the evaluation of immune status to measles among school children in south of tehran, blood samples were collected from 375 randomly selected school children of elementary schools, junior high schools and high schools. the measurement of measles antibody titer was made by haemagglutination inhibition test, with antibody titer > 1/4 considered as positive. among 375 school children, 6% of them we...

the present research considers the role of play statement in children and teenagers theater, with a special approach to drama-therapy. chapter one studies the theater history to the present time; then explains the play statements' elements. since the children and teenagers theater has specific addressees, it may be considered in many respects. chapter two has been devoted to recognition of...

OBJECTIVES To develop a school-based obesity prevention programme and evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention and the planned definitive cluster randomised trial. DESIGN This was a three stage pilot involving six schools (398 children) in South West England, including an exploratory randomised controlled trial and qualitative interviews and focus groups with teachers, p...

The factor structure of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fifth Edition (WISC-V; Wechsler, 2014a) standardization sample (N = 2,200) was examined using confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) with maximum likelihood estimation for all reported models from the WISC-V Technical and Interpretation Manual (Wechsler, 2014b). Additionally, alternative bifactor models were examined and variance ...

No detailed analyses have been undertaken on the effects of Health Promoting Schools on oral health status. The objective of this study was to assess whether the oral health of 12-year-old children in supportive schools, where health promoting policies had been developed, was better than that of children in non-supportive schools. A sample of 1823 12-year-old children in 33 public (government-f...

Dental and dental personnel’s are constantly exposed to a number of specific occupational hazards. This article analyze the potential hazards and various risks involved in persons exposed to prosthodontic practice mainly prosthodontist and the laboratory technicians. These risks include exposure to chemical, physical hazards, infectious environment, psychosocial hazards and various others. Pers...

Through naturalistic observational procedures, this study examined the dynamics of individualized education program (IEP) conferences. Participants present, the nature a n d frequency of topics discussed, and the length of conferences were considered. A followup questionnaire was administered to all conference participants to measure satisfaction. Results indicated that the IEP conferences stud...