backgroundit is not clearly specified that which of the components of body mass index (bmi) affect body image and which of them do not. given that having information in this regard is of special importance as a basis for future planning for adolescents, the present research aimed to compare body image in female and male adolescents and study its relationship with body mass index in high school ...

background: when people maintain positive attitudes during life, their beliefs orientation will be highly beneficial to their health. in other words, those who have optimistic expectations report better physical health which is the result of their better psychological compatibility. the present study aimed to investigate the effect of educational intervention based on theory of planned behavior...

the aim of this study was surveying the mediating effect of parent-adolescent conflict between inter-parenting conflict and risk behaviors. the study is description and the type is structural equation modeling; the population of the study is students of qods town which is located in tehran province. sample size is 610 students that were selected by multistage random sampling. the data were gath...

the aim of present research was to study the relation between demographic characteristics (age, sex, and family economical status) and the rate of prevalence of depression in high school students at ray city. 388 subjects (166 boys and 222 girls) were selected through stratified random sampling method. the age range of these students was between 14 to 18 years. research data was gathered throug...

the students who live in boarding schools experience more stress than others which live with their parents.therefore, the mental health of this group is of special importance. the present study attempted to examine the mental health status of adolescent students in boarding high schools in . this was a cross-sectional study which was conducted by using stratified cluster sampling method. this s...

Background: The adolescent interview is a challenging task in which many medical students and residents report low levels of confidence. Purpose: To explore whether receiving structured feedback from an adolescent and mother Standardized Patient pair improves medical students’ confidence regarding the adolescent interview. Methods: Medical students undergoing their core Pediatric Clerkship Rota...

BACKGROUND Traditionally, third-year medical students are assigned to one supervisor during their 1-week rotation in child and adolescent psychiatry. However, the majority of supervisory staff in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry opted to switch the supervision schedule to one in which some medical students are assigned to two primary supervisors. OBJECTIVE The aim of the study ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a medical school adolescent medicine workshop on knowledge and clinical skills using standardized patients. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington. PARTICIPANTS A total of 186 third-year medical students. Intervention Medical students assigned to the intervention group (n = 95) participated...

this survery investigated the secondary school students attitude regarding parent- adolescent inter-relationships. the study covered 19 town districts in tehran.   following a multi-stage process 150 girls and boys attending secondary school with an age range of 13-15 years were selected randomly.   a two parts questionnaire was developed. the first part covered information on personal and soci...

OBJECTIVE To conduct a survey about teaching child and adolescent psychiatry to undergraduate medical students in German-speaking countries. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to the 33 academic departments of child and adolescent psychiatry in Germany, Austria, and the German-speaking part of Switzerland. RESULTS All departments responded. For teaching knowledge, the methods most commonly re...