Self-harm and suicidal behaviour is an important public health concern attracting attention from policymakers and mental health practitioners all around the world (Hawton, Saunders, & O’Connor, 2012). Among young people who engage in this behaviour, the age of onset of self-harm is usually between 11 and 15 years, while for suicidal behaviour it is between 15 and 17 years (Evans, Hawton, & Rodh...

OBJECTIVE To assess the factors related to the presence of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in adolescents. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study, with female adolescents from 15 to 18 years old, divided into: group 1 (with a medical diagnosis of PCOS) and group 2 (not diagnosed with PCOS). The height-for-age index and the body mass index were used for classifying the nutritional status, a...

We presented a rare case in clinical practice: fifteen (15) years old male adolescent with shared psychotic disorder with his thirty seven (37) years old mother. In this case of "folie d deux" child was the passive psychotic partner and his mother who was the dominant psychotic partner. Both patients shared the same paranoid and imperative delusions. With complete psychiatric anamnesis, clinica...

The purpose of the study is to describe the values and distribution of corneal epithelium thickness (CET) in normal Chinese school-aged children, and to explore associated factors with CET. CET maps were measured by Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) in normal Chinese children aged 7 to 15 years old from two randomly selected schools in Shanghai, China. Children with normal in...

Methods A cross sectional study was performed in 12-15 years old obese children from 10 Junior High Schools in Jakarta. History of T2DM in the family was determined by anamnesis with the parent. Clinical sign of acanthosis nigricans (AN) was fixed by physical finding. The intensity of physical activity was measured using the activity criteria according to World Health Organization. The diagnosi...

Pertussis, a highly contagious respiratory disease, commonly affects infants and young children and can be fatal, especially in babies less than one year of age. Bordetella pertussis continues to circulate even in populations where a high vaccine coverage of infants and children is achieved. Adults are reservoirs for infections in infants, in whom pertussis may be severe and life-threatening. D...

The present study describes the psychometric properties of the Portuguese version of the Mental Health Inventory-5 for use with young adolescents. A sample of 367 Portuguese students (aged 10-15 years) completed the Portuguese-language versions of Mental Health Inventory-5 (MHI-5; Berwick et al., 1991), Children's Hope Scale (CHS; Snyder et al., 1997), Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS; H...