BACKGROUND This paper presents the methodology and early findings of the fifth survey of a school-based surveillance program in Iran. METHODS This nationwide study was conducted in 2015 as the fifth survey of a surveillance program entitled "Childhood and Adolescence Surveillance and PreventIon of Adult Non- communicable disease" (CASPIAN-V) study. The protocol was mainly based on the World H...

Soft drink and fast food are energy dense foodstuffs that are heavily marketed to adolescents, and are likely to be important in terms of risk of obesity. This study sought to examine the influences on soft drink and fast food consumption among adolescents as part of a cross-sectional survey of 2,719 adolescents (aged 11-16) from 93 randomly selected schools in New South Wales, Australia. Stude...

The purpose of this action research was to examine the impacts Understanding by Design (UbD) Model on class ten student's achievement in chemistry. study population comprises students 10 Mendrelgang Central School. A sample 62 students: 22 boys and 40 girls, drawn using purposive sampling technique. participants were divided into two groups, control experimental group. pretest-posttest group de...

Objective: To measure the genetic and environmental factors influencing the cognitive outcomes in children with fragile X, a common genetic disorder causing cognitive impairments. Method: In-home evaluations were conducted on 120 children (80 boys and 40 girls) with the fragile X full mutation and their unaffected siblings. Results: Multiple regression analyses show that the cognitive outcomes ...

the purpose of the study was to determine the effect of fasting on physical abilities and body lipid levels of university students. therefore, 18 fasting students (9 male and 9 female) and 18 non-fasting students (9 male and 9 female) were randomly selected and tested for the following variables before and after ramazan month: blood sample of chol- total, trig, chol/ hdl, ldl and sfm of hand an...

the aim of this study was to investigate the mental health state of high school students of hamideyh branch ahvaz city. the present survey was an analytical study. a sample of 305 (93 girl and 212 boy) students was selected using random stratified sampling and proportion and base of krejcie and morgan table from primary to college years high school students in suburb of ahvaz township and compl...

The study was conducted to explore aggression in boys and girls as related to their academic achievement and residential background in Bangladesh. Stratified random sampling technique was used and total 80 respondents constituted the sample of the study. They were equally divided into boys and girls. Each group was again equally divided into high and low grade. Each subgroup was again equally d...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the association between apoC-III and lipoprotein-lipids in African American (AA) and Caucasian (CA) youths. The aim of this study was to investigate if plasma apoC-III level is associated with ethnicity differences in atherogenic lipoprotein-lipids between AA and CA youths. METHODS A total of 202 youths (mean age 16.1±1.3 y, range 13.8-18.9 y) consisting of 12...