5186.0 Risks Behaviors in Adolescent Health

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 12:30 PM
Oral
This session will discuss various risk behaviors among adolescents. Topics will include discussion of the relationship between sports participation and alcohol use; description of gender differences among adolescents living in rural areas for obtaining influenza vaccinations; and description of the beliefs held by teenage drivers regarding using cell phones while driving.
Session Objectives: Discuss existing research on the relationship between alcohol-related behaviors and sports participation among adolescents and describe how sports-specific factors are associated with alcohol-related behaviors among adolescents participating in school-based sports. Describe the gender differences in reasons for past year vaccination or non-vaccination among rural adolescents. Describe dominant beliefs of teen drivers about positive and negative consequences of not using the cell phone while driving.
Moderator:
Alexandra Evans, PhD

12:30 PM
Sports participation and alcohol-related risk behaviors in a national, multi-wave sample of adolescents
Darren Mays, MPH, Lara DePadilla, MS and Michael Windle, PhD
     
12:45 PM
Sports participation and alcohol use among adolescents: The impact of measurement and other research design elements
Darren Mays, MPH, Nancy Thompson, PhD, MPH, Howard Kushner, PhD, David F. Mays, MD, Derrick Farmer, BA and Michael Windle, PhD
     
1:00 PM
School-based sports participation and alcohol-related behaviors among adolescents in Southwest Georgia
Darren Mays, MPH, Nancy Thompson, PhD, MPH, Howard Kushner, PhD, David F. Mays, MD, Derrick Farmer, BA and Michael Windle, PhD
     
1:15 PM
Gender Differences in Rural Adolescents' Reasons for Refusal or Acceptance of Influenza Vaccination
Julia Painter, PhD, MPH, Jessica Sales, PhD, Karen Pazol, PhD, Chris Morfaw, RN, Gina M. Wingood, MPH ScD, Michael Windle, PhD, Dennis Murray, MD, Walter Orenstein, MD and Ralph J. DiClemente, PhD
  
1:30 PM
Examining a crash risk factor for teens: Determinants of cell phone use among novice teen drivers
Lela S. Jacobsohn, PhD, Jessica Hafetz, PhD, Felipe Garcia-Espaņa, PhD and Flaura K. Winston, MD, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Public Health Education and Health Promotion
Endorsed by: Community Health Workers SPIG, Maternal and Child Health, Public Health Nursing, School Health Education and Services

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH)

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