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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.
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The authors wish to thanks Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences for funding this research and all adolescents without their cooperation the study was not possible.
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Shahhosseini, Z., Simbar, M., Ramezankhani, A. et al. The Challenges of Female Adolescents’ Health Needs. Community Ment Health J 49, 774–780 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-013-9606-6
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