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## Aim: Health care providers have considerable influence on adolescents' health promotion. thus, it is important to focus on the views of this group as one of the most reliable sources in the evaluation of teenagers' health needs. the aim of this study was to compare the attitudes of iranian health care providers and adolescents towards the latter's health education needs. ## Materials and methods: A quantitative cross-sectional survey, including 72 health care providers and 402 female students from 14 high schools in northern iran, was carried out in 2011. topics in a self-administrated questionnaire covered the participants' perspectives towards the educational health needs of adolescents in a five-point likert scale. ## Results: Findings revealed from health care providers' views indicate that the highest mean score was assigned to "education about prevention of sexual high risk behavior", which was significantly different from adolescents' perspective (t=8.42, p 0.05). ## Conclusion: Provision of health education programs for adolescents, which are based on integration of health care providers' perspectives and the adolescents' views, are essential in meeting adolescents' educ

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Author
Zohreh Shahhosseini; Kobra Abedian
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
2014
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)

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