BACKGROUND Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people in Taiwan. However, few studies have investigated children's suicidal ideation, and longitudinal studies are particularly rare. The purposes of this study were: (1) to describe the proportion of students with suicidal ideation in one month and incidence of suicidal ideation in the 7th graders (the first year of junior hi...

objective: the aim was to investigate the efficacy of life skills training on subjective well-being (swb) among high school females. methods: the population study comprised all female high school of rafsanjan, iran, in 2008-2009. thirty students with the lowest scores according to the molavi’s swb questionnaire were considered eligible. at the next stage, the required sample of 30 students were...

INTRODUCTION Death is an inescapable certainty of life. Variability in care for dying persons, however, is present. The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) sought to guide care for the last days of life but was phased out after intense scrutiny. SOURCES OF DATA A governmental report and rapid review of evidence were considered alongside mass and social media reporting. An evidence review of end-of-l...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of an afterschool sport program on adolescents' life skills development and to identify which characteristics of the program would have an influence on their life skills acquisition. The participants were six children (4 boys, 2 girls) who participated in a 12-week afterschool program implemented in two elementary schools, as well as th...

aim and background: the purpose of this study was to investigate the efficacy of life skills training to reduce depressive symptoms in students of piranshahr, iran. methods and materials: a total number of 64 male high school students who scored 96-140 on children's depression scale were selected randomly from piranshahr. the participants were randomly allocated into two groups of experimental ...