Bahareh Maghfouri

Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

[ 1 ] - Internal Consistency of Reliability Assessment of the Persian version of the ‘Home Falls and Accident Screening Tool’

Objectives: Falling is a common problem among the elderly. Falling indoors and outdoors is highly prevalent among the Iranian elderly. Therefore, identification of the contributing factors at home and their modification can reduce falls and subsequent injuries inthe elderly. The goal of this study was to identify the elderly at risk of fall, using the ‘Home Falls and Accident Screening To...

[ 2 ] - Fine Motor Development of Low Birth Weight Infants Corrected Aged 8 to 12 Months

Objectives: The aim of this study was to compare the fine motor development between Low Birth Weight (LBW) infants and Normal Birth Weight infants (NBW) at the age of 8-12 months by using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scale-2 (PDMS-2) . Methods: This was a non experimental and cross sectional study which was conducted on the 18 LBW infants and 14 normal infants. By referring to the profile...