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- Title
The Challenges of Female Adolescents’ Health Needs.
- Authors
Shahhosseini, Z.; Simbar, M.; Ramezankhani, A.; Alavi Majd, H.; Moslemizadeh, Narges
- Abstract
Due to adolescents’ future crucial roles, their health needs should be included in the national health system policy. In this cross-sectional study 2010 female adolescents were recruited from randomly selected schools in Iran. To obtain their health needs, the participants completed a self-administrated questionnaire. It was revealed that emotional needs were the most important health needs of adolescents. Furthermore, there was a meaningful relationship between health needs’ score with the adolescents’ age and their mothers’ education level. Finally, the mean score of health needs was significantly higher in urban adolescents. Therefore, it is suggested that adolescents’ emotional health needs to be paid attention; otherwise irrecoverable serious problems may occur in the next generation’s health.
- Subjects
IRAN; CONFIDENCE intervals; HIGH school students; NEEDS assessment; PROBABILITY theory; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION analysis; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; MEDICAL care for teenagers; CROSS-sectional method; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
Community Mental Health Journal, 2013, Vol 49, Issue 6, p774
- ISSN
0010-3853
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10597-013-9606-6