BACKGROUND In Manitoba, Canada, school-based clinics providing sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents have been implemented to address high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and pregnancies. METHODS The objectives of this population-based study were to compare pregnancy and STI rates between adolescents enrolled in schools with school-based clinics, those in sch...

In the present study an attempt has been made to compare rural and urban adolescents on personality characteristics. For this purpose a sample of 120 adolescents (60 rural and 60 urban) from various higher secondary schools of district Anantnag and Srinagar were selected randomly. The tool used for collecting data was R.B. Cattle’s Questionnaire (HSPQ). The main findings of the study revealed t...

Sexual behavior of HIV-positive youths, whether infected perinatally, through risky behavior or other ways, is not substantially different from that of HIV-uninfected peers. Because of highly active antiretroviral therapy, increasing number of children, infected perinatally, are surviving into adolescence and are becoming sexually active and need reproductive health services. The objective of t...

Background: Since type-2 diabetes is the most common chronic disease among Iranian female adolescents, we applied theory of planned behavior to examine the effect of training to intention to preventative nutritional behaviors for type-2 diabetes among female adolescents.   Methods: In this experimental study 200 (11-14 year old) girls from 8 schools of Tehran city (100 in each intervent...

OBJECTIVE To examine several subjective components of adolescents' behaviour concerning mental illness prevention. METHOD Adolescents' knowledge, their attitudes and subjective norms, as well as their thoughts about how they would concretely handle a psychological problem were measured. A self-administered questionnaire was completed by 438 male and female adolescents in grades 8 and 11. RE...

The increasing involvement of young children in intense physical training over the past several decades has generated concerns as to its potential eff ects on children’s growth and maturation. Puberty in humans is characterized by large hormonal changes resulting in both physical and sexual maturation. Since intense training prior to puberty, together with the potential metabolic eff ects of di...

This study examines the predictors of inconsistent responses from adolescents to questions about whether they ever used alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Male adolescents had significantly higher rates of inconsistent responses than female adolescents. Black and Hispanic adolescents had significantly higher rates of inconsistent responses regarding ever using alcohol and cigarettes (only for ...