JENNIFER BETH contact UNGER

..This study used statewide data from California to examine the smoking behavior and related psychosocial risk factors among Native American adolescents living in urban and rural counties...

..Socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with smoking among adolescents, but it is not known which attributes of SES are responsible for the added risk, or whether these associations are consistent in ethnically diverse samples...

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..The prevention effect among Hispanic boys is encouraging, but additional research is needed to improve prevention effects among other groups...

..Job loss for a household member is a risk factor for adolescents' involvement in problem behaviors such as smoking...

..Health promotion programs are needed to encourage physical activity and healthy diets among adolescents in acculturating families...

..Public health interventions are needed to help young IVDUs to avoid needle-sharing with intimate partners...

..Although much has been written about the role of tobacco in traditional Native-American cultures, little is known about modern-day perceptions of tobacco among American-Indian adolescents...

..Results suggest that family-based interventions for acculturating and bicultural Hispanic families may be useful in decreasing the likelihood of substance use among Hispanic adolescents...

..This dual-consent procedure is useful for collecting some limited data from students who do not provide active consent or refusal...

..The framework challenges researchers to think about how the sociocultural context influences tobacco use at micro, meso, and macro levels. Finally, we offer suggestions for improving transdisciplinary research on culture and tobacco...

..Social norms and low self-efficacy may place moderately acculturated Latinas at high risk for unintended pregnancy and STDs...

..Findings indicate that smoking among male adolescents in China may not be the result of stress; however, in females stress may contribute to the decision to smoke. Future directions are discussed...

..We analyzed age, time period, and cohort effects on trends in adolescent cigarette smoking in California from 1990 to 1999...

..Increased understanding of adolescents' values could inform the creation of smoking prevention programs for ethnically diverse adolescents...

..Further research is needed to determine the best ways to prevent smoking in predominantly Asian and multicultural schools...

..Effective smoking prevention programmes for youth and smoking cessation programmes for adults are needed in China, especially in the lower-income southwestern cities and in vocational high schools throughout the country...

..Further research is needed to understand the reasons why so many African Americans select menthols, as well as the health consequences of these choices...

..Future research should investigate the nature of parent-child communication among Asian immigrant populations...

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..Two significant interactions were found. Findings indicate there are differential effects of stressful events between genders which may lead to smoking experimentation or intentions to smoke. Implications and limitations are discussed...

..To investigate the association between family harmony (FH) and tobacco and alcohol use (TAU) in Chinese adolescents...

..The association between hostility and smoking was stronger for students reporting higher levels of depressive symptoms...

..This study tests the hypotheses that both social/cultural contexts and individual dispositional characteristics may interact with program content to produce effects that are variable in potentially predictable ways...

..The findings suggest ways of refining the theoretical and empirical rationale for sun safety research and interventions with Latinos. Studies should replicate these models with longitudinal data...

..In 2000, the Chinese National Twin Registry was established to provide a genetically informative resource for investigation of health behaviour including tobacco and alcohol use...

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..A model integrating relevant theories into a longitudinal model representing friend influences on adolescent smoking is presented, along with implications of the results presented for adolescent tobacco prevention programs...

..This study sought to determine the effects of the California Tobacco Control Program on tobacco-related attitudes and behaviors...

..To assess the impact of televised alcohol commercials on adolescents' alcohol use...

..The findings also may contribute to the design of future programs to address the needs of defined populations and individuals with specific characteristics...

..Adolescent smoking is a public health concern in China. Although the family is an important social influence in China, few associations among family characteristics and adolescent smoking have been examined using Chinese samples...

..To develop insight into population-specific meanings of smoking in our highly multicultural middle schools in order to provide effective and appropriate tools for smoking prevention efforts...

..The ideas expressed in this article serve to provide direction when considering developing a health behavior program for a country, using previous programmatic knowledge from elsewhere...

..Smoking prevention interventions in China may need to focus on raising adolescents' refusal self-efficacy...

..Results suggest that influential others, including siblings and cousins, should be included in measures of family structure. Study limitations are noted...

..These conceptually derived factors of meanings of smoking have not previously been empirically studied...

..Participants in the focus groups did not endorse the association between acculturation and substance use that has been detected in quantitative studies. Implications for substance use prevention and treatment programs are discussed...

..We examined the relationship between acculturation and sun safety among US Latinos...

..Fatal opioid overdose is a significant cause of mortality among injection drug users (IDUs)...

..To examine perceived discrimination and substance use among Latino high school students...

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..Support for the intergenerational transmission of violence was identified for specific types of violence. Future directions of study and implications for prevention and treatment are offered...

..To investigate the influence of two potentially protective factors, Health-as-a-Value and spirituality, on monthly alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use in two multiethnic groups of adolescents varying in risk...

..Implications of cultural risk and protective factors for transdisciplinary research on drug abuse prevention are also discussed...

..To test whether a social network tailored substance abuse prevention program can reduce substance use among high-risk adolescents without creating deviancy training (iatrogenic effects)...

..Possibly, teaching adolescents nonaggressive techniques for handling interpersonal conflict may be a useful strategy for preventing both interpersonal violence and substance use...

..This study evaluated a school-based smoking prevention curriculum with a social normative approach developed in the United States for adolescents in urban Wuhan, China...

..Even a peer-led program will be differentially effective based on how leaders are selected and how groups are formed, and this effect may be curriculum dependent...

..Additional research is needed to gain a more complete understanding of the positive and negative consequences of Internet use among adolescents...

..Studies should be conducted to investigate factors attributable to the ethnic variations of this association...

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..To determine the effects of genetic versus environmental influences on smoking initiation (SI) and smoking persistence (SP)...

..Among adolescents, it has been hypothesized that popular students are more likely to smoke, especially in schools with high smoking prevalence...

..001). Therefore, TRA and TPB are applicable to China to predict adolescent smoking. TPB is superior to TRA for the prediction and TRA can better predict smoking among students with lower than higher perceived behavioral control...

..This study examined the differences in smoking progression between middle and upper school students...

..Protecting adolescents from protobacco advertising influences is an important element in tobacco control among ethnic minority youth...

..Based on relevant theory, empirical and qualitative studies, two breast cancer prevention models for the EE immigrant population are proposed and the need for future research using ethnically disaggregated data is discussed...

..To develop a new measure of smoking initiation and progression among adolescents...

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..These findings underscore the need to increase the awareness of harms associated with second hand smoke and alter social pressure, to minimize exposure to ETS...

..Future studies should incorporate multidimensional acculturation scales in adolescent substance use to understand how different acculturation strategies impact different populations...

..This study shows that some children in this population at increased risk for obesity and related chronic disease have already incorporated emotional eating as a learned response to stress by the time that they enter adolescence...

..It also aims to reduce health disparities by identifying risk and protective factors that are specific to Hispanics. ..

..The results will provide important information that can be used to develop more effective substance use prevention programs for ethnically diverse adolescents in acculturating families in a multicultural society. ..

..The results will provide important information that can be used to develop more effective substance use prevention programs for adolescents in acculturating families. ..