Factors related to parental COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy for children: An exploratory factor analysis model.

Introduction: This pandemic has been accompanied by an overabundance of information and misinformation, an 'infodemic' on a global scale which have made acceptability of COVID-19 vaccine a major challenge. The objective of the study was to find out the Beliefs of mothers towards COVID-19 vaccine for children and its impact on vaccine hesitancy.

Materials And Methods: After obtaining Institutional ethical clearance and informed consent, a total of 360 mothers who were having at least one child from 5 to 18 years were recruited based on simple random sampling.

Children 'At Risk' of Developing Specific Learning Disability in Primary Schools.

Objectives: To study the proportion of children of age 5 to 7 y at risk of specific learning disability (SLD) and to analyse the socio-demographic risk factors.

Methods: A school based cross-sectional study was conducted in six schools in Puducherry. Four hundred eighty students were enrolled and study was conducted in a triphasic approach.

Culture proven Salmonella typhi co-infection in a child with Dengue fever: a case report.

Infectious diseases are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in developing countries. Sometimes concurrent infections with multiple infectious agents may occur in one patient, which make the diagnosis and management a challenging task. The authors here present a case of co-infection of typhoid fever with dengue fever in a ten-year-old child and discuss the pertinent issues.