abstract background: most of the studies about parenting stress among parents of children with autistic spectrum disorder (asd) have been conducted in western societies. the objective of this research, conducted in iran, is to evaluate the parenting stress among fathers and mothers of children with asd and fi nd the correlation between severity of the disorder in children and the level of paren...

The aim of the study was to investigate the association between asthma, allergic rhinitis, and eczema in Qatari schoolchildren with allergic conditions in their parents. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 3500 Qatari schoolchildren aged 6-14 years in period: February, 2003-February, 2004. A questionnaire was used to collect the clinical history of asthma and allergic rhinitis in their ...

Despite increased research into families of chronically ill children, more needs to be known about the father's experience. We address this issue through asking: 'What is it like to be the father of a child with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis?' (JIA). Four members of eight families with an adolescent diagnosed with JIA, including seven fathers, were interviewed and transcripts analysed using gro...

This study asks parents who have children with Down syndrome (DS) how they feel about their lives so that such information could be shared with expectant couples during prenatal counseling sessions. A valid and reliable survey instrument was mailed to 4,924 households on the mailing lists of six non-profit DS organizations. Of the 2,044 respondents, 99% reported that they love their son or daug...

the importance of education through interactive discussion-forums and seminars on family skills in coping with stress of having a child with autistic spectrum disorder (asd) seems to be under-attended. this prompted a local initiative entitled smart (shiraz multidisciplinary autism research team), to document the personal impact of autism on a preliminary group of parents and identify the corre...

In most mammals, and in the majority of traditional human societies for which data exist, status, power, or resource control correlates with lifetime reproductive success; male and female patterns differ. Because such correlations are often argued to have disappeared in human societies durmg the demographic transitton of the nineteenth century, we analyzed wealth and lifetime reproductive succe...

Background: The incidence of a child chronic disease causes high levels of stress and anxiety in the parents and caregivers. This study aimed to investigate the coping strategies of parents with chronic ill children who hospitalized in educational hospitals of Ahvaz -Iran. Materials and Methods: This cross sectional study conducted in two hospitals that affiliated to Jundishapur University of M...

Abstract Marital and parenting systems are likely to interact during the first year of an infant’s life. This study examines longitudinal interrelations relationship satisfaction parental reflective functioning (PRF) their predictive relations with later emotional availability (EA) infant social-emotional behaviors (SEB) including skills as well behavioral problems among first-time Finnish moth...