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Newsletter

#4 − April 2017

EDITORIAL

Tempus fugit

…and it has already been a year since we launched our first newsletter. Since then the number of professionals that wish to receive it has been growing steadily as the newsletter is seen as a way to be informed about the research done in Switzerland in the domain of adolescent health. However, it is possible that we still miss some publications, news or events. If this is the case, do not hesitate to let us know so that we can publish it in the next issue. Keep in touch!

NEWS

The 2017 SAHM meeting in New Orleans

The Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine (SAHM) 2017 (March 8-11) held its annual meeting in New Orleans. The

overall theme was “Cultivating Connections”. It was a conference full of emotions given the current political situation in the United States as well as many events within the SAHM community. But this was also a fertile context for building these connections and it worked whether in terms of professional networking or spreading the scientific knowledge. Save the date for Seattle next year (March 14-17) on ‘Global Adolescent Health Equity’!

Career academic award

At the SAHM 2017 annual conference, Christina Akre - PhD, research manager at the Research Group on Adolescent Health, Division of chronic illness of the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine – was honored the Career Academic Award for her research on transition of adolescents living with a chronic condition and their families.

GenerationFRee study

The third wave of the GenerationFRee study (a longitudinal research on gambling and lifestyles of young people in the canton of Fribourg) has just been completed.

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2 National survey on sexual health and behavior of young people in Switzerland

The national survey (funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation) on Sexual health and behavior of young people in Switzerland using the life history calendar method will be launched very soon. This study is a collaboration between the GRSA, the Social Sciences Institute & NCCR-Lives (University of Lausanne) and the Clinic for Reproductive Endocrinology (University Hospital Zurich).

UPCOMING EVENTS

First IAAH MENA Region Conference. "Towards Health and Wellbeing for all adolescents by 2030", Cairo, Egypt May 12th-14th, 2017, Information

REGISTER NOW! Journée Adolescence 2017: ‘A ta santé? Jeunes et alcool’. Lausanne/Unil, jeudi 8 juin 2017. More information ; Register here : Inscription-journeea@unil.ch

REGISTER NOW! Cours international sur les enfants et adolescents malades chroniques et leur transition. Lausanne/Unil, 29 août-1er septembre 2017. 2ème édition donnée en français (plus d’informations sur www.lesadoscourses.ch)

11th World Congress on Adolescent Health / International Association for Adolescent Health. Investing in Adolescent Health – the Future is Now. 27-29 October, 2017 | New Delhi, India, Information

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Youth violence

Aebi M, Mohler-Kuo M, Barra S, Schnyder U, Maier T, Landolt MA. Posttraumatic stress and youth violence perpetration: A population-based cross-sectional study. Eur Psychiatry. 2017 Feb;40:88-95. doi: 10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.08.007. Epub 2016 Dec 16.

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3 The authors found that post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) was strongly related to violent behaviours (boys: Odds Ratio=7.9; girls: Odds Ratio=5.5). PTSD symptoms partially mediated the association between trauma exposure and violent behaviours in boys but not in girls. They conclude that specific interventions to improve emotion regulation skills may be useful particularly in boys with elevated PTSD dysphoric arousal in order to break up the cycle of violence.

Ackermann S, Vuadens A, Levi F, Bulliard JL. Sun protective behaviour and sunburn prevalence in primary and secondary schoolchildren in western Switzerland. Swiss Med Wkly. 2016 Nov 12;146:w14370. doi: 10.4414/smw.2016.14370. eCollection 2016.

Ammann-Reiffer C, Bastiaenen CH, Meyer-Heim AD, van Hedel HJ. Effectiveness of

robot-assisted gait training in children with cerebral palsy: a bicenter, pragmatic, randomized, cross-over trial (PeLoGAIT). BMC Pediatr. 2017 Mar 2;17(1):64. doi: 10.1186/s12887-017-0815-y.

Audigé L, Slongo T, Lutz N, Blumenthal A, Joeris A. The AO Pediatric Comprehensive Classification of Long Bone Fractures (PCCF). Part III: Multifragmentary long bone fractures in children—a retrospective analysis of 2,716 patients from 2 tertiary pediatric hospitals in Switzerland. Acta Orthop. 2017 Apr;88(2):133-139. doi: 10.1080/17453674.2016.1258534. Epub 2016 Nov 24.

Berchtold A, Akre C, Barrense-Dias Y, Surís JC. Collecting data among chronically ill adolescents and their parents: how to get their attention?. SAGE Research Methods Cases. 2017. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781473974777

Berger S, Hasler CC, Grant CA, Zheng G, Schumann S, Büchler P. A software program to measure the three-dimensional length of the spine from radiographic images: Validation and reliability assessment for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 2017 Jan;138:57-64. doi: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2016.10.012. Epub 2016 Oct 24.

Berti AE, Ajello AM, Aprea C, Castelli I, Lombardi E, Marchetti A, Massaro D,

Sappa V, Valle A. Adolescents' and Young Adults' Naïve Understandings of the Economic Crisis. Eur J Psychol. 2017 Mar 3;13(1):143-161. doi: 10.5964/ejop.v13i1.1187. eCollection 2017 Mar.

Anorexia nervosa and obesity

Bluemel S, Menne D, Milos G, Goetze O, Fried M, Schwizer W, Fox M, Steingoetter A. Relationship of body weight with gastrointestinal motor and sensory function: studies in anorexia nervosa and obesity. BMC Gastroenterol. 2017 Jan 5;17(1):4. doi: 10.1186/s12876-016-0560-y.

A relationship between body weight and gastric emptying as well as self-reported feelings of satiation is present. Patients

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4 with anorexia nervosa have slower gastric emptying and heightened visceral perception compared to healthy controls and obese patients. Longitudinal follow-up after weight rehabilitation in anorexia nervosa suggests these abnormalities are not a primary feature, but secondary to other factors that determine abnormal body weight.

Burke T, Sticca F, Perren S. Everything's Gonna be Alright! The Longitudinal Interplay among Social Support, Peer Victimization, and Depressive Symptoms. J Youth Adolesc. 2017 Mar 17. doi: 10.1007/s10964-017-0653-0. [Epub ahead of print]

Diesch T, von der Weid NX, Szinnai G, Schaedelin S, De Geyter C, Rovó A; Swiss Pediatric Oncology Group SPOG. Fertility preservation in pediatric and adolescent cancer patients in Switzerland: A qualitative cross-sectional survey. Cancer Epidemiol. 2016 Oct;44:141-146. doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2016.08.013. Epub 2016 Sep 1.

Hemkens LG , Saccilotto R, Reyes SL, Glinz D, Zumbrunn T, Grolimund O, Gloy V, Raatz H , Widmer A, Zeller A, Bucher HC. Personalized Prescription Feedback Using Routinely Collected Data to Reduce Antibiotic Use in Primary Care: A Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2017 Feb 1;177(2):176-183. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2016.8040.

Joeris A, Lutz N, Blumenthal A, Slongo T, Audigé L. The AO Pediatric Comprehensive Classification of Long Bone Fractures (PCCF). Part I: Location

and morphology of 2,292 upper extremity fractures in children and adolescents. Acta Orthop. 2017 Apr;88(2):123-128. doi: 10.1080/17453674.2016.1258532. Epub 2016 Nov 24.

Joeris A, Lutz N, Blumenthal A, Slongo T, Audigé L. The AO Pediatric

Comprehensive Classification of Long Bone Fractures (PCCF). Part II: Location and morphology of 548 lower extremity

fractures in children and adolescents. Acta Orthop. 2017 Apr;88(2):123-128. doi: 10.1080/17453674.2016.1258532. Epub 2016 Nov 24.

Kuntsche E. "Do grown-ups become happy when they drink?" Alcohol expectancies among preschoolers. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol. 2017 Feb;25(1):24-30. doi: 10.1037/pha0000104.

Leyvraz M, Taffé P, Chatelan A, Paradis G, Tabin R, Bovet P, Bochud M, Chiolero A. Sodium intake and blood pressure in children and adolescents: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ Open. 2016 Sep 21;6(9):e012518. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012518.

Hepatitis B

Richard JL, Schaetti C, Basler S, Masserey Spicher V. Reduction of acute hepatitis B through vaccination of adolescents with no decrease in chronic hepatitis B due to immigration in a low endemicity country. Swiss Med Wkly. 2017 Mar 21;147:w14409. doi: smw.2017.14409. eCollection 2017 Mar 21.

The introduction of universal vaccination of adolescents combined with vaccination

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5 of risk groups and other nonvaccine-related measures has brought acute HBV infection under control in Switzerland. However, the rate of new notifications of chronic HBV infection has remained stable, largely as a result of the immigration of people chronically infected prior to arrival. The burden of disease is thus likely to increase, requiring the strengthening of secondary prevention of chronic HBV infection, in addition to renewed efforts to vaccinate people and their families originating from countries with high endemicity, and persons who frequently change sexual partners.

Smoking

Scalici F, Schulz PJ. Parents' and peers' normative influence on adolescents' smoking: results from a Swiss-Italian sample of middle schools students. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2017 Jan 21;12(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s13011-017-0089-2.

Findings support the different influence of parents' and peers' norms on adolescents' smoking, and highlight the importance of peers' model behavior as the most important factor influencing smoking during adolescence. Such results have implications for programs that aim to prevent or reduce smoking in early adolescence when friendship choice starts to become crucial.

Schoeni A, Roser K, Röösli M. Symptoms and the use of wireless communication devices: A prospective cohort study in Swiss adolescents. Environ Res. 2017 Apr;154:275-283. doi:

10.1016/j.envres.2017.01.004. Epub 2017 Jan 20.

Smartphones and sleep

Schweizer A, Berchtold A, Barrense-Dias Y, Akre C, Suris JC. Adolescents with a smartphone sleep less than their peers. Eur J Pediatr. 2017 Jan;176(1):131-136. doi: 10.1007/s00431-016-2823-6. Epub 2016 Dec 15.

The results emphasize that owning a smartphone tends to entail sleep disturbance. Therefore, adolescents and parents should be informed about the potential consequences of smartphone use on sleep and health.

Support needs of parents

Studer N, Gundelfinger R, Schenker T, Steinhausen HC. Implementation of early intensive behavioural intervention for children with autism in Switzerland. BMC Psychiatry. 2017 Jan 21;17(1):34. doi: 10.1186/s12888-017-1195-4.

Early intensive behavioural intervention (EIBI) needs to be implemented more intensively in Switzerland. Although the effects of EIBI as implemented in Zurich are promising, the results are not as pronounced as under controlled research conditions.

Tettamanti G, Shu X, Adel Fahmideh M, Schüz J, Röösli M, Tynes T, Grotzer M, Johansen C, Klaeboe L, Kuehni CE, Lannering B, Schmidt LS, Vienneau D, Feychting M. Prenatal and Postnatal Medical Conditions and the Risk of Brain Tumors in Children and Adolescents: An International Multicenter Case-Control

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6 Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2017 Jan;26(1):110-115. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-16-0451. Epub 2016 Sep 13.

Sun-taning

Vuadens A, Ackermann S, Levi F, Bulliard JL. Sun-related knowledge and attitudes of primary and secondary schoolchildren in western Switzerland. Eur J Cancer Prev. 2016 Oct 5. [Epub ahead of print]

The high awareness of the risk of skin cancer among Swiss schoolchildren does not translate into appropriate attitudes. Community-wide intervention programmes involving parents, teachers, peers and primary care clinicians could be considered for Swiss prevention campaigns to improve children's sun behaviour and change their current pro-tan attitude.

Alcohol screening

Wenger-Bonny C, N'goran AA, Pasquier J, Dvorak C, Haller DM, Herzig L. Alcohol screening among young people: a prospective study from the Swiss Sentinel Surveillance System (Sentinella) of physicians' a priori opinions. Fam Pract. 2017 Feb 22. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmw135. [Epub ahead of print]

The systematic use of a screening tool should be preferred over family practitioners' subjective opinions to identify excessive alcohol use in young people

REPORTS

Barrense-Dias Y, Surís J-C, Akré C. La sexualité à l’ère numérique : les adolescents et le sexting. Lausanne, Institut universitaire de médecine sociale et préventive (IUMSP), 2017, (Raisons de santé 269; https://www.iumsp.ch/Publications/pdf/rds269_fr.pdf).

FACTSHEETS

La sexualité à l’ère numérique : les

adolescents et le sexting – La perception

des jeunes (16-21 ans) ;

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content/uploads/2016/02/FactSheet_sexti

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