INTRODI S INCE 1956, TUBERCULIN SKIN TESTING has k e n done annually in all public and parochial elementary and secondary schools in San Francisco. Since there are 120,185 pupils in 202 schools, from kindergarten through the twelfth grade, it would be impossible to test every student and do an adequate follow-up examination of all positive reactors and their families. Therefore , it was decided...

BACKGROUND To evaluate relationships between traumatic symptoms and environmental damage conditions among children who survived the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. METHODS The subjects were 12,524 children in kindergartens, elementary schools, and junior high schools in Ishinomaki City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. The Post Traumatic Stress Symptoms for Children 15 items (PTSSC-15)...

the purpose of this research was to determine the effect of volleyball skills training and problem solving on adolescent girls self-efficacy. the research method was semi-experimental and conducted in as pre-test and post-test with four experimental groups.the research statistical population consisted of all first grade students of broujen high schools in the academic year of 2009-2010(1388-89s...

Sports has various functions on students’ education, it contains profound connotations and huge potentials. Sports course core problem lies in school’s physical education; school education results directly affect contemporary youth physical quality and value orientation. For contemporary physical education course, it has bodybuilding, education, entertainment and other functions, but as sports ...

purpose : to determine the prevalence of amblyopia and strabismus in the schoolchildren of the city of bojnourd, iran methods : in 2010, randomized stratified cluster sampling was employed in a cross-sectional study on primary and junior high schoolchildren. all the examinations were performed in schools. all students received refraction, vision and subjective refraction tests. the cover test w...

In our ICT activities in junior high schools pupils program the RCX and NXT Lego bricks using a Logo-like language supplemented by a program development environment specifically implemented for young students. In their first programs, pupils mainly aim at moving their autonomous robots. We describe how teachers and pupils have analyzed with us a number of robot programs, performing a static ana...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of and factors associated with poor help-seeking among adolescents who self-harm and to explore the resources used for help. METHODS A cross-sectional survey using an anonymous questionnaire was conducted in 47 junior and 30 senior high schools in Japan. Adolescent self-harm was defined as an adolescent who had harmed himself or...

BACKGROUND Unhappiness at school is one of the main reasons for truancy among adolescents. In order to assess this problem more thoroughly in the context of Japanese adolescents, the present study examined the associations between feelings of unhappiness at school and lifestyle habits, school life realities, and mental health status. METHOD This study was designed as a cross-sectional survey....

Junior medical staff provides a large proportion of undergraduate student education. However, despite increasing numbers of resident-as-teacher training programs, junior doctors may still not be sufficiently prepared to teach medical students. Hence, medical schools should consider implementing formal teaching skills training into undergraduate curricula.