AIDS risk behaviours and correlates in teenagers attending sexually transmitted diseases clinics in Los Angeles.

Objective: Of all age groups, teenagers have the highest rates of sexually transmitted diseases. Therefore, it is particularly important to target interventions at this group. Teenagers attending STD clinics are at particularly high risk since behaviours that lead to an STD can also result in the transmission of HIV.

Long-range effect of clinical trial interventions on quality of life.

Phase III randomized clinical trials have been designed primarily to answer questions of clinical efficacy. Although the primary outcome for most clinical trials is improved survival or disease free survival, recent studies have also compared the efficacy of treatments with no anticipated effects on survival but with different toxicities or rehabilitation outcomes. By identifying treatments with less morbidity, clinical trials have contributed to improving the quality of life of patients with cancer.

Quality of life and the patient with cancer. Individual and policy implications.

This article reviews the developments during the past decade that have led to a better definition and conceptualization of the term "quality of life." There is growing consensus regarding the dimensions of quality of life, along with an expansion of the number of tools appropriate for measuring quality of life in patients with cancer. Quality of life increasingly is being used as an outcome in research, especially clinical trials.

Identity formation and social maladaptation in foster adolescents.

The literature on identity formation in individuals from socially devalued racial and ethnic groups in the United States is summarized. Implications are discussed for a particular segment of at-risk adolescents--those in foster care residential group homes--who have received little published attention. The majority, in large urban centers, are African-American or Latino.