PURPOSE Social, cultural, psychological and many other factors significantly impact the lives of epileptic children and their families. Parental concerns towards their children are less known in south Asian children with epilepsy. We aimed to identify the parental concerns regarding their children and adolescents with epilepsy in Sri Lanka. METHODS We carried out qualitative study in 3 distri...

conclusions in this study, the preoperative anxiety was reduced by explaining anesthesia and surgery to the mothers and children (in mothers it was significant p < 0.05). since there is a direct relation between mothers’ and their children’s anxiety, using an effective method to reduce anxiety in children and their mothers together at the same time would be very useful for children and their mo...

Egypt. J. Psychiatry, June 2009; 29(2): 65-70 Background: Nocturnal enuresis (NE) is a chronic medical disorder that is distressing for children and their parents. Aim of the study: to investigate the impact of enuresis on parent-child relationship, parental satisfaction and parental tolerance. Subjects & Methods: This study was performed on parents who have enuretic children selected from thos...

an increasing number of asthmatic patients are attracted by complementary and and alternative medicine (cam). the aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and describe the characteristics of cam use by children with asthma in a paediatric allergy clinic in istanbul, turkey.the parents of asthmatic children were invited to participate in a cross-sectional survey study. current asthma tre...

maternal age and education are found to be strongly correlated with child morality [1,5-11]. Although the relationship between parental education and the number of children’s death is complex, a number of studies have illustrated that children of less educated parents tend to have a higher mortality rate than children of welleducated ones [6,9,10-13]. Parental education, more importantly matern...

OBJECTIVE Latino populations, particularly Mexican-Americans who comprise 65% of the Latinos in the U.S., are disproportionately affected by HPV-related diseases. The HPV vaccination completion rates remain low, well below the Healthy People 2020 goal. In this study we assessed the effect of parental education and a text messaging reminder service on HPV vaccine completion rates among eligible ...

Parental involvement had benefit for the education of elementary children. Yet, knowing parental efficacy was important factor to do such involvement. The purpose this study design and examine a practical, valid, reliable scale measuring parents’ capabilities involve in education. A total 402 parents children participated study, consisting 114 fathers (28.36%) 288 mothers (71.64%). They were se...

Objectives: To determine the role of child factors in the prediction of parental attitudes towards children and adolescents with CP in Iran. Methods: A cross-sectional study design was used. One hundred fifty-two children and adolescents with CP aged 7-17 years (mean = 10.93, SD = 3.46) with a mother aged at least 25 years were selected using systematic random sampling. The Mother-Child Relati...

The extent to which children start school ready and able to learn can have a long-term impact on their likelihood of success in education and employment. It is well known that children from the poorest backgrounds are already falling behind their more affluent peers at the start of school. But little is known about the school readiness of children from low to middle income families. Analysis of...