Weight perception and mental health disorders among adolescents of central-eastern Tunisia: A cross-sectional study.

Background: The physical changes that accompany the onset of puberty demand a constant restructuring of the adolescent's perception of their body and may influence adolescents' mental health.

Aim: To describe weight status perception and its association with socio-demographic characteristics (SDC) and mental health disorders among adolescents in a low and middle-income country (LMIC).

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study in high schools in the urban area of the governorate of Sousse, Tunisia in 2018.

Reasons for consultation in gynecological and obstetrical emergencies among adolescents in Tunisia.

Objectives: The main objective is to study gynecological and obstetrical emergencies among adolescents admitted to the emergency room in our department.

Methods: At the Farhat Hached University Hospital in Sousse's Obstetrics and Gynecology Department, we carried out a retrospective study. Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of adolescents who consulted over a period of 12 months were described.

Dysmenorrhea in Tunisian high school adolescent girls: frequency, effects, and absence from school.

Objectives: Dysmenorrhea is a known phenomenon and not just recently, and investigations conducted recently have shown that female adolescents are very susceptible to this condition. Our goal is to determine the prevalence of dysmenorrhea in Tunisia, its risk factors, its impact on truancy rates, and the therapeutic attitudes of girls attending high school about this illness using an epidemiological survey.

Methods: This eight-month study, which spans from October 2022 to May 2023, focuses on 160 high school girls between the ages of 13 and 21.

Association of tobacco experimentation with anxiety and depression: findings from a representative sample of Tunisian adolescents.

Objectives: Emerging evidence points to tobacco experimentation being associated with a vast array of mental disorders, particularly anxiety and depression. We aimed to assess the prevalence of tobacco experimentation, its predictive factors and its potential links with anxiety and depressive disorders among in school adolescents in a Tunisian delegation.

Methods: We carried out a cross sectional study among adolescents schooling in middle and high schools in the delegation of Nfidha, Sousse, Tunisia, during the period from January to March of the 2019-2020 school year using an anonymous questionnaire self-administered to a representative sample of 1,353 randomly selected pupils.

Video games and Facebook addiction among Tunisian adolescents: prevalence and associated factors.

Objectives: As social media and online gaming technology have developed very rapidly over the last two decades, their paired issues are of growing concern worldwide. The aim of our study was to assess the prevalence of video game and Facebook addiction and its predictive factors among Tunisian in school adolescents.

Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional study among in school adolescents in Sousse, Tunisia, over the first academic term of the 2019-2020 school year using a self-administered questionnaire to a randomly selected representative sample of 1,353 students.

A Case of Acquired Aplastic Anemia after Severe Hepatitis- Probably Induced by the Pfizer/BioNTech Vaccine: A Case Report and Review of Literature.

Introduction: An important but rare adverse effect of vaccines is their association with autoimmune events, including hepatitis and aplastic anemia (AA). In this paper, we report a case of hepatitis followed by AA that occurred after the COVID-19 vaccine was administered.

Case Report: This paper focuses on a 30-year-old female who presented with acute hepatitis three weeks after receiving the second dose of the coronavirus Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.

[Gyneco-obstetrical emergencies at the obstetrics and gynecology department of Sousse: epidemiological study and becoming of the consultants].

Introduction: the objective of this work was to establish the clinical profile of patients consulting in gyneco-obstetrical emergencies and identify the reasons for consultation and the becoming of the consultants.

Methods: a one-center retrospective descriptive observational study was performed including patients who consulted between January 1 and December 31, 2018. Obstetric emergencies after 36 weeks of amenorrhea were not included.

Validity and reliability of a modified short version of a stigma scale for use among Tunisian COVID-19 patients after quarantine: A cross-sectional study.

Background And Aim: The COVID-19 is a stigmatizing infectious disease even after healing. Until now, no COVID-19 stigma scale validated in Tunisian Arabic language among the general population is available. Developing such tools is necessary to detect COVID-19 stigma and reduce it effectively.

[Delivery of twin pregnancy and materno-fetal prognosis in a level 3 Tunisian University Center: a retrospective study about 399 cases].

Despite obstetric and pediatric progress, twin pregnancy still represents nowadays a high-risk situation for both pregnancy and childbirth. It still remains a distressing situation for the obstetric team. The aim of this study was to describe the practice of twin pregnancy deliveries in the obstetrics and gynecology department of Sousse, the maternal and fetal prognosis and to analyze the factors that may influence it.

Three COVID-19 cases with a long-term viral shedding period in Tunisia.

Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has become a public health emergency of international concern. This was first emerged in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and then has become widespread all over the world. We report 3 cases (2 imported cases and 1 local case) with documented viral shedding (based on reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing) of SARS-CoV-2 for 55, 59 and 63 days.