SUMMARY In order to evaluate psychomotor activity and intelligent quotient in schoolchildren of iodine deficient region, 95 children from Kiga and 103 from Keshar villages and 73 from Razi school in Tehran were studied. In Kiga there is moderately severe iodine deficiency with retarded physical growth and decreased thyroid function. These students had more errors in Bender-Gestalt (BG) test an...

Summary A social cognitive intervention was developed and delivered as a credit course to improve mental distress of university students, based on findings in a previous health survey showing notable mental distress among future teachers in Hungary in 2007. The intervention included increasing information on psychoactive substances used for stress reduction; skills development in stress reducti...

the present study aimed to compare substrate oxidation and total energy expenditure during running with low and moderate intensity until exhaustion and one hour after exercise in obese male students. for this purpose, in a crossover study design, 11 male university students (mean age 20.45±1.69 years, bmi 31.26±1.3 kg/m2, body fat percentage 28.47±3.53 %) participated in this study. two exercis...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate medical students' knowledge of HPV and HPV related diseases and assess their attitudes towards HPV vaccination. METHODS A total of 605 medical undergraduates from Chongqing Medical University in China were surveyed using a structured and pretested questionnaire on HPV related knowledge. RESULTS Some 68.9% of the medical students were females, and mean age was 21.6 (±1...

OBJECTIVES To fully analyze and compare BMI among Han, Tibetan, and Uygur university students, to discuss the differences in their physical properties and physical health, and thus to provide some theoretical suggestions for the improvement of students' physical health. METHODS The cross-sectional random cluster sampling was used to investigate 10103 Han, Tibetan, and Uygur university student...

BACKGROUND Alcohol/binge drinking among university students has become a major public health problem. Many of young students will be exposed to substantial changes in living arrangements, socialization groups and social activities during the transitional period. AIM The aim of this study was to analyse the alcohol consumption in Romanian university students, and to describe the behaviours occ...

This study aims to evaluate the psychometric properties of students' perception scales about online learning during Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesian culture. involved 176 students (Male = 54% and Female 46%) at junior senior high school levels from public schools Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The age respondents ranged 11 17 years, with a mean 13.5 years standard deviation 1.4 years. scale adopts 16 it...

The aim of this study was to investigate dental health status and oral health behavior and associated factors among university students in five ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam). Using anonymous questionnaires, data were collected from 3,344 undergraduate university students (mean age 20.5, SD=1.6; 58.3% female) from five ASEAN countries. Results indicate that...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of anxiety and depression among medical students at Nishtar Medical College, Multan. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out at Nishtar Medical College, Multan in 2008. The questionnaire was administered to 815 medical students who had spent more than 6 months in college and had no self reported physical illness. They were present at the time of d...