BACKGROUND Children ages 8-12 years, also called "Tweens," demonstrate a number of risk factors for motor vehicle injury, including lack of restraint use and front seating position, yet few interventions have targeted this group. We implemented a school-based educational intervention designed to increase awareness and encourage safer transportation of these children. MATERIALS A local school ...

OBJECTIVE To examine which factors act as mediators between parental educational level and children's fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake in ten European countries. DESIGN Cross-sectional data were collected in ten European countries participating in the PRO GREENS project (2009). Schoolchildren completed a validated FFQ about their daily F&V intake and filled in a questionnaire about availabili...

background: raising awareness of mothers has an important role to preventing neonatal severe hyperbilirubinemia. we aimed to investigate the role of educational intervention on the knowledge and practice of the mothers with icteric newborns. materials and methods: this study was interventional study with interventional and control group. study population consisted of 384 consecutive parents of ...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to analyze the clinical efficiency of Asthma Education Intervention (AEI, Asthma School) in children and their parents, a program was designed to produce acceptable asthma knowledge and to improve the treatment. METHODS This study assessed the effectiveness of an educational intervention within 12 months after attending Asthma School. The study was designe...

and terminology about placement and programming options. Above all, contradicting values which coexist in legal mandates and predominate the system of special education have contributed to underlying impediments to parents' full participation in the special education decision-making process (Kalyanpar et al, 2000). Specifically , the ideal of parental equal rights mandated by the laws suggests ...

BACKGROUND Providing an educational program as part of a health care program for the management of atopic dermatitis (AD) patients has rapidly become popular. AD educational programs can be of benefit in measured outcomes for both dermatology specialists and patients. OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of programmed education delivered by dermatology specialists on the management and knowledg...

UNLABELLED Minor ailments like sore throat, fever, cough and diarrhea can be relieved with over-the-counter (OTC) medications such as paracetamol or other traditional remedies, without seeking for consultation from general practitioners. Parents usually take the responsibility to come up with some kind of treatment for their children. OBJECTIVE (1) to evaluate the parents' medical knowledge a...

Background: Raising awareness of mothers has an important role to preventing neonatal severe hyperbilirubinemia. We aimed to investigate the role of educational intervention on the knowledge and practice of the mothers with icteric newborns. Materials and Methods: This study was interventional study with interventional and control group. Study population consisted of 384 consecutive parents of ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Educating the youth about stroke is a promising approach for spreading stroke knowledge. The aim of this study was to verify communication of stroke knowledge to parents by educating junior high school students about stroke. METHODS We enrolled 1127 junior high school students (age, 13-15 years) and their parents in the Tochigi prefecture, Japan. All students received a...

INTRODUCTION The family of each hearing-impaired child has its own cultural, social, educational, and financial background, and its own special needs. The objectives of our study were to explore the information and support needs of parents of children with severe-to-profound hearing impairment and to investigate the effects of the parents' level of education and economic status on the score att...