Effectiveness of Early Childhood Care and Education on Wellbeing of Children Aged 2 to 24 Months

The Effectiveness of Quinn’s Early Childhood Education Program on the Self-esteem of Preschool Children

Background and Purpose: Preschool period is one the most important developmental periods in childhood that paying attention to it can lead to the development of healthy personality in adulthood, because concepts related to cognitive, emotional, affective, and social development are founded and evolved in this period. Accordingly, the present research was conducted to investigate the effectivene...

The Application of Social Cognitive Theory on Mothers’ Feeding Practices for Children Aged 6 to 24 Months old in Iran

Background Complementary Feeding between 6 and 24 months of age underlies nutritional habits in adulthood which can be formed by mothers through these habits. This study was conducted in Kerman aiming to apply the social cognitive theory (SCT) in feeding practices of mothers for their children aged 6 to 24 months. Materials and Methods This quasi-experimental study, controlled before and aft...

The Impact of Early Childhood Education and Care on Improved Wellbeing

INVESTING IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND CARE: THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING CASE Moore T, Oberklaid F. Investing in Early education and care: The Health and Wellbeing

The dramatic social and demographic changes that have occurred in developed nations over the past several decades have lead to significant changes in the circumstances in which families are raising young children, and in the conditions that young children experience as they group up. In parallel with these social and demographic changes, there is evidence of worsening health and developmental o...

Clinical Predictors of Hospital Admission in Children Aged 0-24 Months with Acute Bronchiolitis

BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis is a significant cause of acute morbidity in children less than 2 years old and some children with bronchiolitis are admitted to the hospital. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To identify clinical predictors of hospital admission in children aged 0-24 months with acute bronchiolitis.   METHODS: All children in the age group of 0-24 months presenting with acute bronchiolitis to a ded...

Ages of eruption: study on a sample of 204 Italian children aged 6 to 24 months.

AIM The purpose of this study is the evaluation of the tooth eruption ages in a sample of children aged between 6 and 24 months. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample consists of 204 children aged between six and twenty-four months, followed up for a period of one year in collaboration with seven pediatricians in the province of Sassari (Italy). The visits were carried out at the paediatricians' p...