Service-Learning: Promoting Empathy Through the Point-in-Time Count of Homeless Populations.

Background: An interprofessional service-learning experience, using the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Point-in-Time (PIT) count of unsheltered homeless, was used as the basis of exposing nursing and public health students to those facing homelessness and housing insecurity in their community.

Perceived neighborhood safety related to physical activity but not recreational screen-based sedentary behavior in adolescents.

Background: A growing proportion of adolescents have poor cardiovascular health behaviors, including low levels of physical activity and high levels of sedentary behavior, thus increasing the likelihood of poor heart health in later years. This study tested the hypothesis that low perceived neighborhood safety would be associated with low levels of physical activity and high levels of recreational sedentary behavior in high-school students.

Methods: Using cross-sectional, weighted data from the 2015 Pennsylvania (USA) State and Philadelphia city Youth Risk Behavior Survey, multivariable logistic regression modeling was used to examine the association between perceived neighborhood safety, and physical activity levels and recreational screen-based sedentary behavior time respectively, while controlling for potential confounders.

Weight status and weight-management behaviors among Philadelphia high school students, 2007-2011.

Introduction: The prevalence of obesity among youth may be stabilizing and even declining in some areas of the United States. The objective of our study was to examine whether the stabilization in obesity prevalence among Philadelphia high school students was accompanied by changes in weight-management behaviors.

Methods: We evaluated changes in self-reported weight status and weight-management behaviors by using data collected by the Youth Risk Behavior Survey in 2007, 2009, and 2011.

Cardiovascular health among Philadelphia adolescents: analysis of youth risk behaviour data, 2011.

Improving population-level cardiovascular health is a public health priority. Guided by the American Heart Association's metrics for ideal heart health, we examined the prevalence of behavioural heart health indicators using a representative sample of urban adolescents. Less than 1% (0.

Is accuracy of weight perception associated with health risk behaviors in a diverse sample of obese adolescents?

Current evidence is equivocal as to whether adolescent's perception of weight status is linked to both healthy and risky behaviors. This study examined the association between accurate and inaccurate perception of weight and self-reported health and risk behaviors among a diverse sample of obese, urban adolescents. Data were analyzed from 1,180 participants in the 2009 Philadelphia Youth Risk Behavior Survey.