A preliminary version of an adolescent expectancy measure appears reliable and valid based on expert input and pilot testing with adolescents. Promising results were found in the domains of concurrent validity, discriminant validity, and incremental validity. Future research and evaluation efforts will be able to use this tool to further prevention and treatment goals.
Keyphrases
- young adults
- mental health
- physical activity
- smoking cessation
- childhood cancer
- current status
- squamous cell carcinoma
- randomized controlled trial
- study protocol
- locally advanced
- skeletal muscle
- type diabetes
- public health
- radiation therapy
- combination therapy
- metabolic syndrome
- global health
- weight loss
- clinical practice
- clinical evaluation