Norman Lamb, Care and Support Minister announced £2million today for new handheld computers to boost children’s mental health services.
via New technology to improve children’s mental health services | Department of Health.
BMC Public Health | Abstract | Increased cancer awareness among British adolescents after a school-based educational intervention: a controlled before-and-after study with 6-month follow-up.
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There is a lack of evidence around the effectiveness of school-based interventions designed to raise adolescents’ cancer awareness. To address this deficit this study assessed the impact of an intervention delivered in the United Kingdom by Teenage Cancer Trust on: recall (open question) and recognition (closed question) of cancer warning signs; knowledge of common childhood, teenage, male and female cancers; awareness of the relationship between cancer and age; anticipated medical help-seeking delay; perceived barriers to seeking medical advice about cancer; and examined variation of intervention effect by gender and whether adolescents reported that they knew someone with cancer. Continue reading
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Background England has invested in chlamydia screening interventions for young people. It is not known whether young people in poorer socioeconomic circumstances (SEC) are at greater risk of chlamydia and therefore in greater need of screening.
Objective To conduct a systematic review examining socioeconomic variations in chlamydia prevalence or positivity in young people.
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To evaluate the public health efficacy of a community-based smoking cessation program (TABADO) among vocational school trainees (15 to 20 years old). Continue reading
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The local retail food environment around schools may act as a potential risk factor for adolescent diet. However, international research utilising cross-sectional designs to investigate associations between retail food outlet proximity to schools and diet provides equivocal support for an effect. In this study we employ longitudinal perspectives in order to answer the following two questions. First, how has the local retail food environment around secondary schools changed over time and second, is this change associated with change in diet of students at these schools? Continue reading
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Objective To explore the motivations, experiences and views of female regular sunbed users aged 15–17 and consider the implications of legislation seeking to restrict sunbed use among the under-18s.
Schools can prevent teenagers’ misuse of alcohol and deliver “substantial savings” for society through a mental health approach that targets support at pupils with “high risk” personalities, say researchers.
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Objectives To find out whether there is a potential impact of the appearance of a plain cigarette package on the smoking perceptions and behavioural intentions of Flemish adolescents. Continue reading
Welsh businesses are selling harmful shisha tobacco to under-18s, a BBC Wales investigation has revealed.
via BBC News – Shisha tobacco sold to under-18s, BBC X-Ray investigation finds.
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Childhood obesity is a complex condition involving medical, social, moral and cultural issues. Qualitative approaches are of great value in understanding this complexity. Continue reading
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Objectives Chlamydia notifications have been rising in Australia for over a decade and are highest in young people. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of an internet-based intervention on chlamydia testing among young people 16–25 years. Continue reading
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Background Improving the diet of the Scottish population has been a government focus in recent years. Health promotion is known to be more effective in affluent groups. Alongside trends in eating behaviour, changes in socioeconomic inequalities must be monitored. Continue reading
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Background In 1999, the UK Government launched a strategy to reduce teenage pregnancy and geographical inequalities in teenage conception rates. This study investigates how associations between deprivation and under-18 conceptions, along with subsequent abortions, since changed as teenage pregnancy rates fell. Continue reading
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Some studies have investigated the association between body mass index (BMI) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among adolescents, but their results have been discrepant and few paid attention to the role of gender. The present investigation aimed to assess the relationship between weight status and HRQoL in adolescents and to verify whether it was similar in boys and girls. Continue reading
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Purpose – Young people receiving services for substance use problems often experience high rates of other psychosocial problems in addition to mental disorders. This has implications for design of effective interventions. There is a lack of concisely organised practical information to help organisations serving this population establish contextually relevant and rigorous approaches to the design of evidence-based interventions. This paper aims to focus on these issues. Continue reading
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The purpose of this article is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of school closure during a potential influenza pandemic and to examine the trade-off between costs and health benefits for school closure involving different target groups and different closure durations. Continue reading
Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) does not promote sexual activity among young girls who receive it, as some have claimed, a study in Pediatrics concludes
via Girls do not see HPV vaccine as green light for sex, study says | BMJ.
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Researchers fear apps are a new way for tobacco companies to exploit loopholes in restrictions on their marketing activities
via Health experts uncover pro-smoking smartphone apps | Society | guardian.co.uk.
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Objective To compare the effectiveness of classroom based cognitive behavioural therapy with attention control and usual school provision for adolescents at high risk of depression. Continue reading
Beliefs about chlamydia testing amongst young people living in relatively deprived areas.
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Background This study uses the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) as a framework to investigate salient beliefs about chlamydia testing, amongst young people living in relatively deprived areas. These beliefs may form targets for intervention to increase testing in this high-risk population. Continue reading
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Background Studies among adults show an association between abuse and Body Mass Index (BMI) status. When an aberrant BMI status as a consequence of abuse is already prevalent in adolescence, early detection and treatment of abuse might prevent these adolescents from developing serious weight problems and other long-term social, emotional and physical problems in adulthood. Therefore, this study investigated the prevalence of physical, sexual and mental abuse among adolescents and examined the association of these abuse subtypes with BMI status. Continue reading
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Objective To determine whether, and to what extent, physical activity interventions affect the overall activity levels of children. Continue reading
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The physical activity (PA) levels of many children and adolescents in Australia are currently insufficient to promote health benefits. Physical education (PE) programs aim to promote PA and reach nearly all school-aged children, but PA levels within PE lessons are often low. PE teachers may influence children’s motivation to be physically active in PE lessons, but little is known about teacher strategies that effectively motivate children to participate in PA, and few intervention studies have examined motivational strategies in PE. The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of three motivational strategies, each based on Self-Determination Theory (SDT), on PA levels, and their hypothesized antecedents, during year 8 PE lessons. Continue reading
Sedentary behaviour interventions in young people: a meta-analysis.
The review found that sedentary behaviour intervention produced small but significant effects in children and adolescents. However, lack of quality assessment, poor reporting of study design and intervention components, and possibly inappropriate pooling of heterogeneous studies mean that the authors’ conclusions are unlikely to be reliable. Continue reading
The number of children in the care system in England is rising, official figures show.Department for Education data shows the number of children in local authority care rose by 2% from 65,520 last year to 67,050 this year.
Background
There is a shortage of information about the factors that mediate physical activity intervention effects which involve youth. The purpose of this study was to examine whether personal, social and physical-environmental factors mediated the intervention effect on physical activity and whether gender and weight status moderated mediated effects in the Health In Adolescents Study — a school-based intervention to promote healthy weight development among young adolescents. Continue reading
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The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control calls for the elimination of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. To test whether tobacco packaging functions as advertising by communicating attractive and distinctive brand attributes, we explored how young adult smokers and non-smokers interpreted familiar and unfamiliar tobacco brands.
