An international summit focusing on the difficult challenge of providing adequate nutrition for adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries was held in Portland, Oregon in 2015. Sixty-seven delegates from 17 countries agreed on a series of recommendations that would make progress toward improving the nutritional status of girls and young women in countries where their a...

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adolescence is an important stage of human life span, which crucial developmental processes occur. since peers play a critical role in the psychosocial development of most adolescents, peer education is currently considered as a health promotion strategy in adolescents. peer education is defined as a system of delivering knowledge that improves social learning and provides psychosocial support....

Efficiently teaching and learning languages becomes increasingly important especially when it comes to the English language. Education systems should be able equip students with adequate tools skills required face this world. However, they still have some room for improvement achieve that purpose. This article seeks contribute enhancement of teaching-learning process by considering neuroscience...

Objective: Yoga has also been implemented in healthcare institutions to manage disease-sequelae, including pain, anxiety, depression, fatigue, and insomnia. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of Yoga-based mindfulness training on anxiety and depression in adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) at clinics of the Shiraz University of Medical Science. Materials and Methods: This study...

Meta-analytic data from over a decade of research in cognitive remediation, when combined with recent findings from basic and clinical neuroscience, have resulted in a new understanding of the critical elements that can contribute to successful cognitive training approaches for schizophrenia. Some of these elements include: the use of computerized repetitive practice methods, high dosing schedu...

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...