Featured News and Research Highlights
April 1, 2014
Add Health Data Users Seminar: April 21
Bring your brown bag lunch and join us for the monthly Add Health Data Users Seminar.
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March 17, 2014
Add Health Data Users Seminar: Individual and Community-Level Correlates of Cigarette-Smoking Trajectories from Age 13 to 32 in a U.S. Population-Based Sample
Join us for this month's Add Health Data Users Seminar, March 24 from 12-1PM in CPC East Room 405B/C.
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December 18, 2013
Add Health Study: Like a virgin (mother)
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill observed the apparent occurrence of virgin pregnancy and birth. The research team of Amy H. Herring, Samantha M. Attard, Penny Gordon-Larsen, and Carolyn T. Halpern, with the assistance of Reverend William H. Joyner, analyzed self-reports of pregnancy and sexual initiation. They found that 36 young women who consistently reported having never had sexual intercourse also reported giving birth during the same period. Such “virgin births” were associated with signing chastity pledges and absent or poor parental communication about sex and birth control.
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November 18, 2013
Add Health Study: The effects of bedtime and sleep duration on academic and emotional outcomes
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, researchers from the University of California Berkeley have discovered a connection between adolescent bedtime and young adult academic performance and emotional distress.
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