Parents' awareness and performance plays a key role in food safety of the children. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between parents’ awareness and performance regarding food security with anthropometric indices in school-age children from Bushehr, Iran, during 2017. Data in this descriptive-analytical study was collected from 402 parents using questionnaires on awareness and pe...

introduction: the goal of training activities is to grow potential abilities and intelligence in human. evaluation of training service has main role in achieving qualified educational activities and increasing students’ skills. therefore, this study evaluated the performance of training educators from points of view of medical record students in kashan university of medical sciences in 2005-6. ...

The present set of studies identifies the phenomenon of `parenting by lying', in which parents lie to their children as a means of influencing their emotional states and behaviour. In Study 1, undergraduates (n = 127) reported that their parents had lied to them while maintaining a concurrent emphasis on the importance of honesty. In Study 2 (n = 127), parents reported lying to their children a...

Using cleft lip and palate as an exemplar, this article examines parents' decision-making for children in the context of elective treatments which aim to 'normalise' a child's function, appearance, communication or identity. Using purposive and theoretical sampling, 35 parents with children from infancy to young adulthood were recruited through a specialist cleft centre in England. Parents were...

Family meals, as acts of domestic food provisioning, are shaped by the competing influences of household resources, food preferences and broader cultural norms around dietary practices. The place of children's food tastes in family meal practices is particularly complex. Food tastes stand in a reciprocal relationship with family food practices: being both an influence on and a product of them. ...

background: the aim of this study was to assess the infant oral health (ioh) related knowledge, attitudes and practices (kap) of parents in udaipur, india. materials and methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 470 parents visiting the department of pediatrics, rabindranath tagore medical college and hospital. a 32-item questionnaire covering socio-demographic characteri...

hospitalization of child is one of the most stressful events of life for parents and children. this fear and stress may affect the process of treatment. since there is no information available about the source of distress and needs of iranian parents during the inpatient care of their children, we designed a research in order to discover the main source of worries and fears among parents. in th...