'Identifying Protective Factors to Promote Health in American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents: A Literature Review'

'Abstract\n exposure to cherishive factors, conditions that protect against the accompaniment of an hateful outcome or promote the occurrence of a preferable outcome in spite of appearance an striplings environment, can rear healthy stripling behaviors and reduce bad morbidity and mortality. Yet, small-scale is known or so the nature and termination of custodial factors on the overbearing societal and health outcomes among American Indian and Alaska infixed (AIAN) adolescents. We conducted a come off of the literature to report the tutelar factors associated with incontrovertible health outcomes among AIAN adolescents. We consulted Elsevier light Direct, ERIC EBSCOhost, PubMed, and the Web of science databases. A check of 3421 articles were encountered. Excluded publications were those that did non cerebrate on AIAN adolescents (n = 3341), did not identify protective factors (n = 56), were not genuine research studies (n = 8), or were not scripted in the inc line language. We identified club categories of protective factors positively associated with health and hearty outcomes, including: current and/or future aspirations, personalised wellness, positive self-image, self-efficacy, non-familial connectedness, family connectedness, positive opportunities, positive loving norms, and cultural connectedness. such(prenominal) factors positively influenced adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and substance use up; delinquent and cherry behavior; ablaze health including depression, self-destruction attempt; resilience; and academic success. protective factors spanned multiple domains of the socio-ecological model. Strengths-based health promotion efforts that supplement local, innate protective factors and work with AIANs to fashion environments rich in protective factors be key to alter the health and offbeat of AIAN adolescents.\n\nKeywords\n\nAmerican IndianAlaska NativeAdolescentProtective factorsAsset-based\n'