Taylor Lensch

Biographic Data

ID4088043
NAMETaylor Lensch
GIVEN NAMESTaylor
FAMILY NAMELensch
SIGNATURELENSCH T
AFFILIATIONSSchool of Community Health Sciences University of Nevada Reno Nevada
ORCID0000-0002-2027-4338
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2018
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX1

  • Youth Assets and Initiation of Sexual Intercourse by Family Structure

    Open AccessLouisiana M Sanchez, Roy F Oman et al.ARTICLEHealth Education & Behavior2022

    BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to assess the protective influence of individual, family, and community assets from the initiation of sexual intercourse (ISI) for adolescents living in one-parent households compared with adolescents living in two-parent households. METHODS: = 591, 52.5% female, mean age = 14.0 years) from a racially/ethnically diverse sample of adolescents. Extended Cox models were used to assess the relationship betwee…

  • Prospective Associations Between Youth Assets and Truancy Within the Context of Family Structure

    Open AccessLouisiana M Sanchez, Roy F Oman et al.ARTICLEJournal of School Health2022

    BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to examine the prospective associations between 17 individual, family, and community level youth assets and truancy among adolescents living in 1-parent and 2-parent households. METHODS: Five waves of data were collected annually over a 4-year period from a racially/ethnically diverse sample of adolescents (N = 722, 51.5% female, mean age = 14.1 years). Generalized linear mixed models were used to identif…

  • Prospective Associations Among Youth Assets and Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Use in a Hispanic Youth Population

    Open AccessLea Moser, Roy F Oman et al.ARTICLEHispanic Journal of Behavioral…2020References: 29

    This study’s purpose was to determine whether specific youth assets (conceptualized as influencing health behavior at the individual, family, or community level) were prospectively associated with reduced alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use (ATD) in a sample of Hispanic youth. A longitudinal community-based study was conducted with five waves of data collected annually over 4 years. Participants were Hispanic youth (14.1 years old; 53% female) a…

  • Prospective impact of individual, family and community youth assets on adolescent suicide ideation

    Taylor Lensch, Kristen Clements-Nolle et al.ARTICLEJournal of Epidemiology and…2019Cited by: 1References: 34

    BACKGROUND: Studies have found that youth assets have a protective influence on many risk behaviours. However, the relationship between youth assets and adolescent suicide ideation is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to determine if youth assets were prospectively associated with suicide ideation. METHODS: Four waves of data were collected from 1111 youth and their parents living in randomly sampled census tracts that were stratif…

  • Community‐Level Exposure to the Rural Mining Industry

    Open AccessChristopher Gay, Kristen Clements‐nolle et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Rural Health2018

    PURPOSE: Rural youth have higher rates of alcohol and tobacco use compared to their urban counterparts. However, the economic dependence of rural communities may differentially influence risk behaviors. While research has shown that adults working in mining have elevated rates of alcohol and tobacco use, the influence of living in a mining community on early adolescent substance use is unknown. METHODS: Using data from a representative sample of …