Adolescent girl school

Breast cancer awareness and education needs to start early to bring about a change in knowledge, attitude and practices. However, Breast cancer awareness activities in Ghana have usually targeted adult women. This study assessed the impact of breast cancer education among adolescent high school girls in Ghana.

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Anemia among reproductive age group women in Ethiopia is moderate public health problem. However, the prevalence of anemia among school going adolescent girls is not well documented yet. Objective: To determine the magnitude of anemia and associated factors among school going adolescent girls in Berahle district, Afar, northeast Ethiopia.

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Adolescent constitute about 20% of the total population, during this period they experiment for their adult identity and transition from dependence to independence. This leads to development of feeling of awkwardness and development of malnutrition among them. The malnutrition during this period affects their later life i.e., adulthood and old age.

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Nutrient intake during adolescence is of critical importance because this period is characterized by an exceptionally rapid rate of growth. The poor nutritional status of adolescents, especially girls, has important implications in terms of physical work capacity and adverse reproductive outcomes.

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The rapid growth and changes that occur in adolescents increase the demand for macro and micronutrients and addressing their needs particularly in females would be an important step to break the vicious cycle of intergenerational malnutrition.

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Reproductive health awareness is an important and emerging issue especially among adolescents. The present study aimed to investigate the extent of awareness regarding reproductive health among tribal adolescent girls. A total sample of 100 school going adolescent girls from 13 to 18 years were randomly selected from five villages of South West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya.

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Present research aimed to study the factors associated with obesity among school going girls of Kumaun region of Uttarakhand. The multi-stage, purposive cum random sampling techniques was used to select the study area i.e. state, district, block, villages, school and school going girls from selected school. The Uttarakhand state’s Kumaun region was selected purposively. Haldwani and Bajpur block from district Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar respectively were selected purposively.

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Physical activity patterns during recess have been poorly described among adolescents. Physical activity levels could be captured the most accurately using a combination of instruments.

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Adolescence is the transition period between childhood and adulthood, a window of opportunity for the improvement of nutritional status and correcting poor dietary practices. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an adolescent as any person between ages 10 and 19. The present was conducted to study the dietary practices and nutritional awareness of adolescent girls of Mahabubnagar district Telangana. Findings showed that when compared to urban adolescents, rural adolescents were less consuming green leafy vegetables and fruits.

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“The gender gap” refers to a lifelong higher rate of emotional problems in girls, as compared to boys, that appears during adolescence. The gender gap is a well-replicated finding among older adolescents and is assumed to be a cross-cultural phenomenon. However, these cross-cultural studies have not investigated the gender gap in ethnic minorities but sampled ethnic majority adolescents in different countries.

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Loneliness is negatively related to good health and wellbeing, especially among girls. There is little research, however, on factors that may ease the burdens of loneliness in the school setting. Thus, we explored the relationship between girls’ loneliness and later school wellbeing adjusted for other adversities.

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Across the globe, depression is a common psychiatric disorder and is the main cause of disability among adolescents. To this end, this study was conducted to screen for the prevalence of depression among secondary school female students in the city of Hamadan, in western Iran.

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Adolescence is a time of rapid physiological and psychological change of intensive readjustment to the family, school, work and social life and of preparation for adult roles. The term “adolescence” literally means “to emerge”, “to mature” or “achieve identity”. It is a significant phase of transition from childhood to adulthood, which is marked by physical changes accompanied by psychological changes. This is the time to make adolescents aware of and informed about various facets of life in order to promote a healthy way of living.

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Education should be the dynamic form of philosophy of any nation. India desired to adopt a socialistic way of life. As education is the only means to bring about the desired social change, a vast amount of money has been spent on education by the state. The present study was undertaken in 8 villages of Midjil mandal in Mahbubnagar district, Telangana state. Though the school education department succeeded in increasing the enrolment ratio in Mahbubnagar which is the most backward district in the state, it still continues to witness the highest dropout rate.

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Adolescence is a transition period from childhood to adult life during which pubertal development and sexual maturation take place, thus making physiological development a challenge adolescents have to face. There is a substantial lacuna in the knowledge towards menstruation among adolescent girls; hence, an attempt was made to study on Menstruation and Personal hygiene among Adolescent girls. Ex post facto research design was used for the study. The locale of the study was Midjil of Mahabubnagar district in Telangana State.

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The present study was conducted in Hisar city and two villages of Hisar district. Two Government Senior Secondary Schools (one for boys and one for girls) from rural area and two Government Senior Secondary Schools (one for boys and one for girls) from Hisar city were selected at random. The study was conducted with 16-18 years old adolescents. These adolescents were selected from randomly selected four Government Senior Secondary Schools. Total sample constituted of 240 adolescents, 120 from rural area and 120 from urban area. These 240 adolescents included 120 boys and 120 girls.

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The unmet need for family planning refers to the percentage of women between the ages of 15-49 who are married or in a union, and who do not want another birth, but are not using contraception. There is a great need to increase adolescent’s access to comprehensive, age-appropriate family planning services and information in the Pacific. Available data indicates that between 11% and 52% of Pacific women between 15-19 years old who are married or are in civil unions have an unmet need for family planning. Less than 20% of girls aged 15-19 and less than half of adolescent boys...

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The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood (NCCM) initiated reproductive health education in schools in 2003, with support from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the Egyp- tian Family Health Society. Initially, the project was called “The Reproductive Health Component for Support of Egyptian Girls.” The name later changed to the “Adolescents’ Health Program” at the request of the local communities. Originally a one-year initiative, it was extended until the end of 2012 due to its positive impact and community acceptance.

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One key element, also specified in Criterion 2.6, is that each set of competencies should be made available to school or program constituents, especially students. The site visit team will expect to see instructional objectives, programmatic competencies (for all MPH students), concentration competencies and course learning objectives in the self-study document and/or in an on-site resource file, but also in more public venues such as the website, student handbook, recruitment materials and course syllabi.

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The government aims for 100% enrollment as part of the MDG targets for 2015, with girls' enrollment share being 50%. Various obstacles to achieving this goal exist, such as lack of school facilities, in particular girls' schools in rural areas. The problem is even greater for girls' secondary schools, which are very few and scattered. Insecurity, combined with distance and lack of transport, prevents especially girls from accessing school facilities.

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