BACKGROUND The aim was to evaluate satisfaction of the parents of children who have undergone orthodontic treatment provided by their orthodontists and pediatric dentists in their private practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 412 parents were interviewed with the help of a questionnaire containing information such as demographic part, experience of braces, motives for orthodontic treatme...

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM There is increasing interest in reducing burden of illness in families with childhood epilepsy. Evidence suggests that burden of illness is more related to parents' perception of seizure control than actual seizure control. This study examined the extent to which parents could describe their children's epilepsy and its impact. The degree of concordance between parents' ...

purpose: satisfaction is the result of a process; to assess satisfaction, the care recipients’ experiences of the services received should be understood and efforts should be made to understand how these experiences have formed that satisfaction.the purpose was to understand the processes of satisfaction with nursing care in parents of hospitalized children.methods: the present grounded theory ...

ersity. P ed.2012. Abstract Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the satisfaction of parents of paediatric patients with physicians’ communication skills. Methods: A survey among Saudi parents of 200 child patients was conducted in Madinah Maternity and Children Hospital, Almadinah Almunawwarah, Saudi Arabia, in July–September 2011. One of the parents of each child was interviewed o...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether adolescents' satisfaction with orthodontic treatment outcomes is correlated with the degree to which (1) the adolescents focused on and (2) were energized by imagining their posttreatment possible selves before the treatment, and whether parents' assessments of their children's pretreatment motivation would correlate with their children's posttreatment satisfactio...

The purpose of this intervention was to develop a therapeutic psycho-educational program that improves quality of life in children and adolescents who are experiencing chronic neurological illness, including epilepsy, and their parents, and to analyze the intervention's feasibility and efficacy and participants' satisfaction. Participants were eight children (n = 8) and adolescents and their pa...

This study compared the effectiveness of an Internet-based method with a standard method for preparing adolescent patients scheduled for out-patient tonsillectomy procedures. A two-group experimental design compared adolescents' state anxiety, knowledge acquisition, postoperative pain intensity, and satisfaction with the method of preoperative preparation. Parents' state anxiety and satisfactio...

Adolescence is often described as a "transition" period be ween childhood and adulthood.. Parents of adolescents are faced the challenge of enccaraging their adolescent offspring to achieve autonomy, while retaining a certain degree of responsibility for their actiona. This study examined how differing parental qualities such as attitudes and parenting styles relate to parental satisfaction. Su...

This study analyzed parents’ self-reported measures of intimacy, confirmation, engagement and satisfaction in communication about health with their minor children (N=220). Results indicated that a significant correlation exists between reported intimate communication about health and communication satisfaction (r = .40), and between confirming communication and satisfaction (r = .45). Results a...

The present study evaluated the level of support and satisfaction among parents of stillborn babies in Australian hospitals. One-hundred and eighty-nine mothers and fathers completed an online survey designed by the researcher based on the guidelines designed by the Perinatal Society of Australia and New Zealand. Support was inconsistent with guidelines implemented on average only 55% of the ti...