Factors affecting the level of parental knowledge about their children's congenital heart diseases and their care.

Objective: To assess parental knowledge about their children's congenital heart disease using a newly-designed scale.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted from June 2020 to May 2021, at Alkhansaa maternity and child hospital, Mosul Iraq; after approval from the ethics review committee of Ninevah Medical College, Ninevah University, Iraq, and comprised parents with children having congenital heart disease. Data, including age, gender, type of congenital heart disease as well as parents' educational and socioeconomic levels, residence, internet use and knowledge of the disease with respect to type, burden, bacterial endocarditis, outcome, etc.

Role of Health Care Providers in Encouraging Formula Feeding in Mosul City.

Unacceptable advertisements and deceptive promotion of formula feeding undermine breastfeeding and threaten infant and maternal health worldwide. The purpose of this study was to estimate the role of healthcare providers and other sources in promoting the use of formula feeding among attendants at healthcare facilities in Mosul, Iraq. This one-year cross-sectional study was conducted at three healthcare facilities in Mosul, Iraq.

The value of the red cell distribution width index versus other parameters in the differentiation between iron deficiency anemia and beta thalassemia trait among children in Mosul, Iraq.

Background: Iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in children may be confounded with the beta-thalassemia trait (BTT). This study aimed to reevaluate the role of the red blood cell distribution width index (RDWI) in distinguishing BTT from IDA.

Research Design And Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted from June 2018 to February 2019 in two pediatric teaching hospitals in Mosul, Iraq.

Study of low vitamin D among children with anorexia in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan region, Iraq during summer months.

Objectives: To determine the impact of vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency on the development of anorexia in children with mild malnutrition without an obvious cause.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in Faruk Medical City, Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, between May and September 2018. It included 39 mildly malnourished children with a poor appetite for over 3 months and 156 children who were healthy except for minor illnesses as the control group.