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OKLAHOMA CITY -Darla Kendzor, Ph.D., co-director of the TSET Health Promotion Research Center, was recently awarded a 5-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to evaluate the effectiveness of an automated, smartphone-based approach to incentivizing smoking cessation among low-income adults in Oklahoma.
Kendzor s past work has uncovered the detrimental impact that financial stress, neighborhood problems, and discrimination can have on smoking cessation. Recently, her work has focused on developing and evaluating practical and effective smoking cessation interventions for vulnerable Oklahomans.
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A study on children ages 10 to 17 aimed to determine the habits affecting children s health. The findings are promising, showing a significant decrease in substance use-smoking, drinking, and drugs. There has also been a decline in child bullying.
However, boys, especially those in the lowest social class, may need help with a healthier diet and coping mechanisms towards pressure and depression.
HBSC Study Shows Improvements in Children s Health
Senior researcher Aoife Gavin collaborated with the HBSC research team to conduct the study on Irish Behavior in School-aged Children. The Health Behavior in School-aged Children Trends Report (HBSC) showed positive results in changing children s habits. It is a cross-sectional study in collaboration with the World Health Organization, Breaking News reported.
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New research has shown a significant decrease in the number of children smoking and drinking over a 20-year period to 2018.
But there has been an increase in the number trying to lose weight and more children say they feel low at least once a week.
The Health Behaviour in School Aged Children report compares studies from 1998 with follow up surveys in 2018. It was overseen by the Health Promotion Research Centre in NUI Galway.
The data has been gathered from questionnaires completed by more than 15,000 school pupils, aged between ten and 17. This takes in children in fifth class, to students in fifth year of secondary school.
There has been a significant drop in the number of children drinking and smoking in the last 20 years, research has shown.
There has also been a decline in the number of young people taking cannabis across genders, ages and social classes.
The Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Trends Report (HBSC) found that, between 2002 and 2018, there was a statistically significant decrease in the proportion of young people aged 15 to 17 who had ever smoked who reported having had their first cigarette at the age of 13 or younger.
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Significant drop in children drinking alcohol and smoking, new study shows The number of children dieting has increased in recent years, report says
Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 13:59 Updated: Mon, Mar 8, 2021, 14:12
Rates of smoking, alcohol and cannabis use among school-aged children have significantly decreased since 1998, while the number of children who reported being on a diet has increased in recent years, according to a new report.
There has also been a decrease in the number of children bullying others, while reported sexual activity has dropped since 2010.
The findings are in Trends in Health Behaviours, Health Outcomes and Contextual Factors between 1998-2018: Findings from the Irish Behaviour in School-aged Children study, published on Monday.