background: mothers play a key role in caring for their sick children. their experiences of care were influenced by culture, rules, and the system of health and care services. there are few studies on maternal care of children with congenital heart disease. also, each of them has studied a particular aspect of care. the present research aimed to understand care experiences of mothers of childre...

rotavirus is a common infection causing 450,000 deaths annually primarily in children 5 years and below. despite the high burden of disease, little is known about the epidemiology of rotavirus in libya. the aim of this study was to estimate the rotavirus disease burden among libyan children.a cross-sectional study was carried out prospectively among children 5 years old and below between august...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine how health care-related financial burden, childhood activity limitations, health insurance, and other access-related factors predict delayed or forgone care for families with children, using a nationally representative, population-based sample. METHODS Our sample included families with children aged 0 to 17 years whose family was interviewed about their healt...

OBJECTIVE The wide geographic variation in pediatric subspecialty supply in the United States has been a source of concern. Whether children in areas with decreased supply receive less subspecialty care or have worse outcomes has not been adequately evaluated. Among children with special health care needs, we examined the association between pediatric subspecialty supply and subspecialty utiliz...

Introduction: Cancer is a disease of high incidence among children and the patients need a caregiver during the treatment. Aim: to evaluate: the burden of care and quality of life (QOL) of caregivers of children/adolescents with cancer during chemotherapy treatment and relate them to each other and to the socio-demographic data and the presence and degree of signs of depression, Method: It is a...