OBJECTIVES This study aimed to characterize asthma and food allergy reporting and management in Chicago Public Schools. METHODS Demographic and health data for students who have asthma and food allergy were extracted from the Chicago Public Schools database. Demographic and geographic variability and the existence of school health management plans were analyzed, and multiple logistic regressi...

OBJECTIVE The authors examined the sources of health information among first-year university students and whether the predictors of information-seeking varied by information source. PARTICIPANTS First-year students in a required course at a midwestern public university were eligible to participate, and 82% (n = 1,060) completed the study. METHODS Students completed a survey questionnaire re...

introduction: in light of the importance of mental health in today life, attending to mental health of the youth to pave the way for a better future is of paramount importance. various factors can influence mental health, one of which is the quality of attachment to and trust in god. the aim of this paper was to examine the capability of this quality so as to predict the mental health of tehran...

background & aim: midwives have a substantial role in evaluating and improving sexual health and providing family counseling. the aim of this study was to evaluate clinical skills of midwifery students of mashhad university of medical sciences in providing sexual health counseling services and determine their attitudes toward sexual relations of couples in the academic year of 2014-2015. method...

The world's largest school-based mental health program, Habilidades para la Vida [Skills for Life (SFL)], has been operating on a national scale in Chile for 15 years. SFL's activities include using standardized measures to screen elementary school students and providing preventive workshops to students at risk for mental health problems. This paper used SFL's data on 37,397 students who were i...

BACKGROUND Healthcare students are future health care providers and serve as role models and coaches to enhance behaviors for healthy lifestyles. However healthcare students face multiple stressors that could lead to adopting risk behaviors. OBJECTIVES To assess the changes in health risk factors among healthcare students between 2007 and 2015, and to identify specific health behaviors based ...

the purpose of this study was to investigate general health condition, outbreak of depression and body mass index (bmi) in athlete and non-athlete students of tehran university. both female and male junior students participated in this study and 200 students, 50 athletes and 50 non-athletes were selected. in order to determine general health and outbreak of depression, questionnaires of general...

BACKGROUND Future public health professionals are especially important among students partly because their credibility in light of their professional messages and activities will be tested daily by their clients; and partly because health professionals' own lifestyle habits influence their attitudes and professional activities. A better understanding of public health students' health and its de...

INTRODUCTION There have been few studies which have compared the quality of life between medical students and adult health care workers. AIMS (1) To compare health related quality of life (HRQoL) between medical students and adult health care workers and (2) to identify factors associated with quality of life of medical students. METHODS A cross sectional survey of medical students at Chian...