background brucellosis is a systemic infection with a various clinical manifestations ranging from asymptomatic infection to serious and fatal diseases. in endemic area, one-third of all cases of human brucellosis have been reported in children. objectives this study aimed to evaluate epidemiology, clinical presentation, and treatment outcome of brucellosis among children in zahedan city. patie...

objective: the purpose of this study is to examine the factor structure, internal consistency, and construct validity of preschool, first and second grade versions of berkeley parenting self-efficacy scale. method: the subjects were 317 mothers: (102 mothers of preschool children, 111 mothers of first grade children and 104 mothers of second grade children) who were randomly selected from schoo...

This article assesses whether there are methodological problems with child outcome measures that may contribute to the small associations between child care quality and child outcomes found in the literature. Outcome measures used in 65 studies of child care quality published between 1979 and December 2005 were examined, taking the previous review by Vandell and Wolfe (2000) as the starting poi...

background: approximately one percent of current live births of the world are conceived via assisted reproductive technologies (art). objective:  the purpose of this study was to compare the developmental status of children born through assisted and natural conceptions at the age of five years. materials and methods:  in a retrospective cohort study, developmental status of 5 years old children...