objective: this survey aimed at studying the effects of socioeconomic and family factors in adolescents’ tendency towards smoking, alcohol consumption, and drug abuse. methods: using multistage sampling, 3530 high school students were selected in tehran, iran. they completed the iranian adolescents risk behavior scale questionnaire (iars) and demographic questionnaire with the main focus on the...

background: resilience is a quality that affects an individual’s ability to cope with tension. the present study was conducted to determine resilience and its contributing factors in high-risk adolescents living in residential care facilities affiliated to tehran welfare organization in order to help develop effective preventive measures for them. methods: the present descriptive study was cond...

background: adolescence is a period of overwhelming changes and challenges, which expose the adolescents to high-risk behaviors. risky sexual relationship is one of these behaviors that entails physical risks and psychosocial harms. various factors have been recognized to shape sexual behaviors in adolescents. this paper is an attempt to investigate the factors contributing to high-risk sexual ...

background: healthy dietary habits are known as a key factor for improving brain functions and cognitive ability in children and adolescents. the goal of this study was to evaluate the association of healthy food consumption with mental health in iranian children and adolescents.materials and methods: data were obtained from the fourth national school-based surveillance survey entitled caspian-...

The current longitudinal study examined changes in Latino adolescents' (N = 323, M age = 15.31 years) self-esteem and depressive symptoms across the high school years. Differences in trajectories were examined by gender and perceived ethnic discrimination. Findings revealed that self-esteem increased across high school for both male adolescents and female adolescents. Depressive symptoms, howev...

cigarette use and its predicting factors among male high school students moeini b* , allahverdipour h received: 25 april, 2010 accepted: 27 july, 2010 abstract background & aims: tobacco use among adolescents is one of the most important preventable problems that was known as a gateway drug to the use of other much more dangerous substances as marijuana and opium. etiology of tobacco use initia...

OBJECTIVE To explore whether parents' engagement in shift work affects the sleep habits of their adolescent children who attend school in two shifts. METHODS The data were drawn from an extensive survey of sleep and daytime functioning of adolescents attending school one week in the morning and the other in the afternoon. The participants were 1,386 elementary and high school students (11-18 ...