OBJECTIVES
To establish the relation between recurrent peer victimisation and onset of self reported symptoms of anxiety or depression in the early teen years.
DESIGN
Cohort study over two years.… (More)
PURPOSE
To examine associations between social relationships and school engagement in early secondary school and mental health, substance use, and educational achievement 2-4 years later.
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OBJECTIVES
To measure the effect of telephone reminders on adolescent clinic attendance.
METHODS
Clinic bookings of adolescents were randomly assigned to either a telephone reminder one day prior… (More)
PURPOSE
To examine concordance between two self-reported measures of puberty: Sexual Maturation Scale (SMS) and Pubertal Development Scale (PDS) and their acceptability to adolescents.
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This study examined the impact of a school-based preventive intervention on cannabis use in adolescence, using a cluster-randomized trial of a multilevel intervention aimed at improving social… (More)
This study investigated mothers' perceptions of vaccine-preventable diseases and associated vaccines in terms of perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits and barriers. A purposive sampling… (More)
Research into adolescent health issues is hampered by absolute requirements for parental consent. Society's recognition of adolescents' autonomy and decision-making capacity has been embodied in the… (More)
BACKGROUND
Bullying occurs in all schools. Measuring bullying in schools is complicated because both definitions of bullying and methods for measuring bullying vary. This study compared a brief… (More)
PURPOSE
Interventions to improve school ethos can reduce substance use but "upstream" causal pathways relating to implementation and school-level changes are uncertain. We use qualitative and… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To ascertain the effectiveness of a home vaccination service for children behind in their vaccination schedule.
DESIGN
Randomised controlled trial of nurse-administered vaccination at… (More)