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Why target adolescents in the prevention of T2DM? The Resilience Theory asserts adolescents may be more resilient than adults and faster to adapt to healthier lifestyles than most adults who may have become indoctrinated into unhealthy habits, attitudes, and preferences. Adolescence is a life stage where opportunities for health improvement are great and future patterns for healthy lifestyles and adulthood behaviors can be established early. Adolescence has been considered an amalgamation of the prenatal and early childhood years along with specific biological and social-role changes which occur during puberty that make these years idyllic for learning healthy habits before adulthood. This developmental stage, accompanied by social and media …show more content…

Adolescence has been known to change over generations when the onset age of puberty has decreased, but the age of maturity and social role achievement have risen. Health care providers must understand the age of maturity changes over time, but that puberty and social media also influence brain development and health-related behaviors in adolescents. While maturity and puberty factors are important to consider, adolescence still remains the optimal developmental stage for healthcare providers to initiate interventions and prevention measures before adolescents ' transition into adulthood. School-based health programs also enhance greater resilience in adolescents and this can also be important in preventing T2DM in adolescents. In this matter, public health agendas should make prevention of adolescent T2DM central to national and global campaigns because successful prevention of adolescent T2DM could, dually, prevent T2DM in adulthood (Gregg, 2010; McNall et al., 2010; Sawyer et al., 2012; Soleimanpour et al., …show more content…

Furthermore, research has indicated there remains a critical need for school-based programs to prevent T2DM in adolescents. One research study affirmed that SBHCs have the power to prevent T2DM in adolescents through developing, culturally and developmentally appropriate, healthy lifestyle programs (Wright, Norris & Giger,

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