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Screening high school students for eating disorders: results of a national initiativeS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 5:A114. 2008..Early identification and treatment of disordered eating and weight control behaviors may prevent progression and reduce the risk of chronic health consequences...
Closing the "know-do" gap: training public health professionals in eating disorders prevention via case-method teachingS Bryn Austin
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Int J Eat Disord 46:533-7. 2013..2013 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. (Int J Eat Disord 2013; 46:533-537)...- The contribution of school environmental factors to individual and school variation in disordered weight control behaviors in a statewide sample of middle schoolsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston Children s Hospital, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Eat Disord 21:91-108. 2013..School-neighborhood poverty was associated with higher odds of DWCB in boys. Preventive strategies need to account for wide variability across schools and environmental factors that may contribute to DWCB in early adolescence... - Eating disorder symptoms and obesity at the intersections of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation in US high school studentsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at Boston Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 103:e16-22. 2013..We examined purging for weight control, diet pill use, and obesity across sexual orientation identity and ethnicity groups... - An examination of sexual orientation group patterns in mammographic and colorectal screening in a cohort of U.S. womenS Bryn Austin
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 24:539-47. 2013..Underutilization of cancer screening has been found especially to affect socially marginalized groups. We investigated sexual orientation group patterns in breast and colorectal cancer screening adherence... - Application of the Rosner-Colditz risk prediction model to estimate sexual orientation group disparities in breast cancer risk in a U.S. cohort of premenopausal womenS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 21:2201-8. 2012..Lesbian and bisexual women may be at greater risk of breast cancer than heterosexual women during the premenopausal period due to disparities in risk factors... - A public health approach to eating disorders prevention: it's time for public health professionals to take a seat at the tableS Bryn Austin
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
BMC Public Health 12:854. 2012..The societal burden of eating disorders is clear, and though there is a compelling need for a public health approach to eating disorders prevention, public health professionals have yet to take up the challenge... - Effect of the planet health intervention on eating disorder symptoms in Massachusetts middle schools, 2005-2008S Bryn Austin
Boston Children s Hospital, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 9:E171; quiz E171. 2012.... - Swimming upstream: faculty and staff members from urban middle schools in low-income communities describe their experience implementing nutrition and physical activity initiativesKatherine W Bauer
Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 3:A37. 2006..CONCLUSION: To maximize intervention efforts, researchers and practitioners must consider the effects of school environments on nutrition and physical activity initiatives... - Sexual orientation disparities in weight status in adolescence: findings from a prospective studyS Bryn Austin
Department of Medicine, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1776-82. 2009..The long-term health consequences of overweight are well-documented and over time are likely to exact a high toll on populations with elevated rates... - Disordered weight control behaviors in early adolescent boys and girls of color: an under-recognized factor in the epidemic of childhood overweightS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 48:109-12. 2011..We examined the distribution and determinants of ethnic and gender disparities in DWCB in early adolescents... - Clustering of fast-food restaurants around schools: a novel application of spatial statistics to the study of food environmentsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1575-81. 2005..We examined the concentration of fast food restaurants in areas proximal to schools to characterize school neighborhood food environments... - Facilitating change in school health: a qualitative study of schools' experiences using the School Health IndexS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 3:A35. 2006.... - Irregular menses linked to vomiting in a nonclinical sample: findings from the National Eating Disorders Screening Program in high schoolsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 42:450-7. 2008..Using data from an eating disorders screening initiative conducted in high schools across the United States, we examined the relationship between vomiting frequency and irregular menses in a nonclinical sample of adolescent females... 
The impact of a school-based obesity prevention trial on disordered weight-control behaviors in early adolescent girlsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:225-30. 2005..To assess the impact of an obesity prevention intervention on use of self-induced vomiting/laxatives (purging) and diet pills to control weight in girls in early adolescence...- The blind spot in the drive for childhood obesity prevention: bringing eating disorders prevention into focus as a public health priorityS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 101:e1-4. 2011..Our efforts to prevent childhood obesity can no longer afford to ignore eating disorders and the assemblage of related behaviors that persist unabated... - Body satisfaction and body weight: gender differences and sociodemographic determinantsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, USA
BMC Public Health 9:313. 2009.... - Making sense of sexual orientation measures: findings from a cognitive processing study with adolescents on health survey questionsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave Boston, MA 02115, USA
J LGBT Health Res 3:55-65. 2007..To carry out a study using cognitive processing interview methods to explore ways in which adolescents understand sexual orientation questions currently used on epidemiologic surveys... - Disparities in child abuse victimization in lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual women in the Nurses' Health Study IIS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 17:597-606. 2008..One underlying factor may be heightened risk for abuse victimization in childhood in lesbian and bisexual women... - Sexual violence victimization history and sexual risk indicators in a community-based urban cohort of "mostly heterosexual" and heterosexual young womenS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1015-20. 2008.... - School-based overweight preventive intervention lowers incidence of disordered weight-control behaviors in early adolescent girlsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:865-9. 2007.... - Sexual orientation disparities in purging and binge eating from early to late adolescenceS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 45:238-45. 2009..To describe patterns of purging and binge eating from early through late adolescence in female and male youth across a range of sexual orientations... - Childhood gender nonconformity: a risk indicator for childhood abuse and posttraumatic stress in youthAndrea L Roberts
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Pediatrics 129:410-7. 2012..Childhood gender nonconformity has been associated with poorer relationships with parents, but it is unknown if childhood gender nonconformity is associated with childhood abuse or risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in youth... - The mediating effect of childhood abuse in sexual orientation disparities in tobacco and alcohol use during adolescence: results from the Nurses' Health Study IIHee Jin Jun
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Cancer Causes Control 21:1817-28. 2010..To examine the mediating effect of childhood abuse on sexual orientation disparities in tobacco and alcohol use during adolescence... - Sexual orientation, gender, and alcohol use in a cohort study of U.S. adolescent girls and boysNajat J Ziyadeh
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 87:119-30. 2007..Sexual minority youth may be at elevated risk for alcohol use relative to heterosexual youth, but the reasons underlying higher rates and whether there may be gender differences in risk are not known... - Sexual orientation, health risk factors, and physical functioning in the Nurses' Health Study IIPatricia Case
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 13:1033-47. 2004..To examine associations between sexual orientation and breast cancer risk factors, cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors, mental health status, and health-related functioning... - The development of associations among body mass index, body dissatisfaction, and weight and shape concern in adolescent boys and girlsJerel P Calzo
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 51:517-23. 2012..To examine how the associations among body mass index (BMI) and body dissatisfaction and weight and shape concern evolve from late childhood through late adolescence in boys and girls... - Adult body mass index trajectories and sexual orientation: the Nurses' Health Study IIHee Jin Jun
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Am J Prev Med 42:348-54. 2012..Cross-sectional research has documented elevated prevalence of obesity in lesbian and bisexual women relative to heterosexual women, but little is known about disparities in longitudinal patterns in BMI change during adulthood... - Elevated risk of posttraumatic stress in sexual minority youths: mediation by childhood abuse and gender nonconformityAndrea L Roberts
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 102:1587-93. 2012.... - Sexual orientation, weight concerns, and eating-disordered behaviors in adolescent girls and boysS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston 02115, MA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:1115-23. 2004..To examine sexual orientation group differences in eating disorder symptoms in adolescent girls and boys... - Family dinner and disordered eating behaviors in a large cohort of adolescentsJess Haines
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Eat Disord 18:10-24. 2010..Estimates of association among males were similar in direction and magnitude, although lower frequency of the outcomes resulted in less precise estimates and fewer statistically significant results... - Sexual risk in "mostly heterosexual" young women: influence of social support and caregiver mental healthHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 18:2005-10. 2009..Research is needed to identify factors responsible for health disparities in this population comprising the majority of youth who report a minority sexual orientation... - Patterns and determinants of physical activity in U.S. adolescentsJessica A Kahn
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
J Adolesc Health 42:369-77. 2008..S. adolescents and to assess the effect of multiple individual, parental, and environmental factors on initial level and rates of change in adolescent physical activity... - Predictors of initiation of alcohol use among US adolescents: findings from a prospective cohort studyLaurie B Fisher
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 161:959-66. 2007..To identify precursors of adolescent alcohol initiation and binge drinking... - "How can we stay healthy when you're throwing all of this in front of us?" Findings from focus groups and interviews in middle schools on environmental influences on nutrition and physical activityKatherine W Bauer
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Health Educ Behav 31:34-46. 2004..When developing programs and policies to improve the health of students, environmental influences that undermine efforts to improve student health behaviors must be addressed... - Sexual orientation and tobacco use in a cohort study of US adolescent girls and boysS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Channing Laboratory, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 158:317-22. 2004..To examine sexual-orientation group disparities in tobacco use in adolescent girls and boys... - Sexual orientation and bias in self-reported BMITracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 20:1703-9. 2012..Self-reporting of weight and height by gay males may exaggerate the differences in BMI between gay and heterosexual males... - A comparison of weight-related behaviors among high school students who are homeless and non-homelessMary E Fournier
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Sch Health 79:466-73. 2009..This study compares weight-related risk behaviors of public high school students in Massachusetts based on homeless status... - Weight concerns and weight control behaviors of adolescents and their mothersAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:1121-6. 2005..To assess the association between weight concerns and weight control practices of adolescents and their mothers... - High burden of homelessness among sexual-minority adolescents: findings from a representative Massachusetts high school sampleHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 101:1683-9. 2011.... - Posttraumatic stress disorder across two generations: concordance and mechanisms in a population-based sampleAndrea L Roberts
Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Biol Psychiatry 72:505-11. 2012..We sought to determine whether mothers' posttraumatic stress symptoms were associated with PTSD in their young adult children and whether this association was mediated by higher trauma exposure in children of women with PTSD... - The association of body mass index and externally perceived attractiveness across race/ethnicity, gender, and timeTracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 50:74-79.e2. 2012..Our objective was to determine whether body mass index (BMI) was associated with perceptions by others regarding attractiveness and whether this relationship was similar across race/ethnicity, gender, and time... - Sexual orientation and drug use in a longitudinal cohort study of U.S. adolescentsHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Addict Behav 35:517-21. 2010..Such information is essential for developing interventions that are critically needed to reduce drug use in this population. Efforts need to begin early because large sexual orientation disparities in drug use are evident by adolescence... - Reproductive health screening disparities and sexual orientation in a cohort study of U.S. adolescent and young adult femalesBrittany M Charlton
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 49:505-10. 2011..To examine sexual orientation group disparities in the Papanicolaou (Pap) and sexually transmitted infection (STI)/human papillomavirus (HPV) tests among adolescents and young adult females... - Stability and change in self-reported sexual orientation identity in young people: application of mobility metricsMiles Q Ott
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Sex Behav 40:519-32. 2011..Age was positively associated with endorsing a sexual-minority orientation identity. We discuss substantive and methodological implications of our findings for understanding development of sexual orientation identity in young people... - Pervasive trauma exposure among US sexual orientation minority adults and risk of posttraumatic stress disorderAndrea L Roberts
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Public Health 100:2433-41. 2010..We assessed sexual orientation disparities in exposure to violence and other potentially traumatic events and onset of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in a representative US sample... - Examination of shared risk and protective factors for overweight and disordered eating among adolescentsJess Haines
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:336-43. 2010..To identify shared risk and protective factors for purging, binge eating, and overweight... - Predicting sexual initiation in a prospective cohort study of adolescentsSusan H Gray
Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, 850 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:55-9. 2008..To determine whether a new scale measuring beliefs about postponing sexual initiation (PSI) predicts sexual initiation and whether the association between PSI and sexual initiation is mediated by intention to initiate sexual intercourse... - Long-term impact of a chef on school lunch consumption: findings from a 2-year pilot study in Boston middle schoolsJuliana F W Cohen
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Acad Nutr Diet 112:927-33. 2012..36 more vegetable servings/day (P=0.01) at Chef Initiative schools. The potential of chefs collaborating with cafeteria staff to improve the availability, selection, and consumption of healthier meals is promising... - Growing up in a domestic violence environment: relationship with developmental trajectories of body mass index during adolescence into young adulthoodHee Jin Jun
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Epidemiol Community Health 66:629-35. 2012..This study investigated the relationship between growing up in a violent home and developmental trajectories of body mass index (BMI) in a cohort of adolescents followed longitudinally from 1996 to 2003-4... - Development of a scale to measure adolescents' beliefs and attitudes about postponing sexual initiationJessica A Kahn
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio 45229, USA
J Adolesc Health 35:425.e1-10. 2004..To develop a scale to measure adolescent beliefs and attitudes about postponing sexual initiation (PSI)... - Exposure to the mass media, body shape concerns, and use of supplements to improve weight and shape among male and female adolescentsAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 116:e214-20. 2005..To assess the prevalence and correlates of products used to improve weight and shape among male and female adolescents... - Race and gender differences in the association of dieting and gains in BMI among young adultsAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:456-64. 2007..To assess the relationship between dieting and subsequent weight change and whether the association varies by gender or race/ethnicity... - Child abuse and smoking among young women: the importance of severity, accumulation, and timingHee Jin Jun
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 43:55-63. 2008..We examined the association between severity, accumulation, and timing of abuse in childhood and adolescence and smoking status among young women... - Sexual orientation disparities in longitudinal alcohol use patterns among adolescents: findings from the Growing Up Today StudyHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:1071-8. 2008..To compare sexual orientation group differences in the longitudinal development of alcohol use behaviors during adolescence... - A prospective study of overeating, binge eating, and depressive symptoms among adolescent and young adult womenHayley H Skinner
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Adolesc Health 50:478-83. 2012..To investigate the temporal relationship between depressive symptoms and overeating and binge eating among adolescent and young adult females in the United States... - Dating violence among gay, lesbian, and bisexual adolescents: results from a community surveyNaomi Freedner
Violence Prevention Consulting Group, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Adolesc Health 31:469-74. 2002..To characterize the prevalence of dating violence experienced by gay, lesbian, bisexual (GLB), and heterosexual adolescents... - Sexual-orientation disparities in cigarette smoking in a longitudinal cohort study of adolescentsHeather L Corliss
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 15:213-22. 2013..We examined sexual-orientation disparities in smoking during adolescence and emerging adulthood and investigated the role of age at first smoking in contributing to smoking disparities... - Can media promote responsible sexual behaviors among adolescents and young adults?Hernan M Delgado
Division of Adolescent, Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Curr Opin Pediatr 19:405-10. 2007..This review focuses on interventions using mass media, computers and the Internet... - Development of muscularity and weight concerns in heterosexual and sexual minority malesJerel P Calzo
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Health Psychol 32:42-51. 2013..The findings have implications for early interventions for the prevention of obesity and eating disorder risk in heterosexual and sexual minority males. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2013 APA, all rights reserved)... - "Everyone has a right to, like, check their box:" findings on a measure of gender identity from a cognitive testing study with adolescentsKerith Jane Conron
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J LGBT Health Res 4:1-9. 2008..Additional suggestions for research in this area are provided... - Follow-up evaluation of a high school eating disorders screening program: knowledge, awareness and self-referralCheryl M D'Souza
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Adolesc Health 36:208-13. 2005..To conduct a regional, follow-up evaluation to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the National Eating Disorders Screening Program (NEDSP), conducted in high schools nationwide in the spring of 2000... - Young adults in Massachusetts: who is at risk of being uninsured?S Todd Callahan
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Adolesc Health 35:425.e19-27. 2004.... - Fertility concerns and sexual behavior in adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome: implications for quality of lifeMaria E Trent
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol 16:33-7. 2003..To examine the fertility concerns and sexual behavior of adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) as compared to healthy adolescent girls and the effect of these concerns on health-related quality of life... - Family history predicts stress fracture in active female adolescentsKeith J Loud
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Medical Center, Akron, Ohio, USA
Pediatrics 120:e364-72. 2007.... - Influence of bone density results on adolescents with anorexia nervosaNava Stoffman
Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Int J Eat Disord 37:250-5. 2005..However, the experience may lead to positive behavioral changes and result in long-term improvement. Clinicians must be careful and sensitive when presenting these results... - Health and nutrient content claims in food advertisements on Hispanic and mainstream prime-time televisionJodie Abbatangelo-Gray
Ogilvy and Mather, New York, New York, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 40:348-54. 2008..Characterize frequency and type of health and nutrient content claims in prime-time weeknight Spanish- and English-language television advertisements from programs shown in 2003 with a high viewership by women aged 18 to 35 years... - Improving adolescent and young adult health - training the next generation of physician scientists in transdisciplinary researchS Jean Emans
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 46:100-9. 2010.... - Parental acceptance of the human papillomavirus vaccineElyse Olshen
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:248-51. 2005..Vaccine education should target parental beliefs about HPV and the optimal age for HPV vaccine administration... - Which psychiatric patients board on the medical service?Jonathan M Mansbach
Department of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 111:e693-8. 2003.... - Smoking, getting drunk, and engaging in bulimic behaviors: in which order are the behaviors adopted?Alison E Field
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:846-53. 2002..To assess the relation between beginning to binge-eat or purge, beginning to smoke, and getting drunk for the first time... - Overweight status of adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndrome: body mass index as mediator of quality of lifeMaria Trent
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Ambul Pediatr 5:107-11. 2005..Clinical interventions that effectively address weight issues in adolescents with PCOS may improve overall HRQL and other obesity-related clinical outcomes... - Disclosure of sexual orientation and behavior in the Nurses' Health Study II: results from a pilot studyPatricia Case
Fenway Institute, Fenway Community Health, Boston MA 02115, USA
J Homosex 51:13-31. 2006..Concordance between reported sexual orientation on the pilot study and the cohort study was high. CONCLUSIONS: Based on our experience, researchers may be encouraged to add questions on sexual orientation to large studies of women... - Quality of life in adolescent girls with polycystic ovary syndromeMaria E Trent
Division of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Park 307, 600 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 156:556-60. 2002..To examine health-related quality of life (HRQL) in adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), compared with healthy adolescents, and to determine whether clinically observed or self-perceived severity of illness affects their HRQL...