Background & Aim: Orodental health is one of the most important aspect of children's health. Care of mouth and teeth is important in children during childhood, because it guarantees the appropriate raising of permanent teeth. Therefore, mothers' awareness about orodental health is important, as a foundation for health promotion planning for children. The aim of this study, was to determine th...

Background and Purpose: Mothers’ knowledge of newborn care can significantly affect the neonatal morbidity and mortality. This study was conducted on parturient mothers to assess their knowledge about post-discharge newborn care. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 200 mothers who gave birth in Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Kashan, Iran, in 2015. A questionnaire was used...

Background and Objective: Children learn health values and attitudes from their parents, especially their mothers. Therefore, mothers' awareness about orodental health is important, as a foundation for health promotion planning for children. The aim of this study was to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practice of mothers about their children’ orodental health at ages of 1-6 years. ...

Introduction: Neonatal jaundice is one of the most common neonatal problems with high morbidity and mortality and can lead to brain injury or even death in healthy infants. Maternal knowledge, attitude, and practice have a significant impact on the prevention of complications of jaundice. The aim of this study was to investigate the knowledge, attitude and practice of mothers living in Jiroft a...

the study aims to achieve research and testing of hypotheses survey techniques and questionnaires to collect information used. 61 questions in the questionnaire included 15 questions and 46 open questions according to research in the study population, girls and their mothers as the value of different children investment should be. mothers according to the research community benefits from havi...

Introduction: Assessment of national children growth has shown children‘s growth failure in a large percentage of them in Iran. Growth failure is easily diagnosed by growth monitoring card .On the other hand, mothers’ Knowledge of Nutritional development stages can help them to modify their practice in this field .In this case, conducting educational and interventional programs play a key role ...

Abstract Background & Aims: Sex education is one of the most difficult and most sensitive types of education. Meanwhile, parents' knowledge and attitudes, especially mothers, has the most important role in the education of healthy sexual behavior to children in pre-school. For this purpose, this study was conducted to evaluate knowledge and attitude of mothers towards preschool sex education. ...

Background: Children learn oral hygiene from their parents. We conducted a study on parent’s knowledge, attitude and practice on oral health in Saveh City, in primary schools.   Materials and methods: In this study, a standard questionnaire was used to evaluate mother’s knowledge, attitude and practice of on oral health. Mothers of 735 students in 16 primary schools (randomly selected) in Save...