Introduction: Facial deformities and aesthetic and functional anomalies in children may be a cause of real distress in families. Problems faced by parents in coping with a child’s anomaly can be upsetting and lead parents to exhibit over-severe behavior. The present study was conducted in order to study the effect of happiness program on the happiness of the mothers of children with a cleft lip...

The question whether parents’ reports on their children’s development provide reliable information is a subject of controversial debate. While parental rating scales and parental interviews are widely used in clinical practice, empirical findings have shown that parents cannot assess their children well. Previous research has illustrated that most parents tend to overestimate the developmental ...

BACKGROUND Maternal mood symptoms have been associated with psychiatric disorders in children. This study aimed to assess critical periods when maternal symptoms would be more deleterious. METHODS Cohort of 4231 births followed-up in the city of Pelotas, Brazil. Mood symptoms during pregnancy were self-reported by mothers at perinatal interview; and at 3-months postpartum, mothers answered th...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of a clinic-based screening and referral system (Well Child Care, Evaluation, Community Resources, Advocacy, Referral, Education [WE CARE]) on families' receipt of community-based resources for unmet basic needs. METHODS We conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial at 8 urban community health centers, recruiting mothers of healthy infants. In the 4 WE CA...

OBJECTIVE: The current study evaluates a treatment intervention developed with the goal of reducing symptoms of posttraumatic stress, depression, and anxiety in parents of premature infants. METHODS: A total of 105 mothers of preterm infants (25–34 weeks’ gestational age; .600 g) were randomized to receive a 6-session intervention developed to target parental trauma as well as facilitate infant...

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...

Inorganic lead produces cerebral dysfunction and clinically definable encephalopathies in man. To date there have been few studies on the biochemical changes in brain following exposure to inorganic lead. Studies correlating toxicity with behavioral and brain neurochemical changes following lead exposure have been hindered because adult laboratory animals are resistant to the central nervous sy...