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Shared Spiritual Beliefs between Adolescents with Cancer and Their Families

BACKGROUND: FAmily CEntered (FACE) Advance Care Planning helps family decision makers to understand and honor patients' preferences for future health care, if patients cannot communicate. Spiritual well-being is a key domain of pediatric oncology…

Sex, drugs and chronic illness: health behaviours among chronically ill youth

BACKGROUND: A growing body of literature indicates that adolescents with chronic conditions are as likely, or more likely, to take risky behaviours than their healthy peers. The objective of this research was to assess whether adolescents with…

Problem of nonadherence in chronically ill adolescents: strategies for assessment and intervention

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Nonadherence to medical treatment is a significant problem for adolescents with chronic illness, with significant morbidity and mortality. Yet efforts to assess and treat the problem have been limited. We reviewed the literature on…

Tags: 2005, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Transitions, Backlog, Chronic Disease/psychology/therapy, Current Opinion In Pediatrics, Family Relations, Humans, Intervention, Interventions, Journal Article, Patient Education as Topic, Risk Factors, Shuchman M, Smith BA, Treatment Refusal/psychology

Risk taking, depression, adherence, and symptom control in adolescents and young adults with asthma

Risk behaviors, including tobacco, alcohol, and drug use, are common in adolescents and young adults. Those who engage in one risk behavior are likely to engage in additional health risk behaviors, and as the number of risk behaviors increase,…

Tags: 2006, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Transitions, Adult, American Journal Of Respiratory And Critical Care Medicine, Asthma/drug therapy/psychology, Backlog, Bender BG, Humans, Journal Article, Mood Disorders/etiology, Patient Compliance, Risk-Taking

Chronic illness in adolescents

2003

Tags: 2003, Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Transitions, Australia, Backlog, Chronic Disease, Couper JJ, Humans, Journal Article, Kennedy JD, Martin AJ, Sawyer MG, Sick Role, The Medical Journal Of Australia

Preventive services in a health maintenance organization: how well do pediatricians screen and educate adolescent patients?

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether pediatricians in managed care settings adhere to national guidelines concerning the provision of clinical preventive services. DESIGN: Surveys were mailed between September 1996 and April 1997 to all pediatricians…

Protecting adolescents from harm. Findings from the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health

CONTEXT: The main threats to adolescents' health are the risk behaviors they choose. How their social context shapes their behaviors is poorly understood. OBJECTIVE: To identify risk and protective factors at the family, school, and individual levels…

Health counseling in adolescent preventive visits: effectiveness, current practices, and quality measurement

Most morbidity and mortality among adolescents results from their participation in health-compromising behaviors. Recent guidelines for clinical adolescent preventive services recommend that primary care clinicians routinely screen for and counsel…

A computerized school-based health assessment with rapid feedback to improve adolescent health

Adolescent health problems are often undetected in physicians' offices. The Dartmouth Primary Care Cooperative Information Project has developed a validated and reliable approach to identify adolescent health problems and initiate education in a…

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