Groups of children vary considerably in their growth and maturation. Such differences have been ascribed to nutritional, ethnic, climatic, and other factors. This study was carried out on Indian pupils at a day school in an extremely poor "slum" neighbourhood of Durban, the social conditions of which have been described by Kark and Chesler (1956) and Abramson (1959). The majority of the boys ca...

BACKGROUND To assess the prevalence of negative body image and weight loss behaviour among children in primary and secondary school. METHODS Data were collected during the routine health assessment, in 10,767 children in the 6th grade (9-10 years) of primary school and the 2nd grade (13-14 years) of secondary school in Utrecht, a province in The Netherlands. Weight loss behaviour and body ima...

BACKGROUND Walking to school is associated with higher levels of physical activity. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between school travel mode and physical activity using a sampling frame that purposefully locates schools in varying neighbourhoods. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of 785 children (10.57 ± 0.7 years) in Toronto, Canada. Physical activity was measured by...

more interesting than those concerned with the effects of tobacco smoking, and particularly cigarette smoking. These records take boys from twelve years of age to seventeen, inclusive, many unusual circumstances making it possible to obtain a large number of very personal data, facts of which their parents may be?and probably are, after the usual manner of parents?quite ignorant. The first poin...

Minority boys are at risk of academic disengagement. Prior research documents that an aspect of racial-ethnic identity, in-group connection, can buffer against this risk, but that in-group connection is undermined in high-risk neighborhoods. We examined another way that boys may feel connected to the in-group, by looking like in-group members. We hypothesize that physical markers of in-group me...

School bullying victimisation is associated with poor mental health and self harm. However, little is known about the lifestyle factors and negative life events associated with victimisation, or the factors associated with self harm among boys who experience bullying. The objectives of the study were to examine the prevalence of bullying in Irish adolescent boys, the association between bullyin...

School bullying victimisation is associated with poor mental health and self harm. However, little is known about the lifestyle factors and negative life events associated with victimisation, or the factors associated with self harm among boys who experience bullying. The objectives of the study were to examine the prevalence of bullying in Irish adolescent boys, the association between bullyin...

aims: the dramatic increase of smoking in adolescents has become one of the major challenges in most countries and it needs further consideration. the aim of this study was to determine the smoking prevalence and some related factors among high school students. instrument & methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was done in 2012-13 academic year in male and female high school students...

BACKGROUND There are conflicting findings regarding the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and bone mineral density. We aimed to investigate bone status and its possible determinants by comparing students from two schools, located in a high and a low SES district. METHODS Data were gathered by using anthropometric measurements and a questionnaire for both families and the studen...

BACKGROUND A growing body of evidence from countries around the world suggests that school-based peer victimisation is associated with worse health outcomes among adolescents. So far, however, there has been little systematic research on this phenomenon in the countries of the former Soviet Union. The aim of this study was to examine the relation between peer victimisation at school and a range...