RUDN Journal of Medicine (Dec 2015)

Medico-social characteristics of families and quality of life of teenagers

  • R Ya Nagai,
  • S G Akhmerova,
  • L P Chicherin,
  • D H Abilova

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 2
pp. 39 – 44

Abstract

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Studied the social portrait of families and the quality of life of 2240 adolescents aged 10 to 17 years. More than 20% of families of surveyed adolescents can be attributed to the families of medico-demographic risk. Quality of life of adolescents is characterized by high levels of social and physical functioning at a relatively low level of school functioning. Total index of the quality of life of adolescents aged 10-14 years is higher than among adolescents aged 15-17 years.

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