We examined AGYW’s narratives and conceptualizations of their own mental health, that of peers, and of the surrounding emotional and psycho-social support context in order to explore the ways in which these factors might interact with sexual health outcomes. Methods This research formed part of ...
Many studies have examined different aspects of high attaining pedagogy, but none have systematically examined the effects of interventions, particularly on high attaining female students. In this review, the research question addressed was: What works for high attaining girl in primary/elementary school...
In addition, girls with a history of sexual or physical abuse, with high scores on the depression index, and/or who were sexually active were most likely to prefer to be examined without a parent present. Preference for private examinations by adolescent boys and girls involved with potential ...
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa are disproportionately affected by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) due to socio-cultural gender, power, and economic disparities. This scoping review examined the literature to explore what is known about AGYW’s everyday personal...
Hence, the risk behaviors examined may be underestimated and the relationships assessed biased because of the potentially nonrepresentative nature of this sample. We also do not know whether the findings from this sample of public high school attendees generalize to other groups of adolescents, such ...
A significant body of research suggests that children and adults with ASD produce unusually high rates of various speech disfluencies [16, 35, 42, 50, 51, 54], but only three studies have specifically examined UM and UH. First, 4- to 8-year-olds with ASD use UM at lower rates than ...
This may suggest that the role of migration to suicidality is modest, yet this would need to be further examined. Next, important risk indicators such as emotional problems and sexual abuse were associated with an elevated level of attempted suicide in both ‘native’ and Caribbean groups. (...
Depending on different measurement methods 20-90% of adolescent girls report dysmenorrhea.This study examined the prevalence of dysmenorrhea among high-school female adolescent students in Eastern-Hungary. Early diagnosis and treatment of the possible pathological background is very important to prevent ...
The participants were 410 first year high school students (200 female and 210 male) who completed the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale, the Emotional Skills and Competences Questionnaire, the Social Support Scale and a Short Parental School Involvement Questionnaire. The results confirmed boys having ...
(LA). We examined the concurrent, simultaneous associations of externalizing disorders (i.e., ADHD, DBD, CD) and parental incarceration with number of suicide attempts made in participants’ lifetimes; as noted above, given the density of risk factors in this population, we adjusted for age, ...