Low Birth weight infants are at risk of many problems. Therefore their outcome must evaluate in different ages especially in school age. In this study we determined prevalence of ophthalmic, hearing, speaking and school readiness problems in children who were born low birth weight and compared them with normal birth weight children. In a cross-sectional and retrospective study, all Primary Scho...

The rapid spread of online learning demonstrates that it is becoming one the trends in development vocational education modern world. Along with obvious advantages such as cost reduction, cross-border opportunities for receiving it, and adaptability students, educational institutions encounter specific difficulties: a lack optimal teaching methods, inflexibility institutional environment to use...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to develop the Transition Readiness Assessment Questionnaire (TRAQ), a measure of readiness for transition from pediatric to adult healthcare for youth with special health care needs (YSHCN). METHODS We administered TRAQ to 192 YSHCN aged 16-26 years in three primary diagnostic categories, conducted factor analysis, and assessed differences in TRAQ scores b...

Since the early 1990s, federal and local public safety agencies have been working aggressively to improve our response capabilities for managing terrorist incidents that employ chemical and biological agents. This rush toward readiness was further compelled after the attacks of 9/11 and the anthrax mailings of 2001. Just in the past few years, thousands of law enforcement and emergency services...

BACKGROUND A wide range of effective smoking cessation interventions have been developed to help smokers to quit. Smoking rates remain high, especially among people with a lower level of education. Multiple tailoring adapted to the individual's readiness to quit and the use of visual messaging may increase smoking cessation. OBJECTIVE The results of video and text computer tailoring were comp...