Rights © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: MC MANUS, V. & SAVAGE, E. 2010. Cultural perspectives of interventions for managing diabetes and asthma in children and adolescents from ethnic minority groups. Child: Care, Health and Development, 36, 612-622, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.13652214.201...

The purpose of this paper was to describe romantic relationships from the perspective of urban, adolescent girls, to address gaps in our understanding of their relationship dimensions. Minority adolescent girls (n  =  17) participated in private semi-structured interviews aimed to elicit the understanding of the adolescents' perspectives on their own relationship experiences and dynamics. The r...

Parents are likely to be key influences on children's physical activity behaviors, although it is not clear how. This study was designed to explore parents' roles in Iranian adolescent girls' physical activity habit development. A qualitative study was conducted by means of semistructured one-to-one interviews with 25 participants, including 16 adolescent girls (10-19 years of age), seven mothe...

background : drug abuse is one of the important challenges in the field of mental health and adolescence health promotion. because of the social and medical cost of drug abuse and its consequences among youth people, it is necessary to intervene effectively. this theoretical based study explained predictability of the theory of planned behaviour (tpb) on drug abuse related behaviours. methods :...

aims: adolescence is one the most precarious periods of life, concerning the drug abuse. the social cost of the drug abuse and injury among adolescents is extraordinary and requires intervention. the theory of planned behavior (tpb) is perhaps the most influential theory for prediction of social and health behaviors including drug abuse. this study aimed at designing and implementing a curricul...

objective: this study evaluated the theory of mind (tom) in adolescents diagnosed with bipolar disorder ‎‎(bd) during their euthymic period compared to a typically developing (td) group.‎ method: the bd group consisted of thirty 11-18 year old inpatients in euthymic phase. the td ‎group included 30 age, gender, and iq matched volunteer students. to assess the diagnosis and ‎comorbid disorders, ...

Abstract HIV self-disclosure is an important challenge affecting the physical and psychological health of adolescents living with HIV. The study’s aim was to explore perspectives HIV-infected on self-disclosure. Using purposive sampling, 20 aged 12–19 years were recruited from a care clinic at tertiary hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe. All vertically-infected (HIV transmitted mother). In depth inte...

OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of the severity of a child's chronic condition on family functioning from the perspectives of mothers and fathers and to compare their reports with the functioning of families with healthy children. METHODS Mothers and fathers in two-parent families of 160 infants and 102 pre-adolescents with a wide range of chronic health conditions (noncategorical approach) c...

Double jeopardy and health congruency theories suggest that adolescents' joint experience of their weight and weight perceptions are associated with depressive symptoms, but each theory offers a different prediction about which adolescents are at greatest risk. This study investigates the proposed associations and the applicability of both theoretical perspectives using data from 6,557 male and...