BACKGROUND More than 14 % of Ugandan children are orphaned and many live in children's homes. Ugandan authorities have targeted adolescent girls as a priority group for nutrition interventions as safeguarding nutritional health before pregnancy can reduce the chance of passing on malnutrition to the offspring and thus future generations. Ugandan authorities have obligations under international ...

As the enhancement of public awareness, more researchers are realizing severity mental health problems, which generally begin before age 14. In response to issue psychological sensitivity among adolescents, a summary was made from perspective emotional disorders college students. Persistent can lead biases in self-awareness. Self-worth is an important aspect self. It affects individual cognitio...

background: adolescents admitted to hospital are either surrounded by children or adults. however, age-appropriate facilities are often not provided to meet the needs of adolescents, which should be incorporated in the wards. this study compares the satisfaction level about physical environment of the wards among adolescents who have been admitted to pediatric and adult wards. materials and met...

background: low consumption of fruit and vegetable among adolescents has been reported in several researches. skill has known as one of the determinants of this behavior. this study was conducted in order to survey tehranian adolescents’ skills related to fruit and vegetable consumption in 2013. methods: present research is a cross-sectional study (descriptive-analytic) that was carried out for...

The cult of the body has become a universal phenomenon, and many adolescents feel frustrated disappointed with their own bodies for not matching prevailing beauty standards. An empirical-quantitative cross-sectional investigation was carried out to understand perspectives image among Spanish youngsters both sexes in three evolutionary substages (pre-adolescence, early adolescence, middle adoles...

Pre-marital sex before marriage in adolescents is a severe problem associated with increased transmission of sexually transmitted diseases, having more than one partner, and early pregnancy. Even though Indonesia considered society high religious values, free-sex behavior increasingly concerning. This study investigates the relationship between religiosity attitudes toward pre-marital sexual ad...

introduction: to evaluate the reliability, validity and feasibility of the persian version of the pediatric quality of life inventory (pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0) generic core scales in iranian healthy students ages 7-15 and chronically ill children ages 2-18. methods: we followed the translation methodology proposed by developer to validate persian version of pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0 generic core scales for c...