1. Childhood Sexual Abuse and Adolescent Pregnancy: A Meta-analytic Update

Objective Recent increases in adolescent pregnancies have sparked a renewed impetus to identify risk factors, such as childhood sexual abuse (CSA), associated with adolescent pregnancy. Given mixed evidence regarding the strength of the relationship between CSA and adolescent pregnancy (Blinn-Pike, Berger, Dixon, Kuschel, & Kaplan, 2002), our objective was

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2. Behavioral characteristics of the offspring of adolescent rats

The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that, during adulthood, the offspring of adolescent rats differ in emotionality, learning and memory from the offspring of adult rats. The behavior of the offspring of adolescent (age, 50-55 days) and adult rats (age, 90-95 days) was tested in the open field, activity cage, and passive and active avoidance app

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research. Publicado em: 2003-04

3. Filhos do desamparo, filhos que amparam : significações sobre a parentalidade de adolescentes-pais em medida de liberdade assistida / Suns of destitution, suns who support: significances about parentality of male adolescents on condition of Assisted Liberty

The present study has as objective the understanding of the significances about parentality the practice of parents with psychic and corporal care of a baby of male adolescent, on condition of Assisted Liberty (on parole-like judicial measure applied to adolescent in Brazil). The theoretical focus is psychoanalytical, articulated with contributions from the

Publicado em: 2008

4. Adolescent health care in a large multispecialty prepaid group practice. Who provides it and how well are they doing?

Adolescents are at risk for pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, suicide, homicide, accidents, and substance abuse. Adolescent medicine involves an overlap of many skills needed to provide routine medical care, as well as care for those conditions that require psychosocial assessment. We report the results of a mail survey covering care of this age grou

5. Restorative justice and transformation of the social bond: adolescence and offenses / Justiça restaurativa e transformação do laço social: adolescência e autoria do ato infracional

Restorative Justice and the adolescent author of infractional act integrate with each other in this report, in such a way that the elements of the research are used to understand which is the conception of the adolescent author of infractional act concerning to the restorative circle (while restorative justice practical), what has the experience provoked in

Publicado em: 2009

6. Prostatic enlargement associated with symptomatic and asymptomatic gonorrhoea in adolescent men: An argument for routine rectal examination.

Ten adolescent men presented with prostatic enlargement and positive anterior urethral cultures for gonococci. Six of them had urethritis, but four were asymptomatic; the prostate is therefore implicated as a reservoir for the asymptomatic carrier and it is strongly recommended that the rectum should be included in the routine physical examination of sexuall

7. Maternal Nonstandard Work Schedules and Adolescent Overweight

Objectives. We investigated whether nonstandard work schedules by mothers were associated with adolescent overweight.

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8. Delayed adolescent growth in homozygous sickle cell disease.

Analysis of the growth abnormalities in sickle cell disease has been limited by the lack of longitudinal observations in individuals, and by an inability to quantitate the observed patterns. To investigate the timing and pattern of the adolescent growth spurt, longitudinal observations of height from the Jamaican cohort study were fitted to a mathematical mo

9. Validation of the Adolescent Barriers Questionnaire for use in Brazilian adolescents with cancer

Abstract Objective To translate, culturally adapt, and evaluate the psychometric properties of Adolescent Barriers Questionnaire for use in Brazilian adolescents with cancer aged 12 to 18 years, based on the original American Adolescent Barriers Questionnaire which was designed to measure the extent to which adolescents with cancer have concerns about repor

J. Pediatr. (Rio J.). Publicado em: 2021-06

10. Permeability of the blood-ocular barrier in adolescent and adult diabetic patients.

The permeability of the blood-ocular barrier was examined by fluorophotometry in adolescent and adult diabetic patients before the onset of retinopathy. The adolescent group consisted of 52 eyes of 52 insulin dependent diabetic patients aged 11 to 19 years and a control group of 10 eyes of 10 normal adolescents. The adult group consisted of 74 eyes of 74 non

11. The role of genito-urinary medicine in adolescent sexuality.

OBJECTIVE--To examine the sexual behaviour and the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among adolescent girls who attended the Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic in Birmingham. DESIGN--Retrospective case control study. SETTING--The Genito-Urinary Medicine Clinic (Ward 19), General Hospital, Birmingham. SUBJECTS--159 adolescent girls aged 13-16 years; 215

12. HPV vaccine: positive insights from universal adolescent HepB vaccination

The introduction of universal adolescent HPV vaccination in schools has a positive outlook

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