Background: Sleep disorders are very common in the population of children, with prevalence rates ranging from 25-40%, and they often persistent. The aetiology sleep problems is complicated depend on many varied factors. Psychological factors concerning family life general state health have a significant impact children. Methods: A hospital based descriptive study was carried out among 1024 chil...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the return to sports after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction and whether sex differences exist regarding the level and timing at which athletes return. HYPOTHESES Compared to school-aged girls, boys return to full sports earlier and at a higher frequency after surgery (1). Athletes who return to sports earlier will not have a higher incidence of subseq...

ACR Appropriateness Criteria 1 Urinary Tract Infection–Child American College of Radiology ACR Appropriateness Criteria Urinary Tract Infection–Child Variant 1: Age <2 months, first febrile urinary tract infection. Radiologic Procedure Rating Comments RRL* US kidneys and bladder 9 O Voiding cystourethrography 6 Consider this procedure in boys and in the presence of sonographic abnormality. ☢☢ T...

Original Article Background: Menarche is a significant milestone in the transitory developmental journey of an adolescent. Poor personal hygiene and defective menstrual management practices give rise to repeated reproductive tract infections (RTIs), which are otherwise preventable. Objectives: To access menstrual hygiene and practices of rural adolescent girls. 2 To find out menstrual disorders...

Girls College of Education in Jeddah, Scientific Section, King Abdulaziz University, P. O. Box 32691, Jeddah 21438, Saudi Arabia hanaa−[email protected] Abstract In this paper, the exact form of the probability density function (pdf) and moments of single, double, triple and quadruple of lower record values from Exponentiated Pareto distribution (EPD) are derived. We establish several recurr...

The present investigation was aimed at studying the awareness levels of menstruation and related aspects among adolescent girls. The study was conducted in Rongram block of West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya with 100 adolescent school going girls in the age group of 13 to 18 years. The respondents were selected randomly from secondary schools of five villages. A pre-tested and modified self-...

Department of Science, Ayesha Sadeeqa Post Graduates Girls College, Rajanpur; Pakistan E-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Tel.: +92 3330683844 Adolescent girls when face bleeding from vagina for the first time; is known as menarche that influence lateral life. This review summarizes the findings of important associated environmental factors and reasons in determining the secular tr...

OBJECTIVE To determine the occurrence of subclinical rickets and its causing factors among adolescent students of schools in Kaghan Valley, Pakistan. STUDY DESIGN Observation cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Biochemistry and Health Sciences, Hazara University, Mansehra, Ayub Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad, from March to April 2012. METHOD...

One in two marriages in the United States ends in divorce. Close to 30% of children under 18 live in single-parent households. Disruption of many traditional households raises the question of how divorce affects children’s later outcomes. This paper investigates the impacts of parental divorce on children’s educational and labor market outcomes, and studies the mitigating effects associated wit...