We believe that some new ideas about health related behaviors (HRBs) and health
promotion (HP) can be found in our integrative theory, the theory of triadic influence …

Ethnographic literature on inner-city life argues that adolescents react to their uncertain
futures by abandoning hope, leading them to engage in high levels of risk behaviour …

Youths growing up in low-income inner-city neighborhoods are at substantial risk for
initiating substance use, violent behavior, and sexual intercourse at early ages; these risk …

The objective of the multidisciplinary expert Consensus Panel on Research with the
Recently Dead (CPRRD) was to craft ethics guidelines for research with the recently dead …

BACKGROUND: Community‐based participatory research (CBPR) approaches that actively
engage communities in a study are assumed to lead to relevant findings, trusting …

Adolescents tend to experience more problems with sleep loss as a natural consequence of
puberty, whereas teens from impoverished urban areas are likely to witness neighborhood …

Objectives: Establish metric properties of the Neighborhood Inventory for Environmental
Typology (NIfETy). Method: A total of 919 residential block faces were assessed by paired …

Background information is provided on the link between intimate partner violence and
suicidal behavior, as this association sets the stage for interventions for this population …

Objectives: To describe the prevalence and characteristics of violence and violence-related
behaviors among six populations of US minority adolescents in grades 6–8. Methods: Six …

Objectives The aim of this study was to identify whether suicidal ideation in low-income
adolescents is influenced by social environment and social support. Methods We performed …