Social health Needs in High School Female Students: Fhenomenological Study

In countries like Iran in that most of the population consists of young people, designing and implementingcomprehensive health programs targeted at young people must become a priority in national programs. More thanhalf of high school students in Isfahan are female. Because of their more vulnerability, and their role in health of futuregenerations, it is essential for health community to be aware of what they are experiencing about their health needs, andbased on this awareness, designing and implementing accurate programs should be done in order to improve theirhealth. This study was carried out with the aim to describe experienced health needs of female high school students. A phenomenological qualitative approach was used with participants chosen amongst the female high schoolstudents from five districts of Ministry of Education – in Isfahan. Purposeful sampling was adopted in the study andsample size was composed of a total of 15 participants selected and went until data saturation. Deep interviews wereused through Straubert method. From the findings of the interviews, 77 codes expressing participants'' experiences were emerged. At the endthese codes were categorized in 3 themes. As 1) school and school performance 2) social security 3) interactions withopposite sex. Social interactions are crucial during adolescence and have great impact on students'' health. In fact,female adolescents express and define their health according to their interactions and communications with the environment.