BACKGROUND Endometriosis associated with pain symptoms in adolescents has been extensively reported, but the exact prevalence is unclear because pain symptoms may be atypical and endometriosis can only be diagnosed by laparoscopy. The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the prevalence of endometriosis diagnosed by laparoscopy in adolescents. METHODS A systematic literature se...

This study examined the mediating role of self-efficacy to combat racism on effect school-based racial discrimination and African American adolescents’ racialized educational beliefs. Our analyzed data from a total 525 boys (N = 256) girls 269). For girls, teacher was associated with beliefs, conceptualized by how hard adolescents believe they have work in their race. The results further reveal...

OBJECTIVE To report trends in underweight, overweight and obesity in 12-15-year-old adolescents and examine changes in dieting behaviour, which have been less well documented. DESIGN Comparison of two independent representative cross-sectional surveys. SETTING Northern Ireland. SUBJECTS Weight and height were objectively measured in 1324 boys and 1160 girls in 1996 and 1274 boys and 1374 ...

OBJECTIVES Of adolescents in the general population in England, we aimed to determine (1) the proportion that has an emergency admission to hospital for injury related to adversity (violence, self-harm or drug or alcohol misuse) and (2) the risk of recurrent emergency admissions for injury in adolescents admitted with adversity-related injury compared with those admitted with accident-related i...

OBJECTIVE Although African American adolescents have the highest prevalence of obesity, they have the lowest prevalence of metabolic syndrome across all definitions used in previous research. To address this paradox, we sought to develop a model of the metabolic syndrome specific to African American adolescents. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examinati...

PurposeThis study aimed to describe the changes in adolescents' perceptions of a sexual double standard (SDS) over time and examine developmental social factors associated with these changing perceptions.MethodsThe sample includes 2,163 10- 14-year-old adolescents from Kinshasa, interviewed at two points (T0 T1), 1 year apart. We examined associations between SDS pubertal onset, family interact...

BACKGROUND Although many studies showed that adolescent food insecurity is a pervasive phenomenon in Southwest Ethiopia, its effect on the linear growth of adolescents has not been documented so far. This study therefore aimed to longitudinally examine the association between food insecurity and linear growth among adolescents. METHODS Data for this study were obtained from a longitudinal sur...

background: behavioral disorders are common in the pediatric age group. this study aims to assess the relationship between the frequency of behavioral and mental disorders and counseling with family members and friends in a representative sample of iranian children and adolescents. methods: in this nationwide study, 14880 school students, aged 6–18 years, were selected by cluster and stratified...

BACKGROUND: In 2005 a new compulsory residential treatment program was developed for adolescents in need for protection against themselves or their environment. OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present study was to examine the association of structural treatment characteristics of this new residential treatment program (i.e., duration of treatment, discharge status, and group composition in terms of ...

CONTEXT Serum anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) levels are significantly elevated in adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) compared to normal controls. Whether adolescents with oligomenorrhea have elevated AMH levels is unknown. OBJECTIVE This study was performed to assess serum AMH levels in oligomenorrheic (OLIGO) girls without evidence of hyperandrogenism. DESIGN This was a prospe...