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An overview of prevention of multiple risk behaviour in adolescence and young adulthood

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Public Health, February 2012
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Title
An overview of prevention of multiple risk behaviour in adolescence and young adulthood
Published in
Journal of Public Health, February 2012
DOI 10.1093/pubmed/fdr113
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Authors

Caroline A. Jackson, Marion Henderson, John W. Frank, Sally J. Haw

Abstract

The observed clustering, and shared underlying determinants, of risk behaviours in young people has led to the proposition that interventions should take a broader approach to risk behaviour prevention. In this review we synthesized the evidence on 'what works' to prevent multiple risk behaviour (focusing on tobacco, alcohol and illicit drug use and sexual risk behaviour) for policy-makers, practitioners and academics. We aimed to identify promising intervention programmes and to give a narrative overview of the wider influences on risk behaviour, in order to help inform future intervention strategies and policies. The most promising programme approaches for reducing multiple risk behaviour simultaneously address multiple domains of risk and protective factors predictive of risk behaviour. These programmes seek to increase resilience and promote positive parental/family influences and/or healthy school environments supportive of positive social and emotional development. However, wider influences on risk behaviour, such as culture, media and social climate also need to be addressed through broader social policy change. Furthermore, the importance of positive experiences during transition periods of the child-youth-adult phase of the life course should be appropriately addressed within intervention programmes and broader policy change, to reduce marginalization, social exclusion and the vulnerability of young people during transition periods.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 369 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 65 17%
Researcher 61 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 50 13%
Student > Bachelor 30 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 21 6%
Other 63 17%
Unknown 84 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 69 18%
Psychology 66 18%
Social Sciences 53 14%
Nursing and Health Professions 31 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 2%
Other 44 12%
Unknown 104 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 December 2014.
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#4,665,031
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#879
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Public Health
#8
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