Purpose: First vaginal sex is constructed as a significant event imbued with cultural relevance. Voluminous literature documents cultural, social, religious, and psycholo[...]

Purpose: The National HIV/AIDS Strategy emphasizes the importance of linkage to care (LTC) for newly diagnosed persons. However, 30% or more of newly diagnosed youth are [...]

Purpose: Clinic-specific factors, including physical space and staff characteristics, are associated with linkage to care and engagement in care for newly diagnosed HIV-p[...]

Purpose: The provision of uninterrupted care as youth with HIV transition from pediatric and adolescent to adult HIV care is essential as disengagement from care has impl[...]

Purpose: To assess attitudes toward vaginal microbicides for sexually transmitted infection (STI) prevention and stability of those attitudes over a 3-month period among [...]

Study Objective Although underutilized, the vaginal contraceptive ring has several advantages over other contraceptive methods that could benefit adolescents. We examined[...]

Family conflict, particularly acculturation conflict, has been identified as a significant risk factor for immigrant youth, increasing the likelihood of depression, lower[...]

The ongoing wars around the world have led to an ever increasing exodus of refugee populations for resettlement in developed countries, including the U.S. Importantly, it[...]

Research has consistently demonstrated a link between AD/HD and substance use, abuse, and dependence, although why this increased risk occurs remains unclear. The purpose[...]

The article presents a study that assessed the relations between adolescent adjustment in stepfamilies, and both family context and process variables. The process variabl[...]

Purpose: The HIV Care Continuum highlights the need for HIV-infected youth to be tested, linked, and maintained in lifelong care. Care engagement is important for HIV-inf[...]

It is important for both individual- and population-level health that HIV-infected individuals progress through the Care Continuum. However, HIV-infected youth frequently[...]

The purpose of this study was to explore how social relationships and environmental settings impact physical activity attitudes and behaviors for adolescent girls. Guided[...]

An interview protocol based on V. Cass's (1979) sexual identity formation work was used with 13 self-identified lesbians. Data analysis yielded a sexual identity formatio[...]

The purpose of this dissertation is to encourage English teachers to use adolescent literature in the classroom. Based on the belief that contemporary novels are fitting [...]

This was a study of adolescent suicide. It examined the causes of suicide in youth and the reasons for its escalating rate. Studies of suicide prevention/intervention pro[...]

The purpose of this study was to document evidence of evolving disciplinary literacy in adolescents by examining 9th and 11th grade students' ability to shift writing sty[...]

Adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were compared with a control group on a comprehensive assessment battery. More ADHD teenagers had opposit[...]

A group of 83 adolescents with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were subdivided into those with ADHD alone (n = 27) and those with ADHD and oppositional de[...]

Parents' child-rearing behaviors have been identified as major sources of influence on the self-esteem of adolescents from Western societies and Chinese adolescents in Ho[...]

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect upon the self evaluations of adolescents of their exposure to the positive self evaluations of other persons. Thre[...]

This study examined the association between youths' triangulation in marital conflict and three aspects of their peer relations in 416 families during early adolescence. [...]

My thesis is a novel about two adolescent girls who, after the death of one of their mothers, run away. They leave Virginia for Atlanta, Georgia and move into an apartmen[...]

There has been little systematic study of the impact of support groups on the psychological well-being (PWB) of adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD). Questionnaires[...]

The purpose of this study was to examine structural, academic, and personal factors affecting the transition of African American males to high school by giving voice to t[...]