objectives the aim of this study was to identify the health-related counseling needs of adolescent girls to assist them in this period of development. materials and methods forty teenage (13 - 19-year-old) girls, who had at least experienced 3 menstrual cycles, participated in this qualitative study. in-depth semi-structured interviews were used to collect the data. the content analysis method ...

BACKGROUND Multiple studies have indicated that the Joe Camel advertising campaign has been successful in marketing tobacco to children and adolescents, whereas other studies have reported that current tobacco warning messages are ineffective. OBJECTIVE To determine the importance and believability of familiar and novel tobacco warning messages with and without cartoons that were modeled afte...

abstract aim and background: today depression is more common disorder in all of world. depression present in all ages & all races in both men & women. studies show depression has increased prevalence in adolescent. some researchers believe mdd (that influence function) under diagnosed & treatment in adolescent. more researches are needed to understand mdd prevalence in adolescent.we studied mdd...

objective: premenstrual syndrome (pms) is a common psychosomatic disorder and about 30%-50% of women in the childbearing age suffer from mild to moderate form of this disorder and 3%-8% suffer from its sever form. the symptoms of this disorder are related to the specific biological characteristics of women's reproductive age that can start from teen years. the symptoms' devastating effect on th...

objectives the present study aims at evaluating the emotional and behavioural profile in children suffering from nafld and the quality of life in their mothers. patients and methods a total of 57 children (18 females/39 males) with nafld were compared to 39 age-matched control children (25 females/14 males). all participants were submitted to the following psychological tools to assess behavior...

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abstract background and purpose: subjective well-being plays a crucial role in human life given the positive impacts it has on mental and physical health, longevity, and quality of life. therefore, it is important to evaluate and promote subjective well-being and its relevant factors. this study aimed to assess the role of social capital in subjective well-being among iranian adolescents. metho...

early life events influence life-long patterns of emotionality and stress responsiveness and alter the rate of brain and body aging.  much research attention has focused on the programming effects of the hypothalamus pituitary axis (hpa) in early life and on understanding hpa function in response to stressors in adulthood. in comparison, there has been relatively little research on adolescence,...

background: to compare the effectiveness of basnef and classic educational models to improve the assertion skill level of high school boy students. methods: the 60 high school male students from shiraz city, fars province iran, were participated in this study. they were randomly divided in two groups (groups a and b). the group a attended in designed educational planning based on basnef model a...

background: the internet addiction, also described as pathological internet use (piu), is conceptualized by an individual's in­ability to control his or her use of the internet, which eventually causes marked distress and/or functional impairment. the aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of the piu among adolescence, in relation to different internet ac­tivities, and to ex...