BACKGROUND Insufficient and inappropriate daily fluid intake in a long period may have adverse effect on human's health. Therefore, the present study evaluated the amounts and sources of fluids consumed by university students to determine whether these amounts and sources of fluid were enough and appropriate. METHODS In this descriptive study, 245 (142 females and 103 males) volunteer student...

Aims: To identify factors, which were related to being smoke-free and snus-free, respectively, among adolescents in relation to adolescents who were smoking and/or using snus, and determine if there were any sex differences. Methods: A questionnaire study was performed among students in year two in upper secondary schools (17-years-old) in southern Sweden in 2009. More than 2200 students comple...

BACKGROUND Smoking and tobacco use is a major public health issue in developing countries. We performed an epidemiological study to determine the prevalence of smoking and tobacco-use and awareness of risks of tobacco use among school children. METHODS Students in randomly selected schools in Jaipur were studied. Students in classes 9-12 (age 13-18 years, boys 2866, girls 939) were enrolled. ...

objective: to determine the epidemiology of acute childhood poisoning in shiraz, southern iran. methods: this was a prospective cross-sectional descriptive study, being performed in nemazee and dastgheib hospitals affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences. the study included pediatric patients (<18 years) referred to our centers due to acute poisoning. demographic and etiological fa...

BACKGROUND Is it possible to reach performance equality between boys and girls in a science class? Given the stereotypes targeting their groups in scientific domains, diagnostic contexts generally lower girls' performance and non-diagnostic contexts may harm boys' performance. AIM The present study tested the effectiveness of a mastery-oriented assessment, allowing both boys and girls to perf...

background: skeletal anomalies rate are increasing, especially among young people. the aim of this study was to investigate skeletal anomalies among male and female students in the middle school of the bayangan region kermanshah iran.  methods: 260 students from guidance schools in bayangan region (120 girls and 140 boys) participated in this study. using posture screen and new york test the sk...

this survery investigated the secondary school students attitude regarding parent- adolescent inter-relationships. the study covered 19 town districts in tehran.   following a multi-stage process 150 girls and boys attending secondary school with an age range of 13-15 years were selected randomly.   a two parts questionnaire was developed. the first part covered information on personal and soci...

Do mathematics ability beliefs explain gender gaps in the physical science, engineering, mathematics, and computer science fields (PEMC) and other science fields? We leverage U.S. nationally representative longitudinal data to estimate gendered differences in girls' and boys' perceptions of mathematics ability with the most difficult or challenging material. Our analyses examine the potentially...

The paper tries to study the effect of participation pattern on sport activities among the students of I.A.U of Kermanshah. The research method is survey with questionnaire and 368 students were chosen through cluster sampling. The data were analyzed by SPPS(version of 11.5). The results show the median of participation pattern is 2.31 and 1.14 out of students and it was in lower stage, but the...

The investigation monitored the digital game-playing behaviours of 428 primary-aged students (aged 10-12 years). Chi square analysis revealed that boys tend to spend more time playing digital games than girls while boys and girls play quite different game genres. Subsequent analysis revealed statistically significant gender differences in terms of the types of mathematics-rich games students pr...