BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the psychometric properties (validity and reliability) of the Persian version of the Sustained Auditory Attention Capacity Test in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. METHODS The Persian version of the Sustained Auditory Attention Capacity Test was constructed to assess sustained auditory attention using the metho...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to determine intraocular pressure (IOP) and central corneal thickness (CCT) measurements in healthy Persian children to find clinical reference values in this ethnicity. Additionally, we examined the possible relationship between these measurements. METHODS This cross-sectional study included 262 eyes of 131 Persian primary school children between 6 and 13 years ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the study was to determine whether the Persian version of the KIDSCREEN-27 has the optimal number of response category to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents. Moreover, we aimed to determine if all the items contributed adequately to their own domain. FINDINGS The Persian version of the KIDSCREEN-27 was completed by 1083 school ...

The current study aimed to determine lexical effects on spoken word recognition in Persian-speaking preschool-aged children with normal hearing. research, as a cross-sectional study, was administered sixty-two 4-to-6-year-old who were recruited using convenient sampling from preschool center Shiraz city, Iran. version of the Persian Lexical Neighborhood Tests (PLNTs-PV) used, including four sub...

OBJECTIVE This study was designed to test the reliability of a Persian version of 2 questionnaires to assess the level of fear of hypoglycemia (FoH) and self-efficacy in diabetes management and their association with glycated hemoglobin (A1C) and parents' demographic characteristics in a sample of children with type 1 diabetes. DESIGN We assessed 61 children with type 1 diabetes (35 boys and ...

OBJECTIVE Early screening of autism increases the chance of receiving timely intervention. Using the Parent Report Questionnaires is effective in screening autism. The Q-CHAT is a new instrument that has shown several advantages than other screening tools. Because there is no adequate tool for the early screening of autistic traits in Iranian children, we aimed to investigate the adequacy of th...

conclusions the findings of this study indicate that older children are more proficient in comprehension of color words compared to younger children, and girls are more proficient than boys. the two easiest and two most difficult color words for children to comprehend within the 3 age groups were “black” and “red” and “phosphoric-green” and “turquoise-blue,” respectively. there was a positive r...

Objectives: Cleft Palate (CP) with or without Lip (CL/P) are the most common craniofacial birth defects. and (CLP) can affect children’s communication skills. The present study aimed to evaluate language production skills concerning morphology syntax (morphosyntactic) in children CLP. Methods: In current cross-sectional study, 58 Persian-speaking (28 CLP & 30 anomalies=non-clefts) participa...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency of different psychiatric disorders among 7 to 12 years old children in urban areas of Tehran. METHOD A sample of 799 children (6 to 11 years old) were selected from 250 clusters of the entire 22 municipality areas of Tehran using a multistage sampling method from 250 clusters from the entire 22 municipality areas of Tehran.. After responding to a Persian ve...