TYPE 1 DIABETES Three-quarters of all cases of type 1 diabetes are diagnosed in individuals ,18 years of age (although recent data using genetic risk scoring would suggest that over 40% of patients with autoimmune diabetes are diagnosed over the age of 30 years) (1). The provider must consider the unique aspects of care and management of children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, such as ch...

OBJECTIVE Inadequate parent supervision during the early adolescent years forecasts a host of conduct problems, including illicit alcohol consumption. Early pubertal maturation may exacerbate problems, because girls alienated from same-age peers seek the company of older, more mature youth. The current study examines overtime associations between parent autonomy granting and adolescent alcohol ...

BACKGROUND The role of the acute hospital nurse has moved away from the direct delivery of patient care and more towards the management of the delivery of bedside care by healthcare assistants. How newly qualified nurses delegate to and supervise healthcare assistants is important as failures can lead to care being missed, duplicated and/or incorrectly performed. OBJECTIVES The data described...

BACKGROUND Burn out in clinical psychologists working in low income countries has been reported. Clinical supervisory structures do not yet exist in Uganda. A way to decrease levels of burn out and increase quality of care for people with mental illness is through clinical supervision. The aim of this study was to explore the initial experiences of supervision for clinical psychology students i...

OBJECTIVE To investigate maternal beliefs, practices about causes and determinant factors on drowning and maternal socioeconomic correlated factors on child mortality from drowning. METHODS From March 2005 to March 2009, in a register-based cohort study and household survey, individual records utilizing drowning registry data of northern Iran were enrolled.   Mothers (n=276) who responded to ...

background: toxic exposures in childhood are major health concern. in this hospital-based study, we sought to investigate socio-epidemiological factors contributing to acute pediatric poisoning in chennai, tamil nadu, india. methods: this prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the kanchi kamakoti childs trust hospital (kkcth), a tertiary care hospital for children in chennai. childr...

BACKGROUND Much of the research on child injury risk has focused on trait-like factors (eg, hyperactivity, child gender) that influence injury risk rather than state-like factors (eg, environmental circumstances, child behaviour). Additional research is needed to better identify the proximal risk factors for children's risk for unintentional injury. OBJECTIVES The present study examined the a...

The study sought to find out the effects of Modular classes from parents, teachers and students. There are numerous modular learning modality on students? acquisition social behaviour. Some students became busy other works instead focusing modules. also brought emerging opportunities, challenges difficulties classes. result revealed that there opportunities people enjoyed during (1) parent-chil...

BACKGROUND The Alabama Child Parenting Questionnaire (APQ) is a multi-source and multi-method instrument created to assess the most relevant parenting practices from a bidirectional perspective. Despite its advantages, the APQ has not been validated with a Spanish population. The objective of this study was to analyse the psychometric properties and factor structure of the APQ, child self-repor...