We thank the consulting physicians at the Hospital for Sick Children for permission to study patients under their care. It is a great pleasure to acknowledge the close collaboration of Mr. J. V. Hyde, of Trufood Ltd., throughout this work. We are indebted to Mr. R. Ersser for technical assistance. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Joint Research Board of the Hospital for Sick...

Background: One of the essential aspects of the provision of care is cultural issues. Cultural sensitivity is the key for cultural care. The aim of this study was to explore culturally sensitive care in pediatric nursing care in Iran.Materials and Methods: This study was a conventional content analysis. Participants were consisted of 25 nurses and 9 parents selected through purposive sampling f...

We investigate mechanisms that influence the effects of parental HIV on education children. The study was conducted at Mashambanzou Care Trust in Harare, Zimbabwe. sampled low-income HIV-positive and HIV-negative mothers who had a total 71 children their care. were treatment women sample least one school-going child. use framework describes channels direct indirect status parent investments chi...

An unsuccessful prenatal diagnosis is a traumatic experience for parents expecting the birth of child. Hospice Perinatal Care aimed at families who are experiencing an diagnosis. It form help and support by providing individualised care to woman her loved ones, tailored their needs expectations. One member hospice perinatal team midwife. The aim this article present role midwife tasks individua...

Parents of liver transplant recipient children have to face complicated health issues of their children. Coping strategies of parents as major care providers not only impacts on their handling of stresses on themselves but also on the recipients' quality of life. In this study, we sought to investigate the coping strategies of parents of Chinese pediatric liver transplant recipients at a single...

To assess the cost of varicella in young children in France, a prospective study was done in day care centers. Children (1263), who were 3 months to 3 years old and attending day care, were followed over a varicella season. For every child who developed varicella (n = 200), detailed information was obtained by use of parental questionnaires. Questions concerned medical care, days missed from wo...

Background Community health worker (CHW) interventions to manage childhood illness is a strategy promoted by the global health community which involves training and supporting CHW to assess, classify and treat sick children at home, using an algorithm adapted from the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI). To inform CHW policy, the Government of Tanzania launched a program in ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to measure the impact of a simple parent health literacy intervention on emergency department and primary care clinic usage patterns. METHODS Study participants consisted of parents who brought their children to the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center pediatric emergency department for nonurgent complaints. Study participants filled out questionnaires regarding thei...

Parents and professional caregivers, although united in their shared goal of returning a sick child to health, do not always view the caregiving situation from the same frame of reference. This article describes the perspectives of more than 50,000 parents whose child experienced a hospitalization. It outlines the greatest opportunities for improving the pediatric inpatient experience from the ...