BACKGROUND We aimed to determine the status of strongyloidiasis in mentally disabled population in the institutional places in Rasht City, the capital of Guilan Province, northern Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted in 8 institutions for mentally retarded population in Rasht in 2013. Before collecting the samples, a questionnaire was filled out for each participant by an ex...

The approach towards the issues of depression and mental health problems of mentally disabled persons is discussed in the paper. The author discussed the various susceptibilities, resistances and typical mental health disturbances of mentally disabled persons as well as their diagnostic criteria and methods of measuring them. A longer part of the paper concerns the approach towards depressive d...

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...

A HANDICAPPED child is a child who cannot play, work or do the things other children of his age can do, or who is hindered in achieving his full physical, mental and social potentiality . . This is the definition of the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. President Kennedy, in his short, meteoric term of office, gave a tremendous boost to the parents of these children, and to the...

The question of how countries deal with the material and symbolic legacies of totalitarian rule, genocide, and civil war in their immediate pasts is spawning a growing body of research on recent national and regional cases — post-apartheid South Africa, postcommunist central and eastern Europe, and post-dictatorial South America — as well as on the ‘classic’ instances of postwar Japan and Germa...