Introdouction:  During the past few decades, dental educators have addressed the need for ethics training and have examined various teaching methods. At present, the formulation of comprehensive ethical standards and emphasis on education of its principals have been the subject of debate within the medical profession. Learning elements are available as established educational curriculum. H...

BACKGROUND Effective sexual health promotion programs need to be based on evidence; this study describes a set of sexual behavioral patterns, education and other subjects related to sexual life among 71th, 8th and 9th grade students in the State of Lara, Venezuela. METHODS During 2003 to 2004 school period, 2070 students filled out the Global School Health Survey (GSHS)--a school based cross-...

PURPOSE (1) To assess prevalence of physical dating aggression and victimization among high school students; (2) to assess prevalence of mutual and exclusive aggression; (3) to determine whether aggression differs across ethnic groups and relationship type; and (4) to ascertain the likelihood of injury and breakup in individuals who reported that they were the recipients of physical aggression....

Background The prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in Japan remains high, and the onset becomes early. Studies on the current conditions and lifestyles of obese university students may support early interventions to achieve lifestyle modification. Methods and Results The results of periodic health examinations in 32,262 first-year university students revealed that 2,036 (6.3%) were obese. W...

The purpose of this study was to examine the validity and reliability of a new stair sprinting power (SSP) test and, in addition, develop norms for college-age students. Two hundred twenty-seven college-age volunteers participated in the study (ages: males, [Latin capital letter X with macron above] = 21.6 +/- 2.264 years; females, [Latin capital letter X with macron above] = 22.3 +/- 4.214 yea...

the aim of this study was to investigate the possibility of explaining psychological resilience based on self-efficacy in athlete and non-athlete university students. a sample of 403 (198 females and 205 males) athlete and non-athlete university students, who were selected via purposive sampling procedure, completed resilience and self-efficacy scales. regression analysis, one-way anova, and t ...

jumping on everyone else’s bandwagon, but has anyone ever evaluated the ‘science forecast’ ten years down the road? Nevertheless, this chapter provides several extremely useful starting points. The chapters are a bit heterogeneous in style, with some having glossaries and/or useful ‘future directions’ sections, whilst others do not. However, the quality of the chapters is consistently high, and...