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The goals of the review are threefold: (a) to highlight the educational and employment consequences of poorly developed mathematical competencies; (b) overview the characteristics of children with mathematical learning disability (MLD) and with persistently low achievement (LA) in mathematics; and (c...
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PMID: 21285895
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To examine the association between worry and problem-solving skills and beliefs (confidence and perceived control) in primary school children.
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PMID: 21332523
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To enhance their understanding of issues around adherence to treatment, eight health professionals adhered to a randomly selected six-week treatment regimen suitable for patients with type 1 diabetes. These regimens are designed to promote optimal diabetes control and promote patient...
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PMID: 21678716
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We explored children's perceptions of influenza, preferences for influenza vaccines, and ability to understand "risk" of vaccine adverse effects and different attributes between injectable and intranasal vaccines.
In-person, semi-structured interviews were conducted among 28 U.S. chi...
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PMID: 21514492
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This study analyzes the type of responses that children between 4 and 5 years of age give to different tasks: conservation, classification and tasks of the theory of mind (ToM). Types of responses were observed with the Observation of Cognitive and Meta-cognitive Skills Inventory, which identifies:...
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PMID: 21044512
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This study aimed to identify the differences in body self-esteem, general self-esteem and eating attitudes in a representative sample of children, aged 9-12 years, attending school in México DF. The logistic regression model incorporated the variables of sex, general self-esteem, BMI, age and discr...
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PMID: 21044482
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The aim of this study was to assess various cognitive abilities such as attention, IQ, reasoning, and memory related to academic achievement in 8- and 9-year-old preterm children. A total of 141 children were assessed. The preterm group (=37 weeks) comprised 63 children and was compared to 78 full-t...
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PMID: 21044492
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The aim of this study was to examine the comorbidity between the SCARED anxiety factors and depressive symptoms in 8-12-year-old children. Participants were 792 girls and 715 boys, who completed: the 41-ítem version of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorder (SCARED), the Children's...
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PMID: 21044487
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Gaining an understanding of the meaning of health in children may provide insight into factors that contribute to effective programs aimed at preventing diseases such as childhood obesity. A mixed methods design was used to explore the meaning of health of rural Saskatchewan children. A health quest...
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PMID: 20634401
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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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Failure to adhere to medication regimens can lead to unnecessary disease progression, disease complications, reduced functional abilities, lower quality of life, and even death. Medication adherence for children taking psychotropic agents poses many special challenges for health care professionals,...
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PMID: 20873702
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Family functioning and mother-infant relational patterns were examined in 38 clinic-referred infants and 34 matched non-referred infants. Referred infants were diagnosed with the Diagnostic Classification for Zero to Three. On the family level, referred families showed significantly lower family fun...
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PMID: 20954770
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The Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index (CASI) is an 18-item self-report tool designed to measure the construct of anxiety sensitivity (i.e. the belief that anxiety may have harmful consequences such as sickness, embarrassment, or loss of control) in children and adolescents. Previous factor analyti...
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PMID: 20645196
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We propose the use of an approach to evaluation that can be undertaken in a clinical setting when concerns regarding child sexual abuse are unclear or ambiguous and other systems are not involved, thus providing an option for the nondisclosing child often discussed in the "delayed disclosure" litera...
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PMID: 20924912
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Nurses have the most frequent contact with patients, and it makes their risk of infection very high. At the same time, they have a lot of opportunities to control patient's behavior to prevent infection. So it takes important part of precaution that all nurses sufficiently acknowledge their roles an...
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PMID: 20845754
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Shortening the retention interval of dietary recalls increases accuracy for reporting energy and macronutrients. For validation studies, it is best to obtain reference information from a method that provides details about foods and amounts consumed and to use an analytic approach that captures error...
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PMID: 20656093
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We hypothesized that if early childhood temperament is a risk factor for depressive disorders, it should be associated with better established risk markers, such parental depression. Hence, we examined the associations of laboratory-assessed positive emotionality (PE), negative emotionality (NE), an...
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PMID: 20677836
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Given that food is essential for life and that there is currently no cure for food hypersensitivity (FHS), quality of life is a key outcome measure for those affected. The quality of life of children and teenagers with FHS is particularly important given that they must learn to manage their FHS whil...
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PMID: 20715917
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According to the National Service Framework, children have a right to participate in the development of healthcare services and yet research suggests that young children are at risk of exclusion from user involvement initiatives. This paper outlines the findings of a participatory action research pr...
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PMID: 20722326
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This study explores whether a novel parent-supported emotional literacy programme called Parents And Children Together (PACT) is associated with improved social and emotional development for children compared to a standard curriculum. In eight schools in Cornwall, 686 children from Years 3 to 6 and...
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PMID: 20722328
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We do not integrate support for the relationship between the baby and parents into antenatal parentcraft. Neither do we provide enough focus on the relationship in basic and post-qualification training or support for practitioners to integrate working with the relationship into their practice. The S...
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PMID: 20722327
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Increasingly, clinical, pharmaceutical and translational research studies use patient-reported outcomes as primary and secondary end points. Obtaining this type of information from children themselves is now possible, but effective assessment requires developmentally sensitive conceptual models of c...
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PMID: 20715916
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This paper is a report of development and psychometric testing of the coping behaviour checklist for Chinese children.
An understanding of the coping behaviour of children is an essential prerequisite for the design of an appropriate psychological intervention to enhance children's ability to cope w...
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PMID: 20497265
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Chronic pain is relatively common in children and adolescents. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has been shown to be effective for treating pain in this age group. This paper aims to review the literature on the use of computerized cognitive behavioural therapy (cCBT) with children and adolescents...
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PMID: 20412143
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Children with cancer, including CNS cancer, continue to experience pain despite the improvements in knowledge related to pain. Pain assessment and management strategies must continue to evolve and improve for nursing professionals to provide a high level of care to this patient population. The HRTI...
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PMID: 20591796
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We tested a social-ecological hypothesis for relations between political violence and child outcomes. Participants were 700 mother-child (M = 12.1 years, SD = 1.8) dyads from 18 working-class, socially deprived areas in Belfast, Northern Ireland, including single- and two-parent families. Sectarian...
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PMID: 20604605
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We investigated whether poor quality jobs (without security, control, flexibility or paid family leave) could pose a health risk to employed parents' children. We examined the extent to which both mothers' and fathers' jobs matter, and whether disadvantaged children are more vulnerable than others....
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PMID: 20382458
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Future interventions should focus on presenting children with choice during fruit- and vegetable-eating situations, since this is a powerful strategy to stimulate children's fruit and vegetable intake....
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PMID: 19772690
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The goal the team behind Birmingham Children's Hospital's new pound 2.7 million Children's Kidney Unit set itself was to create a comfortable and relaxing, but equally lively, colourful, and stimulating environment that would help "transform, into something more bearable, and even fu...
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PMID: 20527590
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This study identified profiles of 13 risk factors across child, family, school, and neighborhood domains in a diverse sample of children in kindergarten from four US locations (n = 750; 45% minority). It then examined the relation of those early risk profiles to externalizing problems, school failur...
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PMID: 20423544
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We found are temporally related to some transition. We define a transition as the occurrence of a new developmental change in a child. In the present study we have used non-analyzed data from the same 18 Catalan babies (10 boys and 8 girls) as mentioned in our earlier published study on regression p...
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PMID: 20480682
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The goal of this exploratory, within-family, longitudinal study was to examine whether children's perspectives of the mother-child relationship explained within-family differences in children's responses to a shared family stressor (maternal depressive symptoms) over time. Children (ages 8 to 15 yea...
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PMID: 20069353
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The present study used both categorical and dimensional approaches to test the association between relational and physical aggression and hostile intent attributions for both relational and instrumental provocation situations using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development longitu...
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PMID: 20148303
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This study tested components of a proposed model of child anxiety and examined the mediational roles of (1) maternal control behavior, (2) maternal external locus of control, and (3) child external locus of control in the association between maternal and child anxiety. Thirty-eight clinically anxiou...
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PMID: 20108034
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To assess whether disgust, the emotion depicted on poison control "Mr. Yuk" stickers, conveys an age-appropriate message to young children.
Two preliminary studies (both N = 48) were conducted with adults to assess what facial expressions of emotion they associated wi...
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PMID: 19690087
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Treatment adherence impact (TAI) is the quantification of the effects of adherence behaviors on medical or psychological outcomes using systematic assessment and analytic methods. The purpose of this review is to provide a framework for the measurement and analysis of TAI....
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PMID: 19710252
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Living donors have become an increasingly important source of organs for transplantation. Concern for the rights of donors has resulted in reconsideration of the use of minors as living organ donors. Most commentators have voiced concerns that minors deserve extraordinary protection, but are unwilli...
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PMID: 20125020
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The transition from primary to secondary education can be a critical period for those children identified as 'at risk', for whom a poor outcome is associated with significant psychosocial morbidity.The effectiveness of mentoring children has shown positive benefits, but little work has focused on th...
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PMID: 20441097
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This study investigated whether clown intervention could reduce preoperative worries and the affective responses of children undergoing minor surgery. Parental anxiety was also tested. Child's age, previous hospitalization, and temperament were tested as predictors of the child's responses during th...
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PMID: 20348361
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Low energy intake and physical activity levels but high saturated fat intakes among boys and girls across all age groups highlight the importance of promoting both physical activity and healthy food choices. The finding that peers have a significant effect on physical activity levels but not on diet...
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PMID: 19719887
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Overall, the supermarket environment worsened due to an increase in cross-promotions targeted to children and adolescents and a decline in the nutritional quality of these products. This analysis failed to find improvements in food marketing to youth and highlights the need to expand current industr...
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PMID: 19719889
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The pervasiveness of covert food marketing in the present study was contrary to previous findings and raises questions about the effectiveness of legal restrictions and self-regulation of advertising in protecting children from commercial food messages that may not be regarded as advertising....
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PMID: 19706222
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the instrument 'Check your health' in teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The instrument measures 'self-reported health' and 'burden of diabetes'. A convenience sample of 199 teenagers, 12-17 years of age, completed the que...
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PMID: 19958300
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