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Adolescent ; Adolescent Medicine* ; Adolescent* ; Humans

This was the first time in the Vietnam population strategy during 2001-2010; the adolescent and youth were subjects of the information and communication activity and reproductive health services. The 'advice, information exchange and communication for couples in the reproductive ages, men, youth and adolescent' and 'improvement of the adolescent reproductive health' was an objective of the reproductive health strategy. Up to 2010, 70% of adolescent received the advice on the reproductive health.
Reproductive Medicine ; Adolescent

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the attitudes of middle-school students about height and their behaviors related to height gain. METHODS: One thousand four hundred twenty two middle-school students were included. We requested that the students complete a battery of questionnaires asking about problems associated with height. RESULTS: There was a clear difference between real height and desired height. Most students (83.7%) had height dissatisfaction. Most students (91.1%) were concerned about their height. Few students made efforts to improve their height, even though most students had height dissatisfaction and were concerned about their height. Herbal medicine had a tendency to become popularized in treatments for height. Students generally did not judge their friends by height, but there was a small tendency to ignore shorter friends and to feel a sense of inferiority around taller friends. Most students had a greater desire to have a beautiful face than a good body, especially to be tall. Most students thought that there would be some handicaps in life if they had a short stature. CONCLUSION: The attitudes and concerns about height in adolescence should be understood, and recognized as one aspect of treatment for problems associated with height.
Adolescent ; Friends ; Herbal Medicine ; Humans ; Surveys and Questionnaires

The ultimate goal of the term alteration to pediatrics is that not only infants and children but also adlescents are subjet to pediatrics. At 27, June, 2007 the term pediatrics was altered to pediatrics (children and aoldescent medicine). From now on the roles of pediatricians for adolescents are needed and adolescent medicine should be reorganized in Korea. Although the numbers of children are decreased in the times of low birth rate, the efforts of pediatricians try to enlarge the range of treatment for adolescents are need.
Adolescent ; Adolescent Medicine ; Birth Rate ; Child ; Humans ; Infant ; Korea ; Pediatrics

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the problems and the quality of the Internet Web-sites for management of short stature in childhood and adolescent. METHODS: We evaluated 105 Web-sites identified from 5 search engines, Naver, Daum, Korean Yahoo, Nate and Empas, using the word of 'height and/or short stature'. According to Web-site author, total Web-sites were classified as academy & society, physician, commercials, portal site, oriental medicine, and unidentified. We accessed how well the Web-sites informed people about the diseases by of short stature. RESULTS: Of the 105 Web-sites, 98 were accessible. 45 Web-sites (46%) were operated by oriental medicine group. Difference in IS between oriental medicine group and non-oriental medicine groups was significant (P<0.001). CONCLUSION: A great portion of Web-sites on short stature was operating by oriental medicine group. Oriental medicine Web-sites had a tendency to be omitted essential information on short stature and occasionally even had unhealthy information. This investigation could have a adverse influence that internet navigators for short stature might miss a chance of managing in time and there were huge increasing medical expense. There was strongly demand for reliable national certification system to certify to exellent quality for medical and health Web-sites.
Adolescent ; Certification ; Humans ; Internet* ; Medicine, East Asian Traditional ; Search Engine

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to find what medical students think the reward for their future work should be and whether they would keep their ideals or abandon them for prestige and wealth by analyzing the book reports of Cronin's The Citadel. METHODS: Participants were 50 medical students of junior class. A month before the classroom lecture, the book and digital video disk were provided. Students had discussions in groups of seven and wrote book reports which include answers of three questions. RESULTS: Regarding what should be the reward for the medical doctor, two-thirds of students (66.7%) answered with spiritual compensation, while one-third (33.3%) chose material reward. In the situation presented to Manson, three-fifths (60.0%) answered they would keep their ideals (idealist), while the remaining two-fifths (40.0%) decided they would abandon them. Less than one-third of students (30.0%) answered they would reveal the corruptions of the doctor's society, while two-thirds (64.0%) would not. CONCLUSION: The larger number of idealists who prefer spiritual reward rather than a material reward represents the innocence of youth as in portrayed in The Citadel.
Adolescent ; Compensation and Redress ; Humans ; Medicine in Literature ; Reward ; Students, Medical

PURPOSE: This study was designed to establish standard guidelines to meet the growing health care needs of adolescents by direct assessment of pediatricians' current practices, attitude and obstacles to the primary care of adolescents. MEHTODS: A questionnaire consisting of 9 questions, including personal characteristics of respondents, current health care practice of adolescents, attitude, obstacles to providing adolescent care, interest in further training, roles of Korean Pediatric Society for adolescent medicine, etc., was completed by 214 pediatricians. RESULTS: Among the respondents, 87.4% were in the 4th or 5th decade of age, and 88.8% of respondents were working for private clicins. More than 60% of respondents were managing patients without age limits. Most of the respondents were interested in adolescent medicine. However, approximately one half of all respondents answered that they could not currently provide satisfactory care to their adolescent patients. Obstacles to providing adolescent care include : their image as "baby doctors", lack of knowledge and skills in adolescent medicine, lack of separate hours for adolescents and concern that parents would object to certain types of care. Among respondents who wanted to further training, many were interested in Continuing Medical Education(CME) course, lecture series, introducing reading lists and publishing textbooks, while others expressed their interest in a newsletter and mini-fellowship. Respondents expected the Korean Pediatric Society to play a role in activating the adolescent medicine as a field for pediatric practice through educating adolescents, pediatricians and advertising via mass media. CONCLUSION: Future policy decisions and medical education must respond to these realities in pediatric practice.
Adolescent Medicine ; Adolescent* ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Delivery of Health Care* ; Education, Medical ; Humans ; Mass Media ; Parents ; Periodicals as Topic ; Primary Health Care

BACKGROUNDPrevious studies have noted that there is a high utilization rate of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) services in Taiwan, China and in western countries, but few studies investigated factors associated with the utilization of TCM in Taiwan. This study analyzes the utilization rate and the factors associated with the utilization of TCM in Taiwan.

METHODSData for this study were from the 2002 HPKAP Survey that conducted the face-to-face questionnaire interviews of people aged 15 years and over from October 2002 to March 2003 in Taiwan. This study analyzed the utilization of TCM outpatient services, including admission to the hospital and clinic visits.

RESULTSA total of 26 755 participants completed the survey in the six-month period. The data revealed that 10.4% of participants had utilized TCM services in the past one month while 4.2% of participants utilized TCM only (without using Western medicine outpatient services (WM) or Folk therapy (FT)). The average visits of TCM services per patient was higher among people who had utilized TCM and FT services (2.68 visits) than among those who had utilized WM and FT services (2.15 visits) or TCM services alone (2.15 visits) during the previous one month. Younger people (odds ratio OR = 1.78, 95% CI = 1.47 - 2.16), women (compared with men), and people with higher education levels (OR = 1.58, 95% CI = 1.25 - 1.98) were more likely to visit TCM than compared groups. People with self-reported poor health status (OR = 2.07, 95% CI = 1.76 - 2.44) and people who exercise regularly (OR = 1.17, 95% CI = 1.07 - 1.27) had higher ORs to visit TCM service than comparison group.

CONCLUSIONSThere is a high utilization of TCM in Taiwan. Further studies are needed to investigate the related factors and determinants between the utilization of TCM and the utilization of FT in Taiwan.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; utilization ; Middle Aged ; Taiwan

OBJECTIVETo Compare clinical therapeutic effect of improved thunder-fire miraculous needle and moxibustion on vertigo.

METHODSOne hundred and seventeen cases conformed with the TCM criteria of vertigo were randomly divided into an observation group (n=66) and a control group (n=51). The observation group were treated with improved thunder-fire miraculous needle and the control group with pressing and moxibustion at Baihui (GV 20). After treatment of one therapeutic course, the therapeutic effect was assessed by vertigo symptom rating scores.

RESULTSThe total effective rate was 86.4% in the observation group and 66.7% in the control group, with a significant difference between the two groups (P<0.05).

CONCLUSIONThe improved thunder-fire miraculous needle can significantly relieve and eliminate symptoms of vertigo, with no adverse effect.

Acupuncture Therapy ; methods ; Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; Middle Aged ; Vertigo ; therapy

OBJECTIVETo establish corresponding set pair analysis mathematic model using the clinical symptoms of blood-heat type psoriasis vulgaris (BHTPV), thus guiding the clinical accuracy of clinical syndrome typing.

METHODSRecruited were 202 BHTPV with complete data after they were treated by yang subduing blood cooling method. Their clinical symptoms and signs were systematically collected. Using set pair analysis method, the therapeutic results of cured and markedly effective were recruited as the same portion, of effective as the different portion, and of ineffective as the contrary portion. The U value of each syndrome factor was calculated according to the formula. The correlation factor of syndrome typing of BHTPV was screened. The syndrome typing model of BHTPV was established according to the correlation factor.

RESULTSThe main factors of BHTPV included the scale integral > 2.04, the erythema integral > 2.34, age > 50 years old, the area integral > 2.07, dry mouth, slippery pulse, yellowish fur, soggy pulse, dry and hard stool. The secondary factors included less sweat, insomnia, frequent pulse, any infiltration, erythra of any area, red tongue, depression, the disease course ranging 1-360 months, age ranging 16-50 years old, string-tight pulse, thin fur, the area integral ranging 0-2.07, white fur, purplish tongue, the scale integral ranging 0+ -2.04, and feeble pulse. The third factors included the erythema integral ranging 0-2.34 and pale red tongue. The set pair analytical model of BHT-PV was as follows: U = sigma An/N + sigma B(m)i/M + sigma C(p)j/P.

CONCLUSIONSU blood-heat syndrome > or = 0.75 could be judged as blood-heat syndrome. Satisfactory efficacy could be achieved by blood cooling method. For patients with U blood-heat syndrome < 0.75, no satisfactory efficacy could be achieved by blood cooling method alone since they were accompanied with other syndrome types.

Adolescent ; Adult ; Aged ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Medicine, Chinese Traditional ; methods ; Middle Aged ; Psoriasis ; diagnosis ; Young Adult