Aim. To prove the medical-sociological technique of research of reproductive health of teenagers with the account of modern approaches to the understanding of health and the health-related quality of life. Method. Two ways of data selection are allocated in its frame: the analysis of factors, significant for health of teenagers from the point of view of adults; and research of factors, signific...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy rates in under-16-year old teenagers and sexual risk-taking are both increasing. Ensuring that teenagers access health care--particularly sexual health care--appropriately is problematic. AIM To find out the opinions and attitudes of 13- to 15-year-old teenagers towards general practice-based sexual health care services. METHOD A quantitative survey, using a questionnai...

OBJECTIVE To determine the risk of motor vehicle occupant deaths per unit of travel for Hispanic, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white children (aged 5-12 years) and teenagers (aged 13-19 years). DESIGN Comparison of 1989 to 1993 motor vehicle occupant death rates of children and teenagers by race, ethnicity, and sex by using data on mortality from the National Center for Health Statist...

CONTEXT Extensive research has explored the relationship between parenting and teenagers' sexual risk-taking. Whether parenting is associated with wider aspects of teenagers' capacity to form satisfying sexual relationships is unknown. METHODS Self-reported data were collected in 2007 from 1,854 students, whose average age was 15.5 years, in central Scotland. Multivariate analyses examined as...

This study uses data from a slum survey in Nairobi, Kenya, to examine the factors associated with self-assessed health status among 1,654 teenage boys and girls. Analysis involved logistic regression and multilevel models. The results show: 1) a significant but non-linear association between prior morbidity experiences and self-assessed health; 2) gender differences in self-assessed health stat...

OBJECTIVE to test a theoretical model based on the Parent-Based Expansion of the Theory of Planned Behavior examining relation between selected parental, teenager and cultural variables and Latino teenagers' intentions to engage in sexual behavior. METHOD a cross-sectional correlational design based on a secondary data analysis of 130 Latino parent and teenager dyads. RESULTS regression and...

[Purpose] Smartphones are widely used by teenagers and adults for various purposes. As teenagers use smartphones more actively than adults, they are more prone to be addicted to smartphones. Furthermore, excessive usage of smartphones can lead to various psychosocial and physical symptoms. [Subjects and Methods] One hundred teenage subjects were recruited and divided into normal and addiction g...

In order to obtain control values for the diagnosis of carriers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, creatine kinase (CK) estimations were performed in two laboratories on 148 healthy teenage girls (of whom 38 were premenarchal and 110 postmenarchal), 133 healthy mature women, 124 pregnant women, and 37 postmenopausal women. These levels were highest in the premenarchal teenagers, and became success...

Factors associated with pregnant teenagers’ expectations of their infants’ temperament were examined. A total of 126 pregnant African American teenagers were included in the study, all of whom were expecting their first baby. The teenagers’ expectations for their infants’ temperament was assessed using Mebert and Kalinowski’s (1986) modified version of the Infant Characteristics Questionnaire (...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Vital Statistics System-Mortality. An average of 16,375 teenagers 12-19 years died in the United States every year from 1999 to 2006. This is less than 1 percent of all deaths that occur every year in the United States. The five leading causes of death among teenagers are accidents (unintentional injuries), homicide, suicide, cancer, and heart disease. Accide...