Adolescence is the transition period from childhood to adulthood. Since Bangladesh is such a conservative society, reproductive health education for adolescents has not been widely introduced. Very small adolescent health components are included in the secondary and higher secondary school curricula. The BRAC Mentoring Program provides mentorship training to secondary school pupils to develop t...

BACKGROUND This study proposes a new approach for investigating bias in self-reported data on height and weight among adolescents by studying the relevance of participants' self-reported response capability. The objectives were 1) to estimate the prevalence of students with high and low self-reported response capability for weight and height in a self-administrated questionnaire survey among 11...

this study has been conducted to evaluate what boys and girls consider healthy family criteria. to this end, a sample of 169 students (75 girls and 94 boys) was selected through the availability sampling method and was studied using the healthy family criteria questionnaire. the validity of the questionnaire was measured using the content validity method and its reliability was measured by cron...

This report describes research into gender and educational background and its relationship with computer self-efficacy and perceptions of Computer Science amongst university students and school students in South Africa. It is important to understand these issues in the specific cultural and economic environment of South Africa. The main focus of this report is on self-efficacy which is defined ...

aims: the dramatic increase of smoking in adolescents has become one of the major challenges in most countries and it needs further consideration. the aim of this study was to determine the smoking prevalence and some related factors among high school students. instrument & methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was done in 2012-13 academic year in male and female high school students...

We report early findings on the efficacy of a technology-based project in increasing self-identification for girls and underserved youth to self-select STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) careers. ITEAMS (Innovative TechnologyEnabled Astronomy for Middle Schools) – an out-of-schooltime program with online, robotic telescopes as its central focus – targets girls and minority...

OBJECTIVES We investigated the prevalence of scoliosis among primary school students in Sivas, Turkey. METHODS To determine the prevalence of scoliosis among primary school students in the age bracket of 10 to 15 years, 11 primary schools were selected with systematic sampling. A total of 3,175 students (1,538 girls, 1,637 boys) of grades 6 to 8 were selected from 16,103 students using a stra...

background and aims: obesity is one of the most important problems of modern society, and body mass index (bmi) is a tool to indicate overweight and obesity in adults. obesity is directly associated with many non-communicable diseases. so for this reason, it was designed a study to assess overweight and obesity in kooy dormitory students of tehran university of medical sciences in 2015. methods...

The present study aimed at analyzing whether the engineering students with high and low achievement motivation differed from each other in personality or not? Total sample of 559 (305 boys and 254 girls) engineering students was taken from different engineering colleges of Punjab. This study focused at investigating how big five factors of personality i.e. Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness to...

Background. The increase of coffee and alcohol consumption, smoking plus obesity associated with stress among young people represent risk factors for their health. Aims. To estimate the incidence and motivation of coffee and alcohol consumption, smoking habits and physical activity among the students. Methods. We used an anonymous questionnaire, with 30 questions related to: daily nutrition hab...