BACKGROUND High levels of behaviour problems are found in children with language impairments, but less is known about the level and nature of language impairment in children with severe behavioural problems. In particular, previous data suggest that at primary age, receptive impairments are more closely related to behaviour problems, whereas expressive language has a closer link at a later age....

OBJECTIVE We performed the follow-up tests for three years for junior high school students by the quasi-experimental design to investigate the medium-term effect of smoking prevention education in the elementary school. METHODS The intervention group consisted of 106 school students of three elementary schools and received a smoking prevention program in the elementary school. Moreover, the f...

background: functional constipation (fc) is one of the important digestive disorders in pediatrics. its prevalence varies in different communities. the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of fc in our area between the school children and the impact of school on it. methods: this study was done on 4 to 12 years old children of nine schools and kindergartens of amirkola, (2007)....

AIM The present population-based study aimed to assess prevalence of metabolic syndrome and its related components in Iranian youth in the different sex, age, and residential subgroups. METHOD Overall, 1039 junior high school and 953 high school students were selected using multistage random sampling. Fasting blood sugar, total cholesterol, triglyceride, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (...

BACKGROUND This study compared parental smoking with school personnel smoking in relation to adolescents' smoking behaviours, alcohol use, and illicit drug use. METHODS A cross-sectional survey for 24,379 adolescents was linked to a survey for 1946 school employees in 136 Finnish schools in 2004-2005. Surveys included smoking prevalence reported by school staff, adolescents' reports of school...

PURPOSE Our study aimed to evaluated sex differences in clinical features of obese high school students. METHODS One hundred three obese high school students (body mass index [BMI]≥85th percentile) and 51 control students (BMI<85th percentile) were enrolled in this study. Anthropometric measurements were performed. Fasting serum glucose, insulin, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotrans...

Methods We included 706 school children and adolescents aged 7 to 18 years (434 girls and 272 boys) from March 2011 to February 2012. We excluded subjects with any acute or chronic diseases. None of subjects were taking calcium or vitamin D supplements. They were classified according age (elementary school, 7-12 years old, n=565; middle school, 13-15 years old, n=75; high school, 16-18 years ol...

asthma is one of the most common problems of childhood, responsible for a significant proportion of abstinence from school because of chronic illness. this study was carried out among the school-aged children (7-18 years) in tehran schools during 2002-2003, in order to determine the frequency of asthma. according to the recommendation of who (world health organization), we designed a questionna...