This paper examines father involvement in childcare from the perspective of couples’ co-participation care tasks and factors associated with fathers’ time performed by fathers alone. Drawing on Korean Time Use Survey 2014, a sample dual-earner parents preschool aged children, results show that spent alone was considerably less than mothers. About 80% mothers’ total compared 59.5% for fathers. F...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the common effects of maternal vitamin D deficiency, various doses of vitamin D given to newborns and the effects of these on vitamin D status in early childhood. Seventy-eight pregnant women and 65 infants who were followed up in various health centers were included in the sudy. 25-hydroxyvitamin-D (25-OHvitD), calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P) and alkali...

OBJECTIVE To investigate behavioral risks and life circumstances of adolescent mothers with older (> or =5 years) adult (> or =20 years old) vs. similar-aged (+/-2 years) male partners at 12 months' postpartum. METHODS Nine hundred thirty-one adolescent females were interviewed after delivery and were mailed surveys to complete at 12 months' postpartum. Analysis by chi(2) and t test was used ...

BACKGROUND Birth weight is a good indicator of mothers' and neonates' nutritional status, and it contributes to the newborn baby's survival, health, growth and development. AIM This study identified social factors associated with differences in the mean birth weight of newborn babies in Jordan. METHODS This retrospective study analysed medical records to determine possible risk factors asso...

abstract the present study aims to investigate the relationship of self-efficacy and emotional intelligence on educational achievement among high school students martyrs girls. the method of this study in nature is descriptive and correlation. the population size of this study consists of 215 students were selected as sample from all high school of zahedan city for this study.187 students respo...

OBJECTIVE Research has found corporal punishment to have limited effectiveness in altering child behavior and the potential to produce psychological and cognitive damage. Pediatric professionals have advocated reducing, if not eliminating its use. Despite this, it remains a common parenting practice in the US. METHODS Using a three-group randomized design, this study explored whether embeddin...

PURPOSE This study was done to identify the parenting experience of mothers of premature infants in order to provide basic data for educational solutions and desirable directions. METHODS Q-methodology was used as it provides a method of analyzing the subjectivity of each item. The participants were 33 mothers of premature infants who sorted 34 selected Q-statements which were then classified...

Background: Proposing an appropriate model of feeding behavior to mothers plays an important role in creating an accurate child feeding conduct. Studies have shown that mothers have low level of knowledge and practice regarding their childrens’ nurishment. Newsletter is an educational media providing families with easy access to information resources. Group discussion is one of the best ways to...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to evaluate the effect of parenting education on improvement of reading and writing disabilities in children. METHODS A randomized controlled trial was done on primary school students with reading and writing disabilities and their mothers. The subjects were divided into three groups with 26 members in each group. The first group (mothers' education group) re...