Health Concerns of Iranian Adolescents: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Baheiraei, Azam; Khoori, Elham; Ahmadi, Fazlollah; Foroushani, Abbas Rahimi; Ghofranipour, Fazlollah

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“…Adolescence marks a significant period of childhood development, including physical, psychological, and cognitive changes, as well as social and emotional growth (Baheiraei, Khoori, Ahmadi, Rahimi Foroushani, & Ghofranipour, ; Waters, Lester, Wenden, & Cross, ). The way the family interacts, problem‐solves, communicates, adapts, displays warmth/closeness, and controls behaviour is important in maintaining cohesive family functioning (Berge, Wall, Larson, Loth, & Neumark‐Sztainer, ).…”

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Perceptions of Iranian parents towards the paternal role in raising adolescent children

Farshi

Valizadeh

Zamanzadeh

et al. 2018

Nursing & Health Sciences

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In Iran, as in other nations, adolescence can be a challenging period for both parents and their children. Typically, mothers assume the main role of parenting, which can have a negative impact either directly or indirectly on paternal involvement, or conversely, play a positive role of mediation between fathers and their adolescent children. In the present study, we report on a qualitative study conducted in 2016 that explored the perceptions of Iranian parents toward the paternal role in raising adolescent children. Twenty three mothers and fathers of adolescent children were interviewed to explore their views and experiences with paternal roles in raising adolescent children. Four themes emerged from the data: (i) limited father-child interactions; (ii) mother-led parenting; (iii) father-child conflict; and (iv) united front parenting. The findings suggest that mothers maintain a prime role in parenting, but that the involvement of fathers can have a negative or positive impact on adolescent development, depending on the level and quality of that involvement. Strategies need to be explored for how parents can best support one another to engage in the development of adolescent children.

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Perceptions of Iranian parents towards the paternal role in raising adolescent children

Farshi

Valizadeh

Zamanzadeh

et al. 2018

Nursing & Health Sciences

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“…Many studies have highlighted the prevalence of risky behaviors such as, smoking, drug abuse, alcohol consumption, and physical inactivity, among adolescents in Iran and other countries. [123]…”

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Healthy or unhealthy lifestyle: A thematic analysis of iranian male adolescents' perspectives

Zareiyan

2017

Iranian J Nursing Midwifery Res

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Introduction:Identifying what adolescents perceive as their lifestyle and exploring the factors persuading their decisions to engage in or avoid healthy or unhealthy lifestyle behaviors could improve the ability of healthcare professionals to develop innovative preventive strategies and modify negative health behaviors in adolescents. Hence, the literature on adolescent health-related issues reported by adults showed a rarity of information from adolescents themselves.Materials and Methods:A qualitative study using the thematic analysis approach was conducted. Data were collected by semi-structured, digitally recorded interviews from 32 male adolescents. Interviews were transcribed verbatim, and after collecting the data, the thematic analysis process was started and conducted in six phases.Results:After data collection, the interview texts were transcribed, and approximately 800 initial codes were extracted. The initial codes were reevaluated to yield 48 main themes. Hence, the final thematic map was created as having 5 overarching themes and 12 subthemes, showing that interviewees emphasized unhealthy lifestyle.Conclusions:The components of unhealthy lifestyle seem important to them because they consider that they could lead a healthy lifestyle through elimination of negative behaviors.

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“…Unfortunately, most girls do not have correct and adequate information regarding puberty and healthy behavior related to it (11) . Therefore, knowledge on the natural trend of puberty and its problems and challenges can help successfully passing through adolescence and into adulthood and fertility (12) .…”

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Mothers and their Adolescent Daughters Communication Regarding Pubertal Changes at Tanta City

Mohammed¹,

Hassan²,

Mahdy³

2017

IOSR JNHS

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Daughters and mothers have the great amount of reciprocal disclosure in adolescent-parent family relationships. Mothers are first teachers for their daughtersregarding puberty. It's important to encouragemothers-daughters effective communication.Aim of the study:Was to assess mothers and their adolescent daughters' communication regarding pubertal changes at Tanta City.Materials and Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study design was used in this study. Setting: This study was conducted in the governmental preparatory schools, Tanta city.Subjects: The total number of the study subjects was 400 mothers and their adolescent daughters.Data collection Tools: A structured questionnaire schedulewas prepared by the researchers.Itcomposed of two parts. Part I: for girls, that covered girls' source of knowledge about pubertal changes and menstrual hygiene, and their reaction to pubertal changes. Part II:mothers' communication and preparation of daughters for pubertal changes. Results: Slightly more than one third (35.0%) of mothers communicate with their daughters to prepare them for puberty.The majority of the studied mothers (88%) imposed restriction to their daughters after puberty.There were a statistically significant positive correlation between mothers' communication about puberty with daughters and their education, occupation, and number of children (P< 0.05). Conclusionand recommendations: About two thirds of mothers did not communicate with their daughters to prepare them for puberty. The majority of the studied mothers imposed restriction to their daughters after puberty. Friends were the main source of knowledge about puberty for more than half of the studied daughters. Educational programs aboutpubertal changesare recommended to be performed to adolescent daughters and their mothers.

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Health Concerns of Iranian Adolescents: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Perceptions of Iranian parents towards the paternal role in raising adolescent children

Perceptions of Iranian parents towards the paternal role in raising adolescent children

Healthy or unhealthy lifestyle: A thematic analysis of iranian male adolescents' perspectives

Mothers and their Adolescent Daughters Communication Regarding Pubertal Changes at Tanta City

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