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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Selen Ozakar Akca, Ahu Pınar Turan, Semra Songut
PURPOSE: This study aims to determine the depression, stress and anxiety levels of mothers with preschool children during the pandemic and to determine their coping strategies with stress. DESIGN AND METHODS: This descriptive study sampled 300 mothers with kindergarten children in the 2021-2022 academic year. The data were collected with a personal information form, The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) and Stress-Coping Styles Scale (SCSS). Numerical variables were presented as mean and standard deviation, and categorical variables were presented as numbers and percentages...
February 15, 2024: Journal of Pediatric Nursing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Simon MacDonald, Geneviève Du Pont-Thibodeau, Celine Thibault, Camille Jutras, Nadia Roumeliotis, Catherine Farrell, Laurence Ducharme-Crevier
INTRODUCTION: The outcomes of children undergoing mechanical ventilation (MV) in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) remain poorly characterized and increasing knowledge in this area may lead to strategies that improve care. In this study, we reported the outcomes of children receiving invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and/or non-invasive ventilation (NIV), 2 months after PICU discharge. METHODS: This is a post-hoc analysis of a single-center prospective study of PICU children followed at the PICU follow-up clinic at CHU Sainte-Justine...
2024: Frontiers in Pediatrics
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L Micenková, K Brodı Ková, S Smetanová, J Bosák, D Šmajs, P Andrla, E Budinská
Probiotic supplementation in childhood serves as an additional source of bacterial colonisers and represents an opportunity to beneficially manipulate the intestinal microbiome. Differences in the ability of probiotic strains to colonise the gut may be related to the variously diversified gut microbiome. We report the results of the association between composition of the gut microbiome and the colonisation capacity of the probiotic strain Escherichia coli A0 34/86 (CNB - Colinfant New Born supplement) in the cases of three healthy children in different development stages (infant, toddler, and pre-school), as a preliminary insight to possible future prospective studies of this subject...
January 23, 2024: Beneficial Microbes
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ian Grey, Deirdre Brennan, Brettjet Cody
The effectiveness of a school based Early Intensive Behavioural Intervention (EIBI) program was assessed over a two-year period for a cohort of 16 pre-school children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families. Children with a mean age of 40 months, were assessed prior to intervention, after 1 year of intervention, and again after 2 years. Significant improvements were observed on measures of adaptive behaviour, communication ability and challenging behaviour. Parents of children attending the program also reported increased familial quality of life, specifically improved emotional and physical well-being and increased parenting capacity over the duration of the program...
February 12, 2024: Journal of Intellectual Disabilities: JOID
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Francesco Martino, Tarcisio Niglio, Francesco Barillà, Eliana Martino, Vincenzo Paravati, Pier Paolo Bassareo
Background: Many anthropometric measurements have been investigated concerning their association with blood pressure (BP) in paediatric age groups. This study aims to find a relationship between mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and BP in a population of children and adolescents aged 1-18 years. Methods: 5853 subjects (2977 females and 2876 males) were studied. MUAC, body mass index (BMI), and BP were measured. The individuals in the study were subdivided and grouped by gender and type of school attended in Italy: 1-5 years (pre-school), 6-10 years (primary school), 11-13 years (secondary school), 14-18 years (high school)...
January 24, 2024: Journal of Clinical Medicine
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Siqi Zhang, Lei Wang, Renfu Luo, Scott Rozelle, Sean Sylvia
BACKGROUND: Poor development of young children is a common issue in developing countries and it is well established that iron deficiency anemia is one of the risk factors. Research has shown that iron deficiency is a common micronutrient deficiency among children in rural China and can result in anemia. A previous paper using data from the same trial as those used in the current study, but conducted when sample children were younger, found that after 6 months of providing caregivers of children 6-11 months of age free access to iron-rich micronutrient powder (MNP) increased the hemoglobin concentrations (Hb) of their children...
February 10, 2024: BMC Public Health
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Mark A Linden, Audrey McKinlay, Carol Hawley, Catherine Aaro-Jonsson, Ingela Kristiansen, Andreas Meyer-Heim, Linda Ewing-Cobbs, Beth Wicks, Miriam H Beauchamp, Rajendra Prasad
BACKGROUND: Paediatric acquired brain injury is a life-long condition which impacts on all facets of the individual's lived experience. The existing evidence base continues to expand and new fields of enquiry are established as clinicians and researchers uncover the extent of these impacts. PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: To add to recommendations described in the International Paediatric Brain Injury Society's 2016 paper on post-acute care for children with acquired brain injury and highlight new areas of enquiry...
February 8, 2024: Brain Injury
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Oi Man Chan, Wenye Xu, Nam Sze Cheng, Agnes Sze Yin Leung, Jessica Yuet Ling Ching, Brian Leong Yuen Fong, Pui Kuan Cheong, Lin Zhang, Francis Ka Leung Chan, Siew Chien Ng, Ting Fan Leung
Altered gut microbiome composition has been reported in children with eczema and interventions that restore beneficial bacteria in the gut may improve eczema. This open-label pilot study aimed to investigate the efficacy of a novel infant microbiome formula (SIM03) in young children with eczema. Pre-school Chinese children aged 1-5 years old with eczema received SIM03 twice daily for three months. The novelty of SIM03 consists of both the use of a patented microencapsulation technology to protect the viability of unique Bifidobacterium bifidum and Bifidobacterium breve strains identified through big data analysis of large metagenomic datasets of young Chinese children...
February 7, 2024: Scientific Reports
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Humphrey D Mazigo, Emmanuela E Ambrose, Upendo J Mwingira
BACKGROUND: Pediatric schistosomiasis has been recognized as a public health concern in schistosomiasis endemic areas of sub-Saharan Africa, including Tanzania. However, there is limited epidemiological information relating to pediatric schistosomiasis in Tanzania. Therefore, this current focused on assessing the geographical prevalence of S. mansoni infection and its associated risk factors in pre-school children (PreSAC) in southern and north-western Tanzania. METHODS: A total of 1585 PreSAC aged 1-6 years were enrolled in a cross-sectional study...
February 2024: Parasite Epidemiology and Control
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Hien Vu, Nicholas Bowden, Sheree Gibb, Richard Audas, Joanne Dacombe, Laurie McLay, Andrew Sporle, Hilary Stace, Barry Taylor, Hiran Thabrew, Reremoana Theodore, Jessica Tupou, Philip J Schluter
Existing literature indicates that Autistic people have shorter life expectancy, but little is known about the mortality risk among Autistic children and young people (0-24 years). We used a 15-year nationwide birth cohort study to estimate the mortality risk among Autistic children and young people in Aotearoa/New Zealand. The study included 895,707 children and 11,919 (1.4%) were Autistic. We found that autism was associated with a significantly higher mortality risk compared to the non-Autistic population...
February 4, 2024: Autism: the International Journal of Research and Practice
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
K A Donald, C J Hendrikse, A Roos, C J Wedderburn, S Subramoney, J E Ringshaw, L Bradford, N Hoffman, T Burd, K L Narr, R P Woods, H J Zar, S H Joshi, D J Stein
Prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) can affect brain development in early life, but few studies have investigated the effects of PAE on trajectories of white matter tract maturation in young children. Here we used diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) repeated over three time points, to measure the effects of PAE on patterns of white matter microstructural development during the pre-school years. Participants were drawn from the Drakenstein Child Health Study (DCHS), an ongoing birth cohort study conducted in a peri-urban community in the Western Cape, South Africa...
January 28, 2024: NeuroImage: Clinical
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Bosede Alice Omachi, Annette van Onselen, Unathi Kolanisi
OBJECTIVE: This study explores the contribution of nutrition knowledge to the health status of pre-school children's mothers in Niger State, North-Central, Nigeria. DESIGN: The study is a descriptive cross-sectional design using a quantitative data collection method. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS: A multi-stage sampling technique was used to recruit 450 mothers of pre-school children across Niger state, Nigeria. Chi-square and linear regression were used to test the level of statistical significance (at p < 0...
2024: PloS One
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Eric D McCollum, William Checkley, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Thomas F Clasen, Jennifer L Peel
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
January 30, 2024: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
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Han-Yi Tsai, Tzu-I Tsai, Yin-Lin Wang, Hung-Chi Chen, Chien-Chang Lee, Shao-Yu Tsai
AIM: First grade is a transition from pre-school to school-age. The change in lifestyle behaviours such as sleep may have a physiological response, which contributes to the presence or absence of two highly incident diseases: dental caries or myopia. The aim of the study was to examine the association between sleep and myopia as well as sleep and dental caries in first graders. DESIGN: It is a cross-sectional study. METHODS: This was a recruitment phase of an interventional study...
January 2024: Nursing Open
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Chiara Bulgarelli, Anna Blasi, Samantha McCann, Bosiljka Milosavljevic, Giulia Ghillia, Ebrima Mbye, Ebou Touray, Tijan Fadera, Lena Acolatse, Sophie E Moore, Sarah Lloyd-Fox, Clare E Elwell, Adam T Eggebrecht
Functional brain network organization, measured by functional connectivity (FC), reflects key neurodevelopmental processes for healthy development. Early exposure to adversity, e.g. undernutrition, affects neurodevelopment, observable via disrupted FC, and leads to poorer outcomes from preschool age onward. We assessed longitudinally the impact of early growth trajectories on developmental FC in a rural Gambian population from age 5 to 24 months. To investigate how these early trajectories relate to later childhood outcomes, we assessed cognitive flexibility at 3-5 years...
January 3, 2024: bioRxiv
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Meinou H C Theunissen, Iris Eekhout, Sijmen A Reijneveld
Questionnaires to detect emotional and behavioral (EB) problems in preventive child healthcare (PCH) should be short; this potentially affects their validity and reliability. Computerized adaptive testing (CAT) could overcome this weakness. The aim of this study was to (1) develop a CAT to measure EB problems among pre-school children and (2) assess the efficiency and validity of this CAT. We used a Dutch national dataset obtained from parents of pre-school children undergoing a well-child care assessment by PCH (n = 2192, response 70%)...
January 22, 2024: European Journal of Pediatrics
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Eleni Pavlidou, Sousana K Papadopoulou, Olga Alexatou, Gavriela Voulgaridou, Maria Mentzelou, Fani Biskanaki, Evmorfia Psara, Gerasimos Tsourouflis, Nikos Lefantzis, Sophia Dimoliani, Thomas Apostolou, Anastasia Sampani, Ioanna P Chatziprodromidou, Exakousti-Petroula Angelakou, Constantinos Giaginis
BACKGROUND: The Mediterranean diet (MD) has been related with a decreased probability of overweight/obesity as well as central obesity at all stages of the human life, decreasing the risk of diverse disease states and improving quality of life. Over the last few years, the prevalence of childhood overweight/obesity and especially abdominal obesity has highly increased worldwide, being associated with a higher likelihood of overweight/obesity as well as central obesity at the next stages of the life during adulthood...
December 23, 2023: Epidemiologia (Basel)
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Hongfei Xiong, Jing Liu, Guangbo Liu, Yunyun Zhang, Ziwen Wei, Linna Fan, Fangfang Jiang, Yingchao Zhao, Wei Wei, Siyuan Li, Rongliang Xue
BACKGROUND: More than 60% children exhibit anxiety before undergoing an anesthetic-surgical procedure, particularly among pre-school paediatric patients. Oral midazolam can provide procedural sedation for children prior to anesthesia. However, extemporaneous solutions of midazolam are usually prepared from injectable drug solutions, leading to inconsistent efficacy due to variable preparation methods. Xiaoerjing® is the first commercially available oral formulation of midazolam for procedural sedation in children in China...
January 19, 2024: International Journal of Paediatric Dentistry
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Ekaterina Potapova, Salvatore Tripodi, Valentina Panetta, Stephanie Dramburg, Roberto Bernardini, Carlo Caffarelli, Antonella Casani, Rosa Cervone, Loredana Chini, Pasquale Comberiati, Giovanna De Castro, Michele Miraglia Del Giudice, Iride Dello Iacono, Andrea Di Rienzo Businco, Marcella Gallucci, Arianna Giannetti, Viviana Moschese, Ifigenia Sfika, Elena Varin, Riccardo Asero, Annamaria Bianchi, Mauro Calvani, Tullio Frediani, Francesco Macrì, Nunzia Maiello, Francesco Paravati, Umberto Pelosi, Diego Peroni, Giuseppe Pingitore, Mariangela Tosca, Anna Maria Zicari, Giampaolo Ricci, Gerald Reese, Linus Grabenhenrich, Katja Icke, Armin Grübl, Christoph Müller, Fred Zepp, Antje Schuster, Ulrich Wahn, Susanne Lau, Thomas Keil, Paolo Maria Matricardi
BACKGROUND: IgE antibodies to cross-reactive carbohydrate determinants (CCD) are usually clinically irrelevant but they can be a cause of false positive outcomes of allergen-specific IgE tests in vitro. Their prevalence and levels have been so far cross-sectionally examined among adult allergic patients and much less is known about their origins and relevance in childhood. METHODS: We examined CCD with a cross-sectional approach in 1263 Italian pollen allergic children (Panallergen in Paediatrics, PAN-PED), as well as with a longitudinal approach in 612 German children (Multicenter Allergy Study, MAS), whose cutaneous and IgE sensitization profile to a broad panel of allergen extracts and molecules was already known...
January 17, 2024: Clinical and Experimental Allergy
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
F Galletta, S Fasola, S La Grutta, G B Pajno, S Passanisi, G Salzano, A Barbalace, I Panasiti, F Dimasi, L Caminiti
Background. Food allergy (FA) negatively affects health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) of children and caregivers. To date, no questionnaire self-compiling assessing the HR-QoL in pre-school children with FA is available. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a self-administered, rapid and easy questionnaire to evaluate the HR-QoL in children ≥ 7 years with IgE-mediated FA. Methods. A two-center prospective study was conducted including children aged 4-7 years with IgE-mediated FA. The Vitulia questionnaire was administered to study participants at the baseline (T0) and after one month (T1)...
January 15, 2024: European Annals of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
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