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Factors Associated with Food Delivery App use Among Young Adults
Food delivery apps are popular among young adults and often used to purchase calorie-dense foods. Limited research exists on the use of food delivery apps among young adults. The purpose of this study was to d...
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Trajectories of depressive symptoms among young adults in Texas 2014–2018: a multilevel growth curve analysis using an intersectional lens
Research has demonstrated disparities in depressive symptoms among people who are marginalized. However, more work should examine depressive symptoms through an intersectional lens, recognizing that multiple s...
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Child disclosure, parental solicitation, and adjustment problems: Parental support as a mediator
Little is known about how perceived parental solicitation and child disclosure are negatively associated with early adolescent adjustment problems and/or if these associations are consistent across race/ethnic...
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Open AccessThe Society for Prevention Research 20 Years Later: a Summary of Training Needs
The Society for Prevention Research (SPR) aims to continually provide relevant professional development training opportunities to advance scientific investigation of ways to improve the health, well-being, and...
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Longitudinal Patterns of Multiple Tobacco and Nicotine Product Use Among Texas College Students: a Latent Transition Analysis
Diverse tobacco and nicotine products have altered the terrain of tobacco use behaviors. Limited research has examined contemporary patterns of use among young adults. This study identified tobacco and nicotin...
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Examining the Bidirectional Associations between Adolescents’ Disclosure, Parents’ Solicitation, and Adjustment Problems among Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic Early Adolescents
Research indicates that parents’ solicitation and adolescents’ disclosure of information are negatively associated with adjustment problems (depressive symptoms and conduct problems). However, few studies exam...
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Energy Drink Use Among Ohio Appalachian Smokers
Caffeine-containing energy drinks have emerged as a public health concern due to their association with caffeine toxicity and alcohol use. Despite the fact that previous research has linked caffeine use in the...
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Is the Consumption of Energy Drinks Associated With Academic Achievement Among College Students?
Despite widely reported side effects, use of energy drinks has increased among college students, who report that they consume energy drinks to help them complete schoolwork. However, little is known about the ...
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Cross-Gender Social Normative Effects for Violence in Middle School: Do Girls Carry a Social Multiplier Effect for At-Risk Boys?
A social multiplier effect is a social interaction in which the behavior of a person in a social network varies with the normative behavior of others in the network, also known as an endogenous in...
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Parental and Peer Factors Associated with Body Image Discrepancy among Fifth-Grade Boys and Girls
Many young adolescents are dissatisfied with their body due to a discrepancy between their ideal and actual body size, which can lead to weight cycling, eating disorders, depression, and obesity. The current s...
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Characteristics and Behaviors of Non-overweight College Students Who are Trying to Lose Weight
The purpose of the current study was to examine characteristics and behaviors of college students who perceive themselves as underweight or about the right weight, yet report trying to lose weight, as compared...
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Introduction: Childhood Obesity: Media, Advertising, Community, and Advocacy
Childhood obesity is a global public health problem. The prevalence of childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions in the USA and in other nations around the world, including both develo** and develop...
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Outdoor Food and Beverage Advertising: A Saturated Environment
Overweight and obesity have been increasing among youth, with the prevalence of overweight among children and teens in the US tripling since 1980 (Ogden & Carroll, 2010). While the prevalence rates have levele...
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A Multi-Method Study to Understand How Youth Perceive and Evaluate Food and Beverage Advertisements
As a formal practice, advertising has been in existence for over 100 years, most often with the purpose of creating consumer excitement for, and the voluntary purchase of, company products and goods (Grier & K...
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The Role of Schools in Food and Beverage Marketing: Significance, Challenges, Next Steps
The potential detrimental effects of food and beverage advertising through television and print have been documented (e.g., Institute of Medicine [IOM], 2006; Holt, Ippolito, Desrochers, & Kelley, 2007; see al...
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Longitudinal Bi-directional Relationships Between Sleep and Youth Substance Use
Despite the known deficits in sleep that occur during adolescence and the high prevalence of substance use behaviors among this group, relatively little research has explored how sleep and substance use may be...
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Youth Substance Use and Body Composition: Does Risk in One Area Predict Risk in the Other?
Both substance use and obesity are prevalent among youth. As youth age, substance use rates increase and over the past three decades, obesity rates among youth have tripled. While these two factors have both s...
