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May 23, 2011 | Program Result Report
In late 2006, the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania launched a website, YouthMediaRisk.org, to make data and findings of the center's Coding of Mental Health and Media Project (CHAMP) available to the public.
November 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
Four researchers, with different research approaches and perspectives on deviant behavior, spent the 2000-01 academic year identifying new strategies for creating behavior change in adolescent substance abusers.
February 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
From 1997 to 1999, researchers at the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers University conducted a study examining how children progress from experimentation with tobacco to regular use.
June 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
In 1998, Laura Sessions-Stepp, a reporter on leave from The Washington Post, carried out research for a book on the developmental needs of young adolescents and adult responses to those needs.
June 20, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health surveyed 591 tobacco cessation programs for young people, evaluated 41 programs, and described programs that were sustained.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A study of associations between HIV-positive people’s awareness of New Jersey’s HIV exposure law and their HIV-related attitudes, beliefs and seropositive disclosure behaviors found that awareness of the law had little effect on the disclosure behavior of HIV-positive individuals.
June 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Although the majority of smokers begin smoking in adolescence, for most, long-term smoking habits are crystallized in young adulthood. Approximately 22 percent of individuals ages 18 to 24 currently smoke. Despite these statistics, young adults are ...
National Program
To improve understanding of school, community, state, and national policies and environmental factors affecting youth diet, physical activity, obesity, and tobacco, alcohol, and drug use.
May 3, 2013 | Journal Article
This research focuses on the perception of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine as a program requiring policy action, and the political forces and environments surrounding it.
August 14, 2012 | Issue Brief
Some Encouraging Progress, Additional Improvements are Needed