BACKGROUND Adolescents' health is greatly influenced by social determinants, including gender norms. Although research has shown that there is an association between gender attitudes and adolescents' sexual behaviour, few studies have assessed this relationship carefully. The Attitudes toward Women Scale for Adolescents (AWSA) is widely used to assess gender attitudes among adolescents; however...

BACKGROUND Bicycling is a popular means of recreation and transportation for children; however, it is a leading cause of recreational injury. Bicycle skill development and safety education are important methods of bicycle injury prevention. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of bicycle skills training programmes in reducing bicycle-related injuries in children and youth. METHODS Sixte...

Horse riders represent a significant group of vulnerable road user and are involved in a number of accidents and near misses on the road. Despite this horse riders have received little attention both in terms of academic research and transport policy. Based on literature on vulnerable road user safety, including attitudes to road user safety and behaviour of drivers and their relationship with ...

  Currently the control policy of malaria is based on the patient,s treatment,killing of the larvae and application of insecticides, whereas the important factors such as knowledge , attitude and health behaviour have been mostly ignored. This study was carried out to determine. Knowledge, attitude and health behaviour of 517 women in rural areas of Kahnujian city. The subjects were selected b...

Religious beliefs of individuals affect their attitudes and behaviours regarding organ donation. The aim this study is to determine the knowledge, attitudes, Theology faculty students about a cross-sectional carried out on in Faculty Theology. Sample selection was not performed study. first part questionnaires, which we created as data collection tools, comprised socio-demographic questions, wh...

Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism? Recent years have witnessed a rise in right-wing extremism among German youth and young adults. This paper investigates the extent to which the experience of parental unemployment during childhood affects young people’s far right-wing attitudes and xenophobia. Estimates from three different German data sets show a posit...

OBJECTIVE To establish the feasibility and short-term impact of implementing a novel curriculum in a linguistically and geographically isolated francophone community to enhance elementary schoolchildren's (Grades 1 to 7; n = 158) knowledge and attitudes regarding mental health. METHODS The project team developed a curriculum that covered expected emotional development, depression, anxiety dis...

Understanding and predicting human behaviour has been of particular interest to researchers for many years. Moreover, the assumption that knowledge of attitudes will help in the task of predicting human behaviour has formed the basis for much consumer and social research. Attitudes are assumed to play an important role in human behaviour theory as the crucial link between what people think and ...