Measuring serious violence perpetration: comparison of police-recorded and self-reported data in a UK cohort by Rosie Cornish, Alison Teyhan, Kate Tilling, John Macleod, Iain Brennan

“…Objectives To compare risk of self-reported and police-recorded serious violence perpetration in late adolescence and early adulthood using linked UK birth cohort and police data, to examine the association between cohort participation and police-recorded violence, and to use police-records to impute missing self-reported data on violence Methods We included individuals in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) who had been informed about the study's use of their linked data and had not opted out of linkage to police records (n = 12,662). …”
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Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Connective Tissue-Related Symptoms: An Exploratory Case-Control Study in Children by Leonardo Zoccante, Gianfranco Di Gennaro, Erika Rigotti, Marco Luigi Ciceri, Andrea Sbarbati, Marco Zaffanello

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Examining the Role Played by Remand Homes Towards Curbing the Rate of Juvenile Delinquency in Kabale Municipality. by Ampurire, Evarine

“…The causes of juvenile delinquency in Southern Division Kabale Municipality included lack of parental guidance 13%, family breakages 06%, insecurity in families 10%, peer pressure 06%, drug abuse 09%, bad relationship with parents 10%, being orphaned 14%, poverty 12%, social media influence 07% and adolescence phase influence 13%. The study concluded that parents need better understanding in dealing with their children and Teachers, Police and education also play a major role in preventing crimes and there is a need to improve the community and institutions so as to help in curbing the rise of crimes in the society. …”
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Sex-specific differences in children attending the emergency department: prospective observational study by Joany M Zachariasse, Henriette A Moll, Ian K Maconochie, Ewout W Steyerberg, Daan Nieboer, Dorine M Borensztajn, Claudio F Alves, Frank J Smit, Susanne Greber-Platzer, Claudia M G Keyzer-Dekker

“…Boys accounted for the majority of ED visits in childhood, and girls in adolescence. After adjusting for age, triage urgency and clinical presentation, girls had more laboratory tests compared with boys (pooled OR 1.10, 95% CI 1.05 to 1.15). …”
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Pain science education concepts for pelvic pain: an e-Delphi of expert clinicians by Amelia K. Mardon, Amelia K. Mardon, Amelia K. Mardon, Hayley B. Leake, Hayley B. Leake, Monique V. Wilson, Monique V. Wilson, Emma L. Karran, Emma L. Karran, Romy Parker, Romy Parker, Rinkle Malani, G. Lorimer Moseley, G. Lorimer Moseley, K. Jane Chalmers, K. Jane Chalmers

“…., endometriosis) and seven concepts for specific life stages (e.g., adolescence).DiscussionThis study provides the first list of key PSE concepts tailored for persistent pelvic pain developed by expert clinicians. …”
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Identification of Behavioral, Clinical, and Psychological Antecedents of Acute Stimulant Poisoning: Development and Implementation of a Mixed Methods Psychological Autopsy Study by Marley Antolin Muñiz, Vanessa M McMahan, Xochitl Luna Marti, Sarah Brennan, Sophia Tavasieff, Luke N Rodda, James Knoll, Phillip O Coffin

“…As expected, family members were able to provide more data about the decedent’s childhood and adolescence, and nonfamily informants provided more data regarding events proximal to death. …”
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The Art and life of Alàgbà Fálétí – A Pic torial, Art and Artifacts Exhibition in Honor of Alàgbà Adébáyọ̀ Fálétí (1921- 2017) curated by Akinsola Adejuwon and Seyi Ogunjobi... by Akinsola Adejuwon

“…Represented also are years of adolescence and expressions of early youthful forays under various tutelary influences, variegated working periods, writing and acting plus public service careers. …”
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Military-Applied Means of Physical Education in Pre-University Educational Institutions of the Russian Ministry of Defence by D. V. Vinograd, A. V. Zykov

“…To identify the appropriate ways of solution of the problems of profile physical education of potential officers at the stage pre-professional development, the methodological framework was based on the theory of physical culture and sport, individually-modular approach to the development of the system of professional and applied physical training, its principles and regularities, conceptual provisions of health preservation in adolescence and youth. In the course of the research, the authors thoroughly studied the scientific and methodological sources, regulatory and legal base of the organisation of educational process, questions of its planning and control of all forms and activities of students’ physical training in military schools. …”
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Evaluation of a Guided Chatbot Intervention for Young People in Jordan: Feasibility Randomized Controlled Trial by Anne Marijn de Graaff, Rand Habashneh, Sarah Fanatseh, Dharani Keyan, Aemal Akhtar, Adnan Abualhaija, Muhannad Faroun, Ibrahim Said Aqel, Latefa Dardas, Chiara Servili, Mark van Ommeren, Richard Bryant, Kenneth Carswell

“… BackgroundDepression and anxiety are a leading cause of disability worldwide and often start during adolescence and young adulthood. The majority of young people live in low- and middle-income countries where there is a lack of mental health services. …”
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New job, new habits? A multilevel interrupted time series analysis of changes in diet, physical activity and sleep among young adults starting work for the first time by Alena F. Oxenham, Tanya Braune, Esther van Sluijs, Hannah Fairbrother, Adam Martin, Eleanor M. Winpenny

“…Abstract Background The workplace is an important determinant of health that people are exposed to for the first-time during adolescence or early adulthood. This study investigates how diet, physical activity, and sleep change as people aged 16–30 years transition into work and whether this varies for different individuals and job types. …”
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Influence of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on PPARG mRNA Expression Using Monozygotic Twin Case Control by Marcos Roberto Queiroga, Ricardo Augusto Barbieri, Sandra Aires Ferreira, André Ducati Luchessi, Rosario Dominguez Crespo Hirata, Mario Hiroyuki Hirata, Eduardo Kokubun

“…In conclusion, the cardiorespiratory fitness may modulate PPARG expression in childhood and adolescence, independently of the genetic background.…”
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Protocol for a feasibility study and process evaluation of a psychosocially modelled diabetes education programme for young people with type 1 diabetes: the Youth Empowerment Skill... by Nick Sevdalis, Khalida Ismail, Tayana Soukup, Trevor Murrells, Dulmini Kariyawasam, Stephen Thomas, Judith Parsons, Angus Forbes, Rita Forde, Maria Baldellou Lopez, Marie Jones, Martha Ford-Adams, Nardos Yemane, Siobhan Pender, Alex Silverstien

“…Introduction Adolescence is a challenging period for young people with type 1 diabetes, associated with worsening glycaemia and care disengagement. …”
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Associations of early life per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) exposure with body mass index and risk of overweight or obesity at age 2–18 years: Mixture analysis in the pro... by Zeyu Li, Guoying Wang, Joseph M. Braun, Xiumei Hong, Giehae Choi, Shawn P. O’Leary, Chang Ho Yu, Colleen Pearson, William G. Adams, Zhihua (Tina) Fan, Jessie P. Buckley, Xiaobin Wang

“…Synergistic effects of PFAS exposures and maternal pre-pregnancy OWO became evident in adolescence.…”
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Interactive effects of social media use and puberty on resting-state cortical activity and mental health symptoms by Nathan M. Petro, Giorgia Picci, Lauren K. Webert, Mikki Schantell, Jake J. Son, Thomas W. Ward, Kellen M. McDonald, Cooper L. Livermore, Abraham D. Killanin, Danielle L. Rice, Grace C. Ende, Anna T. Coutant, Erica L. Steiner, Tony W. Wilson

“…Adolescence is a period of profound biopsychosocial development, with pubertally-driven neural reorganization as social demands increase in peer contexts. …”
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Early-life tobacco smoke elevating later-life osteoporosis risk: Mediated by telomere length and interplayed with genetic predisposition by Dongsheng Di, Haolong Zhou, Zhangbo Cui, Jianli Zhang, Qian Liu, Tingting Yuan, Tingting Zhou, Xiao Luo, Danyang Ling, Qi Wang

“…Participants initiating tobacco smoke in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood had 1.41 times (95 % CI: 1.23, 1.61), 1.17 times (95 % CI:1.10, 1.24), and 1.14 times (95 % CI: 1.07, 1.20) the risk of OP, respectively, compared to never smokers. …”
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Photoaging smartphone app promoting poster campaign to reduce smoking prevalence in secondary schools: the Smokerface Randomized Trial: design and baseline characteristics by Michael Kreuter, Fabian N Fries, Titus J Brinker, Ute Mons, David A Groneberg, Anil Batra, Werner Seeger, Felix Herth, Julia Holzapfel, Tanja G Baudson, Katharina Sies, Lena Jakob, Hannah Maria Baumert, Marlene Heckl, Ana Cirac, Janina L Suhre, Verena Mathes, Hannah Spielmann, Nancy Rigotti, Tobias Raupach, Henning Gall, Claudia Bauer, Pat Marek, Chase H Harrison, Lava Taha, Andreas Owczarek, Felix J Hofmann, Roger Thomas

“…Most smokers smoke their first cigarette in early adolescence. We took advantage of the widespread availability of mobile phones and adolescents’ interest in appearance to develop a free photoaging app which is promoted via a poster campaign in secondary schools. …”
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Chinese herbal formula Tongxie Yaofang granules for diarrhoea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II trial by Nicola Robinson, Mei Han, Ling Yan, Vincent Chi Ho Chung, Jian-Ping Liu, Hui-Juan Cao, Shi-Bing Liang, Hong-Jie Cheng, Qiao-Yan Zhang, Yu-Fei Li, Ze-Yu Yu, Ling-Yao Kong, Yan-Mei Cai, Li-Bao An, Bao-Tuan Zhao, Shan-Shan Xu, Nai-Wei Zhang, Bo-Yi Jia, Wei-Fang Liu, Fang Niu, Ba-Teer Wu, Jin-Ming Song, Shu-Xin Jia, Meng-Meng Shi, Xiao-Na Zhang

“…We hypothesised that TXYF would improve clinical responses among patients with IBS-D.Design A randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase II, superiority trial.Setting Outpatients attending the Fangshan Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China.Participants 96 eligible participants included men and women ranging from late adolescence to middle adulthood (18–65 years), diagnosed with IBS-D according to the Rome IV criteria. …”
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Prevalence of anxiety symptoms and associated factors at 2 months postpartum, results from a 2021 French national prospective cohort study by Alexandra Doncarli, Virginie Demiguel, Camille Le Ray, Catherine Deneux-Tharaux, Elodie Lebreton, Gisèle Apter, Julie Boudet-Berquier, Catherine Crenn-Hebert, Marie-Noëlle Vacheron, Nolwenn Regnault, Sarah Tebeka, Members of the ENP2021 Study Group

“…Associated risk factors were: age ≤ 34 years (maximum aPR = 1.38 [1.22–1.58] obtained for persons aged 25–29 years vs. 35–39 years), poorer health literacy (1.15 [1.07–1.23]), a history of medical termination of pregnancy (1.32 [1.05–1.68]), psychological (1.31 [1.17–1.47]) or psychiatric (1.42 [1.24–1.63]) care history since adolescence, nulliparity (1.23 [1.12–1.35]), no weight gain or loss (1.29 [1.03–1.61] vs. 9–15 kg gain) or gain ≥23 kg (1.20 [1.00–1.43]) during pregnancy, ≥3 pregnancy-related emergency consultations (1.16 [1.03–1.31] vs. none), poor/good support during pregnancy, (1.16 [1.00–1.34] and 1.15 [1.05–1.26], respectively, vs. very good), sadness (1.52 [1.36–1.69]), anhedonia (1.48 [1.27–1.72]), or both (1.99 [1.79–2.21]) during pregnancy, not at all/not very satisfied with pain management during childbirth (1.16 [1.01–1.32] vs. quite/very satisfied). …”
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Genomic deletions on 16p11.2 associated with severe obesity in Brazil by Izadora Sthephanie da Silva Assis, Izadora Sthephanie da Silva Assis, Kaio Cezar Rodrigues Salum, Kaio Cezar Rodrigues Salum, Kaio Cezar Rodrigues Salum, Rafaela de Freitas Martins Felício, Lohanna Palhinha, Gabriella de Medeiros Abreu, Gabriella de Medeiros Abreu, Tamara Silva, Fernanda Cristina Carvalho Mattos, Eliane Lopes Rosado, Verônica Marques Zembrzuski, Mario Campos Junior, Clarissa Menezes Maya-Monteiro, Pedro Hernán Cabello, João Regis Ivar Carneiro, Patrícia Torres Bozza, Ana Carolina Proença da Fonseca, Ana Carolina Proença da Fonseca, Ana Carolina Proença da Fonseca, Ana Carolina Proença da Fonseca

“…Thus, this study aimed to identify deleterious copy number variations (CNVs) linked to obesity and explore the clinical phenotypes.MethodThe sample comprised 195 adults with severe obesity (BMI≥35kg/m2) who developed this phenotype during childhood or adolescence. We investigated the CNV using Multiplex Ligation-dependent Probe Amplification [MLPA] and real-time PCR. …”
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