This study aims to examine whether the level of agreement between mothers’ and children’s reports self-perception across different areas differ(s) by child gender maternal educational level. The sample consisted adolescents aged 9 14 their mothers (N = 270). Adolescents filled out Harter’s Self-Perception Profile for Children (SPPC; 2012) assess competence in domains (e.g., social adjustment, s...

OBJECTIVES To examine health-related quality of life (HRQL) in adolescents with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), compared with healthy adolescents, and to determine whether clinically observed or self-perceived severity of illness affects their HRQL. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study of female adolescents conducted at an urban, hospital-based adolescent medicine clinical practice. P...

OBJECTIVES To assess the prevalence of low health literacy among adolescents, young adults, and child caregivers in the United States, the readability of common child-health information, and the relationship between literacy and child health. DATA SOURCES MedLine, Educational Resources Information Center, National Library of Medicine, PsychInfo, Harvard Health Literacy Bibliography, and peer-...

This paper illustrates the use of composite first person narrative interpretive methods, as described by Todres, across a range of phenomena. This methodology introduces texture into the presently understood structures of phenomena and thereby creates new understandings of the phenomenon, bringing about a form of understanding that is relationally alive that contributes to improved caring pract...

how to cite this article: ashrafi mr, najafi z, shafiei m, heidari k, togha m. cinnarizinev ersus topiramate in prophylaxis of migraines among children and adolescents: a randomized, double-blind clinical trial. iran j child neurol. 2014 autumn;8(4): 18-27.   abstract objective migraines, a common health problem in children and adolescents, still do not have an fda approved preventive treatment...

objective: this research was conducted to investigate the relationship between behavioral activation-inhibition systems and bullyingvictimization behaviors among adolescents. method: this was a correlational and cross-sectional study. two hundred and thirty school boys were selected randomly by multistage cluster sampling method, and participated in this research. this sample responded to a dem...

Background: Child-to-parent violence is a family issue that needs systemic and integral approach for its evaluation. The main objective of this longitudinal study was to assess the moderating effects adolescents’ borderline personality psychopathic traits (grandiose-manipulative, callous-unemotional, impulsive-irresponsible dimensions) in predictive association between inadequate parental strat...

conclusions carcinomas were the most common malignant tumors of head and neck observed in this age group. also, oral cancers in children and adolescents constitute a small percentage of the lesions that were studied objectives we aimed to determine the frequency of head and neck cancers in a population of iranian children and adolescents. patients and methods the records of patients ≤ 19 years ...