Data was collected using a pretested questionnaire on 131 schoolchildren aged 8-16-year olds attending Grade 3 5.
The 288 confirmed dead were mainly schoolchildren – 16 are still missing.
"If you talk to schoolchildren, 10 to 14-year-olds, they ask really intelligent questions and I am always extremely impressed by the cadets of this world.
Only a misinterpretation of the cited passage could be used to buttress genocide (How Christian fundamentalists plan to teach genocide to schoolchildren, 30 May).
Representative samples from schoolchildren (30 schools) and adults (97 municipal areas) were obtained by random cluster sampling.
To describe the prevalence of hyperopia and associated factors in a representative sample of Australian schoolchildren 6 and 12 years old.
The studied population was composed of 236 schoolchildren 5 to 14 years old.
These excellent conditions for Schistosoma proliferation lead to incidences of up to 70% in schoolchildren [17].
All participants were offered treatment with the anti-helminthic drug praziquantel and 102 treated schoolchildren (5 16 years) were followed up 6 months post-antihelminthic treatment.
We calculated risks of infection from Chin et al.'s prospective study of household transmission following illnesses among schoolchildren [10]; households without school-aged children were not represented.
