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Monitoring School Absenteeism for Influenza-Like Illness Surveillance: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 2023
BackgroundInfluenza causes considerable disease burden each year, particularly in children. Monitoring school absenteeism has long been proposed as a surveillance tool of influenza activity in the community, but the practice of ...
Tim K Tsang, Xiaotong Huang, Yiyang Guo, Eric H Y Lau, Benjamin J Cowling, Dennis K M Ip   +5 more
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Menstrual hygiene practices and school absenteeism among adolescent girls in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study

Population Medicine, 2021
Introduction Menstrual hygiene practices refers to maintaining specific hygiene during menstrual periods. Excused or unexcused school absenteeism can be attributed to adopted menstrual hygiene practices.
Mehedi Hasan, Md Nazmul Hassan, Mohsina H. Mita, Fatema T. Zahara, Md Hasib   +4 more
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Menstruation-Related School Absenteeism: An Urban Centre Study in the Northern Region of Ghana

Women, 2023
Menstruation-related school absenteeism significantly affects girls’ academic progress and general wellbeing. This study aimed to assess menstruation-related school absenteeism in an urban population in the Northern Region of Ghana.
Mubarick Nungbaso Asumah, Qorinah Estiningtyas Sakilah Adnani, Edem Kojo Dzantor, Mirza Adil Beig, Gifty Mary Wuffele, Doreen-Remember Donkor, Abdul-Malik Abdulai, Wisdom Klutse Azanu, Ali Davod Parsa, Russell Kabir, Abdulai Abubakari   +10 more
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Alcohol and drug use as factors for high-school learners’ absenteeism in the Western Cape

South African Journal of Psychiatry, 2021
Background: School absenteeism has been studied in detail in relation to health risk behaviours using cross sectional studies. Aim: The aim of this longitudinal study was to examine the association amongst alcohol, drug use and high-school learners ...
Godswill N. Osuafor
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Editorial: School Attendance and Problematic School Absenteeism in Youth [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2020
Editorial on the Research Topic School Attendance and Problematic School Absenteeism in Youth.
Kearney, C.A., Heyne, D.A., Gonzálvez, C.   +2 more
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Body Mass Index and Associated Factors of School Absenteeism by School Feeding Program at Selected Primary Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Comparative Study

Scientifica, 2021
Background. Quality of education plays a crucial role in the social, economic, and political development of a nation. Primary school is a vital stage in developing the personality and consciousness of school children. Objective.
Solomon Muluken Ayehu, Addisu Tadesse Sahile   +1 more
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School absenteeism among children [PDF]

Indian Pediatrics, 2010
Educational success of children is close to the heart of most educated parents in India. Economic success and social upliftment in life was always closely related to jobs, whose prerequisite was only academic achievement. But in the recent times, with the advent of the information technology industry, there is increasing emphasis on skill development ...
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Evaluation of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection, New York City

BMC Public Health, 2005
Background School absenteeism data may have utility as an early indicator of disease outbreaks, however their value should be critically examined. This paper describes an evaluation of the utility of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection ...
Mostashari Farzad, Heffernan Richard, Besculides Melanie, Weiss Don   +3 more
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Measuring School Absenteeism: Administrative Attendance Data Collected by Schools Differ From Self-Reports in Systematic Ways

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
In order to use attendance monitoring within an integrative strategy for preventing, assessing and addressing cases of youth with school absenteeism, we need to know whether the attendance data collected by schools cover all students with (emerging ...
Gil Keppens, Bram Spruyt, Jonas Dockx
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The Recording, Reporting, and Use of School Attendance Data by School Personnel in The Netherlands: Toe the Line or Take a New Path?

Orbis Scholae, 2022
Research signals the importance of promptly identifying and responding to emerging absenteeism, to prevent severe and chronic absenteeism. Prompt identification and response relies upon a good system for recording, reporting, and using data related to ...
Evelyne Karel, David Heyne, Marga de Weerd, Rene Halberstadt   +3 more
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