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Young, Elizabeth H. – Journal of Medical Education, 1987
Family practice residents were studied to test the hypotheses that a higher incidence and greater severity of personal or emotional problems are associated with a higher incidence of maladaptive coping behaviors among women than men students. Implications for resident program design are discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Coping, Drinking, Eating Habits
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2004
The use of licit and illicit drugs by American young people has been a source of major policy and public health concerns for the United States since the mid-1960s. The use of these substances is a leading cause of eventual disease and death in the population, but it also contributes in important ways to mortality and morbidity during adolescence. …
Descriptors: Drug Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Smoking, Secondary School Students
Columbia Univ., New York, NY. National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse. – 2003
This report presents a comprehensive analysis of the reasons why girls and young women smoke, drink and use drugs, and what increases or lowers their risk of substance abuse. It demonstrates that certain key risk factors for substance abuse are unique to girls and young women and pose a greater threat to them than to boys and young men. This…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Drinking
Doolittle, Martha; Smith, Ralph – 1997
The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) Act of 1986 provides funding to school districts to supplement local efforts to eliminate violence as well as drug and alcohol use by their students. In 1996-97, the Austin Independent School District (Texas) (AISD) received $622,692 from the SDFSC grant, with supplemental funds later bringing…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Alcoholic Beverages, Drinking, Drug Education
Egan, Elizabeth A.; Hummel, Thomas J. – 1998
Adolescent drug use in the United States remains higher than that of any other industrialized country. To explore this problem, demographic and psychosocial variables from a survey of 346 pre- and early adolescents were used to predict membership in clusters of students with varying substance use attitudes and expectancies. Cluster analysis…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drinking, Elementary Secondary Education, Illegal Drug Use
Blum, Robert W.; Beuhring, Trisha; Rinehart, Peggy Mann – 2000
This monograph discusses how to protect adolescents by addressing health behaviors. Data come from the Add Health Survey, a comprehensive school-based study of adolescents' health-related behaviors. Secondary students answered surveys about their lives, health, friendships, self-esteem, and expectations for the future. School administrators…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Drinking, Family Influence, Health Behavior
Council of Economic Advisers, Washington, DC. – 2000
This report by the Council of Economic Advisers analyzes key trends in teen behavior, and investigates the role of parents' involvement in their teenagers' lives. The report uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, a study of a nationally representative sample of seventh through twelfth graders, to examine the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Attitudes, Adolescent Behavior, Adolescent Development
Porter, Laura; Lindberg, Laura Duberstein – 2000
This brief describes multiple risk students and maps their links to settings such as the workplace, church, or the health care system. A secondary goal of the brief is to show that although high-risk students have contact with many social institutions, opportunities for interventions are being missed. Data from the 1995 National Longitudinal…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Drinking, Drug Use

Nolte, Ann E.; And Others – Journal of School Health, 1983
Study data indicate that secondary school students lacking the presence of both parents exhibit higher risk health behaviors than do students with both parents. Variables such as smoking behavior, blood pressure levels, and weight gain and loss were studied. (CJ)
Descriptors: Body Weight, Family Characteristics, Health Behavior, Health Education
Gluckman, Ivan B. – Journal of the International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers, 1980
Discusses the legal aspects of nine common student issues: smoking in the public schools, student responsibilities; freedom of speech; hair and dress codes; student marriage and pregnancy; patriotic observances; sex education controversy; and Title IX, ending sex discrimination. (JMF)
Descriptors: Dress Codes, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education, Freedom of Speech

Zoller, Uri – Journal of Chemical Education, 1979
A description is given of a chemically-oriented curriculum on "Smoking and Cigarette Smoke" for science and nonscience oriented high school students. Laboratory activity is emphasized. (SA)
Descriptors: Chemistry, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Health Education

Frank, Michael L.; Lester, David – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 2001
Analysis of responses of 16,262 high school students surveyed in the 1997 National School-Based Youth Risk Survey indicated that Hispanic males and Black females engaged more frequently in risky behaviors than did their same-sex peers in other racial groups. Patterns of involvement in risky behavior differed across racial/ethnic groups. (Author/SV)
Descriptors: Black Students, Drinking, Drug Abuse, Females

Tuckson, Reed – Journal of Negro Education, 1989
The health of urban America, particularly that of minority citizens who live in urban America, is so poor in comparison to that of the rest of our nation's citizens that it constitutes a national disgrace and an embarrassment. (Author/MW)
Descriptors: Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Health Conditions, Health Needs

Charlin, Ventura L.; And Others – Evaluation Review, 1990
Three methods of estimating tobacco products experimentation were examined in 13 junior high and 6 high schools. The methods were aggregated students' self-reports of tobacco experimentation, school personnel prevalence estimates of student tobacco experimentation, and school outdoor refuse evidence. The school personnel method proved the most…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Estimation (Mathematics), Evaluation Methods

Vernon, John A. – Social Science Record, 1988
Presents background information and teaching suggestions for a unit on tobacco reform in United States history. Asks students to compare anti-tobacco sentiment of 1920s with that of today. Unit revolves around a anti-cigarette letter, included, written to President Hoover in 1929. (LS)
Descriptors: Activity Units, Attitude Change, Civics, Class Activities