Social determinants of self-reported emotional and behavioral problems in Greek adolescents

Abstract

Our results confirm that social factors, including negative family functions, lack of academic motivation and not having close friends, were associated with emotional and behavioral problems among adolescents and imply the need to develop a supportive social network for adolescents.

Factores de riesgo relacionados con la salud sexual en los jóvenes europeos

“…Tras la lectura de los resúmenes seleccionados, se excluyeron 223 artículos más por no cumplir alguno de los criterios de inclusión. La muestra final de los estudios publicados en revistas contuvo 21 artículos sobre 17 estudios diferentes [6][7][8][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33] .…”

“…También debemos ser prudentes a la hora de generalizar estos resultados a toda la población de jóvenes debido a que algunos estudios se llevaron a cabo en muestras de conveniencia, que pueden ser poco representativas de la población general y no permiten generalizar sus conclusiones a la población de referencia 15,20,23,24,40 . Sin embargo, el objetivo de esta revisión no es dar recomendaciones precisas sobre Salud Sexual sino describir, de un modo general, los conocimientos, actitudes y prácticas sexuales de los jóvenes europeos.…”

Tracking of Overweight and Obesity in Greek Youth

“…The methods of selection and follow-up of the cohort have been previouslydescribed [11][12][13]andaresummarizedbriefly.…”

“…For each survey, the questionnaireswerekeptanonymous.Furthermore,duetothefactthat theGreekadolescentparticipantsrespondedtothequestionnaireshortly before their university entry examinations, the attrition was relatively high. Nevertheless, sensitivity analyses showed that the follow-up data was well representative of the initial Greek birth cohort from whom it was selected [12,13]. The participants contacted in 2001 did not differ significantly from participants lost to follow-up in background factors suchaslivingarea,mother'smaritalstatusorbirthweight,butgirlswere slightly overrepresented, and parents' social class was slightly higher in the follow-up group than in the sample lost to follow-up.…”

Screening for children’s depression symptoms in Greece: the use of the Children’s Depression Inventory in a nation-wide school-based sample

“…10-18 CDI total score). Few published studies have investigated emotional and behavioural problems among Greek school-aged children and adolescents with regard to their school performance or in comparison to data from different cultural settings [4,23]. The results of these studies present increased rates of children with emotional or/and behavioural problems compared to results of international studies.…”