Education for Life: A qualitative study on Adolescent's perspectives on health

Background and aimAdolescence 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.Materials and methodsIn 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.FindingsIn this study, three main categories included two subcategories have been emerged. The difficulties in higher education included (difficult entrance exam, university as mirage), education for life (necessary for healthy knowledge and behavior, extra capabilities), and schools and the great expectations (the exploration of the talented students, the parents-schools relationship).ConclusionKnowing the heath 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.