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We found significant improvements with medium to large effects on outcome measures after intervention, and most effects were maintained at follow-up. The findings warrant controlled studies examining the effectiveness of this intervention for children with ADHD....
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PMID: 21834453
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Little is known about factors associated with treatment initiation in overweight and obese adolescents. This study investigated parent-reported adolescent demographic, adolescent health, and parent motivation factors associated with initiation of a family-based adolescent overweight...
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PMID: 21151019
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Speech and language delay in children is associated with increased difficulty with reading, writing, attention, and socialization. Although physicians should be alert to parental concerns and to whether children are meeting expected developmental milestones, there currently is insufficient evidence t...
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PMID: 21568252
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Objectives. This study explored the interactive effects of dispositional threat orientation, type of message, and having children on reactions to a message about exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) in plastics. Design. The study used a 2 (message: Fear Arousal or Plain)×2 (parenting status: child or...
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PMID: 21489061
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Successful development during the first year of life is dependent on the infant's ability to regulate behavioral and physiological state in response to unpredictable environmental challenges. Although most infants develop skills to self-soothe and regulate behavior, a subset lacks these skills and de...
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PMID: 21057324
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This paper is a report of a further analysis of data from an ethnographic study of the nature of communication between children and health professionals in a child hospital setting.
There is a paucity of research on the nature of communication between health professio...
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PMID: 21091913
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Giovanni G Filocamo,
Alessandro A Consolaro,
Benedetta B Schiappapietra,
Sara S Dalprà,
Bianca B Lattanzi,
Silvia S Magni-Manzoni,
Nicolino N Ruperto,
Angela A Pistorio,
Silvia S Pederzoli,
Adele A Civino,
Dinara D Guseinova,
Ester E Masala,
Stefania S Viola,
Alberto A Martini and
Angelo A Ravelli
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To develop and test a new multidimensional questionnaire for assessment of children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) in standard clinical care.
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PMID: 21362761
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To describe the prevalence and co-occurrence of disabilities and their association with parental education in preterm children and term control subjects.
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PMID: 21349538
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Atopic dermatitis (AD) has a big impact on quality of life. The usefulness of health-related quality of life questionnaires for children with AD in general practice, and the relationship of quality of life to disease severity, as assessed by parents and by investigators, however, is not known. This s...
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PMID: 21327320
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U46619 (2.5 μM and 10 μM)-induced platelet aggregation was remarkably impaired in the proband and her father. Immunoblots showed that TXA(2) R expression levels in their platelets were approximately 50% of controls, and nucleotide sequence analysis revealed that they were heterozygous for a nove...
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PMID: 21342433
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is now routinely performed on any hospitalized patients who suffer cardiac, or respiratory arrest. Children with irreversible, or progressive terminal illness may benefit temporarily from CPR, only to deteriorate later on. Painful and invasive procedures may be pe...
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PMID: 21301755
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Parents of children with epilepsy, like parents of children with many other chronic conditions, are faced with a constant feeling of uncertainty about their child's condition. This uncertainty can lead to a decreased ability to cope as evidenced by increased stress levels, negative m...
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PMID: 21338042
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We examined associations between the subscales of the IBQ-R and frontal EEG asymmetry scores recorded during a combined series of neutral attentional and putatively emotional recording conditions in infants between 7 and 9 months of age. We predicted that approach-related subscales of the IBQ-R (e.g...
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PMID: 21829482
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To elucidate associations between high low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) in children of persons with premature coronary heart disease (PCHD) and their own and parental characteristics.
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PMID: 21626801
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We analyzed the EIF2AK3 gene in a 10-year-old WRS patient and his parents to study the clinical features and the mechanism for genetic onset of WRS.
A patient diagnosed with WRS and his parents were chosen as research subjects. PCR techniques were used to amplify the 17 exons of the...
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PMID: 21648287
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For many years, discussions of the relative merits of generic and theoretical approaches to qualitative research have divided researchers while overshadowing the need to focus on addressing clinical questions. Drawing on the challenges of designing a study that explored parents' expe...
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PMID: 21319483
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In health and social care research, pure naturalistic enquiry often seeks to understand personal experiences, and adopts data collection methods that can generate vast amounts of rich, thick text. This article demonstrates the way in which the author used a particular approach to analyse the complex...
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PMID: 21560921
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To explore primary care nurses' reported behaviour in consultations and their knowledge, beliefs and attitudes in relation to traditional and complementary approaches (TCA) for children.
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PMID: 21706977
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If a child's general health is compromised, care for his/her oral and dental health becomes an absolute necessity. Children with heart diseases require special dental care because of the risk of developing infective endocarditis.
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PMID: 21678677
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We sampled 50 participants (25 male and 25 female) who were mostly college students at the University of California, Berkeley. Hookah smoking was occasional among those sampled, with only six participants (12%) reporting weekly hookah smoking. The majority of respondents considered hookah smoking to...
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PMID: 21858960
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Abstract Purpose. Evaluate youth assets or potential strengths and sexual intercourse associations by household income. Design. Data consisted of youth and parent responses from randomly selected households from a cross-sectional study and wave one of a longitudinal extension of that study. Youth ass...
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PMID: 21534832
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Abstract Purpose. The main purposes of this study were to assess TV viewing among Hispanic young children and to examine effects of having a TV in the child's bedroom (TVIB). Design and Setting. A quasi-experimental design was used to evaluate an intervention program that is collecting longitudinal d...
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PMID: 21534833
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We wanted to test whether we, by using data on thousands of prescriptions, could answer a prosaic yet very timely question: Which penicillin is most widely accepted?
By use of the Odense PharmacoEpidemiological Database (OPED) we extracted data on all penicillin prescriptions issued to children in t...
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PMID: 21156107
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Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is subjective concept and, therefore, should be captured directly from the patient. However, proxy reporting of HRQL is widespread, particularly in pediatric studies where children have been considered unreliable respondents. This study assessed the level of agr...
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PMID: 21150532
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Introducing brain death of children in Japan, there are three major concerns such as a) difficulty of diagnosing brain death in children, b) difficulty of taking care of family of the brain dead, c) difficulty of eliminating child abuse victims from donors, which are expressed by hospitals and healt...
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PMID: 21174700
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To assess the impact of various sources of information on school going adolescents (belonging to higher social strata between ages 14-19 years) regarding Hepatitis B; its various types, importance, symptoms and cures.
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PMID: 21381569
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Guilherme Borges,
Matthew K Nock,
Josep M Haro Abad,
Irving Hwang,
Nancy A Sampson,
Jordi Alonso,
Laura Helena Andrade,
Matthias C Angermeyer,
Annette Beautrais,
Evelyn Bromet,
Ronny Bruffaerts,
Giovanni de Girolamo,
Silvia Florescu,
Oye Gureje,
Chiyi Hu,
Elie G Karam,
Viviane Kovess-Masfety,
Sing Lee,
Daphna Levinson,
Maria Elena Medina-Mora,
Johan Ormel,
Jose Posada-Villa,
Rajesh Sagar,
Toma Tomov,
Hidenori Uda,
David R Williams and
Ronald C Kessler
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Although suicide is a leading cause of death worldwide, clinicians and researchers lack a data-driven method to assess the risk of suicide attempts. This study reports the results of an analysis of a large cross-national epidemiologic survey database that estimates the 12-month prevalence of suicida...
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PMID: 20816034
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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral disorder that typically begins in childhood and often persists into adulthood. ADHD is characterized by developmentally inappropriate levels of inattention and hyperactivity resulting in functional impairment in academic, family, a...
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PMID: 21063274
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The current study set to examine whether there are inter-generational and gender-based differences between family members self-assessing their ability to drive under normal conditions and while under the influence of either alcohol or drugs. Participants were 135 young-adults and both their parents,...
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PMID: 20728671
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Co-physical activity (between parents and children), as an outcome variable, and its correlates have not been examined previously. The purpose of this study was to investigate correlates of co-physical activity among a nationally representative sample of 9- to 13-year-old children and their parents....
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PMID: 21088309
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The purposes of this article are to (a) outline findings from secondary or process outcome data of the Hunter Illawarra Kids Challenge Using Parent Support (HIKCUPS) study and (b) inform the design and development of future research interventions and practice in the management of chi...
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PMID: 19158237
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We discuss the potential of surveys in understanding a disabling condition; delineate characteristics of successful survey research; describe a survey of families of individuals with fragile X syndrome; and synthesize major findings. The survey has provided new information about the nature and conse...
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PMID: 20945998
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National survey data from 884 families were used to examine the overall health of children and adults with fragile X syndrome. Results indicate the rate of obesity in adults with fragile X syndrome is similar to the general population (∼30%). Male children with fragile X syndrome,...
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PMID: 20946001
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The relation between perceived racial discrimination and substance use was examined in 2 studies that were based on the prototype-willingness model (Gibbons, Gerrard, & Lane, 2003). Study 1, using structural equation modeling, revealed prospective relations between discrimination and use 5 years lat...
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PMID: 20677890
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Nonhygienic behavior likely contributed to three recreational waterborne illness (RWI) outbreaks at Idaho splash parks. The study described in this article examined the influence of signage and hygiene attendant presence on rates of nonhygienic behavior among children at splash parks and knowledge a...
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PMID: 21133310
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Even as attention is drawn to the increasing number of individuals who experience health inequalities in the United States, little is known about the health inequalities experienced by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Current disability research mainly focuses on physica...
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PMID: 21171535
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We evaluated the effects on academic, emotional and social adjustment from the information provided by parents, teachers and classmates. The results confirm the maintenance in the follow-up evaluation of the improvements experienced after the treatment, especially in the academic and social areas, i...
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PMID: 21044513
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Our findings suggest that paediatric palliative care programmes should treat parents with lower educational levels as being particularly vulnerable and should consider allocating additional resources to them when a decision for their children is imminent....
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PMID: 21135787
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This article represents an empirical study of adolescent's self-relation in a family where the mother has re-married. In many studies self-awareness and its functional aspect--self-relation--are selected as new stages in adolescence. The family is considered to be the most important factor in a chil...
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PMID: 20977021
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We asked the following questions: (1) how happy are these patients; (2) how do these patients perceive their bodies; (3) do these children have difficulty with social interactions; and (4) how satisfied are patients and their parents with their outcomes?
We retrospectively identified and contacted 2...
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PMID: 20632139
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Prolonged duration of finger- and pacifier-sucking may be a risk factor for maldevelopment of orofacial structures and dental occlusion. This study assessed the prevalence of nutritive and non-nutritive sucking habits and their association with some contributing factors among 7-year-old girls in Mas...
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PMID: 21218738
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Refractive error is one of the leading causes of visual impairment in children. An analysis of risk factors for refractive error is required to reduce and prevent this common eye disease.
To identify the risk factors associated with refractive errors in primary school children (6-12 year old) in Nak...
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PMID: 21114208
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(1) to determine the associations of sleep disordered breathing (SDB) with behavioral functioning, cognitive test scores, and school grades during middle- to late-childhood, an under-researched developmental period in the SDB literature, and (2) to clarify whether associations between SDB and school...
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PMID: 21102986
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to evaluate the frequency of sleep problems and daytime tiredness among adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in comparison with their healthy peers.
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PMID: 21102990
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Sarah McCue Horwitz,
Christine A Demeter,
Maria E Pagano,
Eric A Youngstrom,
Mary A Fristad,
L Eugene Arnold,
Boris Birmaher,
Mary Kay Gill,
David Axelson,
Robert A Kowatch,
Thomas W Frazier and
Robert L Findling
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To describe the design of a longitudinal study of youth with elevated symptoms of mania (ESM), as well as the prevalence and correlates of manic symptoms. Bipolar disorder in youth is serious and is surrounded by controversy about its phenomenology, course, and treatment. Yet, there are no longitudi...
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PMID: 21034684
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