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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">4147</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"> http://dx.doi.org/10.31782/IJCRR.2021.131903</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Awareness Regarding Pubertal Changes Among Adolescent Boys:__ampersandsignnbsp;A Review&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kurian</surname><given-names>Bibin</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Maurya</surname><given-names>Archana</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>11</day><month>10</month><year>2021</year></pub-date><volume>9)</volume><issue/><fpage>112</fpage><lpage>116</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Introduction: Because of the physical changes at the time of puberty, children in the age group of 10 to 19 show more interest to know about sex and sexuality. With the thinking of what father and brother will think of me if I ask doubts about the changes, they bury their doubts inside themselves. They do not get answers about the changes in anatomy and sexuality. In such situa tions, they talk with other children in the same age group who are also facing the same situation. Most of them do experiments and land up with a worsened situation. Because of the lack of correct knowledge about puberty, the adolescent boys may feel more anxiety, more tension, sometimes fear, nervousness, becomes restlessness and extremely stressed. It can lead to a situation that they won__ampersandsignrsquo;t be able to manage the situation. In that case, they try drugs, drink and smoke. Ultimately this will leads to bullying, lying, drunk driving, rebellious behaviour, body issues and mental health issues. Other than these, they may feel physical symptoms like nausea, vomiting, headache, stomach ache etc. Objective: In the present study an attempt was made to explore the need of providing awareness regarding pubertal changes among adolescent boys. Methodology: The required information was obtained through secondary data sources, which were available on the public do main. Discussion: There are lots of studies available on the internet regarding the awareness of girls about puberty, the changes associated with and how to deal with them effectively. But there are only a few studies available about the same topic for boys. Conclusion: There is a great need of providing awareness regarding puberty to adolescent boys so that many adverse effects of lack of knowledge can be prevented.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Puberty</kwd><kwd> Rebellious behaviour</kwd><kwd> Sexuality and stress</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
