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Loneliness and health risk behaviours among Russian and U.S. adolescents: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: For some adolescents feeling lonely can be a protracted and painful experience. It has been suggested that engaging in health risk behaviours such as substance use and sexual behaviour may be a way of coping with the distress arising from loneliness during adolescence. However, the assoc...

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Autores principales: Stickley, Andrew, Koyanagi, Ai, Koposov, Roman, Schwab-Stone, Mary, Ruchkin, Vladislav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4020347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24735570
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-366