BACKGROUND The stress that results from preterm birth, requisite acute care and prolonged physical separation in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) can have adverse physiological/psychological effects on both the infant and the mother. In particular, the experience compromises the establishment and maintenance of optimal mother-infant relationship, the subsequent development of the infant,...

BACKGROUND We examine the association between family structure and children's health care utilization, barriers to health care access, health, and schooling and cognitive outcomes and assess whether socioeconomic status (SES) accounts for those family structure differences. We advance prior research by focusing on understudied but increasingly common family structures including single father fa...

It is aimed to compare the content of mother tongue curriculums at secondary school level in Alberta, Korea and Singapore. When we look curriculum general, it has been determined that learning outcomes 21st century skills all programs are close equitable distribution grades. Among skills, innovation were found be skill most associated with for Secondary School Mother Tongue Curriculum, Singapor...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between maternal depression and anxiety disorders (MDAD) and child development assessed during the kindergarten year. METHODS Administrative data from several health and social databases in Manitoba, Canada, were used to study 18,331 mother-child pairs. MDAD over the period from one year prior to the child's birth to the kindergarten year was defined using...

introduction: in iran little attention has been paid to the important role of husband’s support in promoting maternal health. this study aimed to investigate the relationship between perceived social support from family in pregnant women and pregnancy-related factors. methods: the study included 358 postpartum women in the second half of the year 2014 in fatemiyeh hospital in shahroud, north ea...

Introduction: Abnormal pregestational and gestational maternal nutritional status is an undeniable health problem which can result in changes interfere fetal conditions. Objective: To analyze the influence of pre-pregnancy on mother-newborn pair outcomes. Methods: This observational, analytical, cross-sectional study carried out a public Maternity Hospital Joinville, SC, Brazil. A total 1,670 p...