Parentification, Stress, and Problem Behavior of Adolescents who have a Parent with Mental Health Problems.

When adolescents live with a parent with mental illness, they often partly take over the parental role. Little is known about the consequences of this so-called parentification on the adolescents' internalizing and externalizing problems. This survey study examined this effect cross-sectionally and longitudinally in a sample of 118 adolescents living with a parent suffering from mental health problems.

Longitudinal associations between asthma control, medication adherence, and quality of life among adolescents: results from a cross-lagged analysis.

Purpose: It is not completely clear whether and how medication adherence, asthma control, and quality of life (QOL) predict each other over time. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine the longitudinal associations between asthma control, medication adherence, and quality of life among adolescents.

Methods: In this 3-wave longitudinal study, adolescents (N = 139, Mean age = 11.

Maternal and paternal beliefs, support and parenting as determinants of sport participation of adolescents with asthma.

Rationale: Few studies have examined determinants of physical activity in patients with chronic illnesses, like asthma. The aim of this study was to examine whether baseline maternal and paternal beliefs, support and parenting were associated with changes in sport participation of adolescents with asthma, and investigate the moderating effect of sex.

Methods: In a population-based cohort study, during home visits in 2012 and 2013, 253 adolescents completed a questionnaire assessing their sport participation.

The Common Sense Model in early adolescents with asthma: longitudinal relations between illness perceptions, asthma control and emotional problems mediated by coping.

Objective: The present study examined the longitudinal relations between illness perceptions and asthma control and emotional problems (i.e., anxiety, depression, stress), respectively, in adolescents with asthma.

Moderating effect of gender on the prospective relation of physical activity with psychosocial outcomes and asthma control in adolescents: a longitudinal study.

Objective: Adolescents with asthma experience more psychosocial and physiological problems compared to their healthy peers. Physical activity (PA) might decrease these problems. This study was the first observational longitudinal study to examine whether habitual PA could predict changes in psychosocial outcomes (i.

Sport club participation of adolescents with asthma: maternal factors and adolescent cognitions.

Rationale: Sport participation is especially important for patients with asthma in that it decreases psychosocial and physiological problems associated with inactivity. However, adolescents with asthma seem to participate less in sports compared to their non-asthmatic peers. The current study tested the direct associations between maternal sport-specific factors and sport club participation of early adolescents with asthma and the indirect effect through adolescent's sport-specific cognitions.

Effect of Type D personality on medication adherence in early adolescents with asthma.

Objective: Medication adherence for daily preventive asthma medication is especially low during adolescence. In the present study, we aimed to test whether Type D personality (both as a category and with its constituent components (negative affectivity: NA and social inhibition: SI) separately and in interaction) predicts medication adherence of early adolescents with asthma.

Methods: In a prospective study, 188 early adolescents with asthma who were prescribed daily preventive asthma medication completed questionnaires on Type D personality, medication adherence, socio-demographic and clinical information, and depressive symptoms in the Spring/Summer of 2011 (T1) and again 12months later (T2).

Effects of asthma on nicotine dependence development and smoking cessation attempts in adolescence.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate whether asthma predicts the development of nicotine dependence and unsuccessful smoking cessation attempts in adolescent smokers. In addition, whether nicotine dependence could explain the relation between asthma and unsuccessful cessation attempts was also investigated.

Methods: A longitudinal survey study was conducted among 286 adolescents (aged 12-15 at T1) who had never used tobacco at baseline and were current smokers at follow-up 22 months later.

Quality of life of adolescents with asthma: the role of personality, coping strategies, and symptom reporting.

Objective: The aim of this study was to test which personality traits were related to quality of life (QOL) of adolescents with asthma, and whether relations between personality and QOL were mediated by coping strategies and symptom reporting.

Methods: A sample of 405 12 to 16-year-olds with asthma completed questionnaires on personality, coping, symptom reporting, and QOL (overall QOL and positive effects QOL). The direct relations between personality traits and QOL, as well as mediation pathways were tested with structural equation modeling.

Eating styles and energy intake in young women.

The aim of the present study was to examine the relations between restrained, emotional, and external eating and total energy intake, and total fat and carbohydrate intake controlling for body mass index and physical activity. The sample consisted of 475 female students. Energy intake was measured over a 1-month period using the self-report Food Frequency Questionnaire and eating styles were assessed with the Dutch Eating Behaviour Questionnaire.

Adolescents' movement towards cessation of smoking: role and relative value of the processes of change and nicotine dependence.

The present study addresses the applicability of the Transtheoretical Model's processes of change in explaining adolescents' readiness to quit smoking. Furthermore, the association between nicotine dependence and readiness to quit was assessed both directly, as well as indirectly through the processes of change. A cross-sectional survey was conducted, identifying 1547 weekly smokers aged 14-18 years.

Asthma-specific predictors of smoking onset in adolescents with asthma: a longitudinal study.

Objective: Despite even occasional smoking being more risky for adolescents with asthma, the smoking rate in this vulnerable population remains high. This is the first longitudinal study investigating asthma-specific predictors of smoking initiation.

Methods: A three-wave longitudinal survey study (22 months) among 257 adolescents with asthma was conducted.

Bidirectionality in the relationship between asthma and smoking in adolescents: a population-based cohort study.

Purpose: Several cross-sectional studies have showed higher smoking rates among adolescents with asthma, but hardly any study has investigated this relation longitudinally. This study examines whether these cross-sectional results are caused by higher smoking onset among adolescents with asthma, or by the development of asthma after smoking onset.

Methods: This was a longitudinal study (22 months) among 7,426 Dutch adolescents (mean age at baseline = 12.

A longitudinal test of the theory of planned behavior predicting smoking onset among asthmatic and non-asthmatic adolescents.

Despite the particularly detrimental health risks of smoking for adolescent with asthma, several studies demonstrated higher smoking rates among asthmatic adolescents than among healthy adolescents. To gain insight into underlying mechanisms, longitudinal studies on differences in smoking predictors between asthmatic and non-asthmatic adolescents are essential. This longitudinal study with two waves with an 18 months interval tests the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) among 346 asthmatic adolescents and 3,733 non-asthmatic adolescents aged 12-16 years.

The role of smoking-cessation-specific parenting in adolescent smoking-specific cognitions and readiness to quit.

Background: An instrument assessing smoking-cessation-specific parenting was developed and tested in relation to a) the pros of smoking and quitting and self-efficacy to resist smoking, and b) adolescent readiness to quit.

Methods: Cross-sectional survey data from 998 Dutch adolescents who smoked regularly were used to perform structural equation analyses.

Results: Adolescents who perceived relatively few advantages of smoking and many benefits of quitting reported a high readiness to quit.

The role of coping strategies in quality of life of adolescents with asthma.

This study aimed to determine which coping strategies are associated with better quality of life (QOL) in adolescents with asthma. Furthermore, because coping can mediate the effects of health stressors on QOL, this study also examined the indirect effect of asthma severity on QOL via coping. Between January and May 2003, 553 Dutch adolescents with asthma (aged 12-16 years) completed questionnaires assessing coping strategies, symptom severity, overall QOL and positive QOL domain (positive effects of asthma domain).

Parental smoking and adolescent smoking stages: the role of parents' current and former smoking, and family structure.

This study examined the role of parents' current and former smoking in predicting adolescent smoking acquisition stages. Participants were 7,426 students from 33 schools in the Netherlands. Participants' survey data were gathered at baseline and at two-year follow-up.

Atopic diseases and related risk factors among Dutch adolescents.

Background: The aim of the present study was to gain insight into the prevalence of asthma, allergic rhinitis, and eczema among Dutch early adolescents, and to study the impact of several social demographic and individual risk factors.

Methods: Cross-sectional survey study using the self-report questionnaires of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC). In January 2003, 10 087 12- to 14-year-old students from 33 secondary schools in four regions of the Netherlands participated in this study.