Decline In Average Age Research Articles

Creating Awareness about Adolescent Reproductive Health among Upper Primary School Students in Haryana through the Use of Interactive e-Modules

Adolescents are the prospective citizens of any nation; therefore, investment in terms of the well-being of adolescents is considered quite rewarding. Adolescents are now attaining biological maturity earlier than the previous generation, as witnessed by the gradual decline in average age of puberty and menarche; hence, it becomes imperative to address this cohort of the population. Integration of technology in the field of education has been an area of research for a long. The present study attempts to use digital technology in the form of e-modules created through H5P in creating awareness about adolescent reproductive health on upper primary school students. A sample of 309 students from randomly selected ten unaided private schools of Sonipat district of Haryana was taken. Interactive e-modules were developed for addressing adolescent reproductive health. After the pre-test administration, the experimental group was taught through e-modules and the control group was taught through the conventional method. The data was collected through validated tools over a period of three months. A post-test was conducted afterward to assess the awareness level. After ascertaining comparability of the two groups, data was analyzed using percentage and t-statistics. The data analysis showed that the difference in the mean and standard deviation of the post-test scores of the experimental group 20.50 ± 3.40 and the control group 15.72 ± 4.03 were statistically significant at 0.001 level (t value = 11.26, d.f. = 297). Thus, the study concludes that the interactive e-modules effectively create awareness about adolescent reproductive health at the upper primary school stage.

The Rise of the Novice Cabinet Minister? The Career Trajectories of Cabinet Ministers in British Government from Attlee to Cameron

Some commentators have observed that today's Cabinet ministers are younger and less experienced than their predecessors. To test this claim, we analyse the data for Labour and Conservative appointments to Cabinet since 1945. Although we find some evidence of a decline in average age and prior experience, it is less pronounced than for the party leaders. We then examine the data for junior ministerial appointments, which reveals that there is no trend towards youth and inexperience present lower down the hierarchy. Taking these findings together, we propose that public profile is correlated with ‘noviceness’; that is, the more prominent the role, the younger and less experienced its incumbent is likely to be. If this is correct, then the claim that we are witnessing the rise of the novice Cabinet minister is more a consequence of the personalisation of politics than evidence of an emerging ‘cult of youth’.

Long-term hospital treatment: a 25-year study.

Findings from a 25-year study of admissions to a single long-term private psychiatric inpatient facility document a sharp decline in average age and an increase in concurrent diagnoses of substance abuse and personality disorders. In this case, long-term private inpatient care has survived the significant changes in mental health policy and funding practices of the past quarter century, but has shifted its focus from a more general psychiatric caseload to the seriously disturbed adolescent or young adult patient. There are numerous factors which determine every aspect of hospital treatment. Though some are easily determined, many are dimly defined and difficult to measure. At present, their effect on patient progress is obscure. These factors, discussed in some detail, may be internal and peculiar to an institution itself. A dialogue is initiated for the insight it furnishes about the changes that have occurred in hospital treatment.

Teenage Marriage: Crossnational Trends and Sociological Factors in the Decision of When to Marry

Comparative analysis of demographic data on selected countries (Finland, Norway, Sweden, Yugoslavia, and the United States) indicates a common decline in average age at marriage and an increasing incidence of marriages involving males and females under 20 years of age. From papers prepared for the Eighth International Seminar on Family Research, these comparative data and their varying sociological explanations are drawn and analyzed. The explanations are found to vary according to the conceptual framework of the papers utilized. Four differing conceptual schemes are identified along with some of the specific sociological generalizations pertinent to each framework.

Mortality of Overstory Trembling Aspen in Relation to Outbreaks of the Forest Tent Caterpillar and the Spruce Budworm

ulations in the other blocks collapsed in October. During all this time the percentage pregnant was normal for increasing populations. Presumably the collapse of the populations resulted from a decline in average age of females till they were too young to breed so that while the percentage of sexually mature females breeding remained high , the number of mature females dropped drastically. A second part describes the procedure used here in fitting the data to a logistic