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 aim of this study was to examine positive and negative qualities in adolescents' interpersonal relationships and their relative importance in predicting emotional distress. Participants were 260 students from three schools in the Dublin area (119 girls; 141 boys), aged 12-18 years (M = 15.32, SD = 1.91). Students completed questionnaires assessing qualities in important interpersonal relati...

We are in a changing society through which the equality of boys and girls has become a major scourge. In this study, we demonstrated in the first step, a comparative study between the scores of boys and girls in three different subjects (mathematics, physics and chemistry) at secondary level. The second was to conduct a survey through a questionnaire on the satisfaction of parents on the two ty...

BACKGROUND This paper presents the methodology and early findings of the fifth survey of a school-based surveillance program in Iran. METHODS This nationwide study was conducted in 2015 as the fifth survey of a surveillance program entitled "Childhood and Adolescence Surveillance and PreventIon of Adult Non- communicable disease" (CASPIAN-V) study. The protocol was mainly based on the World H...

This study aims to find out the differences in the bullying experience betweenboys and girls in different perspectives and to find out the predictive power ofcognitive, social and environmental factors on students’ bully and victimtendencies. At last, through this research, this study aims to gain a syntheticperspective on bully phenomenon by considering various aspects in order...

The aim of this study is to know the relationship between adjustment and emotional maturity at secondary stage. In the present study, a descriptive survey method was used. The sample comprised of 100 students (50 boys and 50 girls) of Class IX from 4 Government schools. The study will be helpful for teachers, students, parents and all the stakeholders in the process of education. For the presen...

OBJECTIVES Thalassemia (thal) is the most single gene disorders in southeast of Iran. About one quarter of total Iranian new thal cases were born in the Sistan and Balouchistan province so the aim of this study is to assess knowledge level and attitudes towards thal in high school students in Zahedan, capital of Sistan and Balouchistan province in Iran. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional descriptiv...

Although pertussis is a vaccine-preventable infection, vaccine-induced immunity is not lifelong and booster doses are recommended according to national disease epidemiology. The aim of this study was to evaluate pertussis-IgG levels in school-aged students in Ahvaz, south-west Islamic Republic of Iran. In a descriptive, cross-sectional study, blood samples were obtained from 640 students (382 b...

College students form a large and important group of population eligible for blood donation. Studies report that students do not donate much, and medical students' blood donation rate is less as compared to non-medical students. To assess and compare the knowledge, attitude, and practice of blood donation among medical and non-medical Nepalese students. A cross-sectional descriptive study using...

This cross-sectional study was carried out on 2246 girls born between 1985 and 1989 to determine the age of menarche in Mazandaran province, northern Islamic Republic of Iran. Six cities were selected randomly and cluster sampling used to select high-school students in urban and rural areas. Students with malnutrition, anaemia and chronic infections such as tuberculosis were excluded. The mean ...