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Direct linkAdams, Zachary W.; McCart, Michael R.; Zajac, Kristyn; Danielson, Carla Kmett; Sawyer, Genelle K.; Saunders, Benjamin E.; Kilpatrick, Dean G. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2013
This study examined the prevalence of and associations between specific psychiatric disorders, substance use problems, and trauma exposure in a sample of delinquent and nondelinquent adolescents. A nationally representative sample of adolescents ("n" = 3,614; "M" age = 14.5 years, "SD" = 1.7; 51% male; 71% White,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Mental Disorders, Substance Abuse, Trauma
Ullman, Sarah E.; Najdowski, Cynthia J.; Filipas, Henrietta H. – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2009
This study examined the unique effects of child sexual abuse simultaneously with post-traumatic stress disorder symptom clusters, problem drinking, and illicit drug use in relation to sexual revictimization in a community sample of female adult sexual assault victims. Participants (N = 555) completed two surveys a year apart. Child sexual abuse…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Drug Use
Jewkes, Rachel K.; Dunkle, Kristin; Nduna, Mzikazi; Jama, P. Nwabisa; Puren, Adrian – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2010
Objectives: To describe prevalence of childhood experiences of adversity in rural South African youth and their associations with health outcomes. Methods: We analyzed questionnaires and blood specimens collected during a baseline survey for a cluster randomized controlled trial of a behavioral intervention, and also tested blood HIV and herpes…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Sexual Abuse, Child Abuse, Gender Differences
Peer reviewedHunter, Drew – Change, 2004
Academic and student affairs leaders long have acknowledged that much of students' learning takes place in cocurricular and extracurricular settings dominated by their peers. That fact has quietly grown in importance in recent years as educators, student affairs leaders, and student health officials increasingly have recognized that peers can play…
Descriptors: Drug Use, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Alcohol Abuse, Peer Teaching
Download full textOffice of National Drug Control Policy, 2006
This report provides an analysis of recent findings on drug and alcohol use trends among girls. Data indicate that girls have caught up with boys in illicit drug and alcohol use and have actually surpassed boys in cigarette and prescription drug use. Also, more girls than boys are new users of substances. Marijuana is the illicit drug most widely…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Risk
Peer reviewedSwenson, Ingrid Elizabeth – Adolescence, 1992
Reviewed records of 183 adolescents attending family planning clinic. Forty-one percent had first sexual experience between ages 12 and 13. Over 7 percent admitted having been sexually abused or raped; additional 19 percent described situations in home or exhibited symptoms associated with history of sexual abuse. Found evidence of family…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Drug Use
Yarber, William L.; Milhausen, Robin; Crosby, Richard A.; DiClemente, Ralph J. – American Journal of Health Education, 2002
This analysis determined the association between 13 selected health risk and protective factors and reporting two or more lifetime sexual intercourse partners and non-condom use for last coitus among sexually experienced U.S. rural high school students. The sample was 569 sexually experienced adolescent females and 561 sexually experienced…
Descriptors: Smoking, Females, Marijuana, At Risk Persons
