A cross-sectional study was conducted to explore the betel-chewing behavior of junior high school students in Taichung County in 1998. The sample consisted of 2244 students in the general area and 84 students in the aboriginal area. Fifty percent of the students in the aboriginal area had had the experience ...

BACKGROUND: Anecdote, media coverage and earlier research suggest that the rate of suicide amongst students at Cambridge and Oxford Universities is unduly high. There is also a popular belief that student suicide is common at examination times. METHOD: Student deaths at the University of Cambridge were identified using the University ...

BACKGROUND: Despite legal prohibition of drinking by minors, there has been no systematic attempt to monitor drinking by young Japanese. This research, the first Japanese national survey of Japanese adolescent drinking behaviors, was conducted in 1996. METHODS: In this survey, information on drinking frequency was obtained from questionnaires completed by ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the attitude of high school students majoring in Physics, Chemistry and Biology (PCB) towards Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Veterinary Medicine and Nursing as professions at university. DESIGN: A cross sectional study of a representative sample of high school students using a pretested attitudinal questionnaire. Attitude components tested were ...

OBJECTIVE: Children consume about one third of their daily energy at school, mostly from cafeteria food and bag lunches. Students also shop at student-run stores that generate revenue for extracurricular activities; yet the nutritional value of snacks sold at student stores has not been documented to our knowledge. DESIGN: Cross-sectional ...

This map indicates the percentage of people in different areas of the Kansas City, Missouri metro area who have completed at least a high school degree.

The prevalence of marijuana use among young people has risen rapidly in recent years, causing concern over the potential impact on academic performance of such use. While recent studies have examined the effect of alcohol use on educational attainment, they have largely ignored the potential negative effects of other substances, ...

A cross-sectional study was designed to determine the prevalence of betel chewing and the high-risk groups among the students of the first and second grades in five types of senior high schools in southern Taiwan. The results reveal that more male than female students were betel chewers: the prevalence rate ...

High school students were surveyed every 6 months from their freshman through senior years concerning licensing, driving, and transportation to and from their various activities. Students in Delaware (learner's permit can be issued at age 15 years, 10 months; driver's license at age 16) were compared with students in Connecticut ...

This brief report summarizes a survey of high school and college representatives and their awareness toward gambling-related problems. The Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling developed a survey instrument to review the policies and training programs of 20 high schools and 10 colleges that were located within the catchment areas of ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a high-probability request sequence on the latency to and duration of compliance to a request for completion of an independent math assignment. The participant was an elementary-school student with learning disabilities who exhibited noncompliance during math instruction. The results ...

This study examined age-group differences in students' motivation, self-perceptions, task and ego orientations and perception of motivational climate in Greek physical education lessons. Six hundred and seventy-four students aged 10-17 years responded on self-reports which, in this study, had acceptable internal consistencies. The results showed that senior high school students ...

The N2 and P3b components of event-related potentials (ERPs) were studied in students who were identified as being at high risk for psychosis on the basis of their scores on the Chapman Psychosis Proneness Scales (PPS). The Magical Ideation subscale (MIS), the Perceptual Aberration subscale (PABS), and the Social Anhedonia ...

The "big hit" is glorified in professional ice hockey. But body checking is unnecessary for the quality of the game and demonstrably dangerous for most amateur players at the youth, high school, and college levels.

The informal social interaction behavior that is typical of a high school lunchroom in which general and special education students are physically included was described. Using systematic observation and social comparison methods, we compared the performance of two groups of students (12 general education students and 12 students with mental ...

Alternative high schools serve approximately 280,000 students nationwide who are at high risk for failing or dropping out of regular high school or who have been expelled from regular high school because of illegal activity or behavioral problems. Such settings provide important opportunities for delivering health promotion education and services ...

Taiwan has high prevalence of antibiotic resistant, community-acquired respiratory pathogens. We investigated whether there was a high frequency of antibiotic use in the community. Antimicrobial activity in urine was detected in 55.2% of 1182 patients on arrival at an emergency department, 25.1% of 203 internal medicine out-patients, 7.6% of 471 ...

Learning awareness, including semantic content, response strategy, processing strategy, summarization, and memory in the classroom, were examined in students with mental retardation. From urban schools in Japan special high school students with average IQ of 60 (n = 40) and students with normal intellectual capacity matched on mental (n = ...

The authors use longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to investigate whether the wage trajectories of male high school dropouts are affected by the acquisition of the General Educational Development (GED) credential, by postsecondary education, and by training. The authors show that acquisition of the GED results ...

In this study, we sought to determine the prevalence and characteristics of aortic regurgitation (AR) in apparently healthy adolescent students. A total of 315 healthy junior high school students underwent echocardiographic examination. There were 158 boys and 157 girls, with a mean +/- standard deviation age of 13.3 +/- 0.9 ...

This study has assessed seat belt use and factors which may influence seat belt use among high school students from three types of schools. The inner city schools had high proportions of African American and Hispanic American students from low income families, whereas the middle class school and private schools ...

In April, 15 suburban high school students were killed and more than 20 wounded in Littleton, Colorado, the victims of two violent adolescent boys. During the same week, another adolescent boy, Thomas Koskovich, was found guilty of capital murder in New Jersey's rural Sussex County. A week before that, in ...

OBJECTIVE: Abnormalities in the mucosal lining of the vocal folds may interfere with the normal vibratory patterns and result in vocal limitations, especially for singers whose demands are great. A prospective, longitudinal study was undertaken to investigate the incidence of laryngeal abnormalities in asymptomatic singing students. METHODS: Sixty-five singing students ...

PURPOSE: To explore the prevalence of dysmenorrhea among senior high school girls in Perth, Western Australia, its impact on school, sporting, and social activities, students' management strategies, and their knowledge of available treatment. METHODS: A total of 388 female students in Grades 11 and 12 at three metropolitan secondary schools ...

A national random sample of 228 high school health teachers completed a 45-item survey to examine their perceived self-efficacy regarding adolescent suicide. Most respondents were female, White, and held master's degrees. Most believed it was their role to recognize students at risk for suicide, believed that if they did recognize ...

This study compared the rates of violence perpetration from two groups of young adults. Samples of 782 recruits at U.S. Army basic combat training were surveyed by the author, and 3,700 adolescents from inner-city and suburban schools were surveyed by another researcher to assess levels of premilitary exposure to violence ...

PURPOSE: To examine possible mismatch between the individual body dimensions of students and the classroom furniture they use. METHODS: A total of 74 (37 male and 37 female) sixth-through eighth-grade students in a Michigan school district participated in the study; their ages ranged from 10 years, 11 months to 14 ...

This exploratory study examines differences in the prevalence of drug use by gender among twelfth grade students (n = 464) in selected rural and suburban high schools in west-central Ohio. The lifetime use of alcohol and other drugs is common among all groups. Proportionally fewer boys in rural schools than ...

The relationship between knowledge, attitude and sun-related behaviour among Swedish students was examined in the present study. A total of 296 of 305 questionnaires, distributed among university students (medical school and economy programme) were analysed (157 men, 139 women, mean age 24 years). The percentage of students sunbathing with the ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine risks of exposure to and prevention of bloodborne virus infections among medical students during their elective period. DESIGN: Questionnaire study of students returning from their electives in 1997-8. SETTING: Urban teaching hospital. SUBJECTS: 220 final year medical students. RESULTS: 148 students (67%) returned questionnaires; all had been ...

Reported are the results of a survey to assess the prevalence of illicit drug use among high-school students in Jamaica. A total of 2417 high-school students in 26 schools were covered: 1063 boys and 1354 girls of whom 1317 were grade-10 students (mean age 15.7 years) and 1100 were grade-11 ...

The rise in marijuana use among high school students has generated considerable concern. The apparent failure of current marijuana control efforts may be due in part to ignorance about why students use marijuana and what influences them to consider quitting. This article utilized both open-ended and multiple-choice surveys as well ...

Certain aspects of biomedical engineering applications lend themselves well to experimentation that can be done by high school students. This paper describes two experiments done during a six-week summer internship program in which two high school students used electrodes, circuit boards, and computers to mimic a sophisticated heart monitor and ...

This study examined the extent of victimization and delinquency in the past year among 962 junior and senior high school students in a large Canadian city. The incidence of having a weapon at school was also investigated. Further, relationships between victimization, delinquency, and weapon possession were explored. The prevalence of ...

Statistical data show that heterosexual transmission of AIDS among teenagers is a significant problem. The purpose of this study was to assess and compare the level of knowledge concerning HIV/AIDS among high school freshmen- and senior-level students and to determine the association between certain demographic variables and the students' knowledge ...

This study investigated variables related to how students choose to be remembered after high school (remembrance role). Over four hundred students in small, medium, and large high schools in a midwestern state provided information on demographics, parental characteristics, personality traits, participation in high school activities, and remembrance role. Discriminant analysis ...

PHO uses data to avoid future costs: Potentially high-cost, high-risk patients may not show up in billing data until it's too late. Read why a PHO in the Northeast decided to go on the offensive to get its high-cost and high-risk patients into disease management or preventive care programs.

The association between mental health disorders beginning in adolescence and disorders in early adulthood is increasingly acknowledged. The mental health of adolescents has not been studied in the eastern area of Taiwan, where the mortality of teenagers is highest in Taiwan. The purpose of this study was to assess psychiatric ...

Effects of perceived attractiveness and academic performance on 9th graders' ratings of peers' popularity were investigated. Participants were 270 9th graders (152 girls, 118 boys) who read a vignette describing a hypothetical same-sex peer with whom the student had been assigned to complete a project. The partner's attractiveness and academic ...

Two studies examined the importance of motive dispositions in determining the extent to which the pursuit of personal goals accounts for interindividual differences in emotional well-being. Within the domains of agency and communion, motives were assessed with a picture-story test, whereas self-report measures were used to assess goal attributes. Study ...

BACKGROUND: High immigration rates contribute to the high incidence of pediatric tuberculosis (TB) in San Diego, Calif. Adolescents frequently have poor access to health care and may not receive appropriate TB screening. School-based screening has been ineffective in detecting TB in other parts of the country. OBJECTIVE: To determine the ...

My high school lost its final scheduled game of the season. When I say "my" high school, I mean the local high school where I've spent the past eight seasons on the sidelines and in the training room as the volunteer team physician.

The HBV serum marker of 2925 new students was detected by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. This produced results with a high degree of precision in a large study sample. The detection results showed that the HBsAg positive rate of new students is closely related to the family location, being either ...

OBJECTIVES: This study identified behavioral and psychosocial/interpersonal factors in young adolescence that are associated with handgun carrying in later adolescence. METHODS: A sample of 2200 high school students was surveyed at 9th grade and again at 12th grade. RESULTS: Multivariate logistic regression analyses indicated that measures of risk-taking preference, depression, ...

OBJECTIVES: Marijuana use among high school seniors increased during most of the 1970s, decreased throughout the 1980s, and has been increasing again during the 1990s. Earlier analyses of the classes of 1976 through 1986 attributed the historic trends during that period to specific changes in views about marijuana. This study ...

In the present study, regression analyses were used to determine whether particular domains of perceived competence, alienation from school, and cultural mistrust of society in general predicted judgments of global self-worth and global self-discrepancy in a group of African American high school dropouts in a compensatory program. The participants were ...

PURPOSE: This research tested the hypothesis that adolescents perceive germs and resulting illness to be more virulent when contracted from a disliked source than from a liked source. METHODS: High school students rated their imagined illness from a disliked person and a friend. Independent judges rated students' drawings of germs ...

BACKGROUND: Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is thought to be a congenital disease, however, its exact prevalence is not known. This may be because of the intermittent activity of accessory pathways in some cases and fluctuations in autonomic tone. AIMS: To investigate the prevalence of ventricular preexcitation by electrocardiography and reported symptoms in ...

Differentiated examination of eating attitudes and behaviours of female and male German ballet school students with particular reference to their age and analysis of common points with and differences from female Anorexia nervosa (A.n.) patients. The Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) was used. Male and female adolescent students of a ballet ...

The centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) administered its 75-item 1991 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance survey to a nationwide random sample of 12,248 high school students. In a secondary analysis of their data, one item on students' perceived class standing, was compared with selected health risk-taking practices. The 7.7% ...