Familial, Social, and Individual Factors Contributing to Risk for Adolescent Substance Use

Whitesell, Mackenzie; Bachand, Annette M.; Peel, Jennifer L.; Brown, Mark

doi:10.1155/2013/579310

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“…It is conceivable that peer pressure and friendship patterns may be more important than parents as predictors of substance use (e.g., Hummel et al 2013;Whitesell et al 2013).…”

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Lesbian and Heterosexual Two-Parent Families: Adolescent–Parent Relationship Quality and Adolescent Well-Being

2014

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This study compared 51 adolescents from intact two-mother planned lesbian families (all conceived through donor insemination) with 51 adolescents from intact motherfather families on their relationships with their parents (parental control, disclosure to parents, and adolescentparent relationship quality), psychological adjustment (selfesteem, social anxiety, and conduct problems), and substance usage (consumption of tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana/hashish). The adolescents (average age 16 years) were matched on demographic characteristics (age, gender, educational level, country of birth, parental birth country) with a sample from a large school-based survey, and data were collected by means of adolescent self-reports. Analyses indicated that adolescents in both family types had positive relationships with their parents, which were favorably associated with psychological well-being. On the assessments of psychological adjustment and substance use, family type was significantly associated only with self-esteem and conduct problems: Adolescents with lesbian mothers had higher levels of self-esteem and lower levels of conduct problems than their counterparts in heterosexual-parent families. Overall, the findings indicate that adolescents from intact two-mother lesbian families are comparable to those in a matched comparison group with intact mother-father families. The few differences found on psychological wellbeing favored the adolescents in lesbian two-mother families.

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“…It is conceivable that peer pressure and friendship patterns may be more important than parents as predictors of substance use (e.g., Hummel et al 2013;Whitesell et al 2013).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lesbian and Heterosexual Two-Parent Families: Adolescent–Parent Relationship Quality and Adolescent Well-Being

2014

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“…The use of substances is appealing during adolescence as it may help define maturity and passage into adulthood [8]. It has been well documented that substances are problematic when they are addictive or lead to intoxication [9] and the effects from substances weaken sports performance [10]. Hence, the social pressures that are formed from sports clubs can be both good and bad-good being a social norm against unhealthy behaviors, and bad peer pressure for experimentation or use of substances, as examples.…”

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Coaches’ Health Promotion Activity and Substance Use in Youth Sports

Mäkelä

Parkkari³

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Abstract:There is an increasing amount of evidence suggesting youth sports clubs are an important setting for health promotion. Adolescents in sport club settings can benefit from exposures of positive and negative consequences to health. To better understand the sport club context and coaches' health promotion activity in substance use prevention, this study compares sport club members with non-members aged between 14-16 years old on their experience and use of alcohol, smoking and snuff and coaches' health promotion activity on substances. Methods: Adolescents (n = 671) from sports clubs and from matched schools (n = 1442) were recruited in this study. Multiple binary logistic regressions were performed on substance use. Results: Higher prevalence of substance use was associated with discussions of substances, often held by coaches. Significantly fewer girls who are sport club members had experiences in alcohol, smoking or snuff than their non-member counter-parts, the differences among boys varied by substance. Fewer sport club members experienced smoking than non-members. More boys used snuff than girls. Conclusions: The most salient points for health promotion were that girls who were sport club members used fewer substances and for boys the picture was more complicated. Coaches could be using reactive strategies through informal learning to address substance use in clubs, although more effective training on substance use for coaches is needed.

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“…This approach can prevent long term complications of these infections such as gynecological malignancy. However, more biomedical and translational research needs to be done in future to develop safe and effective vaccines against other STIs [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].…”

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Sexually Transmitted Infections in Pregnancy

Sawant¹

2017

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Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) have increased by many folds across all age groups. During pregnancy STIs are associated with increased morbidity and mortality in infant. In some way, this can be described as a health crisis in reproductive and sexual health of women, which constitute as a public health emergency worldwide. A women patient diagnose with one STI is at higher risk for other STIs and so antenatal screening for all STIs including HIV testing is required during the antenatal visit. Pregnant women with STIs should receive comprehensive intervention that includes counselling and behavioral therapy, early notification to the partner and screening, advice on safe sex practices, along with management plan to treat the disease and reduce the risk of potential life threatening complication to the fetus and improve the outcome of the pregnancy. This article presents a brief overview of scope of STIs in pregnant women and its effect on overall women's health and on their pregnancy along with comprehensive interventional strategy against STIs.

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Familial, Social, and Individual Factors Contributing to Risk for Adolescent Substance Use

Cited by 181 publications

References 61 publications

Lesbian and Heterosexual Two-Parent Families: Adolescent–Parent Relationship Quality and Adolescent Well-Being

Lesbian and Heterosexual Two-Parent Families: Adolescent–Parent Relationship Quality and Adolescent Well-Being

Coaches’ Health Promotion Activity and Substance Use in Youth Sports

Sexually Transmitted Infections in Pregnancy

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