In 2022, Imelda Coyne, Professor in Children's Nursing & Co-Director of the Trinity Research in Childhood Centre (TRiCC) and Maria Demma Cabral, Associate Professor in Adolescent Medicine in Cottage Children's Medical Center, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, took over as Co-Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (IJAMH).

Both bring a tremendous wealth of experience and expertise on adolescent health and well-being in broad contexts, and we are excitedly looking forward to this new phase of the journal.

Objective
The International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health (IJAMH) is an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, scientific journal with aim to publish original research in all aspects of promotion and improvement of adolescents’ health and wellbeing. We seek original manuscripts, review articles, short communications and letters to the editor from all disciplines worldwide. We welcome manuscripts from our colleagues in medicine, clinical medicine, nursing, health services research, public health and policy and other disciplines that strive to improve adolescents’ health and wellbeing internationally. Our International Editorial Board is dedicated to producing a high-quality scientific journal that is essential reading for healthcare professionals, practitioners, researchers, educators, managers, policy makers, students, and other learners and which advances and promotes adolescents’ health and wellbeing.

Topics

Medicine and Clinical Medicine
Health issues
Adolescents
Hygiene and Environmental Medicine

Article formats
Review Articles, Original Articles, Short Communications, Letters to the Editor

Volume 20 Issue 3

Issue of International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

Traumatic events and depressive symptoms among youth in Southwest Nigeria: A qualitative analysis

Has early initiation of sexual activity in adolescence had an impact on teenage childbearing in Trinidad and Tobago?

Parental bonding and depression: Personality as a mediating factor

Family structure and risk behaviors in Greek adolescents: A short report

The impact of sex education on HIV knowledge and condom use among adolescent females in the Dominican Republic

Prevalence of smoking among Greek students: A short report

Marked smoking-associated increase of cardiovascular risk in childhood type 1 diabetes

Anthropometric characteristics of Indian school children living in Bahrain

Using population attributable risk to help target preventive interventions for adolescent depression

Medical students: Abuse of psychoactive substances and sexuality aspects

Perceptions of adolescents and their mothers on reproductive and sexual development in Matlab, Bangladesh

Medical supervision of young female athletes training in complex coordinational sports

Behavioral and other characteristics of relevance for health in adolescents with self-perceived sleeping problems

Characterizing health behaviors and infectious disease prevalence among Filipino street children

Parental attitude toward unaccompanied clinic visits of adolescents

Trends in the number of children in Israel 1970-2006