title: The challenges of female adolescents' health needs.
abstract: Due to adolescents' future crucial roles, their health needs should be included in the national health system policy. In this cross-sectional study 2010 female adolescents were recruited from randomly selected schools in Iran. To obtain their health needs, the participants completed a self-administrated questionnaire. It was revealed that emotional needs were the most important health needs of adolescents. Furthermore, there was a meaningful relationship between health needs' score with the adolescents' age and their mothers' education level. Finally, the mean score of health needs was significantly higher in urban adolescents. Therefore, it is suggested that adolescents' emotional health needs to be paid attention; otherwise irrecoverable serious problems may occur in the next generation's health.
authors.affiliation: Department of Midwifery, Nursing and Midwifery Faculty, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Shahhosseini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Simbar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ramezankhani
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Alavi Majd
authors.forename: Narges
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Moslemizadeh
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D002648:Child; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran / Q000453:epidemiology; D020380:Needs Assessment; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult