There is a lack of studies that examine the longitudinal relationship between physical activity (PA) and mental health with accelerometers in adolescent populations. The current study aimed to investigate whether changes PA intensities sedentary time (ST) are associated cohort adolescents. 246 (130 boys, 116 girls) high school adolescents aged 13-15 years old (13.28 ± .57) were recruited city f...

PURPOSE To evaluate the development of the sphenooccipital sychondrosis as seen on high-resolution thin-section CT scans. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the records of 253 patients, ages 1 to 77 years old, who had had thin-section CT examination of the skull base. RESULTS An ossification center appeared midline in the patients who were 8 to 13 years old. Six of 12 girls showed addition...

AIM This study aimed to investigate how were the peer and physical education (PE) teacher variables associated with moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among Kosovar teenagers (13-15 years of age), and the role of age and gender in these associations. METHODS Cross-sectional data was gathered through a study conducted in seven major municipalities of Kosovo. 632 girls (aged 14.3 ± 0...

OBJECTIVES This study examines the prevalence and developmental changes of parasomnias and assesses gender differences, relationships between parasomnias, and associations with anxiety and family adversity using data collected during the course of a longitudinal study of a representative sample of children from Québec. METHOD The present analyses are based on results available for 664 boys an...

Results There are 471 samples met the inclusion criteria, 215 boys and 256 girls. In girls, signs of puberty at age of 9 <10 years are 48.2%, while in age 12 <13 all had puberty. In boys, signs of puberty at age of 9 <10 years are 1.7%, while in age 12 <13 years are 66.7%. Pubic hair sign in girls at the age of 9 <10 years (4.4%), in boys aged 11 <12 years (29%). Occurred menarche at age 10 <11...

Introduction Motor competence (MC) is an important factor in the development of health and fitness in adolescence. Aims This cross-sectional study aims to explore the distribution of MC across school students aged 13-14 years old and the extent of the relationship of MC to measures of health and fitness across genders. Methods A total of 718 participants were tested from three different sch...

The present study investigated how pubertal development and sex interact to influence humans' emotion susceptibility during adolescence. Event-related potentials were recorded for highly emotional, mildly emotional and neutral stimuli in positive and negative blocks, when 73 adolescents (36 pre-/early pubertal students, 19 boys, 10-12 years old; 37 mid-/late pubertal students, 18 boys, 11-13 ye...