The present study (N = 159) provides evidence of an increased risk for behavior problems of infant-placed 7-year-old internationally, transracially adopted children in the Netherlands. However, parents reported more behavior problems for adopted boys than for adopted girls. Notably, about 30% of the adopted children were classified as clinical on the CBCL scale for total problems, which is a mu...

BACKGROUND Achieving gender equality in education is an important development goal. We tested the hypothesis that the gender gap in adolescent education is accentuated by illnesses among young children in the household. METHODS Using Demographic and Health Surveys on 41 821 households in 38 low- and middle-income countries, we used linear regression to estimate the difference in the probabili...

Building design and grounds might contribute to physical activity, and youth spend much of their daylight hours at school. We examined the associations among school building footprints, the size of school grounds, and in-school physical activity of 1566 sixth-grade girls from medium to large middle schools enrolled in the Trial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG). The school building footpr...

1 Jacquelyn F. Sullivan, Integrated Teaching and Learning Program and Laboratory, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 522 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0522, [email protected]. 2 Derek Reamon, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, 427 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0427, Dere...

Accelerometry assessed sedentary behaviour and physical activity levels during the segmented school day 1 in 10-14 year-old children: the HAPPY study 2 3 Daniel P Bailey Stuart J Fairclough, Louise A Savory, Sarah J Denton, Dong Pang, Colleen S Deane, 4 Catherine J Kerr 5 6 Corresponding author: Daniel P Bailey. Email: [email protected]. Telephone: +441234 793268 7 8 Abstract 9 The schoo...

background atopic dermatitis (ad), often called eczema or atopic eczema is a very common skin disease; ad looks different in infants, children, and adults. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of the disease in kurdistan province. materials and methods cross-sectional study using written questionnaires isaac  where 4,000 students in two age groups 7-6 and 14 -13 years in the pr...

A cross-sectional study carried out among 418 adolescents between ten and 19 years old at a private school in the city of São Paulo in 1998. The objective of the study was to evaluate the proposed thresholds for diagnosing overweight among Brazilian adolescents. The percentage body fat was measured by dual energy X-ray absorptiometry. The cutoff points used for excess body fat were 25% for boys...

The smoking habits of 9,276 high-school students (15-18 years old) in six cities of Northern Greece were studied using a questionnaire in order to determine the prevalence and possible risk factors for initiation of smoking. We observed that 29.6% of high-school students (32.6% of boys and 26.7% of girls) were current smokers. A percentage of 43.3% had started smoking before the age of 14. Reac...