Recently added articles from Journal of School Health:
The continuing problem of asthma in very young children: a community-based participatory research project.(Research Article)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... BACKGROUND Asthma is a chronic health condition that has a disproportionate effect on low-income children who reside in large urban areas, a population that is predominantly minority. (1-2) The racial disparity in asthma prevalence has been well documented, and African American ...
Parent reactions to a school-based body mass index screening program.(Research Article)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... In the last 30 years, childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions, doubling for preschool children and adolescents and tripling for children aged 6-11. (1-3) This epidemic's health consequences are enormous: asthma, hypertension, dyslipidemia, glucose intolerance and insulin ...
Adolescents' sleep behaviors and perceptions of sleep.(Research Article)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Adolescents, parents, and teachers routinely struggle with the negative effects of sleep deprivation experienced by American youth. Most adolescents need slightly more than 9 hours of sleep each night, although this varies slightly among individuals.1 "Sufficient sleep is the amount ...
Implementation of a school-based state policy to increase physical activity.(School Health Policy)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... INTRODUCTION In 2003/04, 17% of US children and adolescents aged 2-19 were overweight (body mass index for age [greater than or equal to] 95th percentile). (1) According to weight and height measurements, this represented a significant population-wide increase since 1999/2000, ...
Project hero: a goal-setting and healthy decision-making program.(Teaching Technique)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Unhealthy coping mechanisms become more widely available to young people during their teenage years. Students frequently choose these unhealthy activities as avenues for dealing with the stress of physical and social changes that confront them during adolescence. (1) For these reasons, a ...
Otoacoustic emissions: a valid, efficient first-line hearing screen for preschool children.(Research Article)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Significant heating loss is present in 1-6 per 100 newborns. (1) The majority of childhood hearing loss is congenital (2) and therefore potentially identifiable during the universal newborn hearing screen. However, from recent estimates, approximately 300,000 infants were not screened in ...
Relation of school environment and policy to adolescent physical activity.(Research Article)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... A majority of adolescents in the United States do not meet the recommended levels for physical activity (PA), (1) and PA declines as children and adolescents age. (2-5) Thus, youth PA promotion is a national priority for improving health (6) and preventing obesity. (7) School is one of the ...
Social environments and physical aggression among 21,107 students in the United States and Canada.(Research Article)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Once seen as the exclusive purview of the criminal and juvenile justice systems, aggression is now recognized as a public health problem. (1) There is no single problem that is more prevalent and perhaps more vexing to adolescents, parents, and school officials. (2,3) Among adolescents, ...
Trends and subgroup differences in transportation-related injury risk and safety behaviors among US high school students, 1991-2007.(Research Article)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death among youth aged 13-19 years, and 72% of the injury deaths are traffic related (including motorcycles, bicycles, and pedestrians involved in collisions with motor vehicles on public roads). (1) In 2005, 5253 adolescents aged 13-19 years ...
Responses to positive results from suspicionless random drug tests in US public school districts.(Research Article)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Interest in "whole-school" or environmental approaches to school-based drug prevention has recently increased. (1) Some of these approaches seek to improve students' connectedness to schools; (2-4) others suggest strategies to change the way that schools are designed, managed, and ...
Promoting tobacco-free school policies through a statewide media campaign.(Research Article)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Mass media campaigns can be an important tool for modifying individual behavior. Media campaigns have targeted issues from AIDS and tobacco use to breastfeeding, physical activity, and milk consumption. (1-5) Media advocacy techniques, such as newspaper articles or letters to the editor, ...
Patterns of vaginal, oral, and anal sexual intercourse in an urban seventh-grade population.(Research Article)(Report)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Although adolescent pregnancy rates have declined steadily in the United States over the past decade, adolescent births and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain serious public health issues. In 2006, births to mothers aged 15-19 years increased for the first time since the early ...
"What would you do, what if it's you?" Strategies to deal with a bully.(Teaching Technique)
Apr 01, 2009; ... Bullying can be defined as a repeated negative interpersonal relationship characterized by an imbalance of power targeted at a person that is perceived to be weaker or more vulnerable, without apparent provocation. (1) One study reported that 30% of 6th-10th graders in the United States ...
Relation to school environment and policy to adolescent physical activity.(ASHA Self-Study Continuing Education)
Apr 01, 2009 ... April 2009 issue of Journal of School Health Earn 1.0 Continuing Nursing Education Contact Hour Earn 1.0 CECH Category I CHES, OH0005 1. Data for this study came from a larger study for assessing environmental influences on child and adolescent physical ...
Factors contributing to regular smoking in adolescents in Turkey.(Research Article)(Survey)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The World Health Organization describes cigarette smoking as the world's fastest spreading and longest lasting epidemic. (1) A wide range of tobacco products enjoy global use, the most frequently consumed form being cigarettes. Cigarette smoking is a very widespread activity, and ...
Salient environmental and perceptual correlates of current and established smoking for 2 representative cohorts of Indiana adolescents.(Research Article)(Survey)
Mar 01, 2009; ... As tobacco usage continues to be the leading cause of preventable death in the United States, (1) the importance of preventing and intervening on youth tobacco use is critical. Most adult smokers begin their habit in adolescence, (2,3) and it is important to understand the factors that ...
A retrospective examination of the relationship between implementation quality of the coordinated school health program model and school-level academic indicators over time.(Research Article)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Education systems are recognizing the need to address the challenges to learning compounded by poor student health. Some have posited that only when students are healthy will schools fully accomplish their organizational and academic goals. (1,2) On an individual level, the connection ...
A comparison of urban school- and community-based dental clinics.(Research Article)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The present dental health status of the children in the United States suggests a problem of access to care for low-socioeconomic status children. According to the 2000 Surgeon General's report, tooth decay is the most common chronic childhood disease in the United States. (1) Every year, ...
Correlates of the intention to remain sexually inactive among male adolescents in an Islamic country: case of the Republic of Iran.(Research Article)(Survey)
Mar 01, 2009; ... In Iran, the first case of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) was reported in 1987, followed by a rapid increase in the number of cases. In 2007, there were officially 15,587 Iranians living with HIV/ acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), 14,702 (94.3%) of whom were males and 885 ...
Bullying and symptoms of depression in Chilean middle school students.(Research Article)(Survey)
Mar 01, 2009; ... Bullying is thought to be a major problem among school-aged populations around the world. A recent international study estimated that between 9% and 54% of children in countries around the world have been bullies or victims of bullying. (1) Bullying occurs when a victim is targeted for ...