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Manjarres-Posada, Natalia Isabel; Benavides-Torres, Raquel A.; Pérez Baleón, Guadalupe Fabiola; Urrutia Soto, María Teresa; Onofre-Rodríguez, Dora Julia; Barbosa-Martínez, Rosalva del Carmen; Márquez-Vega, María Aracely – SAGE Open, 2022
Repeat adolescent pregnancy is a public health problem worldwide. Different interventions aimed at increasing the use of contraception and preventing repeat pregnancies have been implemented and their effectiveness has been evaluated. This systematic review evaluates the results of the efficacy of diverse interventions for contraceptive use and…
Descriptors: Intervention, Pregnancy, Adolescents, Prevention
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Laura Iseut Lafrance St-Martin; Stéphane Villeneuve – Cogent Education, 2024
This paper presents the results of a systematic literature review concerning the actual and future uses of chatbots (artificial conversation agents) in youth bullying cases. The study found that while artificial intelligence is highly regarded as an interesting tool by researchers, the technology is not yet good enough to intervene in crisis…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Bullying, Children, Adolescents
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Maria de Jesus Candeias; Pedro J. Rosa; Maria Gouveia-Pereira – School Mental Health, 2025
In recent years, there has been a notable increase in the prevalence of deliberate self-harm (DSH) among adolescents, which has led to the recognition of this issue as a significant public health challenge. However, school-based prevention programmes for DSH remain scarce. This study aimed to develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Self Destructive Behavior, Program Development, Prevention, Intervention
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Erin R. Orlins; Irina Bransteter; Sheryl L. Chatfield – Youth & Society, 2025
Adolescent suicide is a growing public health concern. This research explores adolescent perceptions of suicide to identify potential focus areas for future prevention programming. This qualitative study utilized focus groups with 14 high school students. Thematic analysis was used to capture key concepts. Salient themes included: "Deciding…
Descriptors: Adolescents, High School Students, Student Attitudes, Suicide
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Berta Aznar-Martínez; Judith Lorente-De-Sanz; Xavier López-i-Martín; José A. Castillo-Garayoa – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2025
Pornography consumption at a young age may pose a threat for sexual health, due to the presence of aggression and the degradation of women. Sexuality education is viewed as a way to mitigate the effects of inadequate information and counteract certain tendencies that may be learned from pornography. This study involved a systematic review of…
Descriptors: Pornography, Gender Bias, Sex Education, Program Effectiveness
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Walsh, Eibhlin H.; Herring, Matthew P.; McMahon, Jennifer – Prevention Science, 2023
Suicide is the fourth leading cause of death among adolescents, globally. Though post-primary, school-based suicide prevention (PSSP) has the potential to be a key strategy for preventing adolescent suicidal thoughts and behaviours (STBs), there are persisting challenges to translating PSSP research to practice. Intervention and contextual factors…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, School Health Services, Suicide, Prevention
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Zhao, Xiaoquan; Cai, Xiaomei; Malterud, Andrea – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Electronic cigarettes are the most widely used tobacco product among youth in the United States. Although rapidly growing, research on effective message strategies for e-cigarette use prevention is still limited. This study examined the relative effectiveness of gain framing versus loss framing in youth-targeting prevention text messages delivered…
Descriptors: Smoking, Prevention, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Sunhye Bai; Gregory M. Fosco; Mark E. Feinberg; Richard L. Spoth – Prevention Science, 2025
Universal and selective preventive interventions targeting youth behavioral problems have shown crossover effects on suicide risk, the second leading cause of death among youth. However, the mechanisms that explain this long-term unanticipated benefit are understudied and unclear. The current study examines the crossover effects of PROSPER, a…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Grade 6, Adolescents
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Umaña-Taylor, Adriana J. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Identity formation is a fundamental developmental process that has significant consequences for youth adjustment during adolescence and beyond. This article presents evidence indicating that ethnic-racial identity, specifically, is an important developmental competency on which prevention science should focus in the interest of promoting positive…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Student Adjustment, Racial Identification, Ethnicity
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McCart, M.; Glang, A.; Kelley, K.; Perez, A.; Minor, D.; Hitchcock, J. W.; Miles, L.; Schwebel, D. C. – Health Education Research, 2023
Unintentional injuries are a leading cause of child death. The present study evaluated the effectiveness of a behavioral injury prevention program for children aged 3-18 years and their caregivers. To accommodate families during the Coronavirus-19 pandemic, training was modified to be delivered virtually. Forty-one children aged 3-18 years and 14…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Electronic Learning, Training, Injuries
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Salmivalli, Christina – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2023
During four decades, numerous school-based bullying prevention programmes have been developed and evaluated. Meta-analyses indicate that such programmes have positive average effects, as compared with treatment as usual. However, the effects are small to moderate, and they are especially weak among some specific groups, such as adolescents. After…
Descriptors: Bullying, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Victims
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Patrece L. Joseph; Sasha A. Fleary – Health Education & Behavior, 2025
Engagement in preventive health behaviors (PHBs; i.e., healthy eating, sleep, and physical activity) during adolescence is associated with reduced risks for chronic conditions, such as diabetes, in adulthood. Although several interventions seek to improve adolescents' engagement in health promoting behaviors, racial- and income-based disparities…
Descriptors: Health Needs, Minority Groups, Adolescents, Health Behavior
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Lyngstad, Mette Bøe; Baraldsnes, Dziuginta; Gjaerum, Rikke Gürgens – Research in Drama Education, 2022
In this article, we investigate how a process drama can be used in efforts against school bullying in a new digitalised society, specifically, what kinds of initiatives Norwegian adolescents make use of in process drama as anti-bullying prevention and what kinds of attitudes towards this kind of prevention work they emphasise. In the project Drama…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Drama, Adolescents
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Juras, Randall; Kelsey, Meredith; Steinka-Fry, Katarzyna; Lipsey, Mark; Layzer, Jean; Tanner-Smith, Emily – Prevention Science, 2022
Beginning in 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) sponsored numerous studies testing the effectiveness of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention programs on youths' risky sexual behaviors. This article presents results from a meta-analysis of such studies completed between 2015 and 2019 and provided to us by HHS. Studies were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Pregnancy, Prevention, Sexuality
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Primi, Caterina; Donati, Maria Anna – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
Preventive efforts are necessary to reduce the risk for problem gambling among adolescents, especially among more at-risk youth. However, only a small proportion of the preventive initiatives implemented in the field of adolescent problem gambling are based on robust theoretical models and have been evaluated in their efficacy. By referring to the…
Descriptors: Prevention, Behavior Problems, Adolescents, At Risk Persons
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