BACKGROUND Ukraine has the highest HIV prevalence in Europe, with young people disproportionately represented among populations at high risk. One particularly vulnerable group comprises adolescents who live or work on the streets. This study aimed to measure the extent and distribution of HIV risk behaviours among street-based adolescents in four Ukrainian cities as part of a regional UNICEF HI...

BACKGROUND There are only few reports on the prevalence of common cardiovascular disorders among adolescents. The previous studies focused on specific diseases, and screened relatively small samples. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to define the prevalence of different common cardiovascular disorders among 17-year-old Israeli conscripts. A comparison between the morbidity patterns of fema...

UNLABELLED The assessment of forearm oxygen consumption (VO(2)) and forearm blood flow (FBF) by means of near infrared spectroscopy has become widespread in adults, whereas in children and adolescents no data are available. The aim of the present study was to analyze VO(2) and FBF in healthy children and adolescents. METHODS In a prospective cohort study, 20 male and 20 female healthy childre...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between unhealthy eating behavior and depression in adolescents, with confounding variables adjusted. Methods: This study is a secondary analysis of the data collected from the 2013 Korean Youth Risk Behavior Web-based Survey (KYRBWS). The analysis included 72,435 participants (36,655 male and 35,780 female). The data were ana...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether differences exist in eating attitudes, self-esteem, social trait anxiety and social physique anxiety of self-reported vegetarian and nonvegetarian Turkish adolescents. The sample for the Turkish University' students is designed to provide the estimates of vegetarian indicators and prevalence. The participants were 608 females and 597 males, in ...

Male adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health needs often go unmet in the primary care setting. This report discusses specific issues related tomale adolescents’ sexual and reproductive health care in the context of primary care, including pubertal and sexual development, sexual behavior, consequences of sexual behavior, and methods of preventing sexually transmitted infections (including HI...

This study aimed to investigate the predictive roles of gender and self-efficacy (academic, social, emotional) on academic resilience adolescents. Participants consisted 346 adolescents (227 girls 119 boys). Data were collected through Academic Resilience Scale, Self-efficacy Scale for Children, a demographic information form, analyzed with an independent simple t test, Pearson correlation, mul...

INTRODUCTION At the epicentre of the HIV epidemic in southern Africa, adolescent girls and young women aged 15-24 contribute a disproportionate ~30% of all new infections and seroconvert 5-7 years earlier than their male peers. This age-sex disparity in HIV acquisition continues to sustain unprecedentedly high incidence rates, and preventing HIV infection in this age group is a pre-requisite fo...

conclusions the results showed that the effect of several psychosocial, behavioral, and demographic risk factors on adolescents' smoking status. thus, design and implementation of interventions based on the results of the present study may be effective in preventing tobacco smoking among adolescents. patients and methods this cross-sectional study was performed on 810 male adolescents recruited...

Objective: In this study, it was aimed to make a cultural adaptation of the Child Health and Illness Profile- Adolescents (CHIP-AE) measurement tool for adolescents, which developed by Starfield in 1993, analyze whether Turkish version is reliable, valid applicable. Material Methods: The sample study consisted adolescents aged between 12 17, receiving inpatient treatment Children’s Diseases Cli...