how to cite this article:  esmaeeli m, erfani sayar r, saghebi a, elmi saghi, rahmani sh, elmi s, rabbani javadi a. screening for depression in hospitalized pediatric patients. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):47-51.   objective in chronically ill children who are hospitalized, many mood changes occur. for example, in children with cancer or renal failure, prolonged hospitalization and ch...

ebola virus disease is the important emerging disease in africa. this infection is deadly and has the main clinical feature as an acute hemorrhagic fever. the main hematological alteration in this infection is the platelet change. however, the change in other hematological parameters should be mentioned.

background few studies, especially in iran, have assessed the status of family participation in the care of the hospitalized patients. objectives this study was conducted to assess why family members partake in caregiving of their patients in hospitals, the type of care that family provide, and the outcomes of the participation in the opinions of nurses and family members. patients and methods ...

objective: this study was conducted to identify the characteristics of patients with psychosis who had escaped from hospital or were discharged prematurely and against medical advice. method: we carried out this retrospective study on 72 patients with psychosis who were discharged prematurely over a 38-month period and compared them to 76 patients with psychosis who were discharged according to...

background: in medicine, especially in pediatrics, it is necessary to perform regular epidemiologic studies in different geographic regions. this study was performed in nemazee hospital, shiraz, southern iran to determine the gastrointestinal (gi) disease spectrum, the mortality and also the rate of matching final diagnosis with the initial impression in pediatric gi ward. â  methods: of all th...

background: hiv/aids patients are mainly hospitalized for hiv-related diseases and opportunistic infections. thisstudy was performed todetermine thecauses ofhospitalization and its related factors in hiv/aids patients in tehran’s imam khomeini hospital during 2009-2012. methods: thisstudy wasa descriptive cross-sectionalstudy . hiv patients admitted to the imam khomeini hospital were included i...

objective: providing treatment and educational services for consumers and their caregivers is more effective if those services are implemented based on their characteristics and differences. to partly address this objective, the present study aimed to describe and compare characteristics and differences of chronic hospitalized and household maintained consumers and their caregivers who were reg...

context:  sleep is an effective factor in the process recovery from diseases. many variables affect the ‎sleep quality of hospitalized older patients. aim: this study was conducted to evaluate the quality of ‎sleep and its related risk factors in hospitalized older patients in kashan’s hospitals, iran 2009. ‎settings and design: a cross-sectional study was carried out on a sample of 400 hospita...