Each year thousands of adolescent girls and young women in South Africa (SA) become pregnant and many die from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. Although women of all ages are susceptible, girls<15 years of age are five times as likely, and those aged 15-19 years twice as likely, to die from complications related to childbirth than women in their 20s. In SA, non-pregnancy-relat...

Author details Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Department of Psychology, University Psychiatry Clinics Basel/University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Frankfurt, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychot...

Editorial Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health is a new, peer-reviewed, scientific journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of high-quality reports relevant to mental health of children and adolescents. It is the first open access electronic journal in child and adolescent mental health and aims to become an essential instrument of communication for researchers, clinicians, and p...

BACKGROUND General practitioners play an important role in the primary care of adolescents in both community and clinical settings. Yet studies show that GPs can lack confidence, skills and knowledge in adolescent health. This study evaluates the effectiveness of an innovative training intervention on medical participants' knowledge and confidence as adolescent health educators in a school sett...

The spiritual health of adolescents is a topic of emerging contemporary importance. Limited numbers of international studies provide evidence about developmental patterns of this aspect of health during the adolescent years. Using multidimensional indicators of spiritual health that have been adapted for use within younger adolescent populations, we therefore: (1) describe aspects of the percep...

INTRODUCTION Adolescents are frequently reluctant to seek sexual and reproductive health services (SRH). In Uganda, adolescent health and development is constrained by translation of the relevant policies to practice. Recent studies done in central Uganda have shown that there is need for a critical assessment of adolescent friendly services (AFS) to gain insights on current practice and inform...

Purpose The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), as the oral health advocate for infants, children, adolescents, and persons with special needs, recognizes that adolescent pregnancy remains a significant social and health issue in the US. This guideline is intended to address management of oral health care particular to the pregnant adolescent rather than provide specific treatment r...

OBJECTIVE To identify the determinants and measure the trends in health facility-based deliveries and caesarean sections among married adolescent girls in Bangladesh. METHODS In order to measure the trends in health facility-based deliveries and caesarean sections, Bangladesh Demographic Health Survey (BDHS) data sets were analysed (BDHS; 1993-1994, 1996-1997, 1999-2000, 2004, 2007, 2011). Th...

1Department of Research and Studies, Ministry of Health, Muscat, Oman (Correspondence to M.M. Afifi: [email protected]). Received: 30/09/03; accepted: 17/05/04 ABSTRACT The study aimed to identify mental health publications in Arab countries cited in PubMed from 1987 to 2002 and to analyse the year of publication, journal and field of research, specifically for child and adolescent mental hea...