Background: There has been increasing demand for the cochlear implantation of children who demonstrate some auditory capacity with conventional hearing aids. The purpose of this study was to examine speech recognition outcomes in a group of children who were regarded as borderline candidates for cochlear implantation as their residual hearing and/or auditory functioning levels exceeded typical ...

conclusions the results showed that group play therapy improves self-concept in children suffering from thalassemia major. objectives the aim of this study was to determine if group play therapy could significantly increase self-concept among children with thalassemia major ages 7 to 11 years old in teaching hospitals of golestan province, iran, in 2012. patients and methods in this randomized,...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate the relative influence of genetic and environmental factors on children's leisure time exercise behavior through the classic twin design. METHODS Data were taken from The Netherlands Twin Register. The twins were 7 (n = 3966 subjects), 10 (n = 3562), and 12-yr-olds (n = 8687), with longitudinal data for 27% of the sample. Parents were aske...

this cross-sectional study aimed to determine the reliability of static control evaluation with synapsys posturography system (sps, marseille, france) and to compare the static postural control of deaf children with typically developing children. this study was conducted in 2 phases on 81 children of 7 to 12 years old in tehran schools. the first phase examined the reliability of static balance...

BACKGROUND To evaluate immunisation coverage, timeliness and predictors of delayed receipt in urban Australian Indigenous children during the first 18 months of life. METHODS Cross-sectional retrospective analysis of data collected from 140 Australian Indigenous children aged < 5 years at the time of enrolment in a prospective cohort study on respiratory illness between 14 February 2013 and 2...

BACKGROUND Although characterised by motor impairments, children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) also show high rates of psychopathology (anxiety, depression, low self-esteem). Such findings have led to calls for the screening of mental health problems in this group. AIMS To investigate patterns and profiles of emotional and behavioural problems in children with and without DCD...

The number of cases delivered in Hospital was 68, classified as follows:?i.-parse, 36 ; ii.-para3,16 ; iii.-parse, 8; vi.-para, 1; vii.-par0e, 4; viii.-para, 1; x.-para, 1; xi.-para, 1. Age.?Primiparse: average, 22 years 5 months ; oldest, 32 years; youngest, 18. Multipart: average, 25 years 7? months; oldest, 40 years; youngest, 18. Sex of Children.?Of 69 children born, 45 were males, 24 femal...

Background Approximately half of 7-year-old children do not meet physical activity (PA) recommendations. Interventions targeting primary school children's afterschool discretionary time could increase PA. Teaching assistants (TAs) are a school resource and could be trained to deliver after-school PA programmes. Building on earlier work, this paper describes the protocol for a cluster randomised...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R) and Color Analog Scale (CAS) are self-report pain scales commonly used in children but insufficiently validated in the emergency department setting. Our objectives were to determine the psychometric properties (convergent validity, discriminative validity, responsivity, and reliability) of the FPS-R and CAS, and to determine whether...

Methods Sixty-one asymptomatic children (31 girls, 30 boys) aged 7-9 years (mean 7.9 ±0.8) were assessed once by one observer for the sagittal curvatures of the trunk: thoracic kyphosis (TK), lumbar lordosis (LL) and sacral slope (SS) first with digital photography and with Rippstein plurimeter. Statistical analysis was performed using paired Student t-test, Wilcoxon matched-pairs and Pearson c...