Introduction: Undoubtedly any health care system could not meeting all of needs of people. so prioritizing of the needs is necessary. Needs assessment does not mean one need is superior to another perfectly. It is determing the most important needs, determing common needs and importance of each need in health care planning. The aim of this study is to assess psycho-Emotional needs of female adolescents. Methods: In this cross-sectional study 2010 middle and high school female adolescents were recruited from randomly selected schools in Mazandaran province-Iran. Psycho-Emotional needs of participants were assessed by completing a self-administrated culturally-sensitive Iranian Female Adolescents Health Needs Questionnaire (IFAHNQ).Data were analyzed using Pearson Correlation Coefficient, Independent T-Test, One-Way Anova and Multivariate regression. Results: There was a meaningful relationship between psycho-Emotional needs´ score of adolescents with their age and their mothers´ education. Mean score of needs of urban adolescents was significantly higher than rural. Conclusion: Ignoring adolescnts´psycho-Emotional needs and not to attempting for meeting them could lead to irrecoverable serious problems in the future of adolescent mental health.
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Background & purpose: Adolescence is one of critical period of life with a variety of developmental changes, conflicts and concerns. To be most effective, adolescent health promotion efforts must incorporate adolescents´ perspectives on what health concerns means. Material and methods: Sixty-seven female adolescents (12-19 years) and 11 key informants, recruited from urban and rural areas from Sari in the North of Iran using non-probability sampling, participated in eight focus group discussions and semi structured interviews. All tape-recorded data was fully transcribed and thematic analysis was done to identify key themes. Results: Findings of this research around the adolescents´ reproductive health services needs emphasized on 5 overarching themes including: Concern about the joint life with spouse, Concern about find a suitable job in accordance to her major, Poor self-image and Contradiction between truth and reality. Conclusion: This study shows that subjects such as education, finding a job, common life in the future are the most concerns of Iranian female adolescents which could not ignore them easily and all from parents to policy makers should try enough efforts to solve them.
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