introduction: breast milk is a complete food for growing children until 6 months of age, and mothers, as the most important child health care, play a decisive role in their growth. so promoting  their attitude toward the benefits of breastfeeding ensures guarantee child health in the future. this study aimed to assess maternal knowledge and attitude of mashhad toward exclusive breast milk feedi...

background: assessment of national children's growth indicated a high prevalence of growth failure among them. many previous projects have studied the children’s growth & nutrition status but most of them have not evaluated. the aim of this study was to evaluate the mothers' participation project after passing two years. methods: in this descriptive and summative evaluation study, 90 mother and...

background: children are the most sensitive and vulnerable group in terms of tooth decay. any change or improvement in health-related knowledge and behavior in this group can have long-term and significant impacts on the health of the future generation. thus, the present study was conducted with the aim to determine the relationship of knowledge of oral health-related issues with the decayed, m...

The present study was designed to examine the role of socioeconomic status (SES) of the mother's knowledge about different aspects of diabetes and the glycemic control of type 1 children with diabetes. Samples were taken from successive admissions to the outpatient diabetes clinics in Prince Sultan Medical Military City (PSMMC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A well designed questionnaire covering diffe...

OBJECTIVE The delivery of anticipatory guidance regarding newborn care is a standard practice for pediatricians. The purpose of this prospective study was to analyze the preexisting knowledge of routine newborn care in postpartum mothers. METHODS Inclusion criteria included all postpartum mothers of live-born infants at least two hours following delivery that had not yet received formal instr...

Introduction: Immunization is one of the eight elements of primary health care. Government of India is providing immunization services through Universal Immunization Programme to protect children from some important diseases of childhood. Knowledge of mothers of beneficial children regarding immunization will influence the utilization of services. Objectives: The present study was conducted 1) ...

INTRODUCTION Neonatal mortality has continued to increase as a percentage (>60%) of overall infant mortality. Any further reduction in infant mortality is dependent on saving more newborn lives. It is possible if their mothers are knowledgeable and provide proper newborn care. Therefore, the objective of the study was to find out knowledge and practice of the postnatal mothers about newborn car...

OBJECTIVES This study was done to evaluate mothers' level of knowledge regarding poisoning, to plan training for issues with an identified lack of knowledge, to collect required data regarding protection and approach issues on poisoning cases which may occur in children for various reasons. METHODS This descriptive study was performed after obtaining permission from the County Health Departme...