AUTHOR Clark, Deborah; Marcon, Rebecca A. TITLE Coping Strategies of Inner-City Adolescents: Response to Recent Personal Conflicts. PUB DATE Apr 97 NOTE 10p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (Atlanta, GA, April 3-6, 1997). PUB TYPE Reports Research (143) -Speeches/Meeting Papers (150) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adolescents...

INTRODUCTION The high prevalence of hypertension in high school students in Sorocaba, São Paulo, Brazil, has already been described. In this study, within a new sample of high school students from public and private schools, we evaluated if socioeconomic and lifestyle influence on blood pressure values. METHODS This is an epidemiological study, which is part of the activities of a community-b...

The purpose of this study was to compare longitudinal smoking prevention program effects estimated on a population-based cohort sample of sixth- and seventh-grade students (average n per year = 4,664) using different schools as units of analysis (middle/junior high school as the school of origin or high school as the endpoint school of intervention). Fifty schools in 15 school districts were de...

due to the high prevalence of anthroponotic cutaneous leishmaniosis (acl) in barn city, a survey was carried out to determine epidemiological characteristics of acl in barn in 1992. for this purpose, 23 out of the total 51 schools (elementary, junior high and senior high) were randomly selected and 6053 students were examined. the prevalence of acute sores and scars were 2% and 17% respectively...

aims: decayed, missing and filled teeth (dmft) index plays a key role in health care decision-making. according to who guideline, dmft should not be more than 1 in 12-year old children. the role of fluoride intake in tooth and bone health is also well known. this study was carried out to investigate the dmft index in junior high school students of golpaygan city, iran, and its relation the fluo...