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Prevalence and factors associated with menstruation-related school absenteeism among adolescent girls in rural northern Ghana

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background Although menstruation is a normal physiological process that begins in girls during adolescence, it has the potential to negatively impact on the self-esteem and education of girls particularly those from low- and middle-income countries.
Maxwell Tii Kumbeni, Florence Assibi Ziba, Joana Apenkwa, Easmon Otupiri   +3 more
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„Už mě to tam nebavilo“ – absentérství žáků středních odborných škol v kontextu odpoutávání se od školy

Orbis Scholae, 2020
Students’ high absenteeism represents a serious issue in Czech vocational education at the upper-secondary school level, and the overall number of missed lessons keeps rising.
Klára Šlapalová, Petr Hlaďo
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Estimating the effectiveness of early control measures through school absenteeism surveillance in observed outbreaks at rural schools in Hubei, China.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundSchool absenteeism is a common data source in syndromic surveillance, which allows for the detection of outbreaks at an early stage. Previous studies focused on its correlation with other data sources.
Yunzhou Fan, Mei Yang, Hongbo Jiang, Ying Wang, Wenwen Yang, Zhixia Zhang, Weirong Yan, Vinod K Diwan, Biao Xu, Hengjin Dong, Lars Palm, Li Liu, Shaofa Nie   +12 more
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School absenteeism as an adjunct surveillance indicator: experience during the second wave of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic in Quebec, Canada. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
BackgroundA school absenteeism surveillance system was implemented in the province of Quebec, Canada during the second wave of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
Christelle Aïcha Kom Mogto, Gaston De Serres, Monique Douville Fradet, Germain Lebel, Steve Toutant, Rodica Gilca, Manale Ouakki, Naveed Zafar Janjua, Danuta M Skowronski   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

School Absenteeism as a Perpetuating Factor of Functional Somatic Symptoms in Adolescents:The TRAILS Study [PDF]

, 2011
Objective To examine whether school absenteeism is a perpetuating factor of functional somatic symptoms and whether this holds true for bullied adolescents.
Dijkstra, Jan, Janssens, Karin, Oldehinkel, Tineke, Rosmalen, Judith, Veenstra, René   +4 more
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The School Absenteeism among High School Students: Contributing Factors

Educational Sciences: Theory & Practice, 2016
All students, yet for one reason or another, at one time or other time want miss to a day of school. The general tendency to engage in such unwillingness is referred to absenteeism. Student absenteeism is defined by Teasley (2004) as a period of time when a student does not attend school, has become major and continuous problem among high school ...
Balkıs, Murat, Arslan, Gökmen, Duru, Erdinç   +2 more
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What We’re Missing

AERA Open, 2017
For schools and teachers to help students develop knowledge and skills, students need to show up to class. Yet absenteeism is prevalent, especially in secondary schools.
Camille R. Whitney, Jing Liu
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School absenteeism data for surveillance purposes: a proxy for acute respiratory infection rates

BMC Public Health
Background School absenteeism data have potential as real-time public health surveillance tool to monitor infectious diseases. This study evaluates the validity and usefulness of school absenteeism data for application in acute respiratory illness (ARI ...
C. M. de Korne, M. Hooiveld, A. J. van Hoek, P. C.J.L Bruijning-Verhagen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

What Does School Attendance Mean in Japanese Compulsory Education Schools? Analysing the National Annual Report

Orbis Scholae, 2023
School absenteeism in Japan has become a serious psychosocial issue over the past few decades. According to the national survey conducted annually by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology − Japan (MEXT), the number of ...
Naoki Maeda
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Why do children stay absent from school? A study of causes in Bargarh cluster, Chitrakoot district, Uttar Pradesh [PDF]

, 2016
A study of factors affecting school absenteeism in a group of village schools in Chitrakoot district of the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh (UP) shows that the main cause for children not going to school regularly in a drought year (2016) was that ...
Ashok Gopal
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