this study was done to evaluate the effect of telephone counseling on mother’s health information regarding the growth and development of less than five years old children in isfahan. in this randomized clinical trial, using a questionnaire, the health information of 1755 women having less than five years old children received telephone counseling for 6 month, compared with 1755 women without a...

the purpose of the present study is the comparison of the pattern of language perception in down syndrome (ds) children and typical children. to achieve the objective, nine subjects with ds (whose mental ages were 72-78 months and were drawn from five center of special education in the city of mashhad) and five typical children with the same mental ages were selected through random sampling; an...

objective to determine the role of ketogenic diet in the treatment of intractable epilepsy in children. materials & methods sixty six consecutive children (1-16 years old) with intractable epilepsy whose seizure were not neurodegenerative nor febrile in origin were recruited. they received the ketogenic diet and we evaluated its effect on seizure frequency for 3 months. all these children had m...

The stool samples from 363 diarrhoeic and non- diarrhoeic children and adults from several locations in two towns of west Azerbaijan area of Iran examined for Cryptosporidium infection by modified Ziehl- Neelsen technique revealed the presence of infection in 7.66% of diarrhoeic patients and in none of the non- diarrhoeic individuals. The percentage of detection was higher among females ( ...

BACKGROUND Diarrheal disease remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among under-five children worldwide. Every day, more than 4000 children lose their lives due to diarrhea. In Ethiopia, diarrhea is the second killer of under-five children next to pneumonia. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the prevalence of under-five diarrhea and socioeconomic factors am...

BACKGROUND Malaria and malnutrition are the major causes of morbidity and mortality in under-five children in developing countries such as Ethiopia. Malnutrition is the associated cause for about half of the deaths that occur among under-five children in developing countries. However, the relationship between malnutrition and malaria is controversial still, and it has also not been well documen...

Twenty five years is both a very long time and a very short time. The OPS has seen many innovations— in technique as well as technology. At the same time, some things seem like they won't ever change. Our Society was conceived by Johnny Justice, Jr. (in the Spring of 1969 during a meeting in Sarasota, Florida); and Johnny is still a very active member! This paper is a reminiscence. Each of the ...

During the last twenty-five years, the contextual interference effect has been thoroughly studied. This review finds that the effect is relatively robust in basic research, but considerably weaker in applied settings. Motor learning scholars have urged practitioners to develop instructional strategies based upon the inferences of the contextual interference effect. The smaller effects seem to i...