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conclusions the results showed that the prevalence of cigarette smoking in adolescents was high, and the theory of planned behavior (tpb) components were significant predictors of cigarette smoking. it seems that interventions targeting adolescents’ smoking habits might benefit using the tpb model. patients and methods this was a cross-sectional study involving male adolescent students (high sc...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency, risk population, symptoms, reason, and outcome surrounding human methylphenidate exposures reported to a regional poison control center. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SETTING/PATIENTS All human methylphenidate exposures reported to a regional poison control center during a 2-year period were included. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Data collected include...

posed population. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2010;19(6):1557-1568. 6. US Dept of Agriculture Economic Research Service. Illinois state-level map. http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/ruraldefinitions/IL.pdf. Accessed June 1, 2011. 7. US Census Bureau. American FactFinder. http://factfinder.census.gov/home /saff/main.html?_lang=en. Accessed June 1, 2011. 8. Dellavalle RP, Schilling LM, Chen AK, H...

adolescence is a transitional stage of physical and psychological human development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood. there are approximately 1.2 billion adolescents (10-19 years) globally, roughly 90% of whom live in low and middle-income countries. most are healthy, but there is still significant death, illness and diseases among adolescents. illnesses c...

background adolescence and youth are life-threatening stages of development when a range of unsafe behaviors can harmfully affect a person’s health and their social and educational performance. objectives the present study aimed to determine the incidence and prevalence of high-risk behaviors related to intentional and unintentional harm in adolescents of zahedan (iran). patients and methods th...

the present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of  training on personality formation and mental development of childhood and adolescence. it is important to understand how children develop physically, socially, emotionally and intellectually to know that all areas of development are equally as important as each other, and that all impact on one another. biological and cognitive changes ...

deafness is a heterogeneous condition with far-reaching effects on social, emotional, and cognitive development. many regard themselves as members of a cultural minority who use sign language. they should not continue to be neglected in research on depression. the purpose of this article is to investigate depression among the deaf people based on researches results. we identified relevant studi...

among 2357 prenant women at tehran valiasr hospital, 99 women under 18 years with their 102 neonates were evaluated retrospectively during aprill 1999 to april 2000. frequency of adolescent pregnancy was detected in 41.5 per 1000 live birth 7 (7.1%) of mothers had preeclampisa, 7 thyroidal diseases, 3 valvular heart diseases, 2 urinary tract infections and 20.3% of women had prolonged rupture o...

a- the goal of this survey is to negotiate the causes of inereasment of psycho-social problems in the adolescence field. we have purposed to evaluate and calegortize 95 persons who were self - refered or refrnal from legal system to crisis - intervention of welfare organization. these persons were classified into three groups through neurologic - psychologic - psychiatric approach: 1- adolescen...