Assessment of the Diagnostic Performance of MUAC in Malnutrition Screening and Its Correlation with Other Anthropometric Indicators in Healthy Children and Adolescents.

Background/objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the correlation of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) z-scores with body mass index (BMI) and weight-for-height (WFH) z-scores to determine its reliability in identifying malnutrition and its potential in clinical practice in healthy children and adolescents.

Methods: Our study included 906 healthy children and adolescents aged between 2 months and 18 years who were admitted to University Hospital's General Pediatrics Clinic and attended 12 primary schools in 6 additional Izmir provinces. Anthropometric measurements (weight, length/standing height, MUAC, BMI, WFH) were performed.

Adherence to iron supplementation during the first year of life infants in Izmir, Turkey.

To determine the prevalence of adherence to iron supplementation and the risk factors for incomplete adherence during the first year of life of infants in Izmir, Turkey. In this cross-sectional study, a total of 511 infants aged 2 to 12 months who presented to the Pediatrics outpatient clinics of Ege University Children's Hospital were included. Mothers (n = 511) who agreed to participate in the study were interviewed face-to-face and a comprehensive questionnaire including questions about the sociodemographic characteristics of the children and the family, and their adherence to iron supplementation was administered.

Use of Dietary Supplements and Influencing Factors in Children.

Introduction: In recent years, the use of dietary supplements has increased in all age groups. Parents may also use these supplements for their children for different reasons. This study aims to determine the use of dietary supplements by children, the factors affecting this use, and the attitudes of parents about these products.

Use of Different Iron Preparations for Prophylaxis and Effects on Iron Status in Infancy.

To evaluate using different iron preparations for iron deficiency and/or iron deficiency anemia prophylaxis in infants and their iron status. In this study, we retrospectively evaluated the electronic patient records of 651 healthy children aged 9 to 13 months who met the inclusion criteria and who were followed up in pediatric follow-up outpatient clinics between January 2023 and June 2023. A total of 651 children with a mean age of 11.

Predictive validity and cut-off point of the Turkish version of the Infant Colic Scale in the diagnosis of colic.

Objective: To investigate the predictive validity and cut-off point of the Turkish version of the Infant Colic Scale (ICS) in the diagnosis of colic.

Methods: This methodological study was carried out in a pediatric outpatient clinic of a university hospital in Turkey with infants aged 6-16 weeks (n = 133). The data were collected using the Mother-Infant Description Form, the ICS, and the Rome IV criteria form.

Young children's sleep patterns and problems in paediatric primary healthcare settings: a multicentre cross-sectional study from a nationally representative sample.

Studies describing paediatric sleep patterns are needed by taking culture into consideration. The aim of this study was to identify parent-reported sleep-wake patterns in young children and explore possible factors influencing sleep problems. The mothers of 2,434 young children enrolled from well-child outpatient clinics in Turkey completed an online survey including sociodemographic variables, Brief Infant Sleep Questionnaire, Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and Generalised Anxiety Disorder scales.

Episodic apnea: gastroesophageal reflux associated with gastric organo-axial malrotation: a case report.

Background: Gastroesophageal reflux is a normal physiologic process occurring several times a day in healthy infants. On the other hand, symptoms such as failure to thrive, feeding or sleeping problems, chronic respiratory distress, persistent forceful vomiting, and choking may indicate reflux associated with underlying anatomic, neurological, or infectious abnormalities. Gastric malrotation is an extremely rare disorder in the pediatric population and one of the anatomic causes associated with severe reflux, which could lead to serious complications.

Persistent wheezing along with apparent stridor caused by a rare anomaly: double aortic arch.

Vascular rings are rare anomalies that occur as a result of abnormal development of the aortic arch complex, often manifested by signs of tracheo-oesophageal compression during the infant period. A double aortic arch anomaly is the most common type of vascular ring pathology. Here we report a case presenting with wheezing and stridor in a 10-month-old child.

Parotitis coexisting with Kawasaki disease in a child: a rare presentation of Kawasaki disease.

Kawasaki disease (KD), also known as mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome and infantile polyarteritis nodosa, is known to present in multiple ways. Although inflammatory changes in several systems have been reported in KD, there are few documented child patients presenting with parotitis. We report such a case in a five-year-old.

Toilet training age and influencing factors: a multicenter study.

To determine toilet training age and the factors influencing this in our country, 1500 children who had completed toilet training were evaluated in a multicenter study. The mean age of toilet training was 22.32 ± 6.

Missed cases of multiple forms of child abuse and neglect.

Child abuse and neglect is a public health problem and usually associated with family dysfunction due to multiple psychosocial, individual, and environmental factors. The diagnosis of child abuse may be difficult and require a high index of suspicion on the part of the practitioners encountering the child and the family. System-related factors may also enable abuse or prevent the early recognition of abuse.

Epidemiological study of negative childhood experiences in three provinces of Turkey.

Aim: This study aimed to determine the frequencies of negative childhood experiences in the past years and negative childhood experiences throughout life in 11, 13 and 16 year-age group children who attended school in three separate provinces.

Material And Methods: Approval was obtained from the provincial National Education Directorates and educated investigators applied the ISPCAN child abuse screening tool questionnaire form which measures negative childhood events experienced at home in children. Statistical analysis was performed with chi-square test using SPSS 16.

Staff training makes a difference: improvements in neonatal illicit drug testing and intervention at a tertiary hospital.

Objective: This project explored the impact of staff training on the rates of perinatal maternal and neonatal illicit drug testing.

Methods: Controlled, retrospective chart review on 1186 newborn and mother dyads from 2006 (pre-training control group) and on 1861 dyads from 2009 (post-training study group) was completed. Differences between rates of infant and mother drug testing were compared.

Vitamin D status of exclusively breastfed 4-month-old infants supplemented during different seasons.

Objective: To examine the vitamin D status of 4-month-old exclusively breastfed infants supplemented with 400 IU daily of vitamin D and to determine whether there was any seasonal variation in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels of infants.

Methods: In this cross-sectional study, serum calcium, phosphorus, alkaline phosphatase, parathyroid hormone, and 25(OH)D levels of 143 exclusively breastfed 4-month-old infants supplemented daily with 400 IU of vitamin D were measured in a temperate latitude, Izmir, Turkey, between May 2008 and April 2009. A questionnaire on demographic characteristics of infants and mothers, vitamin D supplementation of infants after birth, mothers' multivitamin supplementation, dressing habits, and consumption of dairy products during pregnancy was used.

Perinatal illicit drug screening practices in mother-newborn dyads at a university hospital serving rural/semi-urban communities: translation of research to quality improvement.

Objective: To determine staff compliance with the hospital perinatal illicit drug screening-intervention and the prevalence of dyads that are not tested who present with risk factors indicating the need for testing.

Methods: This is a retrospective, controlled chart review of mother/newborn dyads presenting to a university hospital for delivery services in 2002 and 2003. Group 1 included all dyads, in which the newborns were tested for illegal drugs after delivery (n = 121).

Vitamin B12 and folate statuses are associated with diet in pregnant women, but not with anthropometric measurements in term newborns.

Objective: To investigate the frequencies of vitamin B12 and folate deficiencies in pregnant women in low socioeconomic group, the relation between the animal-source foods consumption and maternal vitamin B12-folate statuses, and their impacts on anthropometric measurements of the infants.

Methods: A total of 208 pregnant women in the last trimester were included in the study. A questionnaire about socio-demographic status, consumption of meat, egg, milk-dairy products, multivitamin supplementation was used.

Vitamin D deficiency in pregnant women and their neonates in spring time in western Turkey.

Although Turkey is located in a sunny region, vitamin D deficiency is still a serious health problem in pregnant women and their infants, especially among the low socio-economic status Turkish population. This study was carried out in order to measure serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 [25(OH)D] concentrations of the pregnant women in the last trimester and in their neonates at delivery and to determine the factors associated with maternal serum 25(OH)D concentrations. Among the patients visiting the Ege Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital in the period March to May 2008, 258 healthy pregnant women ≥37 weeks of gestation were included in this study.

Abusive suffocation presenting as new-onset seizure.

Child abuse can often be very difficult to identify. This is especially true in cases of abuse by suffocation. Suffocation often leaves no external physical marks and presents with vague, nonspecific symptoms.

Varicella rates among unvaccinated and one-dose vaccinated healthy children in Izmir, Turkey.

Objectives: We aimed to determine the rate of breakthrough varicella in Turkey, a country with low varicella vaccination coverage.

Methods: This study was conducted between April 2008 and March 2009 at the Well-Child Clinic at Ege University and pediatricians' offices. We collected information on vaccination status and varicella infection using a questionnaire.