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...

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social anxiety disorder is a common anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence. adolescence is a period during which the individual believes will lead to different outcomes. the aim of this study was to compare early maladaptive schemas in two groups of adolescents with social anxiety disorder and normal adolescents. the present study was causal-comparative. population was consisted of all ...

introduction: to evaluate the reliability, validity and feasibility of the persian version of the pediatric quality of life inventory (pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0) generic core scales in iranian healthy students ages 7-15 and chronically ill children ages 2-18. methods: we followed the translation methodology proposed by developer to validate persian version of pedsql™ 4.0tm 4.0 generic core scales for c...

Social anxiety disorder is a common anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence. Adolescence is a period during which the individual believes will lead to different outcomes. The aim of this study was to compare early maladaptive schemas in two groups of adolescents with social anxiety disorder and normal adolescents. The present study was causal-comparative. Population was consisted of all ...

Decades of masculinity research have concluded that society places higher demands on males to adhere to norms for low emotional expression; yet, countless studies find that emotional expression is integral to well-being. Unfortunately, this contradiction places boys and men in a tenuous position as they must navigate a bombardment of societal messages about the importance of emotional stoicism ...

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...

background there is limited data on outcomes of adolescents with drug-resistant tuberculosis (dr-tb). objectives to describe patient outcomes and factors associated with outcomes of adolescents diagnosed with dr-tb in khayelitsha, south africa. patients and methods a retrospective analysis of data for adolescents aged 10-19 years who were diagnosed with dr-tb between january 2008 and august 201...