abstract background data on childhood and adolescent malignant tumors incidence are skimp in developing countries. in this study, we analyzed the incidence and trend of childhood and adolescent cancers in yazd city, center of iran between jan 2004 and dec 2013. materials and methods the various types of malignant tumors were grouped pursuant to the international classification for cancer in chi...

This investigation evaluated the hypothesis that the development of either effective or disruptive adolescent problem-solving behavior is reciprocally associated with the child-rearing strategies of parents. Longitudinal data collected over 3 time points from a large sample of families were analyzed at 1-year and 2-year measurement intervals by using structural equation modeling. Parent and ado...

OBJECTIVE The association between directly observed mother-adolescent weight-related communication quality and adolescent percent overweight within the context of an adolescent weight control study was examined. METHODS As part of a larger study examining the impact of a behavioral weight control intervention that included attention to parent-adolescent communication (Standard Behavioral Trea...

The specific aim of this investigation was to map cultural factors associated with aggressive behavior in Latino adolescents. Interviews were conducted with a sample of 481 foreign- and U.S.-born Latino adolescents living in North Carolina and Arizona. Structural Equation Modeling was used to validate a conceptual model linking adolescent and parent culture-of-origin and U.S. cultural involveme...

1 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Kosair Children's Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky 2 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Seattle Children's Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center, Mercer School of Medicine, Savanah, Georgia...

Cross-sectional data from 589 Chinese adolescents were used to investigate whether parenting behaviors are directly or indirectly (through self-esteem and school adjustment difficulties) associated with adolescent depressive symptoms and problem behavior. Structural equation modeling results showed that school adjustment difficulties fully mediated the relations between two parenting behaviors ...

Research on immigrant families often has suggested that the process of immigration can lead to a distancing of adolescents and their parents. This study examined the actual agreement of immigrant and native mother-adolescent dyads in their reports on children's disclosure as an indicator for a trusting mother-child relationship. The research questions related to group-level differences (immigra...

Introduction The smoking rate among Korean adolescent is increasing. Because of psychological, physical and social growth of adolescent, the Adolescent period is critical time. Since adolescents spend most of their days in school, it is imperative that their health-related value and behaviors are largely influenced by school environment. unhealthy behaviors in an adolescent period have a great ...

Studies investigating the life satisfaction of intellectually gifted and non-gifted students are scarce and often suffer from methodological shortcomings. We examined the life satisfaction of gifted and non-gifted adolescents using a rather unselected sample of N = 655 German high-school students (n = 75 gifted), adequate comparison groups of non-gifted students, and a clear definition of gifte...