BACKGROUND ConQoL questionnaire assesses health related quality of life among children with congenital heart diseases. It has a version for children aged 8 to 11 years and another for children aged 12 to 16 years. AIM To validate ConQol questionnaire for Chilean children with a congenital heart disease. MATERIAL AND METHODS Using a multicentric cross sectional design, 334 children from four...

abstract   background: hospitalization can affect children psychological health. the aim of this study was to explore how children experience hospitalization. methods: using conventional content analysis, the data were collected through indirect techniques including drawing and storytelling on 25 children aged 7-12 years old in 2009 from two paediatric hospitals of hajar and tehran (located in ...

BACKGROUND Influenza-associated pediatric deaths became a notifiable condition in the United States in 2004. METHODS We analyzed deaths in children aged <18 years with laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infection reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the 2010-2011 to 2015-2016 influenza seasons. Data were collected with a standard case report form that included d...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate changes in influenza vaccination rates in healthy and at-risk children following the implementation of the UK's childhood influenza immunisation programme. DESIGN Observational cohort study before and after initiation of the UK's childhood influenza immunisation programme over three influenza seasons (2012-2013, 2013-2014 and 2014-2015) using data from the Clinical Prac...

This research is case study which was designed to investigate the acquisition of tense by Persian and English speaking children between 2to4 years aged. Four girls were precisely analyzed in order to figure how the tense of verbs is effective in their speaking that learners need to succeed in their daily lives. The subjects were randomly selected to study and the matter of gender was not consid...

Mortality surveillance and vital registration are limited in Sierra Leone, a country with one of the highest mortality rates among children aged <5 years worldwide, approximately 120 deaths per 1,000 live births (1,2). To inform efforts to strengthen surveillance, stillbirths and deaths in children aged <5 years from multiple surveillance streams in Bombali Sebora chiefdom were retrospectively ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of Sure Start local programmes (SSLPs) on children and their families. To assess whether variations in the effectiveness of SSLPs are due to differences in implementation. DESIGN Quasi-experimental cross sectional study using interviews with mothers and cognitive assessment of children aged 36 months who speak English. SETTING Socially deprived communities ...

Objectives: Handwriting problems are among the most frequent reasons for case referrals to school-based occupational therapy centers. Persian Handwriting Assessment Tool (PHAT) is a valid tool available in Iran to evaluate handwriting components in school-aged children. However, its reliability has not been investigated yet. This study aimed to determine the reliability of the PHAT in Iranian p...