A 10-year-old male patient with homozygous sickle cell disease presents for a follow-up clinic visit after a recent hospitalization for a painful vasoocclusive event. His parents mention that in the past year he has had 4 hospitalizations for vasoocclusive events, 2 of which were complicated by the development of acute chest syndrome that resulted in transfer to the intensive care unit. He has ...

Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) runs in families. Building on recent theoretical approaches, this review focuses on potential environmental pathways for parent-to-child transmission of GAD. First, we address child acquisition of a generalized pattern of fearful/anxious and avoidant responding to potential threat from parents via verbal information and via modeling. Next, we address how paren...

background : malnutrition is still a major health problem in the developing countries. it is recognized that 60% of deaths among children under five year in these countries are associated with malnutrition. the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of malnutrition in children under 5 years old in iranshahr in 2011.   materials and methods : this is a cross-sectional descriptive study...

Investigation of deaths in early childhood is one method of assessing the quality of child care in a district. This paper describes a study carried out in one health district, on children in the age group one week to five years: 28 deaths occurred over a two-year period, 25 of these in the first year of life. The deaths are classified according to potential preventable factors. The study gave a...

The existing literature on attitudes towards immigration has not accounted for the potential effect of unobservable home education on attitude formation. Yet, factors such as parents’ knowledge, their morals, and their weltanschauung are likely to influence the attitudes of the next generation. Their omission from the analysis thus threatens to lead to erroneous conclusions. Utilizing siblings ...

BACKGROUND With more liberal visiting hours in paediatric intensive care practice, parents' presence at the bedside has increased. Parents may thus become involved in critical incidents as contributors or detectors of critical incidents or they may be affected by critical incidents. METHODS Voluntary, anonymous, non-punitive critical incident reporting system. Parents' involvement in critical...