[Education for life: a qualitative study on adolescents' perspectives on health]

ABSTRACT

Adolescence is a period of transience and development from childhood to adulthood and they face risky behaviors. This study aimed to describe and explain the educational predisposing factors on adolescents' health. In this qualitative study, content analysis has been done on educational factors and adolescents perspectives' on health. Fifty adolescents have purposefully selected and have been interviewed semi-structurally considering ethical issues till data saturation. The interviews recorded and transcript word by word. Several reviews have made to develop the codes and categories. Sliding movement made marginal data deletion. In this study, three main categories included two subcategories have been emerged. The difficulties in higher education included [different entrance exam, university as mirage], education for life [necessary for health knowledge and behavior, extra capabilities], and schools and the great expectations [the exploration of the talented students, the parents-schools relationship]. Knowing the health concept from adolescent is useful and leads to better future. For this reason, policymakers and managers are responsible to provide health education for this group so they can face real life situations