BACKGROUND Parents of young athletes play a major role in the identification and management of sports-related concussions. However, they are often unaware of the consequences of concussions and recommended management techniques. HYPOTHESIS This study quantitatively assessed parental understanding of concussions to identify specific populations in need of additional education. We predicted tha...

Children with moderate learning disabilities often fail to qualify for special education programs in public schools, but are ill-suited for placement in private schools concerned with the severely disabled. Parents of such children may place their hopes in the promises of private teachers or clinics. Yet the quality of services provided in the private sector varies widely. This paper describes ...

PURPOSE Strabismus and anisometropia are the most common causes of amblyopia. It can be easily prevented or treated if detected early. With the changing socio-cultural-economic milieu of the society, the perspectives of strabismus in society are gradually changing but still adequate knowledge, awareness, and attitude of parents toward strabismus will help in preventing amblyopia and aid in the ...

BACKGROUND A series of studies has demonstrated that sick children fare better when their parents are present. OBJECTIVE To examine working conditions that determine whether parents can spend time with and become involved in the care of their children when they are sick. DESIGN Survey with a multivariate analysis of factors influencing parental care of sick children. PARTICIPANTS Mixed-in...

Background Food allergic children are at least partially dependent on their parents to care for their food allergy. In addition, parents are often responsible for the education of others regarding food allergy, including the family, school, neighbours and friends. Aim of this study was to investigate food allergy knowledge, attitudes and beliefs of parents with food allergic children in the Net...

Is the intergeneration educational link due to nature or nurture? In order to separate the nature (genetic) and nurture (education) effects, researchers have relied on situations where two individuals are specifically affected by one or the other effects but not both; typically comparing twins’ offspring or natural and adopted children. These studies estimate that maternal schooling has no effe...

Analysis of the National Sample Survey Data from 2011-2012 shows that a gender-based education gap exists. Women are more likely than men to be illiterate. Some parents continue to view household duties as more important than education in the case of girls, causing some to drop out in primary and middle school, which leads to lower experience accumulation. However, females are almost equally as...

Asthma is the second leading admitting diagnosis at Children's Hospital Boston (CHB), having an impact on many patients and families annually. To improve education for parents of patients hospitalized with asthma and increase health care providers' completion of individualized asthma action plans (AAPs), nurse experts established a comprehensive inpatient asthma education program based on the 2...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between physicians' tobacco-related medical training and physicians' confidence in their tobacco-related skills and smoking-related interventions with parents of child patients. DESIGN Mailed survey. SETTING Canada. PARTICIPANTS The survey was mailed to 800 family physicians and 800 pediatricians across Canada, with a corrected response rate of 65% (N...

O lsson et al. (1) describe an association between high levels of education and an increased risk of autoimmune diabetes in adults. They propose “the hygiene hypothesis” as an explanation for their results indicating that childhood environment and a low prevalence of childhood infections might contribute to the evolution of autoimmune diabetes. We would like to draw the attention to an alternat...