background: the aim of this study was to determine the impact of malocclusions on oral healthrelated quality of life (ohrqol) among female adolescents. materials and methods: this is an observational cross-sectional descriptive study. a total of 129 female students with age ranges between 14 and 17 years old were randomly selected from mashhad (iran) high schools and were asked to fi ll out an ...

There is paucity of national data on dietary intakes of adolescents in Pakistan presently. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the dietary intake and nutritional status of urban adolescents in a cross-sectional descriptive survey. A convenience sample of 328 high school students (46.67% female and 53.33% male; mean age, 14.3 years) in Sialkot, Pakistan was analyzed by a demograph...

Introduction: The sedentary lifestyle in adolescence, combined with unhealthy eating habits, leads to the accumulation of body fat and development non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs). Objective: To investigate effects multidisciplinary project on anthropometric composition responses adolescents obesity compare intervention according gender. Methods: forty-eight aged 12-17 years old were ev...

Decades of masculinity research have concluded that society places higher demands on males to adhere to norms for low emotional expression; yet, countless studies find that emotional expression is integral to well-being. Unfortunately, this contradiction places boys and men in a tenuous position as they must navigate a bombardment of societal messages about the importance of emotional stoicism ...

Cigarette smoking almost always begins in the adolescent years and smoking at early ages increases the risk of becoming ill or dying from causes attributable to smoking. This report uses data from the 1992 National Health Interview Survey of Youth Risk Behavior and presents prevalence estimates for selected unhealthy behaviors among adolescents in the United States according to smoking status. ...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to identify the predictive power of adolescents', parents', and illness characteristics on the functioning of adolescents when a mother has cancer. METHODS Two hundred and seventy-one adolescents, 128 mothers with cancer, and 96 spouses completed standardized questionnaires 1-5 years after diagnosis. Stress response symptoms (SRS), internalizing and externalizing pro...

Abstract Geographic accessibility has been linked to gambling behavior, but little is known about whether the perception of availability in both offline and online venues prospectively associated with adolescent behavior. Further, relatively few studies have analyzed interaction between environmental individual factors explaining problem gambling. This prospective study examined association per...

Using the internet is a normative part of daily life for adolescents. For some adolescents, use can become excessive, impulsive, and uncontrollable leading to many aversive physical, emotional, social consequences. Parents turn clinicians make an assessment about whether adolescents’ could be diagnosed as problematic. However, there has yet investigation into parent-report versus adolescents-re...

PURPOSE Comprehensive multidisciplinary weight management programs encompassing various conservative measures have shown only modest weight loss results in obese children and adolescents; therefore, bariatric surgery for this population has become a matter of discussion. This study aimed to present our experience with and outcomes for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) and laparoscopic Roux-...

The vaccination along with COVID appropriate behaviour plays a key role to decrease the spread of infection in all age groups. present study aimed at assessing acceptance and attitude school-going adolescents aged between15-17 years who recently became eligible be part COVID-19 mass drive India matching up behaviour. A cross-sectional survey-based was conducted February 2022 among 300 between 1...