BACKGROUND Varicella is generally considered a mild disease. Disease burden is not well known and country-level estimation is challenging. As varicella disease is not notifiable, notification criteria and rates vary between countries. In general, existing surveillance systems do not capture cases that do not seek medical care, and most are affected by underreporting and underascertainment. We a...

this is a descriptive study. the purpose was to determine how children with leukemia receives nursing care. a sample of 40 children with leukemia from six hematology wards in three hospitals was selected. data were gathered by observation, children's documents, and then filling an observational check list. results showed that nursing care in 65 percent of cases was intermediate, and in 35 ...

non-communicable disease continues to be an important public health problem in india, being responsible for a major proportion of mortality and morbidity. demographic changes, changes in the lifestyle along with increased rates of urbanization are the major reasons responsible for the tilt towards the non-communicable diseases. in india, there is no regular system for collecting data on non-com...

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INTRODUCTION Addressing difficulties of seeking and getting health care would lower the burden of diarrhea among ill children from developing countries as Egypt. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the economic burden of diarrhea associated with outpatient visits of children in Egypt by identifying the different types of related costs. METHODS This cross-sectional clinic-based survey was ...

BACKGROUND Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in children. The unpredictability, frequency, and health risks associated with acute asthma attacks have a profound impact on the daily lives of affected children and their families. Understanding the experiences of primary caregivers may help nurses provide better care to children with asthma. PURPOSE This study explores the experi...

a bstra ct   background: although today parents’ participation in taking care of hospitalized children is considered as an indispensable principle, it is still among the concepts with no consensus about. the main objective of this study is to define parents’ participation in taking care of hospitalized children.   materials and methods: the concept of “parents’ participation in taking care of h...

Questionnaires were mailed to families of children with multiple disabilities to investigate whether differences in parental perception of stress and burden of care could be identified in those families who had previously been reported and substantiated as abusive or neglectful as compared to those families who had not been so reported. Two hundred and fifty-seven parents completed Friedrich's ...