Background: Changing emotional and physical status along with increasing social, family and academic pressure lead to various impairments in mental health of adolescents. Objective: To examine the level of stress and its consequences in school going adolescences and examine adolescent’s adjustment at various placeshome, school, peers, teachers and general matters. Methods: A descriptive and a s...

BACKGROUND Given that happiness is an important construct to enable adolescents to cope better with difficulties and stress of life, it is necessary to advance our knowledge about the possible etiology of happiness in adolescents. OBJECTIVES The present study sought to investigate the relationships of emotional intelligence, depressive symptoms, and happiness in a sample of male students in T...

<p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US">The present study is focused on the measurement of development higher mental actions analysis and planning as main components theoretical thinking by younger adolescences in individual collaborative game problem solving conditions. The previously elaborated computer system “PL-modified” was used. Social emotional...

OBJECTIVE To provide growth reference values in body height, to determine the specific age at peak height velocity for Saudi male and female adolescences aged 9-18 years and to evaluate the appropriateness of using the Centers for Disease Control/National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS) growth standards in body height for the assessment of Saudi adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional ...

Choroid has been proposed to participate in the regulation of light refraction by changing its thickness. The present study aims to analyze the characteristics of choroidal thickness (CT), and its correlation with refractive error, axial length and age in young ametropia. A total of 51 subjects (102 eyes), aged from 5 to 18 years old (mean age 10.04 ±2.78 years), with ametropia were included in...

OBJECTIVE To review the medical utilization in children with cerebral palsy according to age and discern particularities. METHODS From January 2007 to December 2007, 10,659 children and adolescents between 1 and 18 years of age who had filed national insurance claims for a diagnosis of cerebral palsy were selected. Age was chosen as an independent variable, and the population was categorized ...

BACKGROUND Parental substance abuse confronts children with a variety of psychological, social, and behavioral problems. Children of substance abusing parents show higher levels of psychiatric disorders including anxiety and depression and exert lower levels of communication skills. Weak social skills in this group of adolescents put them at a higher risk for substance abuse. Many studies showe...