Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults Workshop Summary (2013) / Chapter Skim
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4 Safety- and Health-Related Behaviors
4 Safety- and Health-Related Behaviors
Pages 35-44
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Many of the safety- and health-related behaviors of greatest consequence for young adults are also behaviors seen during adolescence, including intentional and unintentional injuries, violence, suicides, substance use and abuse, risky sexual behaviors, and motor vehicle accidents. Three speakers at the workshop looked in detail at three of these behaviors: intentional injuries, risky sexual behaviors, and substance use.
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"There is a very high rate of exposure to adverse childhood experiences in the general population," said Corbin. Moreover, the number of such experiences was strongly correlated with the development of smoking, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, hepatitis, alcoholism, depression, attempted suicide, teen pregnancy, promiscuity, sexually transmitted infections, and other bad health outcomes.
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It uses psychoeducational groups to help young people learn how to feel safe, manage their emotions, deal with loss, and envision a positive future. It identifies PTSD and connects clients to mental health services, health services, and whatever other services they are assessed to need.
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"We have our work cut out for us in all of these areas," said Jaccard. Jaccard described four broad research areas that cut across these risk categories where we can focus increased efforts to "bring science to bear" on the threats facing young adults.
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At present, interventions tend to focus either on behavior-specific outcomes paying particular attention to, for example, sex and alcohol. Other interventions focus on more broadly based outcomes that are not behavior specific and that are thought to be common causes of multiple problem behaviors, such as positive youth development or emotion regulation interventions.
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SUBSTANCE USE The transition to young adulthood is marked by large increases in substance use. Many reasons are behind these changes, including movement away from parents, initiation of new and varied friendships, new roles, more choices and opportunities, greater independence, identity exploration, reduced social control, and the use of substances for fun and for self-medication, noted Helene Raskin White, Professor II (Distinguished
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White presented that a higher percentage of males than females ages 19-30 drink alcohol and use marijuana, and a higher percentage of whites ages 18-25 use alcohol and illicit drugs than blacks or Hispanics. However, White said, after age 26, African Americans are more likely to report illicit drug use than whites.
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One promising type of intervention involves personalized feedback, where information is tailored to the individual. For example, personalized feedback could include a student's drinking compared with college averages, the negative consequences of use, and risk factors for later use, such as a family history of alcoholism or high levels of depression, blood alcohol concentrations and what those levels mean, the amount of money spent on alcohol, or the number of calories gained from drinking.
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"If we can begin to move some of these interventions outside of the college campus, we will be able to reduce the problems associated with substance use for all young adults," White concluded.
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