this is a cross sectional study with aim of assessment and comparison between parents and female adolescents ' attitudes about the role of peers in decision making of adolescent in tehran. in this study 160 mother, 160 father and 160 female adolescents participated. with random selection 160 female adolescent with 14-19 years old from north, south , east and west of tehran were selected an...

PURPOSE Social capital and social attachment theories of substance use argue that positive bonds to society and the conventional values they promote deter adolescents from substance use. Using nationally representative samples of U.S. high school seniors, we hypothesized that adolescents' community attachments, measured by social trust, social responsibility, and religiosity, would be negativel...

PURPOSE The reproductive health needs of unmarried adolescents in Bangladesh are largely unmet. This study aimed to explore treatment-seeking behaviour of unmarried female adolescents for selected reproductive health (RH) concerns in two low-performing areas of Bangladesh. METHODS As part of a large community based-project, a cross-sectional survey was conducted from November 2006 to March 20...

Abstract Background To investigate the regional prevalence of hypertension, overweight, and obesity among adolescents aged 11–17 years in Xuzhou. The relationships between obesity, abdominal age, gender, grades, hypertension were studied. Methods stratified cluster random sampling method was used middle school students from first to third grade 10 junior senior schools Xuzhou involved. Blood pr...

Background/Aim. Children and adolescents are sensitive groups for the development of mental disorders during crisis. The aim this systematic review was to assess impact COVID-19 pandemic on anxiety depressive symptomatology in population children adolescents. Methods. investigation based a followed by PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items Systematic Reviews Meta-Analyses) protocol, including Ovid M...

introduction: chest pain is a common compliant in children and adolescents visiting the clinic. we assess and analyze the etiology of chest pain among children referred a pediatric cardiology clinic in cardiac center in south west of iran.materials and methods: we assessed children with chest pain who visited our medical center during march 2013 to april 2014. any case of trauma associated ches...

Abstract Past research has found intergroup contact to be a promising intervention reduce prejudice and identified adolescence as the developmental period during which is most effective. Few studies, however, have tested whether contact-based interventions can scaled up improve relations at large scale. The present evaluated when National Citizen Service, large-scale reaching one in six 15- 17-...

Bullying victimisation has been prospectively linked with mental health problems among children and adolescents in longitudinal studies in the developed world. However, research from the developing world, where adolescents face multiple risks to social and emotional development, has been limited by cross-sectional designs. This is the first longitudinal study of the psychological impacts of bul...