An international summit focusing on the difficult challenge of providing adequate nutrition for adolescent girls and young women in low- and middle-income countries was held in Portland, Oregon in 2015. Sixty-seven delegates from 17 countries agreed on a series of recommendations that would make progress toward improving the nutritional status of girls and young women in countries where their a...

This paper illustrates the use of composite first person narrative interpretive methods, as described by Todres, across a range of phenomena. This methodology introduces texture into the presently understood structures of phenomena and thereby creates new understandings of the phenomenon, bringing about a form of understanding that is relationally alive that contributes to improved caring pract...

Parents are likely to be key influences on children's physical activity behaviors, although it is not clear how. This study was designed to explore parents' roles in Iranian adolescent girls' physical activity habit development. A qualitative study was conducted by means of semistructured one-to-one interviews with 25 participants, including 16 adolescent girls (10-19 years of age), seven mothe...

AIMS To determine how alcohol use differentially affects brain functioning in male and female adolescents. METHODS Adolescents with alcohol use disorders (AUDs; 7 female, 11 male) and control adolescents without AUDs (9 female, 12 male), aged 14-17 years, performed spatial working memory and vigilance tasks during functional magnetic resonance imaging. RESULTS Gender, AUD and their interact...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of an adventure camp program on the selfconcept of adolescents with behavioral problems. Subjects in the study included 61 randomly selected male and female adolescents with behavioral problems ranging in age from 9 to 17 years. The treatment group of 31 adolescents was randomly selected from a population (n=85) of behavioral problem adolesce...

BACKGROUND Physical activities among adolescents affects health during pubescence and adolescence and decrease in physical activities among adolescents has become a global challenge. The aim of the present study was to define the relation between the level of physical activity among adolescent girls and their health beliefs as personal factor and level of observational learning as environmental...

Background: Adolescence is a critical stage of growth and development. That is associated with changes in body shape and appearance. Issues such as irregular menstrual periods, amenorrhea, and menstrual cycle are major issues in women's health. The purpose of this study was to examine the determinants of physical puberty health based on the Health Belief Model (HBM) among female adolescents. Me...

conclusions the results suggested that severely thin girl runners has steadily increased. surveys on the health consequences of extreme thinness are necessary for the female adolescent runners. methods body mass index (bmi) were analysed in 9,881 female and 12,786 male runners participating in the annual national road relay races between 1989 and 2014 using the directory of a track and field ma...

background & aim: primary dysmenorrhea is a common problem among women, resulting in a decline in their performance level and quality of life. previous studies have not indicated a definite relationship between body mass index (bmi) and dysmenorrhea. therefore, this study aimed to determine the severity of dysmenorrhea and investigate its relationship with bmi among female adolescents in hamada...

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...