Patients living in remote areas have higher rates of injury-related death than those living in cities. Rural and remote health professionals working in sparsely populated places, such as Cat Island Bahamas, may have scant resources for treating emergency conditions. Local health professionals must be prepared to rely solely upon clinical judgment to perform emergency "high-stakes low-frequency"...

OBJECTIVE To examine mastery of life skills necessary for independent adulthood among perinatally HIV-infected (PHIV+) and perinatally HIV-exposed but uninfected (PHIV-) youth. METHODS Participants were recruited from four medical centers in New York City as part of a longitudinal study. Data for this article came from interviews of 150 PHIV+ and 95 PHIV- youth (age 13-24 years) and their car...

The overall purpose of this study was to create a model of positive youth development (PYD) through sport grounded in the extant qualitative literature. More specifically, the first objective was to review and evaluate qualitative studies of PYD in sport. The second objective was to analyze and synthesize findings from these studies. Following record identification and screening, 63 articles we...

Introduction Reduction in HIV transmission needs continuous, comprehensive and effective communication channels to disseminate messages that will sustain efforts to motivate adolescents to engage in a range of options to reduce the risk of HIV infection. Life skills education, an integral part of school-based AIDS programs that include sexual and reproductive health information, has been a time...

 The present paper aimed at assessing the effects of young people’s indicators of life skills. The theoretical foundation of this research was obtained from Adler’s and the World Health Organization’s viewpoints on life skill and mental health. The method of this study was a survey (applied, descriptive and correlation), and the sample group consisted of young people aged 15-29 in Hajiabad town...

article history: received date: 28 august, 2016 review date: 7 october 2016 accepted date:25 october 2016 printed online:1 september purpose: the initiation of anti-bullying movements in school’s dates back to nearly three decades ago in some countries. despite the importance of such a movement and its grave implications for education systems, no particular program or action has been organized ...

Background: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) affects people’s lives for a long time, therefore it is necessary to improve their quality of life by all means, including the most appropriate way of adaptation. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of life skills training on patients’ adaptation with MS. Methods: This study is a quasi-experimental study with a sample size of ...