Pushy parents can be bad for their children's health
...ion and a lack of insight into the consequences of parental behaviour on illness pattern were evident. Eleven of these children improved after psychological support and resumed normal activities within a year. Ten families refused psychological help, and only three of these children eventually improved. In e...Parents who quit smoking may influence their offspring to quit as young adults
...lusively determine whether the association between parental and young-adult smoking cessation is a true cause-and-effect relationship. In the meantime, the results of the current analysis suggest that it may be beneficial to include parents in primary smoking-prevention programs for children. "Prevention prog...Influenza vaccination programmes for children in USA and Canada based on little evidence
...fections and pneumonia), absences from school, and parental loss of workdays and over-prescribing of antibiotics. However, there is no evidence that vaccinating children can achieve these goals. Tom Jefferson (Cochrane Vaccines Field, Italy) and colleagues identified and assessed 25 comparative studies that e...Risk factors affect parents' attitudes about STD vaccinations
...transmitted diseases. The analysis of 278 parental views on STD vaccination for children was reported...ical psychology, and his colleagues are evaluating parental attitudes toward adolescent vaccination for STDs in anticipation of availability of vaccines that ar...Parents have complex opinions about notification laws for minors' access to contraception
CHICAGO Most parents surveyed felt laws requiring parental notification of minors requesting prescribed contr...d a minor's right to obtain contraceptives without parental consent as a good idea, according to an article in the February issue of the Archives of Pediatrics ...Parents comfortable with vaccination for sexually transmitted infections for adolescent children
...ommend STI vaccination in anticipation of negative parental reactions. Gregory D. Zimet, Ph.D., from Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, and his colleagues analyzed the responses of 278 parents to questionnaires to evaluate how their willingness to vaccinate their children related to four po...State policies decrease youth smoking, drinking and sex
...n risky behaviors by teens. Other factors, such as parental involvement, may have been taking place outside of our study," said David M. Bishai, MD, MPH, PhD, lead author of the study and an associate professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Population and Family Health Sciences. The...Mandated parental notification laws concerning prescription contraception would affect teenagers
... Legislation has been proposed that would mandate parental notification for minors obtaining prescription con... the clinic for prescription contraception even if parental notification were mandated. This response was less common (29.5 percent) among adolescents whose par...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for January 2005 (second issue)
...ound that maternal vitamin C intake was related to parental reporting of eczema during at least one time period at follow-up. In addition, they revealed that one portion of fruit per day was positively associated with eczema in the second year of the child's life. According to the authors, there were no sta...New system may help babies avoid brain damage
...evice are not randomized, as are many trials. With parental consent, the device is being used in pregnancies at least 36 weeks along, with the baby pointed head first and where there is enough concern to place an electrode on his head rather than monitor heart rate via the mother's abdomen. Dr. Devoe classif...Children's anxiety prior to surgery linked to behavioral changes
...scores the importance of finding ways to ease this parental anxiety, for example, by developing preoperative preparation programs directed at parents." Co-authors include Alison Caldwell-Andrews, Inna Maranets, M.D., Brenda McClain, M.D., Dorothy Gaal, M.D., Linda Mayes, M.D., Rui Feng, and Heping Zhang, all...Parents failing to recognise obesity in their children
...alarming say the researchers. The apparent lack of parental concern about their overweight children is probably due to a lack of awareness, they conclude, but must be addressed if we are to halt an "impending health crisis"....International study provides culture-by-culture clues to family violence and abuse
...st had conflicted opinions over the point at which parental discipline such as spanking crosses the line into child abuse. Responses from participants in other nations, by contrast, centered on more extreme examples of physical violence, such as causing a child severe physical injury or even killing a child....News tips for Tuesday, November 9, 2004
...the potential discord between disease severity and parental perceptions, clinicians should be alert to parents' perspective to identify potential "psychosocial morbidity" in children with heart disease. 3 p.m. Abstract 1153 Experimental vaccination reduces artery plaque growth in mice. In a study in th...Pediatricians can help immigrant mothers by explaining child development, NICHD study suggests
...entory, or KIDI. The survey assesses knowledge of parental contributions to children's psychological and soci...t specialist to join their practices. "Considering parental knowledge level and cultural background inevitably introduces a layer of complexity to the clinician...Socio-economic factors sway African-Americans
...among Blacks can probably be attributed largely to parental prohibitions and various social norms that have curtailed tendencies toward smoking among African American teenagers and women, as well as among nonnative Black populations and Blacks in certain U.S. geographic regions," King says. "The data suggest ...Blacks less likely to start smoking, less likely to quit
...smokers when surveyed. Cultural influences like parental prohibition or social disapproval of smoking may have kept black teenagers and black women from starting to smoke, King says. He adds that preventive programs reflecting those cultural values played a greater role in reducing current smoking than ces...Mothers have brains primed for care
...viduals, and has an effect on society interrupted parental bonding can cause behavioral problems in school and the workplace, affecting almost everyone." In work with rats, Craig Kinsley, PhD, and his colleagues in the departments of psychology at the University of Richmond and Randolph Macon College, found...Dutch study highlights crying as risk factor for child abuse
...tion between infant crying and potentially abusive parental behaviour, conclude authors of a research letter i...h) and colleagues assessed potentially detrimental parental actions induced by infant crying in 3259 infants aged 16 months, in the Netherlands. Over 5% of par...Breathing problems during sleep may affect mental development in infants and young children
...blems than children without SDB symptoms, based on parental survey scores. "One of the more remarkable findings in this study was that the neurocognitive effects were significant even among the children who had mild symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing but no actual sleep apneas," said Daniel Gottlieb, M.D...