accidents are one of the mortality reasons and most important agents of disability in primary school children. in this research, educational needs of 10-12 years old children who studied in fourth and fifth class in governmental primary schools of tehran city about accident prevention are assessed by questionnaire. results showed that majority of children had correct performance and had low edu...

BACKGROUND Pregnancy in adolescence is associated with an excess risk of poor outcomes, including low birth weight and prematurity. Whether this association simply reflects the deleterious sociodemographic environment of most pregnant teenagers or whether biologic immaturity is also causally implicated is not known. METHODS To determine whether a young age confers an intrinsic risk of adverse...

introduction: present children are the investments of community in the future. preparing children health which leads to the stability of community health, provided to accurate implementation of educational and health programs in the community and especially in mothers. so it is necessary to determine the relationship between parents' literacy with growth rate in children.   materials and m...

We aimed to evaluate the association between family socioeconomic status and repeatedly measured child television viewing time from early childhood to the school period. We analyzed data on 3,561 Dutch children from the Generation R Study, a population-based study in the Netherlands. Parent-reported television viewing time for children aged 2, 3, 4, 6 and 9 years were collected by questionnaire...

background: various reasons accounted for the infection of infants kept at neonatal intensive care unit (nicu). expressed breast milk may be regarded as a source of infection in infants. this study investigated the source of bacterial contamination and the impact of educational interventions on the contamination of mothers’ expressed breast milk (ebm) level whose infants are hospitalized at nic...

BACKGROUND A cross sectional study was carried out to determine the nutritional status of school children in Army School, Pune. METHODS Anthropometric survey of 760 school children was carried out and compared against the NCHS/WHO reference standards to determine their nutritional status. Associations of nutritional status with socio-economic status, education status of parents, mothers worki...

the researchers aim was to find out the potential effects of some maternal factors such as age, educational level, occupation as well as children’s birth order on the communicative performance of preschoolers in iran. this study was conducted with 31 preschoolers selected from bahar language institute in shiraz, iran. the required data about mothers and children were gathered through a question...