Background: Sedentary behavior is prevalent among female college students and may negatively affect motor competence—a key component of physical literacy and lifelong health. However, limited research has compared motor proficiency across disti...
Background: Adolescents’ engagement with social media and emerging metaverse platforms has become nearly universal, creating environments rich in opportunities for learning, creativity, and social connection. However, these same spaces also ena...
Blood pressure prediction in adolescents continues to remain a major challenge for health practitioners. In classical regression, many factors are found to be statistically significant based on p-values due to large sample sizes, but they may not be...
This study compared executive functions, anthropometric profile, and dietary habits in adolescent girls with and without eating disorder (ED) symptoms. The main objective was to determine the relationship between the presence of ED symptoms and the d...
Across the globe, adolescents often grow up surrounded by cultural silence, taboo, or discomfort regarding conversations about sexuality, relationships, and power. The absence of timely, comprehensive, and honest conversations about sexuality, power...
Introduction: School belonging is a key component of adolescent well-being, associated with academic success, mental health, and social inclusion. This study explores the levels of school belonging among Portuguese students and examines the psychosoc...
Background: Adolescence is marked by heightened reward sensitivity and incomplete maturation of cognitive control, creating conditions that favor engagement in risky behaviors. Traditional self-report methods often overlook the fast, automatic proces...
Substance use remains a global public health concern with adverse effects on health, education, and community safety. In South Africa, in rural areas like substance use among secondary school students compromises teaching quality and school safety. T...
Parenting style plays a key role in adolescent development and well-being. This study set out to examine how different dimensions of perceived parenting styles influence resilience levels among a sample of 609 Spanish secondary school students aged 1...
Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute vasculitis of childhood that usually affects children under five but can also present in adolescence. Although less common, adolescent cases pose unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenges due to atypic...
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