screening interval urinalysis has long been considered essential to pediatric health care. a urinalysis is recommended at four times: in infancy, early childhood, late childhood, and in adolescence. several chemical parameters can be measured as commercially available in dipstick test. this test is relatively inexpensive and it takes less than 5 minutes to be completed. in a 3 month follow up p...

A meta-analysis was undertaken, including 41 studies to determine the infl uence of Catholic and Protestant schools. The analysis examined studies undertaken at both the elementary and secondary school level. The results indicate that both Catholic and Protestant school students do better than their counterparts in public schools. In addition, Protestant school students excelled more than their...

This study gathered follow-up data from the Terman Life Cycle Study (N = 1,023) to examine how age at first reading and age at school entry relate to grade school academic performance, lifelong educational attainment, midlife health and mental adjustment, and longevity across eight decades. Early reading was associated with early academic success, but less lifelong educational attainment and wo...

The purposes of the study were to assess sprinting and agility performance characteristics and to determine the relationship between these two motor skills in elementary education students. Sprinting and agility performance were assessed in 176 children (88 boys and 88 girls) divided into three groups: Group 1 (G1, N = 98; 48 boys and 50 girls), from the first year of elementary education; Grou...

How can we determine whether two sets have the same cardinality (or “size”)? The answer to this question, reassuringly, lies in early grade school memories: by demonstrating a pairing between elements of the two sets. More formally, we need to demonstrate a bijection f between the two sets. The bijection sets up a one-to-one correspondence, or pairing, between elements of the two sets. We know ...

OBJECTIVE In this pilot study, we determined the effectiveness of a weighted vest on attention to task for second-grade general education students with difficulty attending. METHOD We used an intervention and a control group and an ABA design to compare participants' percentage of time on task with and without a vest. Ten participants from nine elementary schools in a suburban Texas school di...

Article: The traditional nutrition education approach which requires students to identify nutrients, vitamins, and minerals is only a small segment of a comprehensive nutrition education program. A comprehensive program calls for a serious look at lifestyles, obesity, exercise, food preference, and various aspects of weight control. Recognizing the importance placed on the role of nutrition, a ...

Quality of life (QOL) factors have become an area of emphasis for health care and particularly for optometry. The College of Optometrists in Vision Development designed a 30-item checklist (COVDQOL-30). This was later reduced to 19 items (COVD-QOL-19). The two instruments have been shown to have good testretest reliabilities and both have been demonstrated to have validity. The reliability of b...

BACKGROUND Students' health and future health of the community are related to providing health care in schools and since in every society, different contextual factors affect this matter, the present study aims to recognize the factors influencing the health care elementary students are provided with. METHODS This qualitative content analysis was performed in 2014 in Isfahan. This study was c...