every year, many accidents leading to physical injuries in kindergartens, indicates that a very large percentage of them are related to the safety concerns and lack of hygiene in these places. families, due to their busy life style and working hours and also children needs of preschool education, are searching to find most suitable kindergartens for their children. selecting a kindergarten with...

BACKGROUND Recruitment of participants with obesity is a real challenge. To reduce time and costs in similar projects, we investigated various recruiting strategies used in a longitudinal family study with respect to their enrolment yield and cost effectiveness. Results may help other research groups to optimize their recruitment strategies. METHODS We applied different recruitment strategies...

Preschool children spend a large part of their everyday life in kindergartens, so it is necessary to include visits the forest, which most extensive natural environment Slovenia, preschool childcare programs. Based on surveys with teachers public kindergartens Slovenia (N = 133), we analysed habits, purposes, barriers and concerns associated visiting forest. The frequency duration forest largel...

This is a scoping review of peer-reviewed journal articles within Nordic Early Childhood Education and Care research from 2014 to 2020. We aim explore if how the concept systemic leadership employed on kindergartens. Forty-two studies were included. The results show study types, methods informants used. Based qualitative content analysis, six dominating perspectives identified in studies. These...

BACKGROUND In preschoolers, high levels of sedentary behaviour are associated with several adverse health outcomes. The purpose of this study is to report the effects of the ToyBox-intervention (a European 24-week cluster randomised controlled trial) on sedentary behaviour in preschoolers. METHODS In Belgium, 859 preschoolers from 27 kindergartens (15 intervention and 12 control) wore an acce...

Recently, William Hasker and Cheryl Chen have argued that James Sterba’s argument for the non-existence of God based on existence horrendous evil consequences fails. Hasker, among other things, contends eliminating will result in a moral kindergarten. It is unclear, however, whether elimination Moreover, if right, then it may be most people actual world live argues lead to morally worse world. ...

This study examined the effects and specificity of structured and unstructured activities played at the playground Primo Sport 0246 in Northern Italy on motor skill competence in five years old children. The playground was specifically designed to promote gross motor skills in preschool children; in this study 71 children from local kindergartens came to the park once a week for ten consecutive...

background: early dental caries in childhood is one of the health problems. this survey was carried out to determine the prevalence of dental caries and its contributing factors among 3-6 year old children in varamin, iran kindergartens. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 838 children aged 3-6 years from varamin kindergartens were selected by census and examined for dental caries using who...

Introduction: Intestinal parasitic infections are of a major public health problem in many societies. Enterobius vermicularis (E. vermicularis) is particularly more persistent in places such as kindergartens, dormitories, and barracks, where people live and work together. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and risk factors of infection with E. vermicularis in the kindergartens of De...