background: healthy dietary habits are known as a key factor for improving brain functions and cognitive ability in children and adolescents. the goal of this study was to evaluate the association of healthy food consumption with mental health in iranian children and adolescents.materials and methods: data were obtained from the fourth national school-based surveillance survey entitled caspian-...

background chronic kidney disease (ckd) is a common medical condition among children and obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) is a frequent, chronic, costly, and disabling disorder among them. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) in children with early stages of ckd, and to compare it with the occurrence of ocd in healthy children. patients and ...

The state of the world’s children is the best measure of human well-being, and the health of children is the best measure of the health of our planet. Clearly, neither planet earth nor children are in a healthy state. The largest single cause of childhood illness and death is diseases caused by unsafe water and poor or non-existent sanitation. One in four of the nearly 11 million children who d...

www.thoracic.org C LI P A N D C O P Y How much sleep is enough? The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) has set guidelines that define the amount of sleep needed by children to promote optimal health. Regularly getting this number of hours of sleep can help your child avoid health risks associated with sleep deprivation. This is a general guideline that applies to most children but some p...

background motor skills disorder in children with motor dys-function is a common disorder in childhood. the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence and severity of musculoskeletal disorders in children with developmental coordination disorder in comparison with healthy children. material and methods using developmental disorder coordina-tion questionnaire (dcdq'07), 59 male children...