Weight perception of adolescent dancing school students

Article Abstract:

Young dancers seriously studying ballet may be at increased risk for eating disorders because of beliefs about weight. Ballet dancers are known to be obsessed with thinness. Researchers compared perceptions about weight between 43 ballerinas aged 13 to 17 at two different ballet schools and their teachers and 29 girls of similar age and their teachers at a regular school. The ballet dancers had danced three to five times a week for three or more years. Based on weight-for-height measurements, 37% of the dancers were underweight versus 17% of the comparison group. Ballet dancers were more likely to incorrectly consider themselves and their classmates as overweight compared with non-dancers. Underweight dancers were especially likely to overestimate weight. Similarly, ballet teachers were more likely to incorrectly consider their pupils to be overweight than regular school teachers considered their pupils. Ballet teachers failed to identify 87% of their underweight students.

Risk factors, Eating disorders, Self-perception, Ballet dancers, Self perception

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School-based health care for urban minority junior high school students

Article Abstract:

Junior high school-based clinics may fill a critical need for medical and mental health services to inner-city youth. A public health school maintains four clinics in New York City junior high schools attended by a low-income mostly Hispanic population. Clinics are staffed by mostly bilingual nurses, social workers, and health educators backed by doctors at a nearby hospital. During the 1991-1992 school year, 3,723 (65% of enrollees) children made 16,340 visits. Half the children reported no other source of health care. Thirty-one percent had psychological or social problems, 11% had injuries, 15% had infections, 10% came for routine physical examinations or immunizations, and 7% came for reproductive care or contraceptive counseling. Ninety percent could be treated at the clinic. Of those referred out, 17% were referred for reproductive care or contraceptive counseling. Contraceptive counseling cannot be given on school grounds.

Services, Ambulatory care facilities, Medical care utilization, Junior high school students, Middle and junior high school students, Clinics, Hispanic American students

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Pediatric firearm-related fatalities: not just an urban problem

Article Abstract:

Rural children may have a higher risk of injury and death from firearms than urban children. Researchers analyzed 320 firearm-related deaths among Kentucky children from 1988 to 1993. The death rate among rural children was 6 per 100,000 per year, which was higher than the 4.12 per 100,000 per year rate among urban children. Rural white males and urban African-American males were found to have similar death rates from firearms. The largest group of deaths were suicides (49% of total), and suicides occurred more often among white children (56%). Homicide accounted for 72% of firearm-related deaths among African-American children. Adolescents may be especially at risk from firearm-related deaths and injuries.

Patient outcomes, Mortality, Children, Rural population, Gunshot wounds

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