http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. (Medical Xpress) -- A recent study from the Centre for Emotional Health, Macquarie University, has found children with social phobia are judged as less attractive and are less liked by their peers, than children without anxiety disorders. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-children-social-phobia.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:22:08 EST news247814512 Research shows that teens who drive with peers as passengers have increased risks of crashing. Many states have responded by creating graduated driver licensing laws which include limits on the number of passengers teen drivers can have. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-peer-passengers-bad-news-teen.html Health Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:00:01 EST news246707808 When parents of middle school students participate in school-based, family interventions, it can reduce problem behavior, according to new research released online in the Journal of Adolescent Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-teens-behavioral-issues-parents-involved.html Health Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:30:03 EST news246272660 These days, we hear a lot about the disorder of autism, but researchers at the University of Utah have created a program that helps kids with autism focus on building their skills and utilizing an aptitude for visual-spatial thinking, computers and other electronic media. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-university-utah-google-autism.html Autism spectrum disorders Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:28:30 EST news245395694 Teens who more openly express their own viewpoints in discussions with their moms, even if their viewpoints disagree, are more likely than others to resist peer pressure to use drugs or drink. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-teens-views-mom-resist-peer.html Psychology & Psychiatry Thu, 22 Dec 2011 04:26:36 EST news243750323 (Medical Xpress) -- New research has found that rates of alcohol-related aggression and antisocial behaviours are particularly high in young Australian athletes, compared to their non-sporting peers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-athletes-prone-alcohol-related-violence.html Health Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:42:50 EST news243682948 Children born just a few weeks too early are significantly more likely to have behavioural and/or emotional problems in the pre-school years, suggests research published online in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-kids-born-weeks-early-behavioural.html Health Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:18:13 EST news242367483 (Medical Xpress) -- Toddlers receiving anti-HIV drugs have higher cholesterol levels, on average, than do their peers who do not have HIV, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health and other institutions. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-cholesterol-elevated-toddlers-anti-hiv-drugs.html HIV & AIDS Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:37:31 EST news241177037 College students who have served in the U.S. conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are more likely than their non-veteran peers to use tobacco, drink in excess and engage in other behaviors that endanger their health and safety, according to a study that appeared in the latest issue of American Journal of Health Promotion. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-veterans-college-engage-riskier-health.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:10:01 EST news239273164 Children who start elementary school with difficulty associating small exact quantities of items with the printed numerals that represent those quantities are more likely to develop a math-related learning disability than are their peers, according to a study supported by the National Institutes of Health. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-math-disability-linked-problem-quantities.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:57:06 EST news238751793 Adults and adolescents often adjust their behaviour and opinions to peer groups, even when they themselves know better. Researchers from the Max Planck Institutes for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands, studied this phenomenon in four-year-olds and found that preschool children are already subject to peer pressure. In the current study, the researchers found that children conformed their public judgment of a situation to the judgment of a majority of peers in spite better knowledge. (Child Development, October 25, 2011). http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-peer-pressure-preschool-children.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:50:13 EST news238751392 Teens who drink more than five cans of non-diet, fizzy soft drinks every week are significantly more likely to behave aggressively, suggests research published online in Injury Prevention. This includes carrying a weapon and perpetrating violence against peers and siblings. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-high-fizzy-soft-consumption-linked.html Health Tue, 25 Oct 2011 04:08:23 EST news238734493 Patient handovers have increased significantly as a result of the restrictions on the number of hours residents are allowed to work. Multiple shift changes, and resulting consecutive sign-outs, during patient handovers are linked to a decrease in both the amount and quality of information conveyed between residents, according to a new study by Dr. Adam Helms from the University of Virginia Healthsystem in the US and his colleagues. Their work1, which characterizes the complex process of resident sign-out in a teaching hospital, appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine2, published by Springer. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-hospital-patients-shift-shuffle.html Other Thu, 20 Oct 2011 13:17:21 EST news238335368 A psychology team at Kansas State University is studying how elementary and middle school youths perceive and anticipate interacting with peers who have various characteristics seen as undesirable, such as being a poor student or being extremely aggressive. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-10-kids-peers-undesirable-trait-faulted.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:34:55 EST news237548089 Students are stigmatized for a variety of reasons, with youths from ethnic-minority backgrounds often feeling devalued in school. New research on young children from a range of backgrounds has found that even elementary school children are aware of such stigmatization and, like older youths, feel more anxious about school as a result. Children who are stigmatized are more likely to have less interest in school, yet ethnic-minority children in this study reported high interest in school in the face of stigma. For some students, feeling close to people at school helps them maintain higher levels of interest in academics, despite the potentially negative effects of stigmatization. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-awareness-ethnicity-based-stigma-early.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:39:51 EST news233894359 As children move toward adolescence, they rely increasingly on close relationships with peers. Socially withdrawn children, who have less contact with peers, may miss out on the support that friendships provide. In a new study about the peer relationships of almost 2,500 fifth graders who are socially withdrawn in different ways and those who aren't withdrawn, researchers have found that withdrawn children who can be described as "anxious-solitary" differ considerably in their relationships with peers, compared to other withdrawn children and children who aren't withdrawn. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-08-anxiety-children-capacity-friendships.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:35:42 EST news233894123 College athletes tend to be less likely than their non-athlete peers to smoke marijuana. But when they do, they may have some different reasons for it, according to a study in the July issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-athletes-marijuana.html Health Mon, 11 Jul 2011 11:25:08 EST news229602296 Students who leave school without any qualifications can expect to suffer from poorer health and greater risk of heart disease than those with some qualifications, according to new research. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-school-heart-disease.html Health Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:18:11 EST news229234661 Young people who identify themselves as gay, lesbian or bisexual, experience same-sex attractions or engage in same-sex sexual behaviors are more likely to experience sexual abuse, parental physical abuse and bullying from peers than other youth, according to a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health study. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-gay-lesbian-bisexual-youth-bullied.html Health Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:14:38 EST news227978068 Multicultural daycares don't necessarily foster a desire for kids of visibly different ethnicities to play together. A study on Asian-Canadian and French-Canadian preschoolers has found these children may have a preference to interact with kids of their own ethnic group. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-kids-playmates-ethnicity.html Psychology & Psychiatry Tue, 21 Jun 2011 11:04:42 EST news227873054 Men who report having bullied peers in childhood appear to have an increased risk of perpetrating violence against an intimate partner in adulthood, according to a report posted online today by the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-link-childhood-bullying-adult-intimate.html Psychology & Psychiatry Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:22:55 EST news226596161 As teens push their parents for more control over their lives, they use their peers as metrics to define appropriate levels of freedom and personal autonomy. They also tend to overestimate how much freedom their peers actually have. Those are the conclusions of new research that appears in the journal Child Development; the research was conducted at The Ohio State University. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-teens-peers-gauge-autonomy.html Psychology & Psychiatry Wed, 11 May 2011 03:35:43 EST news224303717 Teenagers who drink alcohol spend more time on their computers for recreational use, including social networking and downloading and listening to music, compared with their peers who don't drink. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-teenage-alcohol-consumption.html Health Mon, 09 May 2011 16:26:09 EST news224177134