture of the mental health status of adolescents, in the US and worldwide. Positive psychology, which takes a preventative approach to keeping individuals in higher states of well-being, is being implemented increasingly among youth, with the goal of avoiding future mental health and psychological problems. In this study, a novel intervention, which fused the practice of meditation with gratitude visualizations, was tested among adolescents. The purpose of this quasi-experimental study was to determine the extent to which the intervention affected life satisfaction, school satisfaction, and measured gratitude, among a culturally diverse cohort of adolescents. Instrumentation consisted of three positive psychology measures-the Student Life Satisfaction Scale, the School Satisfaction Subscale, and the Gratitude Questionnaire-Six-Item Form. Participants were randomly assigned either to the delayed-intervention, no-treatment control group or to the experimental group. The four-week intervention was manualized primarily from the heart-centered gratitude visualizations outlined in a happiness and positive emotions handbook, The Jewels of Happiness: Inspiration and Wisdom to Guide Your Life-Journey. The intervention significantly affected life satisfaction, school satisfaction, and gratitude of the experimental group, when compared to the control group. Medium to large effect sizes were detected using the ANCOVA statistical test.

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Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: Trends in Achieving the 21 Critical National Health Objectives by 2010

Cited by 21 publications

References 6 publications

Adolescent medicine in the USA: a perspective on progress and lessons learnt

Adolescent medicine in the USA: a perspective on progress and lessons learnt

Improving Adolescent Health Policy: Incorporating a Framework for Assessing State-Level Policies

A Novel Heart‐Centered, Gratitude‐Meditation Intervention to Increase Well‐Being among Adolescents

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