TY - JOUR
T1 - Transitions out of high school
T2 - Time of increased cancer risk?
AU - Baranowski, Tom
AU - Cullen, Karen Weber
AU - Basen-Engquist, Karen
AU - Wetter, David W.
AU - Cummings, Scott
AU - Martineau, Daniel S.
AU - Prokhorov, Alexander V.
AU - Chorley, Joe
AU - Beech, Bettina
AU - Hergenroeder, Albert C.
N1 - Funding Information:
1Authors were supported during the writing of the paper by grants from the National Institutes of Health, CA 61596 and CA 73503.
PY - 1997/9
Y1 - 1997/9
N2 - Background. The effectiveness of lifestyle behavior interventions with children to reduce chronic disease risks in adulthood assumes stability in the lifestyle behaviors across time. The transition out of high school is a time when many changes occur in social roles, e.g., changing schools, leaving the parents' home, changing peers, finding employment, getting married, and becoming a parent. Cancer risk behaviors may increase as a result of some of these social role changes. Methods. Concepts relevant to the stability or change in lifestyle behaviors through the transition out of high school are presented. Literature concerning diet, smoking, smokeless tobacco, alcohol, physical activity, sexual practices, and sun exposure behaviors through the transition is reviewed. Results. Most lifestyle behaviors display increasing cancer risk around the transition out of high school. Different levels of change were associated with different pathways through the transition. Inconsistent findings were obtained in the pattern of co-occurrence of these behaviors. Conclusion. Priority research includes establishing the pattern of co-occurrence of lifestyle behaviors through the transition, identifying the pattern of tracking of each behavior through the transition, and identifying the primary influences on the group values and tracking of the behaviors. Longitudinal research is needed to control for preexisting differences between pathways through the transition.
AB - Background. The effectiveness of lifestyle behavior interventions with children to reduce chronic disease risks in adulthood assumes stability in the lifestyle behaviors across time. The transition out of high school is a time when many changes occur in social roles, e.g., changing schools, leaving the parents' home, changing peers, finding employment, getting married, and becoming a parent. Cancer risk behaviors may increase as a result of some of these social role changes. Methods. Concepts relevant to the stability or change in lifestyle behaviors through the transition out of high school are presented. Literature concerning diet, smoking, smokeless tobacco, alcohol, physical activity, sexual practices, and sun exposure behaviors through the transition is reviewed. Results. Most lifestyle behaviors display increasing cancer risk around the transition out of high school. Different levels of change were associated with different pathways through the transition. Inconsistent findings were obtained in the pattern of co-occurrence of these behaviors. Conclusion. Priority research includes establishing the pattern of co-occurrence of lifestyle behaviors through the transition, identifying the pattern of tracking of each behavior through the transition, and identifying the primary influences on the group values and tracking of the behaviors. Longitudinal research is needed to control for preexisting differences between pathways through the transition.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Behaviors
KW - Cancer risk
KW - Transition
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U2 - 10.1006/pmed.1997.0193
DO - 10.1006/pmed.1997.0193
M3 - Article
C2 - 9327479
AN - SCOPUS:0030924525
SN - 0091-7435
VL - 26
SP - 694
EP - 703
JO - Preventive Medicine
JF - Preventive Medicine
IS - 5 I
ER -