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 ...

Abbot JM, Byrd-Bredbenner C. Development of a Self-Directed Home Kitchen Makeover for Mothers of Young Children. The Forum. 2009;14:1-7. Available online at: www.ncsu.edu/ffci This paper describes formative research guiding the development of an intervention designed to improve the ability of mothers of young children to plan, prepare, and serve healthy family meals. Interviews showed that the ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe Latina mothers' acceptance of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine for their daughters and explore their knowledge base regarding HPV-related issues. DESIGN Individual interviews were conducted with a convenience sample of 40 Latina mothers of daughters 7-14 years old, from an urban, pediatric primary care clinic. Preliminary questions were asked regarding HPV kn...

This study investigated trajectories of maternal parenting behavior across the infants' first 18 months of life in relation to maternal depression. Furthermore, predictors of the quality of the mother-infant relationship at 18 months were examined. Participants consisted of three types of mother-infant dyads: mothers with comorbid depression and anxiety (n=19), mothers with depression (n=7) and...

Methods Of the initial 84 women and their offspring who participated in the RCT, follow-up data were available on 46 mothers (26 exercisers, 20 controls) and 46 children. At each follow-up visit (6 months, 1 year, 2 years, 4 years, 6-8 years) clinical assessment included measurement of mothers’ and children’s heights, weights, BMI, and waist circumference, as well as blood pressure. Body compos...

This study builds on the debate whether mothers‘ employment in early life of children bring positive or negative impact to later life. is based fact that often result reduced family time which mother may not be able take care their fully. estimated effects mothers’ status children’s education short-term and long-term 24 provinces Indonesia. used data from three waves Indonesia Family Life Surve...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of dietary counseling given to mothers during the first year of infants' lives on food consumption, nutritional status, and lipid profile of the children up to 7 to 8 years old. METHODS The randomized trial was conducted with 500 mothers who gave birth to full-term infants with birth weight ≥ 2500 g between October 2001 and June 2002 in São Leopoldo, Brazil. Mot...

BACKGROUND Adequate nutrition during infancy and early childhood is essential to ensure the health, growth and development of children. However, infant feeding practice is suboptimal in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia. The slum area is a heavily populated urban informal settlement characterized by substandard housing, squalor, with a lack of reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliabl...

OBJECTIVE To study mode of birth, perinatal health and death in children born to mothers with intellectual disability (ID) in Sweden. DESIGN Population-based register study. SETTING National registers; the National Patient Register linked to the Medical Birth Register. SAMPLE Children of first-time mothers with ID (n = 326; classified in the International Classification of Diseases 8-10) ...