Adolescent suicide is a public health problem worldwide. Parents and family play a crucial role in seeking professional help early enough to avoid catastrophic outcomes such as the death of a teenager.

We examined the factors that affect suicide attempts adolescents multicultural families in South Korea. The participants were 727 adolescents whose mothers and/or fathers were born outside of South Korea (376 males and 351 females). Among them, 41 (weighted prevalence 6.2%) had attempted suicide during the last 12 months. Female gender, residence in large cities (compared with in rural areas), ...

OBJECTIVE Identify patterns of suicide amongst male and female adolescents aged 11-18 years in Ontario. METHOD All 370 adolescent suicides in Ontario between January 2000 and November 2006 were analyzed. Previous attempts, history of psychiatric treatment, location committed and method of suicide were assessed. Data was analyzed using 2-tailed t-tests and chi-square without Yates' correction....

objective: the objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship of perceived social selfefficacy (psse) with depression in students. methods: the sample of the present study consisted of 216 adolescent students including 120 males and 96 females randomly selected from different educational institutes of karachi, pakistan. the age of the participants ranged from 16 to 19 years o...

the increasing prevalence rate of breast cancer among asian-american women shows the more significant role of lifestyle factors in etiology than genetic factors. the search engine pubmed was used for searching related paper by “breast cancer”, “soy”, “isoflavones”, “phytoestrogen” as the key words. we selected papers which published during 1990 to 2012. various experimental studies reported the...

adolescent is a time of profound biologic, intellectual, psychological, ‎and socioeconomic change that he will face a crisis. so compatibility may be ‎exposed to many hazards, such as depression, anxiety and other emotional ‎problems. but a planned regular exercise enhances physical and mental health ‎of adolescent female with diabetes.   the aim of this study was to determine the effect of exe...

Background: Disturbances in maternal care have been associated with increased risk for drug abuse later in life. However, there has been little investigation of the effects of maternal separation (MS), a model of early life stress, on nicotine dependence, specifically during adolescence. In the present study, we aimed to investigate the effect of MS on nicotine-conditioned place preference (CPP...

Background. Previous studies have shown that an external versus the internal focus of attention is an effective and efficient method to improve athleteschr('39') performance under anxious conditions. Objectives. The current study aimed to assess the effect of the practice with a distinct focus of attention on the penalty kicking performance of adolescent soccer players with different expertise...