TY - JOUR T1 - Body Part Identification in 1 to 4-year-old Children Living in South of Tehran TT - تشخیص قسمت‌های مختلف بدن در کودکان 4-1 ساله جنوب تهران JF - RJMS JO - RJMS VL - 16 IS - 0 UR - http://rjms.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1243-en.html Y1 - 2009 SP - 0 EP - 0 KW - Body Image KW - Body Part Identification KW - Child Development N2 -     Background & Aim:�The purpose of this study was to examine the development of body part identification in very young children. Body part identification is defined as the ability to point to body parts on a doll. The second part of this study compared body part identification on a doll with body part identification on the self in 1 to 4-year-old children. There are so many evaluations carried out in western countries,but they aren’t useful for different races, and if some of them are,there is no sufficient information available. Therefore, we decided to survey body part identification in our own country. Patients and Method: This cross-sectional study was performed on 90 children in the south of Tehran. The evaluated children were 1 to 4-year-old,including 46 girls and 44 boys. The nursery chief ,first,completed demographic parts of questionnaires and then the second section of questionnaires which consisted of body part names in order to determine the number of parts indicated for obtaining total grade of the survey. Results: The findings showed that there were significant differences between three age groups (p M3 ER -