Objective: Epilepsy is a chronic disease with high morbidity. Our study aims to investigate the scores of anxiety and depression in children epilepsy their mothers role parental attitudes these children. Material Methods: The included 35 mothers. Control group consisted healthy similar age sex Parenting Style Inventory (PSI), Parental Attitude Research Instrument (PARI), Beck Depression (BDI) A...

Adverse effects of lead on mothers and foetal development along with lead distribution and their alteration by calcium disodium ethylenediamine tetraacetate (CaNa2EDTA) were investigated in pregnant rats. The number of fetal resorption and abnormal fetuses increased and the number of live fetuses per dam and fetal weight decreased along with increase in liver, kidney, blood, brain and fetus lea...

In Western countries, recent decades have witnessed a revolution toward gender equality. Inequalities been greatly reduced in areas such as education or employment. Because inequalities lead to distress, this development has largely benefited women. One notable exception is the realm of parenting, which remained rife with even most egalitarian countries. We hypothesized that experiencing inequa...

Poverty-associated chronic stress is a serious threat not only to a mother’s mental health but also to maternal functioning. Recent neuroimaging studies suggest that a mother’s brain undergoes dynamic changes to support her transition to parenthood, including better emotion regulation and heightened sensitivity to infants. However, we propose that the chronic stress experienced by low-income mo...

The purpose of this essay is to critically assess feminist lawyer Carol Smart’s analysis of and suggestions on issues about legal regulations and practices of child custody. She thinks the privileged status of mothers in modern family law system will be threatening by new voices and images from fathers and by the increasing interventions from professional. The discourse of ‘the best interests o...

conclusions according to the results, revision and modification of the care plan in the experience of stillbirth seems necessary to improve mental health in these mothers. according to suggested strategies, midwives and health care providers are health professionals who can effectively and properly care for stillborn mothers. results analysis of participants’ viewpoints and their opinions about...

Perinatal stress mediated through the mother can lead to long-term alterations in stress-related phenotypes in offspring. The capacity for adaptation to adversity in early life depends in part on the life history of the animal. This study was designed to examine the behavioral and neural response in adult offspring to prenatal exposure to predator odor: an ethologically-relevant psychological s...

Literature regarding fathers of children with autism remains sparse, and because mothers are the more common intervening parent, few training methods have focused on fathers. Thus, we sought to evaluate effects of in-home training directed at fathers and their ability to train mothers in the same manner in which they were trained. Fathers were taught four skills commonly associated with in-home...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess whether primary health care settings can be used to engage and provide a preventive intervention to mothers of young children. METHODS Two hundred and twenty-four mothers who had come to the health centers were randomly assigned to either control group (CG: n=116) or intervention group (IG: n=108). Mothers in IG were taught about the role of paren...