Water Pipes
As the prevalence of cigarette smoking wanes, water-pipe smoking is becoming increasingly popular. Water pipes are also known as hookah, shisha, goza, harghile, and hubble bubble devices. In all, tobacco is burned and inhaled through a device with a pipe and a base half-filled with water . . .
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Water Pipe Tobacco Smoking
A significant percentage of college students believe that water pipe (hookah) smoking is a socially-appropriate activity and that it is less addictive or harmful to one's health than cigarette smoking. Little is known about the practice and beliefs about water pipe tobacco smoking among younger adolescents. . . .
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Using the E.R. to Educate Adolescents
The Emergency Department is a frequent contact point for medical care for adolescents with and without health insurance. Many visits are for problems related to alcohol and violence, which makes emergency departments reasonable locations for these two health education topics. Of course, to be suitable for this setting, an educational intervention must be very brief. Can it also be effective? . . .
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Understanding Adolescent Self-Injury
These articles deals with children engaged in self-cutting, punching, burning, interference with wound healing, and inserting objects under the skin. Adolescents do this with little forethought. This is also done while they are sober. . . .
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Teens are Still Tanning
Based on self-report, 17% of girls and 3.2% of boys had used indoor tanning facilities within the past year. Youth who were more likely to try indoor tanning were female, older, White race/ethnicity. They also had higher weekly allowances and had a parent who also used indoor tanning and/or gave consent. . . .
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Stress-triggered Fainting
Vasovagal syncope is a sudden drop in blood pressure and pulse rate, typically in response to a sudden emotional stress that results in fainting (brief unconsciousness). Understanding this physiological response, risk factors, and preventive measures can help nurses reduce the likelihood of fainting. . . .
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Safer at the Wheel…But More Needs to Be Done
Motor vehicle collisions account for one third of deaths among US teens. The national Fatality Analysis Report System (FARS) included data on 9644 young drivers who were involved in fatal passenger vehicle crashes between 2004 and 2008. . . .
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Predicting Adolescent Depression
This longitudinal study analyzed information obtained from students annually between 3rd and 6th grade and their teachers to identify academic, social and affective (emotional) variables that might predict depressive symptoms during early adolescence (6th grade). . . .
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Evidence for Adolescent Preventive Services
National clinical practice groups have recommended 31 preventive screening and 28 counseling services for adolescents in primary care settings. This study reviewed the literature for evidence related to these clinical preventive service (CPS) recommendations for youth ages 11-17 years. . . .
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Children with Antibiotic Resistant Urinary Tract Infections
Effective treatment of bacterial infections requires prompt treatment with an antimicrobial agent to which the pathogen is susceptible. But clinicians choose an antibiotic prior to knowing the exact bacterial species causing the infection and prior to knowing the bacteria's drug susceptibility pattern. . . .
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Alcohol Use in Athletes
While sports participation has healthful benefits for youth, a number of limited studies suggest that athletes engage in early, and sometimes problematic, drinking. This longitudinal study analyzed representative data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) to identify relationships between participation in school-based sports and alcohol-related behaviors and problems. . . .
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Adolescent Ovarian Masses
Although ovarian masses are not common, they need to be ruled out whenever an adolescent girl complains of abdominal pain -- which is often. This article reviews the common etiologies of and the presentation and management of ovarian masses among post-menarchal adolescent females. . . .
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"Overworked" Students
Only 41 states require minors to have work permits for non-farm employment. States also set standards, within federal guidelines, that limit minors' work hours and conditions. This study sought to determine if there were differences in work hour violations and hazardous activity violations between students who worked with or without a state-required work permit. . . .
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Trends in Teen Mortality (2009)
Death rates among US teens, aged 15 through 19 years, declined significantly since 1985, from a high of nearly 89 deaths per 100,000 population in 1991 to 65 per 100,000 in 2005. This decline resulted chiefly from a 28% decrease in the death rate among males. . . .
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Teen Oral Health (2009)
It is felt that among all the topics we need to address with teens (depression, substance abuse, eating disorders, etc), that oral health is the most ignored. Yet, it is estimated that between one-half and two-thirds of U.S. teens have untreated caries. This article suggests 7 ways to get the right message to teens. . . .
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Adolescent Peer and Dating Violence and Suicide Risk (2008)
While many studies and programs address peer violence or dating violence or self-directed violence (i.e., suicide), there is limited understanding of the extent to which adolescents who are victims or perpetrators of dating or peer violence are involved in other violent incidents. This study investigated associations across different types of violence among secondary students living in a high-risk community (e.g., high poverty and unemployment rates, high rate of serious crime). . . .
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Do Parents Influence Adolescent Health Habits? (2007)
A single, cross-sectional study of adolescents and their parents was developed to describe the prevalence and patterns of certain adolescent health risk behaviors (time spent each day in physical activity or watching television and usual daily intake of fruit/vegetables and fat) and to determine any relationships between parental health behaviors and youth health risk behaviors. . . .
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Menarche and the Developmentally Delayed Teen (2006)
Menstruation can be a difficult transition for many adolescents. It often results in the loss of school time and may curtail extra-school activities. For the developmentally delayed teenager, menstruation can be stressful not only for the adolescent but also for her caretakers. Many cognitively developmentally-delayed adolescents simply do not have the ability to care for themselves. . . .
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