Aims and objectives. To evaluate nurses’ knowledge of adolescent sleep and sleep disturbance and the strategies they employ to facilitate sleep in adolescent patients. Background. Sleep disturbance in adolescents is common and associated with potentially devastating outcomes and comorbidities. Despite this, little literature exists that reports nursing interventions related to facilitating slee...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Although gonorrhea may infect the cervix, rectum, or pharynx of women, culturing non-cervical sites is rare outside of sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics. This study aims to compare rectal and pharyngeal gonorrhea prevalence in adolescent and adult women and to calculate the percentage of cases that would be missed with cervical culture alone. DESIGN Retrospective rev...

This study examined longitudinal acculturation patterns, and their associations with family functioning and adolescent risk behaviors, in Hispanic immigrant families. A sample of 266 Hispanic adolescents (Mage  = 13.4) and their primary parents completed measures of acculturation, family functioning, and adolescent conduct problems, substance use, and sexual behavior at five timepoints. Mixture...

Adolescents' behavior is often a matter of concern, given their increased likelihood of enacting antisocial behaviors, which cause disruptions in the social order and are potentially harmful for the adolescents themselves and for the people around them. In this six-wave longitudinal study we sought to examine the interplay among maternal empathy, multiple indicators of mother-adolescent relatio...

materials and methods totally, 410 students including 204 males and 206 females studying in grades 9 to 12 and aged between 15–18 years old were studied. the instruments used to collect data were a self administered demographic questionnaire and the scale of adolescent health promotion (ahp). results the mean age of participants was 16.5 (sd = 1.34) years. the mean score of adolescent health pr...

conclusions through effective interventions, health care providers are able to foster hope in adolescents and thus improve their spiritual heath. results analysis of the data led to the identification of three categories: “connection with the source of hope,” “belief in finding solutions through efforts,” and “having an optimistic view”; the categories together formed the common theme “hope, th...

children are not little adults. children have a limited responsibility corresponding to their age. germany experiences a steady decline of road traffic injuries and fatalities in children to 28 674 injured children under 15 years and to 71 fatal injured children in 2014. in the european ::::::union:::::: similar data are available, but with a major difference between the countries. an evaluatio...

kleine-levin syndrome is characterized as a periodic hypersomnia crisis as well as dietary and variable significant psychic symptoms. this report describes the finding on an evaluation of a 15- year- old girl with kls. she had amnesia to her episodes. all episodes were correlated with menstrual period.polysomnographic finding of this patient was normal with 5 sleep cycles in sleep architecture ...

background : most people start smoking during teenage years. there is an increasing trend in the prevalence of cigarette smoking among children and adolescents in recent years. the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of cigarette smoking and associated risk factors among high-school students. methods : this cross-sectional study was conducted in january 2010 in hamadan ci...