Clinical assessment of sexual maturation in adolescents

[Clinical assessment of sexual maturation in adolescents]

OBJECTIVE: To present the methods for clinical evaluation of sexual maturation in adolescents. METHODS: Bibliographic review concerning the practice of pubertal staging. RESULTS: The assessment of sexual maturation is an essential step in the comprehensive health care of adolescents, allowing for the evaluation of their developmental stage. In addition, this assessment allows establishing a cor...

Comparison between objective assessment and self-assessment of sexual maturation in children and adolescents.

OBJECTIVE To assess the correlations between objective assessment and self-assessment of sexual maturation in the outpatient and school settings. METHODS Three hundred and nineteen individuals, 178 (96 boys and 82 girls) from an outpatient clinic and 141 (73 boys and 68 girls) from public schools (8.3-18.7 years), of whom 73 individuals (39 girls an d 34 boys) had a body mass index above the ...

Assessment of Sexual Maturation among Boys in Special Schools of Tehran, Iran

Background: Due to lack of detailed standards of sexual maturity in individuals with Intellectual, sensory and motor disability in Iran and the importance of timing of onset of puberty in these individuals, a study is necessary. By knowing the onset of puberty, physiologic and behavioral changes can be traced in these people, as well as the potential impact of the puberty on the underlying dise...

Methodological and ethical aspects of the sexual maturation assessment in adolescents

OBJECTIVE To analyze methodological and ethical aspects in the sexual maturation assessment of adolescents. DATA SOURCES Books and theses, articles and legislations on the Medline, SciELO, Science Direct databases, besides institutional documents of the World Health Organization and the Pediatric Societies of Brazil and São Paulo, considering the period from 1962 to 2012. The following keywords...

[Pathologic fantasizing in schizophrenic adolescents with accelerated sexual maturation].