family is considered as the most fundamental and basic shaping, and underlies drug abusing. this research aimed to investigate the relationships between parenting styles (authoritative, permissive and despotic) as one of the most effective family factors on child growth and addiction potentiality among the students. the statistical population of research consisted of all student of medical ilam...

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recommends person-to-person interventions intended to modify adolescents' risk and protective behaviors by improving their caregivers' parenting skills, on the basis of sufficient evidence of effectiveness in reducing adolescent risk behaviors. These interventions, conducted face-to-face or by telephone, occur outside of clinical settings.

AIMS This paper reports a study exploring parents' experiences of caring for a child who is dependent on medical technology, and in particular of performing clinical procedures on their own children. BACKGROUND A group of children with a continuing need for the support of medical technology have emerged in community settings as a result of medical advances and government policies. Caring for ...

In recent years, scholars have drawn attention to religious commitments to patriarchy and parental authority to argue that religion—especially conservative Protestantism—fosters an authoritarian approach to parenting. Indeed, using data from the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH), this study does find that religious attendance and theological conservatism are associated with high...

Being an expectant parent is a life changing event and it is something that most people will experience in their lifetime. Many people who are parents for the first time will participate in parenting education. Most of the previous studies associated with parenting education focus on subjects such as birth outcome and breastfeeding. The purpose of this study is to focus on the less investigated...

Stunting is a condition of toddlers who have shorter body than their age which caused by chronic malnutrition. one the nutritional problems experienced children under five in world today with prevalence 22.2%. The impact stunting an increase level morbidity and mortality, susceptibility to disease, degenerative disease adulthood, it can affect intellectuality cognitive abilities toddlers. Paren...

BACKGROUND Parent education and training programmes can improve maternal psychosocial health, child behavioural problems and parenting practices. This review assesses the effects of parenting interventions for reducing child injury. OBJECTIVES To assess the effects of parenting interventions for preventing unintentional injury as well as increasing possession and use of safety equipment and p...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Parenting style Children with or at risk of developmental delay Parenting stress Parenting style is regarded as one of the most significant factors for children's development, especially for children with or at risk of developmental delay. Due to the importance of parenting style, this study explored factors that affect the parenting style in families with childr...

BACKGROUND Exhaustion and fatigue are commonly experienced by parents during the post-partum period, and can have implications for daily functioning, mental health and parenting practices. There is a need for the development of effective interventions to assist parents with the management of fatigue. This paper outlines the procedure for a randomised controlled study which aims to test the effi...