Aim. This study aims to evaluate changes in the symptoms of adolescent depression during a 17-year period. Methods. The Kraków Depression Inventory (KID), version IO “C1” was administered to 17-year-old pupils of Kraków’s high schools in 1984 and 2001. The groups studied were selected using two-stage sampling. The KID IO “C1” results of the pupils who were screened as depressive (153 in 1984; 5...

INTRODUCTION Adolescents form about 20-30% of our population. Like the children of any other ages, adolescents have the so called usual problems and problems which are specific for their age and developmental peculiarities. The present study was undertaken to assess the prevalence of the psycho-social problems of adolescent girls and to counsel the girls with problems or those who were problem ...

We studied the relationship between physical fitness and blood pressure in 228 school children. The data were collected as part of the Loma Linda Child-Adolescent Blood Pressure Study. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures were lower in children above average fitness than in children below average fitness among preadolescent and adolescent boys and girls. On multivariate analysis, adjusting fo...

Rejection sensitivity (RS)--the disposition to defensively expect, readily perceive, and intensely react to rejection--is a potential source of vulnerability for adolescent girls' relationship difficulties. RS is thought to develop from rejection experiences, including maltreatment. When adolescent girls enter romantic relationships, RS may prompt vigilance for rejection cues and reactions to p...

to a weekly periodical during 1953-1955 and used the vivid material to highlight their problems. Self-selected material, it is true, because they wrote voluntarily, but instead of revealing irresponsible rebels, the main impression is one of uncertainty and a longing to be accepted both socially and in the family. Many mothers and fathers must be surprised to find that 74% express a wish to sha...

BACKGROUND Zinc is important in adolescence because of its role in growth and sexual maturation. Adolescents from developing countries such as India may be at high risk of zinc deficiency because of unwholesome food habits and poor bioavailability of zinc from plant-based diets. OBJECTIVE (1) to study zinc status and its association with profile of other micronutrients, (2) to construct a sim...

OBJECTIVE Previous studies demonstrate significant associations between dating-violence victimization and sexual risk behaviors among adolescent girls; however, a relationship between dating violence and actual sexually transmitted disease (STD)/HIV testing and diagnosis has yet to be investigated among a representative sample. The present study assesses associations between dating violence and...

BACKGROUND Anemia is a significant wide spread public health threat especially among the adolescent girls who are more vulnerable towards low level of hemoglobin particularly of low and middle income countries (LMICs). We investigated the prevalence of anemia among the adolescent girls (10-19 years) in Bangladesh and its socio-demographics distribution. METHODS We collected data digitally in ...

The current study aimed to verify the effectiveness of a counseling program based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in ‎improving self-compassion among Palestinian female adolescents without parental care. sample consisted 18 ‎adolescent girls aged 13-14, who obtained lowest scores scale. They were divided randomly into two ‎groups, an experimental control group, each which included 9 ...