the therapeutic value of kids’ artistic activities has always attracted experts and medics’ attention. it has a lot of usages in obtaining peace of mind and health in children. art therapy is a new and organized way in solving social and mental problems and disorders that can lead to improvement, especially in children. school anxiety can be seen and reduced, in artistic activities, as a sign o...

rubella or german measles is a mild contagious disease in non-pregnant women, but in pregnant affected mother’s possibility of fetus infection in the first twelve weeks of gestation is 80%. between 13-14 weeks of gestation is 54% and by the end of the second trimester is 25%. if fetus gets infected severe anomalies will progress. at present no vaccination against rubella is begin envisaged by t...

background: pithyriasis alba (pa) is a nonspecific dermatitis with unknown origin and is a common dermatosis during childhood. its prevalence is higher in individuals with darker skin, inadequate personal hygiene, sun exposure, xerosis with atopic dermatitis. the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of pithyriasis alba in elementary school children in babol, northern iran.metho...

the main aim of this project was the assessment, for the first time, anthropometrically, the nutritional status in school girls' population aging from 7 to 10 years in ahwaz city and ultimately compare their growth rate with other findings obtained from different part of iran and also with the proposed standards of nchs in this respect. this study was conducted on 1200 apparently healthy school...

Gender segregation in employment may be explained by women's reluctance to choose technical occupations. However, the foundations for career choices are laid much earlier. Educational experts claim that female students are doing better in math and science and are more likely to choose these subjects if they are in single-sex classes. One possible explanation is that coeducational settings reinf...

In this article, the authors propose reference curves for height and weight for school children in the Kuching area, Sarawak. The school children were from primary to secondary schools (aged 6.5 to 17 years old) and comprised both genders. Anthropometric measurements and demographic information for 3081 school-aged children were collected (1440 boys and 1641 girls). Fitted line plots and percen...

BACKGROUND Adolescence in girls has been recognized as a special period marked with the onset of menarche. Even though menstruation is a natural process, it is associated with misconceptions, malpractices and challenges among girls in developing countries. However, much is not documented; school-absenteeism and dropout are a common problem among girls in rural Ethiopia. Focusing among school gi...

objective: the main objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of social skill training as a classroom program in schoolgirl students of a primary school with a control group. method: the 4th grade school girls of two classes in a primary school and at least one of their parents or caregivers participated in this study and they were allocated in the case and control groups. the student'...