Background The developmental study of subtypes of disordered eating (DE) during adolescence may be relevant to understand the development of eating disorders. The purpose of the present study was to identify subgroups with different profiles of DE in a community sample of adolescent girls aged 13-15 years, and to study the stability of these profiles and subgroups over a one-year interval in or...

BACKGROUND A growing number of studies suggest a link between timing of menarche and risk of depressive symptoms in adolescence, but few have prospectively examined the emergence of depressive symptoms from late childhood into adolescence. AIMS To examine whether girls who experience earlier menarche than their peers have higher levels of depressive symptoms in adolescence. METHOD The study...

Using the geographically and socioeconomically varied collaborative Lipid Research Clinics Prevalence Study data, this report focuses upon relationships between dietary intake and plasma lipids and lipoproteins in 1234 white children, 661 boys and 573 girls, aged 6-19 years who were sampled in a random recall (Visit 2) from large populations in six Lipid Research Clinics. Using multiple regress...

OBJECTIVE To study trends in use of antidepressants (ADs) by adolescents, and psychiatric morbidity and use of other psychotropic drugs as a measure of psychiatric comorbidity. METHODS One-year prevalence of AD drug use was analyzed for 13- to 17-year-old Norwegians during 2004-2013. Use of other psychotropic drugs and specialist healthcare services was analyzed for incident AD users in 2012,...

Most research indicates that obese children are in general, physically inactive and their motor skills underdeveloped. The aim of this study was to determine the differences quality coordination girls aged 5-6 years, taking into account BMI, respectively nutrition status. implemented on a sample 132 pre-schoolers. To assess nutritional status, anthropometric characteristics such as body mass, h...

This study aims to use a person-centred approach identify possible student motivational profiles in mathematics. These are made up of various combinations two variables: perceived competence and intrinsic motivation. Once the identified, we examine differences between them negative emotions mathematics performance. Our sample comprised 863 students (50.2% boys, 49.8% girls) aged 9 13 years old....

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to assess gender differences regarding perceptions of smoking between Romanian non-smoking boys and girls, to facilitate the development of effective smoking prevention programmes. METHODS Cross-sectional data were obtained in 2006 by means of written questionnaires among 981 non-smoking school students aged 13-14 years from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. RES...