A prospective observational study was conducted in a male orphanage to find out the prevalence of enterobiasis and its incidence after blanket chemotherapy using mebendazole. We found that the prevalence of enterobiasis was 28.9%. The incidence density of enterobiasis after blanket chemotherapy was 379.82 per 1,000 person-years which was quite high. We suggest that blanket chemotherapy should b...

Providing abandoned children the necessary medical and psychological care as possible after their institutionalization may minimize developmental delays. We describe psychomotor development in infants admitted to an orphanage in Khartoum, Sudan, assessed at admission and over an 18-month follow-up. Psychological state and psychomotor quotients were determined using a simplified Neonatal Behavio...

Street children are a high priority for health policy and service planning in Kenya. Poverty, wars, famine and disease have resulted in street children having a persistent presence in African cities and towns. The Maastricht Social Network Analysis (MSNA) was implemented as the core instrument in a battery to measure the health status of the street children. Owing to the absence of census data ...

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The development of a child cannot be separated from his moral and morals are formed through early coaching. Therefore, guidance care for foster children is an obligation that must carried out. according to experts parenting divided into four groups. the first authoritarian education, both permissive education patterns, third democratic fourth situational patterns. all used guide have good moral...

Resilience is the ability to endure and face resolve problems or pressures. This what adolescents who live in orphanages must have. Adolescents are included children at risk group, where these tend have a greater chance of experiencing shocks terms emotions, intellectuals, social behavior. In increasing resilience, one them by having gratitude. literature review aims show that important role gr...

OBJECTIVE We investigated whether children institutionalized in an orphanage would engage in more developmentally competent play with their caregivers as opposed to playing alone and whether specific qualities of caregiver-child interactions were associated with more developmentally competent play. METHOD Twenty-six children, ages 10 to 38 months, participated in independent play sessions and...

The odorant receptors (ORs) provide our main gateway to sensing the world of volatile chemicals. This involves a complex encoding process in which multiple ORs, each of which detects its own set of odorants, work as an ensemble to produce a distributed activation code that is presumably unique to each odorant. One marked challenge to decoding the olfactory code is OR deorphanization, the identi...

Intestinal parasitic infections are common in mental institutions (Jeffrey, 1960; Yoeli et ai, 1972). In Saudi Arabia, previous studies have revealed that higher prevalences, especially of giardiasis and amebiasis, exist among residents of closed institutions such as orphanages, child nurseries, rehabilitation centers and schools com­ pared to urban or rural populations (AI-Madani et ai, 1989; ...