STUDY OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to assess the attention level of middle-school students by providing a group of students with the opportunity for an additional one hour of sleep in the morning by delaying school starting time by one hour, as compared to another group received no additional sleep. METHOD For the first week of the study, the school starting time was delayed 1 h for...

E arly childhood interventions have been shown to have a wide variety of positive effects. Reynolds and colleagues report on the outcomes of 1539 individuals aged 24 years who were enrolled in the ChildParent Center program in Chicago beginning in preschool. Compared with a nonrandomized control group, participants had higher rates of school completion and college attendance. They also had lowe...

Adolescence, migration and sex work are independent risk factors for HIV and other poor health outcomes. They are usually targeted separately with little consideration on how their intersection can enhance vulnerability. We interviewed ten women in Zimbabwe who experienced sex work and migration during adolescence, exploring implications for their health and for services to meet their needs. Fo...

This study examined the relationship between how adolescents perceived parenting behaviours and adolescent Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) symptom scores. The 1106 junior high and high school students (12-19 years old; 49.6% males and 50.4% females) completed questionnaires regarding their perception of parenting behaviours and self-rated symptoms of GAD. The findings of this study demonstra...

Internists can assume a greater role in the provision of health care to adolescents. Adding an understanding of adolescent development to the skills and knowledge already possessed by internists will allow internists to interact more comfortably and effectively with adolescent patients. Learning about specific areas of importance such as adolescent morbidity and mortality, consent and confident...

This study tested associations between adolescent perceptions of interparental conflict, adolescent attachment security with parents, and adolescent marital expectations and romantic experiences. Participants were 96 early adolescent females from 2 parent families. Insecurity was examined as a mediator of the association between negative perceptions of parental conflict and romantic outcomes. R...

background & aim : diabetes with permanent changes in a person’s lifestyle may influence diabetic adolescent quality of life (qol) negatively. studies conducted on diabetic patients are increasingly measuring patient-centered outcomes such as functional status and health-related qol (hrqol). the development of a hrqol questionnaire with an optimal measuring performance provides nurses with a st...