background: this study aims to assess the frequency of some hygienic behaviors that is, tooth brushing and hand‑washing, in iranian school students at national level. methods: this nationwide study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 elementary, secondary and high school students who were selected by random cluster stratified multistage sampling from 30 provinces in iran. we used the global...

Worldwide hundred thousands of children and adolescents are recruited and misused as fighters. However, only little research exists that has investigated psychological well-being and trauma-related symptomatology of this particular population. This study aimed to explore this issue in the war-torn North of Uganda – an area that is characterized by almost 20 years of civil war and brutal child a...

BACKGROUND A postelection violent conflict in Kaduna resulted in 800 deaths and 65,000 displaced people leading to setting up of camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs). We set out to determine the prevalence and pattern of psycho-traumatic stressful life events, psychological distress, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among child/adolescents IDPs. METHODS A descriptive cross-se...

INTRODUCTION Psychosis in childhood and adolescence are defines as having delusions or hallucinations, with the hallucinations occurring in the absence of insight into their pathological nature. A broader definition includes symptoms such as disorganised speech and grossly disorganised or catatonic behavior. Negative symptoms such as alogia, amotivation and anhedonia can be present. Cognitive a...

Most psychotropic drugs used in the treatment of children and adolescents are applied "off label" with a direct risk of under- or overdosing and a delayed risk of long-term side effects. The selection of doses in paediatric psychiatric patients requires a consideration of pharmacokinetic parameters and the development of central nervous system, and warrants specific studies in children and adol...

OBJECTIVE to investigate associations between different types of child disciplinary practices and children and adolescents' bullying behavior in a Brazilian sample. METHODS cross-sectional study, with a school-based sample of 10- to 15-year-old children and adolescents. Child disciplinary practices were assessed using two main subtypes: power-assertive and punitive (psychological aggression, ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to identify distinct body mass index (BMI) trajectories associated with weight classification, and to examine demographic characteristics and clusters of obesogenic behaviours in adolescents with these trajectories. METHODS Data were extracted from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Developmen...

This paper is based on a Horizon 2020 research project the enhancement of migrant children's ability to contribute change their conditions integration in education system seven countries (Children Hybrid Integration: Learning Dialogue as way Upgrading Policies Participation, CHILD-UP; GA 822400). The draws data collected vocational schools, with adolescents aged 14–16, Italy. It transcribed int...

OBJECTIVES To compare the self-reported health of extremely low birth weight (ELBW, <1 kg) adolescents with that of normal birth weight (NBW) controls and the children's assessments of their general health at ages 8 versus 14 years. METHODS One hundred sixty-eight ELBW children and 115 NBW controls of similar gender and sociodemographic status completed the Child Health and Illness Profile-Ad...

OBJECTIVE We compared temperament and character traits in children and adolescents with bipolar disorder (BP) and healthy control (HC) subjects. METHOD Sixty nine subjects (38 BP and 31 HC), 8-17 years old, were assessed with the Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime. Temperament and character traits were measured with parent and child versions of the ...