Published in Comparative Migration Studies
This introduction to the special issue provides a critical state-of-the-art of the literature on second-generation migrants which has hitherto subsumed the case of the children of refugees. It highlights the theoretical and methodological orientations taken by the literature and examines the main findings on the second generation’s social, educatio...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundE-cigarettes have grown in popularity around the world since 2003. Although marketed as a smoking cessation tool, e-cigarettes can lead to tobacco cigarette smoking in youth. In Canada, among all age groups, youth and young adults have the highest prevalence of e-cigarette use. The objective of this study was to assess the factors associa...
Published in BMC Public Health
The rising global burden of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) among people with low socioeconomic status (SES) has heightened awareness of the need for primary prevention programs in low-SES neighborhoods. Social inequity in health is apparent in mental, social and physical aspects of health among people living in low-SES neighborhoods. Viewing this ...
Published in BMC Psychiatry
BackgroundAttention bias modification training (ABMT) and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) likely target different aspects of aberrant threat responses in anxiety disorders and may be combined to maximize therapeutic benefit. However, studies investigating the effect of ABMT in the context of CBT have yielded mixed results. Here, we propose an en...
Published in Contraception and Reproductive Medicine
BackgroundThis study was conducted to test the acceptability and utilization of family planning benefits cards (FPBCs) as incentives to increase family planning uptake among youth living in urban slums in Uganda.MethodsWe conducted a one-year pilot study with two sub-studies on acceptability and utilization of FPBCs. The acceptability study utilize...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundWe examined the correlations between living arrangement and the physical activity (PA) levels of youth aged 9–19 years while accounting for demographic factors such as age, sex, and socioeconomic status in Shanghai, China.MethodsCross-sectional analyses of data from the 2014 Physical Activity and Fitness in Shanghai China—The Youth Study ...
Published in Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have historically included child maltreatment, household dysfunction, and other critical issues known to impact children negatively. Although youth experiences with violence are broadly captured in some ACE measures, youth exposure to violence involving a gun has not been included specifically in the operational...
This work was funded by the Global Challenges Research Fund Impact Acceleration Account NGO Data ESRC-4 (Grant codes ES/S501359/1 and ES/M500409/1) and the Cambridge Humanities Research Grant (P.I. Dr. Anna Barford).
Published in International Journal of Mental Health Systems
BackgroundCommunity-based, integrated youth service hubs have the potential to address some of the longstanding issues with mental health services for youth, including problems with access and system fragmentation. Better understanding of these approaches, particularly efforts to create a single point of entry to comprehensive, evidence-based servi...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundPrevious research shows that physical activity has a protective effect on mental distress in adults, but the relationship is less researched and seems more ambiguous for adolescents. Studies in this field have typically been cross-sectional by design and based on self-reported physical activity measures, which are known to be vulnerable t...
