Purpose: Long term effects of poliomyelitis are known in many countries. Despite no definite label for these signs and symptoms, there is a remarkable similarity among patients with regard to description of the problems and complications of the disease. In this study, we compared the prevalence of symptoms of Post-Polio Syndrome (PPS) in athlete and non-athlete poliomyelitis survivors. Methods...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare athlete and non-athlete students’ tendency to drug use. 240 undergraduate students of University of Kurdistan with ages ranging from 19 to 23 years who had the experience of regular exercise (n = 120) and non-athlete ones (n = 120) were selected as the sample. Relapse Prediction Scale (RPS) was used for data collection. To analyze data, de...

Perfectionism in sports has been shown to be associated with burnout in athletes. Whether perfectionism predicts longitudinal changes in athlete burnout, however, is still unclear. Using a two-wave cross-lagged panel design, the current study examined perfectionistic strivings, perfectionistic concerns, and athlete burnout in 101 junior athletes (mean age 17.7 years) over 3 months of active tra...

the aim of the present research was to investigate the effect of emotional intelligence training on mental skills in athlete teenagers.  for this purpose, 80 volunteer students (40 boys and 40 girls, mean age of 15±0.53 years) were selected with simple random sampling method and divided into two experimental and control groups. bradberry and greaves emotional intelligence questionnaire was used...

background: the objective of this study was to describe the extent of sexual activity in adolescent school girls. methods: this was a cross-sectional study with prolective collection of data carried out at lycée general leclerc, yaounde (cameroon), from october 1 to november 30, 2011. heterosexual coitus was considered as sexual activity. a pretested self-administered questionnaire was proposed...