background: hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection causes chronic infection in human population, with high mortality. one of the high risk communities is mentally retarded children, who are institutionalized. special conditions in these centers predispose children for hbv infection and transmission to healthy people. in this study our objective was to determine the prevalence of hbv infection among ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the nutritional status of mentally disabled children in Turkey on the basis of anthropometric indicators and dietary intake. METHODOLOGY The sample of the study consisted of 77 mentally disabled children with ages between 10 and 18 years. The body mass index and body fat ratios of the children were calculated by measuring their body weight, height, and the skinfold thickne...

Dear Sir,?The editorial in the spring issue of this Journal stressed the need for provision of more lr*stitutions for defectives. Without in the least minimizing this need, I want to point out that the strain on institutions could be greatly relieved if more and better day centres could be provided for children classed as " ineducable A number of occupation centres have been set UP during the l...

The purpose of this paper was to understand the meaning adolescence has for parents of adolescents with mental disability. The methodology used was the narrative analysis according to the guidelines of Thompson (1998) and Byron-Good (1996). Although the parents identified some typical characteristics of adolescence in their children, not always they did in fact consider them adolescents due to ...

brothers and fathers between the two groups was to the advantage of the patients with 47,XXY and not to the patients of 46,XY. Finally, it should be mentioned that to secure an unbiased attitude on the part of the examiner the psychological investigation was carried out blindly, the psychologist possessing knowledge of neither anaznnestic data, psychiatric evaluation, or results of physical and...

You have done me the honour of inviting me to speak to you tonight upon the subject of "The Day-toDay Management of the Handicapped Child in its own home." I have much pleasure in doing so because so great a part of the daily medical work of myself and my colleagues and the nursing staff in our hospital is concerned with problems common to yours in the care of these children. As many of you are...

An aetiological study of mentally handicapped children in Edinburgh has provided an opportunity for assessing the prevalence of mental handicap in this area and the distribution of handicapped children by severity of defect and clinical type. A definite cause of mental handicap is found in only a minority of cases. Nevertheless, any aetiological investigation must begin with an attempt to class...

iV whom the duties of Statutory Supervision under the Mental ^enciency Acts were being carried on for the London County Council, and this work gave her an intimate knowledge of the needs of mentally handicapped children and the value of Occupation Centres. In 1932 she came to the Central Association for Mental Welfare to fill the post of Case Secretary. Later she became Education Secretary when...

BACKGROUND Communication with parents who are realizing their child is severely disabled is a difficult task for professionals. Parents are experiencing great emotional stress during the diagnostic process and dissatisfaction with disclosure is widespread. The aim of this study was to investigate parents' reactions when realizing their child's disability, the impact of the diagnosis and parents...

In a cross sectional study the mental health of parents of physically and mentally handicapped preschool children was compared with that of parents of healthy preschool children. The social networks of the parents with handicapped children were also studied to determine factors that might influence psychiatric morbidity. The mothers of the handicapped children showed significantly more psychiat...