conclusions the results showed that the elderlies living in daycare centers had better qualities of lives physically and mentally. therefore, to improve their qualities of lives in two general physical and mental domains, items such as providing family communications inside or outside the nursing homes as well as planning to fulfill mental and psychological needs besides physical issues like mo...

OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of providing daycare facilities for young children on the health and welfare of disadvantaged families. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. Eligible children from the application list to a daycare facility were randomly allocated to receive a daycare place or not. SETTING Early Years daycare centre in Borough of Hackney, London. PARTICIPANTS 120 mothers and...

Objective To assess the effects of providing daycare facilities for young children on the health and welfare of disadvantaged families. Design Randomised controlled trial. Eligible children from the application list to a daycare facility were randomly allocated to receive a daycare place or not. Setting Early Years daycare centre in Borough of Hackney, London. Participants 120 mothers and 143 e...

OBJECTIVE To obatin an overview of available information on the anthropometric assessment of Brazilian children attending daycare centers. DATA SOURCE A literature search was carried out in the PubMed, LILACS and SciELO databases of studies published from 1990 to 2013 in Portuguese and English languages. The following search strategy was used: (nutritional status OR anthropometrics OR malnutr...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and etiological profile of enteropathogens in children from a daycare center. METHODS From October 2010 to February 2011 stool samples from 100 children enrolled in a government daycare center in the municipality of São José do Rio Preto, in the state of São Paulo, were collected and analyzed. RESULTS A total of 246 ba...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine tympanometric values of children who attend Oporto daycare centers and further analyze any relations with host and environmental factors. METHODS Cross sectional study in a randomly selected sample of 117 daycare children up-to 3-years old from Oporto. Tympanometric measures were collected. RESULTS Children presented in left ear (LE) a mean p...

OBJECTIVE To determine the safety of daycare adeno-tonsillectomy in a tertiary care centre. METHOD A retrospective chart review of 207 patients who had undergone tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy as daycare procedure in Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, between January 2008 to March 2009 was done. Demographic data as well as complications requiring unplanned admissions were recorded. An...

INTRODUCTION Tonsillectomy is one of the most common procedures performed by Ear, Nose, and Throat surgeon. Usually, the procedure is carried out as an inpatient surgery. With the increasing need to reduce healthcare costs, spare precious hospital beds, and shorten elective surgery lists, there is currently a trend towards performing tonsillectomy on a daycare basis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A p...

Like many other developing countries, Brazil has been going a nutritional transition which presence both malnutrition and overweight. Stunting and overweight are the major public health problems in Brazilian children. The objective of this study was to document the prevalence of stunting, overweight and anemia in preschool children and examine if those nutritional problems are related; also ide...

Sejak pandemi Covid-19, banyak orang tua yang memiliki anak mengalami kendala untuk menjalani kehidupan sehari-hari akibat pembatasan perlu dilakukan mencegah penularan virus Covid-19 ini. Salah satunya yaitu ketika dapat kembali bekerja dan terpaksa menitipkan di fasilitas daycare. Hal ini juga beresiko khususnya terhadap usia dini. Sehingga adanya sistem normal baru dengan cara mematuhi proto...