Introduction: Until recently, research on vaccine hesitancy has focused primarily on parent
populations. Although adolescent knowledge and views are gaining momentum within the …

Abstract Background Despite the Internet and the WorldWideWeb providing ready access to
information on the risks and health consequences of anabolic steroid (AS) misuse for all …

Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disproportionately impacts minority youth.
Interventions to decrease HIV sexual risk are needed. Objective We hypothesized that an …

Background Preventing tobacco product initiation in youth is a critical need. While cigarette
smoking among youth has been on the decline, tobacco use in other forms, such as e …

The aim of this study was to investigate whether and how a picture book preventing child
sexual abuse can improve children's self-protection skills. The study was conducted in …

Should we ask children to be “more healthy” or “less unhealthy”? Drawing from both
prospect and psycholinguistic theory, we manipulate the framing (gain versus loss) and …

Background: To address the need for risk behavior reduction and human immunodeficiency
virus prevention interventions that capture adolescents “where they live,” we created a tablet …

Purpose Adolescents are the age group that is least likely to know their HIV status and may
unknowingly transmit the virus to others. A randomized controlled trial was conducted to …

Messages that frame a target behavior in terms of its benefits (gain frame) or costs (loss
frame) have been widely and successfully used for health promotion and risk reduction …

Behavioral economics and its applied branch “nudging” can improve individual choices in
various health care settings. However, there is a paucity of research using nudges to …