Background and Objectives: Children with developmental disabilities commonly experience feeding problems;however, tools to assess the nature and extent of these difficulties are not available in Arabic. This study aim...Background and Objectives: Children with developmental disabilities commonly experience feeding problems;however, tools to assess the nature and extent of these difficulties are not available in Arabic. This study aims to validate the Arabic version of the Screening Tool for Feeding Problems(STEP) and evaluate its factorial structure in children with developmental disabilities. Methods and Study Design: This cross-sectional study involved 167 children with developmental disabilities, recruited from nine disability centers and schools in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. Data were collected from caregivers using a paper version of the Arabic version of STEP, which was sent home with the child along with a consent form for signature. The English-to-Arabic translation of the tool was conducted by a bilingual professional using the forward-backward translation method.展开更多
We tried to emphasize the importance of psychological status analysis of the mothers of children, who have abnormal Body Mass Index (BMI), when treating these children. Materials and methods: Our study enrolled mother...We tried to emphasize the importance of psychological status analysis of the mothers of children, who have abnormal Body Mass Index (BMI), when treating these children. Materials and methods: Our study enrolled mothers of 150 children in normal, high and low BMI categories who were admitted to Kagithane State Hospital. The inclusion criteria required that these children had no chronic disease, developmental defect, and diagnosed psychological or physical disease impairing the reliability of the interview. Symptom Check List (SCL-90-R) and Beck Depression Scale (BDS) were used on all mothers of these children. In this study, BDS values of high BMI children’s mothers were significantly higher than those of normal BMI children’s mothers and BDS values of mothers of low BMI children were found to be higher than those of mothers of normal BMI children. The SCL-90-R results between mothers of high and normal BMI, high and low BMI, normal and low BMI children were statistically significant. We observed the effect of the psychological state of the family on childhood eating habits and the higher incidence of childhood feeding problems in families with psychopathology. Currently family therapy is indicated according to guidelines in solving eating disorders in children. This approach may also be useful for children with abnormal BMI.展开更多
文摘Background and Objectives: Children with developmental disabilities commonly experience feeding problems;however, tools to assess the nature and extent of these difficulties are not available in Arabic. This study aims to validate the Arabic version of the Screening Tool for Feeding Problems(STEP) and evaluate its factorial structure in children with developmental disabilities. Methods and Study Design: This cross-sectional study involved 167 children with developmental disabilities, recruited from nine disability centers and schools in Madinah, Saudi Arabia. Data were collected from caregivers using a paper version of the Arabic version of STEP, which was sent home with the child along with a consent form for signature. The English-to-Arabic translation of the tool was conducted by a bilingual professional using the forward-backward translation method.
文摘We tried to emphasize the importance of psychological status analysis of the mothers of children, who have abnormal Body Mass Index (BMI), when treating these children. Materials and methods: Our study enrolled mothers of 150 children in normal, high and low BMI categories who were admitted to Kagithane State Hospital. The inclusion criteria required that these children had no chronic disease, developmental defect, and diagnosed psychological or physical disease impairing the reliability of the interview. Symptom Check List (SCL-90-R) and Beck Depression Scale (BDS) were used on all mothers of these children. In this study, BDS values of high BMI children’s mothers were significantly higher than those of normal BMI children’s mothers and BDS values of mothers of low BMI children were found to be higher than those of mothers of normal BMI children. The SCL-90-R results between mothers of high and normal BMI, high and low BMI, normal and low BMI children were statistically significant. We observed the effect of the psychological state of the family on childhood eating habits and the higher incidence of childhood feeding problems in families with psychopathology. Currently family therapy is indicated according to guidelines in solving eating disorders in children. This approach may also be useful for children with abnormal BMI.
