Background: Puerperal infection is caused by the entry of bacteria through uterine or perineal wounds. These can trigger proinflammatory cytokines. Excessive response results in tissue damage, septic shock to death. Among non-pharmacological methods are extracts red betel leaves which have phytochemical screening flavonoids and tannins as antibacterial antiseptic.Purposes: Knowing potential sim...

OBJECTIVE To assess the period during infancy and childhood in which growth is most associated with adolescent adiposity and the metabolic syndrome (MS) and whether this differs depending on maternal smoking during pregnancy. STUDY DESIGN A longitudinal population-based cohort study among 772 girls and 708 boys. RESULTS Weight gains between ages 2-4 years and ages 4-7 years were most strong...

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the verbal interactions of parents with their infants in the first months of life and to test the hypothesis that reciprocal vocalizations of mother-infant dyads would be more frequent than those of father-infant dyads. METHODS: This prospective cohort study included 33 late preterm and term infants. Sixteen-hour language recordings during the birth hospitalization and i...

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the verbal interactions of parents with their infants in the first months of life and to test the hypothesis that reciprocal vocalizations of mother-infant dyads would be more frequent than those of father-infant dyads. METHODS: This prospective cohort study included 33 late preterm and term infants. Sixteen-hour language recordings during the birth hospitalization and i...

Obesity, abdominal surgery, and intrathecal opioids are all Background: factors associated with a risk for respiratory compromise. The aim of this observational study was to explore the use of portable respiratory polygraphy for monitoring of obese mothers for respiratory depression the first night after caesarean section (CS) with bupivacaine/morphine/fentanyl spinal anaesthesia. Consecutive o...

INTRODUCTION The pattern and duration of breastfeeding (BF) and the age at onset of complementary feeding, as well as its quality, have been associated with the prevalence of overweight in childhood. OBJECTIVE To assess the effect of a pro-BF and healthy complementary feeding intervention, targeted to adolescent mothers and maternal grandmothers, on growth and prevalence of overweight and obe...

tm purpose of this study is 10 determine the effect of mothers' knowledge on the treatment quality of their   children immunization in health centers of the ministry of health , and medical education in tehran in 1994 .   the samples were 150 mothers who went to health centers to immunize their children .   the subjects were selected randomly and data - gathering was accomplished through a...

how to cite this article: hasan tehrani t, haghighi m, bazmamoun h. effects of stress on mothers of hospitalized children in a hospital in iran. iran j child neurol autumn 2012;6(4):39-45. abstract objective hospitalization of a child can cause severe anxiety and stress in the parents, especially for the mother. this stress consequently affects the treatment course of the child. hereby, we inve...

how to cite this article: soltanifar a, ashrafzadeh f, mohareri f, mokhber n. depression and anxiety in iranian mothers ofchildren with epilepsy. iranian journal of child neurology 2012;6(1):29-34.   objective epilepsy is a common neurological disorder in children. parents with epileptic children have many psychosocial care needs. so the main goal of this study was to evaluate depression and an...

Objectives: There is an increasing awareness of the importance maternal parenting stress on children’s development. Therefore, this study examined direct effect emotion regulation and its indirect via marital conflict behavior.Methods: Data were collected from 201 early school-aged (age 7~8) mothers. analyzed by Pearson’s correlation coefficients structural equation modeling using SPSS 21.0 AMO...