BACKGROUND :Depression may occur in teenager pregnant women. The use of a validated tool for screening depression is highly recommended. The Edinburgh postnatal depression scale (EPDS) is a screening tool for depression used in women during the postnatal period and pregnancy. However, the EPDS has not been validated in teenager pregnant women. Therefore, we sought to validate a Spanish translat...

To explore the relationship between self-concept and parenting style, and to provide bases for improving self-concept on teenager, a total of 1000 teenager were tested with self-concept scale and parenting style scale. Total self-concept, self-concept of social orientation and self-concept of personal orientation were associated with factors of parenting style, which could predict total self-co...

seroepidemiologic studies in developing countries show a high rate of helicobacter pylori (h. pylori) infections in children, in contrast to developed countries. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of h. pylori in children and teenagers in tabriz, northwest of iran. in this prospective study 44 children and teenagers were randomly selected to study serum igg against h. pylori u...

In this paper, I examine the importance of declining economic conditions in school attendance decisions for households with teenagers aged 12–17 in Costa Rica. I estimate a reduced-form model for school attendance that includes variables to measure household labor market integration, other household factors, teenager characteristics, regional effects and year effects. The year effects — to meas...

In this issue of Circulation Research, Tessari et al1 investigate the role of an interesting gene, Pitx2, which acts in breaking symmetry in early development and has subsequent roles in differentiation of the inflow and outflow segment of the heart. Already almost 10 years ago, the transcription factor Pitx2 was demonstrated by several groups to be expressed asymmetrical in the early embryo an...

BACKGROUND Very little is known about prenatal depression in teenagers in Mexico. We determined the prevalence and correlates of prenatal depression in teenager women attending a public hospital in Durango City, Mexico. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study to assess depression in 181 teenager pregnant women who attended a public hospital for prenatal care. We used a validated Mexican ...

OBJECTIVE to test a theoretical model based on the Parent-Based Expansion of the Theory of Planned Behavior examining relation between selected parental, teenager and cultural variables and Latino teenagers' intentions to engage in sexual behavior. METHOD a cross-sectional correlational design based on a secondary data analysis of 130 Latino parent and teenager dyads. RESULTS regression and...

background: to define underlying predictors of tobacco smoking among iranian teenagers in a generalized structural equation model. materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, a generalized structural equation model based on planned behavioral theory was used to explain the relationship among different factors such as demographic factors, subjective norms, and the intention to tobacco ...

It is unclear whether a mother who is negative for hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) but positive for hepatitis B virus (HBV) is at potential risk for mother-to-child transmission of HBV. This study, using a paired mother-teenager population, aimed to assess whether maternal HBsAg-negative HBV infection ((hn)HBI) is a significant source of child HBV infection (HBI). A follow-up study wi...