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Teens Play PC Games, Watch TV During Holidays
동아일보, South Korea -
Private lessons for high school students in Seoul averaged 375000 won per month. In 2006, the number of sexual abuse cases against children was 5202, ...
Charting a safer course
Glens Falls Post-Star, NY - May 4, 2008
Carol Miller, a health teacher for Glens Falls High School, agrees that sex education in the classroom produces tangible results. ...
What about the guys?
Kansas City Star, MO - May 1, 2008
A recent sexual-intimacy study by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy revealed that high school males are likelier than high school females to ...
How honest should parents be?
Knoxville News Sentinel, TN - May 3, 2008
"As teenagers, my kids would ask me, what did you do ? I never wanted to lie to them about things, but I didn't think my sexual history - what I might or ...

Edmonton Journal
Jennifer Parks explores the sexy side of social networking
Edmonton Journal, Canada - May 3, 2008
After college or high school, one's social circle often shrinks to co-workers, family, and a small group of friends. It gets harder to meet people, ...
Internet porn ?encourages teenagers to have sex early'
Sunday Herald, UK - Apr 26, 2008
... that gives them another high and in to compulsive behaviour, seeking out another sexual experience more sexually enthralling than the previous one. ...
Kids exposed to crime, abuse and assault
Independent Online, South Africa - Apr 23, 2008
More than 88 000 high school pupils in Gauteng reported experiencing violence in school. That's double the figure of the Western Cape - despite the ...
Allison Harris of Plano: Skipping graduation
Dallas Morning News, TX - Apr 25, 2008
My high school experience was less than ideal. In my junior year, a guidance counselor told me that high school is the best time of my life. ...
Draft prospect determined to address doubts about his character - NFL
ESPN - Apr 24, 2008
A young Marcus Dixon, as a high school player at Pepperell High School in Lindale, Ga. "When we play you, we're going to beat you again," a 9-year-old ...

Anniston Star (subscription)
Mixed messages: A look into the myriad explanations of what it ...
Anniston Star (subscription), AL - Apr 26, 2008
In an average day, at least 7000 American teenagers experience sexual intercourse for the first time, according to Mark Regnerus author of Forbidden Fruit, ...
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School-based programs to reduce sexual risk behaviors: A review of effectiveness -
D Kirby, L Short, J Collins, D Rugg, L Kolbe, M … - Public Health Reports, 1994 - pubmedcentral.nih.gov
... Sex education and sexual experience among adolescents. ... D, Arday S, Truman B, Kolbe
L. HIV/AIDS knowledge and sexual behavior among high school students ...

Can changes in sexual behaviors among high school students explain the decline in teen pregnancy … -
JS Santelli, J Abma, S Ventura, L Lindberg, B … - Journal of Adolescent Health, 2004 - Elsevier
... Between 1991 and 2001, sexual experience (ie, ever having had sexual intercourse)
among young women in high school decreased from 51% to 43% [11]. ...

… Girls and Associated Substance Use, Unhealthy Weight Control, Sexual Risk Behavior, Pregnancy, and … -
JG Silverman, A Raj, LA Mucci, JE Hathaway - JAMA, 2001 - Am Med Assoc
... High school girls reporting experiences of violence from ... previous work in the area
of teen pregnancy and abuse that has focused on sexual assault not ...

Teenage partners? communication about sexual risk and condom use: the importance of parent-teenager … -
DJ Whitaker, KS Miller, DC May, ML Levin - Family Planning Perspectives, 1999 - JSTOR
... al., Family communication and teenagers' contraceptive use ... related behavior among
US high school students, Family ... K et al., Adolescent sexual experience: a new ...

Physical, sexual and psychological abuse in high school dating relationships: Prevalence rates and … -
DR Jezl, CE Molidor, TL Wright - Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 1996 - Springer
... may be a factor in the experience of physical ... additional data about physi- cal abuse,
sexual abuse and ... In a high school classroom setting (rather than one- on ...

Sexual behavior among US high school students, 1990-1995 -
CW Warren, JS Santelli, SA Everett, L Kann, JL … - Family Planning Perspectives, 1998 - JSTOR
... Conclusions: Although levels of sexual experience for high school students in the
United States have not risen during the 1990s, a very high percentage of ...

Sexual initiation with older male partners and subsequent HIV risk behavior among female adolescents -
KS Miller, LF Clark, JS Moore - Family Planning Perspectives, 1997 - JSTOR
... male beyond high school sta- tus)14 or have different status within the same school
(freshman vs. ... and since the initiation of sexual activity (both ...

?He forced me to love him?: putting violence on adolescent sexual health agendas -
K Wood, F Maforah, R Jewkes - Social Science & Medicine, 1998 - Elsevier
... like South Africa which has very high levels of ... Sexuality education in school contexts
has so far been ... the conditions and timing of sexual intercourse were ...

Adolescent sexual behavior -
J Brooks-Gunn, FF Furstenberg - American Psychologist, 1989 - content.apa.org
... education and contraceptive education in US public high schools. ... School Psychology
Review, 13(1), 141-149 ... Sexual and contraceptive experience of young unmarried ...

Helping teenagers postpone sexual involvement -
M Howard, JB McCabe - Family Planning Perspectives, 1990 - JSTOR
... of leaders in the few high schools that include ... Dynamics The Johns Hopkins University
School of Hygiene and ... and B. Pollard, Postponing Sexual Involvement: An ...

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Sexually experienced middle- and high-school teenagers with higher levels of depressive symptoms are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior, a new study shows.

"The study findings underscore that it is important for parents to be familiar with signs of depression among adolescent boys and girls," Dr. Jocelyn A. Lehrer of the University of California, San Francisco, the study's lead author, told Reuters Health. "In addition to providing strong and consistent emotional support to their teens, it is important for parents to encourage and actively support their teens in seeking mental health care when needed."

As many as 20% of adolescents may experience major depression, Lehrer and her team note in the July issue of the medical journal Pediatrics. Half of new cases of sexually transmitted infections occur in adolescents, while teens also face a disproportionate risk of contracting HIV.

To investigate whether symptoms of depression might be linked to sexual risk taking, Lehrer and her colleagues analyzed results of a large national study of adolescent health that included 4,152 boys and girls who were interviewed at home in 1995 and once again a year later. Interviewers assessed study participants' levels of depressive symptoms using a 19-item questionnaire.

The higher boys scored on the test at the first interview, the more likely they were to report a year later that they had not used condoms or any other type of birth control the last time they had sex, Lehrer and her colleagues found. They were also more likely to have used drugs or alcohol before their last sexual encounter.

Girls who scored high on the test were less likely to have used birth control or condoms the last time they had sex, and were more likely to have had three or more sexual partners over the previous year.

While other studies have suggested a link between depression and risky sex, Lehrer and her team note, their analysis is unique because it looked at a large, nationally representative sample over a one-year period.

There are many possible reasons why teens with symptoms of depression might be more likely to take sexual risks, Lehrer noted. "Youth who are both emotionally distressed and socially isolated may be more likely to seek or be successfully pressured into sexual activity, in the name of some kind of shared intimacy, or to maintain relationships that they value," she told Reuters Health. Teens may also use sex as a way to cope with their symptoms of depression, Lehrer added.

The findings provide "only further reason to increase our efforts to promote mental health, and to prevent, identify and treat depressive symptoms and disorders among adolescents," she concluded.

SOURCE: Pediatrics

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A program designed to boost physical activity levels in a low-income, multi-ethnic community did just that, and led to real health benefits for residents.

Compared with a "control" community, fewer participants in the get-fit community gained weight and many lost weight, reducing their risk of type 2 diabetes -- which largely results from obesity. Residents in the intervention community also saw improvements in cholesterol, blood pressure and blood sugar levels.

Dr. Anne Karen Jenum, at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo, and colleagues tested their program over three years in a low-income, urban district in Norway with high rates of heart disease, obesity and physical inactivity. The program involved local political and lay leaders and health and welfare workers in the planning and implementation of an "orchestrated set of strategies" to increase physical activity.

For example, organized walks were planned and promoted; leaflets and other reminders about the health benefits of physical activity such as using stairs were distributed; and free diet, nutrition, and smoking cessation counseling was offered.

"We observed a net increase in physical activity of 9 percent," Jenum's group reports in the medical journal Diabetes Care. The net proportion of individuals who gained weight was reduced by 50 percent. "Although there was an increase in mean body mass in both districts, the increase in the intervention district was only half of that seen in the control district," the team explains. "Small but significant" positive changes were seen in lipid levels and smoking habits, and, in men, blood sugar levels.By reducing inactivity, the community program "led to significant health effects on risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease," Jenum and her colleagues conclude. Low-cost community-based strategies that get people moving could help stem the epidemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes, they say.

SOURCE: Diabetes Care

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