the aim of this study was to determine the effect of a school- based educational program regarding hiv/aids and the knowledge held by the high school students. this quasi-experimental study was conducted with 230 high school students (grade 10-12 female, male). teaching aids used for this intervention was a combination of three methods including lectures, showing an educational movie and pamphl...

objective : this study examined forty nine instances of phobic adolescents pheromena classified in the following seven categories: school phobia, agoraphobia, zoophobia, claustrophobia, social phobia, physician fear, exam anxiety. method: the subjects were 120 female and 120 male high-school and pre-university students selected through random cluster sampling. the data were analyzed through des...

INTRODUCTION Environments that facilitate energy-dense, nutrient-poor diets are associated with childhood obesity. We examined the effect of a change of school environment on the prevalence of obesity and related dietary behavior in early adolescence. METHODS Fifteen schools in Victoria, Australia, were recruited at random from the bottom 2 strata of a 5-level socioeconomic scale. In 9 school...

Numerous studies have found a host of factors that are likely to result in more successful applications to graduate schools. This study was a retrospective examination of the variables that distinguish graduate students who believed they were better prepared for graduate school. We examined several of these factors, including variables associated with undergraduate education and the individual ...

OBJECTIVES Differential attainment in school examinations is one of the barriers to increasing student diversity in medicine. However, studies on the predictive validity of prior academic achievement and educational performance at medical school are contradictory, possibly due to single-site studies or studies which focus only on early years' performance. To address these gaps, we examined the ...

This study examined the prevalence rates of bully victimization and risk for repeated victimization among students with disabilities using the Special Education Elementary Longitudinal Study and the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2 longitudinal datasets. Results revealed that a prevalence rate ranging from 24.5% in elementary school to 34.1% in middle school. This is one to one and a ha...

AIM To determine the knowledge of adolescents living in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, about contraception and sexual health. METHODS We used an anonymous questionnaire to survey a random sample of 120 high school students, 60 from two general high schools and 60 from a vocational school. There were 30 male and 30 female students aged 15-17 years from each type of school. The questionnaire c...

The deveiopment of intrinsic vaiuing of inteliectuai activities stands to provide the firmest basis for sustaining inteilectuai motivation CONNECTING WHAT STUDENTS [XI in school to what they w ill do in life after schdol is a matter ot increasing concern on niLiltiple tronts, hut the issue can be deflected until it comes to a head at the college level. K-12 educators can, and comiiKinly do, cit...

Winston Churchill P ACE High School is an inner city community-based charter school for at risk students in the Cincin­ nati, Ohio area. As such, it is part of the Ohio public school structure and receives its money directly from the Ohio Department of Education. The school, now in its third year of operation, has an enrollment of 400 students. Students at­ tending PACE High School are at risk ...

The holiday and school-term sleep patterns of 310 Australian senior school students were surveyed in a longitudinal study, along with self-reported sleep quality, mood, daytime functioning, grades and circadian preference. Evidence was found that with the impact of school schedule, students accrued a significant sleep debt, obtaining insufficient sleep for their needs and reporting lowered mood...