Background & Objective:  Low birth weight is considered as one the causes of infant mortality across the world. Accordingly, paying attention to neonatal growth leads to mortality rate decrement and consequently prevents future physical and mental disabilities in this age group.  Materials & Methods:  This historic (retrospective) cohort study was conducted on 280 one-year-old male and female...

background: approximately one percent of current live births of the world are conceived via assisted reproductive technologies (art). objective:  the purpose of this study was to compare the developmental status of children born through assisted and natural conceptions at the age of five years. materials and methods:  in a retrospective cohort study, developmental status of 5 years old children...

objectives: the aim of this study was to compare the fine motor development between low birth weight (lbw) infants and normal birth weight infants (nbw) at the age of 8-12 months by using the peabody developmental motor scale-2 (pdms-2) . methods: this was a non experimental and cross sectional study which was conducted on the 18 lbw infants and 14 normal infants. by referring to the profile of...

objectives: movement is a continuous aspect of life and an important factor to achieve the goals and meet the needs. regarding the importance of infantś motor assessment and the large number of children with motor disorders, a valid and reliable test is required to help evaluation of motor development and provide appropriate interventions by therapists and educators. this study was implemented ...

the aim of the current research was to compare motor development in 3–6-year-old children from ahvaz with denver developmental screening test ii. themethodology of this research was descriptive – survey. the statistical populationconsisted of children from ahvaz and 1044 children aged between 3 and 6 wereselected from ahvaz kindergartens by cluster random sampling method. denverdevelopmental sc...

to provide the validated and standardized form of the persian version of the ages and stages questionnaires as an appropriate developmental screening tool for evaluation of iranian children's development.this was a cross-sectional study. translation and back-translation, content validity determination, cultural and lingual modifications, pilot study on 100 parents and inter-rater reliability de...

objective mental retardation (mr) or intellectual disability is one of three chronic and disabling neurological disorders of children and adolescents. its prevalence is estimated 1-3% of the population. mr is defined as significant sub-average intellectual functioning and adaptive behavior that become detectable before the age of 18. mr may come into view before 5 years as delay in at least two...

objectives: there are various developmental screening tools that are different in terms of psychometric characteristics and choosing the best one is challenging for the pediatrician. this research was designed to identify the validity and reliability of parents evaluation of developmental status, a developmental screening questionnaire, in 4-60 months-old children in the city of tehran. methods...

BACKGROUND Children with congenital heart diseases (CHD) are considered to be at high-risk for neurodevelopmental delay, but scant Indian data are available. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the neurodevelopmental status of children with CHD. METHODS We enrolled consecutive children aged 6-30 months with echocardiographically-confirmed CHD between June 2013 and January 2014. Children with clinically r...

BACKGROUND The future development of children is considered more than ever now due to the advances in medical knowledge and thus the increase in survival rates of high-risk infants. This study investigated the correlation between high-risk pregnancy and developmental delay in children aged 4-60 months. METHODS This descriptive study was conducted on 401 mothers and their children (4-60 months...