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Pediatrics
Anna Tornivuori, Kim Kronstroem, Minna Aromaa, Sanna Salanterae, Max Karukivi
Summary: This study evaluates the impacts of a brief mental well-being intervention for adolescents in a school environment. The findings indicate that this easily accessible intervention showed significant positive effects, especially for participants with mild to moderate mental disorder symptoms attending upper secondary and vocational schools.
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY AND MENTAL HEALTH
(2023)
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Richard R. Rosenkranz, Philip M. Dixon, David A. Dzewaltowski, Gabriella M. McLoughlin, Joey A. Lee, Senlin Chen, Spyridoula Vazou, Lorraine M. Lanningham-Foster, Doug A. Gentile, Gregory J. Welk
Summary: This study compared the effectiveness of enhanced (individualized) implementation and standard (group-based) implementation of the SWITCH intervention. The results showed that both implementation conditions led to significant improvements in students' physical activity, sedentary screen time, and dietary intake. There were no differences in outcomes between the group and individualized conditions, and the intervention was beneficial for both boys and girls.
JOURNAL OF SPORT AND HEALTH SCIENCE
(2023)
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Pediatrics
Manon Bordeleau, Natalie Almeras, Shirin Panahi, Vicky Drapeau
Summary: This study analyzed data from two studies and found that there is a positive association between body size perception and body size dissatisfaction among girls with normal weight and overweight/obesity. Underestimators who were satisfied with their body size had lower zBMI, less screen time, and longer sleep duration compared to dissatisfied underestimators. These findings suggest that body size satisfaction and underestimation in adolescents are associated with healthier lifestyle behaviors.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Sweety Suman Jha, Madhumita Dobe, Chandrashekhar Taklikar, Arista Lahiri
Summary: This study aimed to assess the change in behavioral intentions towards healthy dietary practices among adolescents through health promotion intervention. The results showed that the intervention group had significantly higher scores and proportions of intention for a healthy diet, indicating that the intervention effectively changed adolescents' dietary intentions.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Psychology, Clinical
Ciara Mahon, Denise Hamburger, Zali Yager, Mayra Almaraz, Jan Mooney, Tran Tran, Orlagh O'Dowd, Lia Bauert, K. G. Smith, Verenice Gomez-Trejo, Jennifer B. Webb
Summary: This study assessed the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effectiveness of a body image curriculum for older adolescents. The results demonstrate high acceptability of the curriculum among teachers and adolescents, and further research on its effectiveness is needed.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics
Poul H. Damgaard, Pierre Vanhove
Summary: The effective one-body formalism of the gravitational two-body problem in general relativity is reconsidered by taking into account the kinematic relationship between momenta and the effective potential, and describing scattering with an energy-dependent effective metric. The identification of the effective metric simplifies considerably in isotropic coordinates when combined with a redefined angular momentum map, allowing solutions to be chosen perturbatively in the post-Minkowskian expansion. By expanding the metric around the Schwarzschild solution, the solution based on additional nonmetric contributions can be recovered.
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Clinical Neurology
Kwaku Oppong Asante, Emmanuel Nii-Boye Quarshie, Henry K. Onyeaka
Summary: The study revealed a high prevalence of suicidal behaviors among secondary school students in Sierra Leone, with loneliness, health risk behaviors, and family supervision playing significant roles. It suggests the importance of professional mental healthcare for emotional issues, while also emphasizing prevention programs targeting health risk behaviors and familial relationships for more positive outcomes.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2021)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Matthias Hoben, Liane R. Ginsburg, Peter G. Norton, Malcolm B. Doupe, Whitney B. Berta, James W. Dearing, Janice M. Keefe, Carole A. Estabrooks
Summary: This study evaluated the lasting benefits of the INFORM project 2.5 years after removal of study supports. The findings suggest that theory-informed feedback strategies can sustainably increase care aides' involvement in formal communications about resident care. The study highlights the importance of organizational context, evaluation, and fidelity enactment for sustaining improvement in healthcare practices.
IMPLEMENTATION SCIENCE
(2021)
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Nutrition & Dietetics
Nurul Ain Azizan, Angeliki Papadaki, Tin Tin Su, Muhammad Yazid Jalaludin, Shooka Mohammadi, Maznah Dahlui, Mohd Nahar Azmi Mohamed, Hazreen Abdul Majid
Summary: This study evaluated the implementation of a school-based intervention to promote healthier dietary habits among Malaysian adolescents, finding that stakeholders made efforts to change to a healthy school canteen program. However, barriers included students' perception of healthy food and eating habits, as well as profit concerns for food vendors.
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ping Zu, Shao-Jun Xu, Cheng-Ying Shi, Yu-Qiu Zhao, Zhao-Hui Huang, Fang-Biao Tao
Summary: In Chinese adolescents, self-perception of body image rather than actual measured weight may have a gender-specific adverse effect on suicidal behaviors.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
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Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Pooresmaeil Dorosteh Ameneh, Ghaffari Mohtasham, Rakhshanderou Sakineh, Mehrabi Yadollah, Ramezankhani Ali
Summary: This study aimed to determine the effect of peer education on knowledge, health beliefs, and preventive behaviors of type 2 diabetes in female adolescents. The results showed that peer education increased knowledge and improved adolescents' health beliefs and behaviors. Therefore, promoting peer education can be considered as an effective step in preventing diabetes.
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Integrative & Complementary Medicine
Samantha Garbers, Caitlyn Suruki, Katherine A. Falletta, Melanie A. Gold, Jean-Marie Bruzzese
Summary: The study revealed that urban minority adolescents commonly experience poor sleep quality and bedtime-related psychosocial stressors, with females and those experiencing multiple stressors being at higher risk for poor sleep quality. Most adolescents showed interest in participating in a MBIH-based intervention, particularly preferring one-on-one and group sessions. This suggests a potential for practitioners and complementary therapists to provide MBIH interventions to address sleep issues in this high-risk population.
COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES IN MEDICINE
(2021)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Alberto De Vitta, Matias Noll, Manuel Monfort-Panego, Vicente Minana-Signes, Nicoly Machado Maciel
Summary: Thoracic spine pain (TSP), with a similar prevalence in children and adolescents, is a common condition in the general adult population. A longitudinal study conducted on high school students found that the one-year prevalence of TSP was 38.4%, and the one-year incidence was 10.1%. Significant risk factors for ongoing TSP and new TSP included adolescent female sex, mental health problems, and improper use of electronic devices.
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Moa Millgard, Kristin B. Feragen, Jeanette Ullmann Miller, Shahrzad Arfa, Heidi Williamson, Johanna Kling
Summary: This study explores the perceptions of adolescents and parents regarding the relevance and usefulness of the YPF intervention. The results indicate that YPF was considered useful and relevant by participants. Adolescents felt validated and discovered shared experiences with others through the intervention, but it was not confirmed whether perceived usefulness translated into the development and use of new social skills in real-life situations.
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Sport Sciences
Rodrigo Antunes Lima, Mauro Virgilio Gomes de Barros, Jorge Bezerra, Simone Jose dos Santos, Elena Monducci, Maria Rodriguez-Ayllon, Fernanda Cunha Soares
Summary: The study found that a workshop with PE teachers could reduce depressive symptoms, social isolation, and poor sleep quality in adolescents, with social isolation playing a mediating role in the workshop's effect on depressive symptoms. Increasing PE class time and a workshop with PE teachers alone did not have a significant impact on depressive symptoms.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICINE & SCIENCE IN SPORTS
(2022)
