A community-based, cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted during June-July 2008 to assess the infant- and young child-feeding (IYCF) practices in Bankura district, West Bengal, India. In total, 647 children aged less than two years selected through revised 40-cluster sampling using the indicators of the Integrated Management of Neonatal and Childhood Illness (IMNCI) and World Health Or...

Improper infant feeding practices are the main direct cause of malnutrition during first two years life. Therefore, it is important to ensure that mothers infants up 2 age given proper guidance on optimal for and young children. This study aims analyze effect implementation Infant Young Children Feeding (IYCF) counseling knowledge attitudes who have children aged 6-23 months at Merapi I Public ...

background and aim: hearing impaired students experience binaural hearing like normal peers and school age is challenging time for using dichotic listening. lack of research was found on relationship of persian hearing impair­ed children with central auditory processing (cap). one of the aims of this study was a comparison between persian dichotic digit test (ddt) score in children with mild an...

Women of child-bearing age (especially pregnant and lactating women), infants and young children are in the most nutritionally-vulnerable stages of the life cycle. Maternal malnutrition is a major predisposing factor for morbidity and mortality among African women. The causes include inadequate food intake, poor nutritional quality of diets, frequent infections and short inter-pregnancy interva...

INTRODUCTION: Early Childhood Caries (ECC) remains an important childhood disease affecting a considerable portion of young children. ECC has been associated with inappropriate feeding patterns and excess consumption of fermentable carbohydrates. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to compare children affected by ECC and S-ECC and those who are caries free regarding their

In stressful situations, young children will tend to react with impaired physiological functions such as feeding and sleeping disturbances. [3] Older children may exhibit relationship disturbances with friends and family, poor school performance, behavioural regression to an earlier developmental stage and development of specific psychological disorders such as phobia or psychosomatic illness. ...

The purpose of this study was to compare similarities and differences between two samples - mothers of children under the age of 6 years living in the Dominican Republic (D.R.) and recent immigrants from the D.R. to the United States - on their (a) feeding practices for infants and young children, (b) knowledge regarding healthy size and weight and ideal diet for young children, and (c) knowled...

Mother-to-child transmission is the predominant route of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection in young children. In 2003, an estimated 2.5 million children under 15 years of age were living with HIV/AIDS, 700 000 were newly infected, and 500 000 died (1). HIV may be transmitted during pregnancy, labour and delivery, or by breastfeeding. About 5–20% of infants born to HIV-positive women ...

In stressful situations, young children will tend to react with impaired physiological functions such as feeding and sleeping disturbances. [3] Older children may exhibit relationship disturbances with friends and family, poor school performance, behavioural regression to an earlier developmental stage and development of specific psychological disorders such as phobia or psychosomatic illness. ...

In a case-control study we evaluated the role of maternal behaviour, as reflected in maintenance of breast feeding and the use of oral rehydration therapy (ORT) at home during acute diarrhoea, in preventing dehydration in infants and young children. A systematic 5% sample was taken of all children aged 1-35 months attending the treatment centre of the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease...