BACKGROUND Cycle accidents are a common cause of physical injury in children and adolescents. Education is one strategy to reduce cycle-related injuries. In the UK, some children undertake National Cycle Proficiency Scheme [NCPS] training (now known as Bikeability) in their final years of primary school. It aims to promote cycling and safe cycling behaviours but there has been little scientific...

background: behavioral disorders are common in the pediatric age group. this study aims to assess the relationship between the frequency of behavioral and mental disorders and counseling with family members and friends in a representative sample of iranian children and adolescents. methods: in this nationwide study, 14880 school students, aged 6–18 years, were selected by cluster and stratified...

background: this study aims to assess the frequency of some hygienic behaviors that is, tooth brushing and hand‑washing, in iranian school students at national level. methods: this nationwide study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 elementary, secondary and high school students who were selected by random cluster stratified multistage sampling from 30 provinces in iran. we used the global...

background: it has been well documented that left ventricular hypertrophy (lvh) is an independent factor for cardiac death in children. the epidemiologic information reveals that there is a very high prevalence of lvh in children with chronic renal failure (crf). the purpose of this study was to evaluate the existence of left ventricular hypertrophy, its severity and other cardiac abnormalities...

the aim of the current study was to assess the extent to which complementary and alternative medicine (cam) has been used in children and adults to treat seizures and to compare the perceptions and usage of cam between adult patients who decides for themselves and adults who decide for their sick children.in this cross-sectional study, patients who have been treated for epilepsy for at least on...

abstract   background: economy, lack of welfare and social services, aids and civil war, and also substance abuse are predominant factors that attributes with street children.   method: 576 street children of 10-19 years were evaluated. data were gathered by demographic and substance use check list. theses check lists were designed by the researchers and included some simple question about type...

how to cite this article: tonekaboni sh, jafari naeini s, khajeh a, yaghini o, ghazavi a, abdollah gorji f. use of complementary and alternative medicine for epileptic children in tehran: a cross-sectional study (2009-2011). iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):26-31. objective although the use of complementary and alternative medicine (cam) has been evaluated globally, there are few studies ...

introduction: facial deformities and aesthetic and functional anomalies in children may be a cause of real distress in families. problems faced by parents in coping with a child’s anomaly can be upsetting and lead parents to exhibit over-severe behavior. the present study was conducted in order to study the effect of happiness program on the happiness of the mothers of children with a cleft lip...

background and aims. head and neck tumors are the most common complaints of people referring to different medical sections, especially in children. the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of these tumors in children less than 12 years of age to provide a better perspective for future studies. materials and methods. all the files in department of pathology at tabriz pediatric hospit...