Background: The issue of addiction among teenagers is critically important due to the sensitive nature of this life stage and its role in their future life. The present study aims to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and emotion-regulation training on rumination and social anxiety in teenagers prone to addiction living in group foster care centers in 2018. Ma...

Background: Diabetes is a metabolic disorder which presents itself with symptoms such as blurry vision, thirst and weight loss. It is a disease that is more common in childhood whereby the body cannot produce enough insulin. Objectives: To explore the challenges experienced by diabetic teenagers. Results: Checking of sugar levels and injecting of insulin was indicated as one of the major diffic...

Adolescents are experiencing different psychological pressures coming from study, communication, affection, and self-recognition. If these psychological pressures cannot properly be resolved, it will turn to mental problems, which might lead to serious consequences. Traditional face-to-face psychological diagnosis and treatment cannot meet the demand of relieving teenagers’ stress completely du...

Objective. The aim of the study was to assess visual acuity, refractive status, and eye proptosis in children and young adults with Graves' disease. Material and Methods. We have done investigations of visual acuity, refraction, and eye proptosis in 16 children, 14 teenagers, and 49 adults with Graves' disease at Eye Clinic of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Medical Academy. Data were ...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate that rephrasing the questions used to assess childbearing intentions to quantify the strength of the intent to remain nonpregnant, rather than the strength of the intent to become pregnant, would make teenagers' responses more useful to health care providers, family planning counselors, and health policy makers. METHODS Examples from the teen pregnancy prevention lite...

The rapid development of economy and society brings unprecedentedly intensive competition and adolescent psychological pressures to current teenagers. If these psychological pressures could not be resolved properly, they will turn to mental problems, which will finally lead to serious consequences, such as suicide or aggressive behaviors. Traditional face-to-face psychological diagnosis and tre...

BACKGROUND Although much research has been conducted on the impact of strabismus on the quality of life (QoL) of adults, the effect of this condition on teenagers has not been extensively studied. This study therefore aimed to assess the effect of strabismus on the vision-related QoL of Chinese teenagers. METHODS The Chinese version of the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questi...

In 1992, 112 pregnancies occurred per 1,000 U.S. women aged 15-19; of these, 61 ended in births, 36 in abortions and 15 in miscarriages. Black teenagers' rates of pregnancies, births and abortions were 2-3 times those of whites; Hispanic teenagers had rates of births and abortions between those of blacks and whites. While similar proportions of pregnant black and non-Hispanic white teenagers ha...

BACKGROUND In Thailand, rapid increases in economic prosperity have been accompanied by erosion of traditional cultural and religious values and by negative effects on sexual health of young people. We investigated knowledge, attitudes, norms, and values of teenagers, parents, teachers, and policymakers in relation to sex and sex education in Chiang Mai, Thailand, with a view to informing sex e...

This research studies the association of the cervical condyloma with the intraepithelial neoplasia, during sex activity, pregnancy, diagnose methods, cytology and colposcopy in teenagers. The objective of this research is to study the propaedeutics for the uterine coli condyloma diagnose in a group of teenagers. For this purpose, we have studied 131 teenagers sexually active with ages between 1...