@article{ref1,
title="Self-care needs in the domains of knowledge, attitude and performance of adolescent girls with regard to drug addiction and risky sexual behaviors in Iran",
journal="Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research",
year="2021",
author="Bagheri, Zahra and Boroumandfar, Zahra and Shirazi, Maryam",
volume="26",
number="5",
pages="411-416",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Knowing about sexual issues and substance abuse is crucial for girls in preventing high-risk behaviors in the medical, social, cultural, and evolutional levels. The aim of this study was to determine the self-care needs of adolescent girls in the domains of knowledge, attitude, and performance with regard to drug use and risky sexual behaviors. <br><br>MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study was conducted in the secondary schools located in the third district of Isfahan. Data were collected from 384 female students by systematic random sampling on 2019, and using a four-part questionnaire including demographic characteristics and self-care needs (knowledge, attitude and performance), drug addiction and unsafe sexual behaviors were measured and then were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. <br><br>RESULTS: According to the adolescents, &quot;familiarity with infectious diseases caused by drug addiction&quot;, &quot;alcohol consumption, drugs and smoking as a way of forgetting problems&quot; and &quot;learning the skills of excitement control,&quot; were their first self-care priorities in terms of awareness, attitude, and performance, respectively. Additionally, &quot;understanding the social and mental effects of relationships with the other sex&quot;, &quot;separating the children's bedrooms from that of parents&quot; and &quot;ways of caring for personal hygiene in menstruation period and travel time&quot; were considered as their first self-care priorities in terms of knowledge, attitude, and performance with regard to sexual behaviors, respectively. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Based on the results, more effective interventions to protect the adolescents from being involved in substance use and sexual harmful behaviors are recommended through the training of self-care needs in adolescents.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1735-9066",
doi="10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_263_19",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_263_19"
}