Browsing by Subject "Children"
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Advancing successful implementation of task-shifted mental health care in low-resource settings (BASIC): protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial.
(BMC psychiatry, 2020-01-08)BACKGROUND:The mental health treatment gap-the difference between those with mental health need and those who receive treatment-is high in low- and middle-income countries. Task-shifting has been used to address the shortage ... -
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Evaluating morphometric body mass prediction equations with a juvenile human test sample: accuracy and applicability to small-bodied hominins.
(Journal of human evolution, 2018-02)Body mass is an ecologically and biomechanically important variable in the study of hominin biology. Regression equations derived from recent human samples allow for the reasonable prediction of body mass of later, more ... -
FUNCTIONAL STATUS OF CHILDREN WITH A CONGENITAL UPPER LIMB REDUCTION DEFICIENCY
(2005)Congenital reduction deficiencies of the upper limb are rare. Nearly 50% of children with unilateral transverse upper limb reduction deficiencies (ULRD) wear a prosthetic device to enhance the ability to perform functional ... -
No te dejes quitar a tu hijo: Operation Pedro Pan and The Cuban Children's Program
(2008-04)For most Cubans, Fidel Castro’s revolution was an enormous relief. Castro promised to bring democracy to a country that was only six decades old, to halt social corruption and to end economic dependence on the U.S. In particular, ... -
Reaching the First 90: Examining Accuracy and Acceptability of an Oral Fluid HIV Test in Children in Harare, Zimbabwe
(2018)Background: In 2016, 36.7 million people globally were living with HIV and approximately 70% knew their status. Novel HIV testing methods and strategies are needed to reach the first “90-90-90” target by 2020; that is 90% ... -
Responsiveness of the PROMIS® measures to changes in disease status among pediatric nephrotic syndrome patients: a Midwest pediatric nephrology consortium study.
(Health Qual Life Outcomes, 2017-08-23)BACKGROUND: Nephrotic syndrome represents a condition in pediatric nephrology typified by a relapsing and remitting course, proteinuria and the presence of edema. The PROMIS measures have previously been studied and validated ... -
Socio-Economic Mobility of Youths: Factors, Obstacles, and Potential Solutions
(2014-09-26)From early childhood to young adulthood, there are several key obstacles to the ability of a young person to improve his or her socioeconomic status. These include availability of quality early childhood education, level ... -
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROSTETIC UPPER EXTREMITY FUNCTIONAL INDEX (PUFI) IN FOLLOW-UP OF CHILDREN WITH UPPER LIMB REDUCTION DEFICIENCY (ULRD)
(2008)Over the past years, the importance of adequate assessment of arm and prosthetic functioning in children with ULRD has become clear. Research has shown that the use of standardized instruments adds relevant information ... -
The keys to healthy family child care homes intervention: study design and rationale.
(Contemp Clin Trials, 2015-01)BACKGROUND: Obesity is a major public health problem for which early preventive interventions are needed. Large numbers of young children are enrolled in some form of child care program, making these facilities influential ... -
The relation between young children's physiological arousal and their motivation to help others.
(Neuropsychologia, 2017-10-10)Children are motivated to help others from an early age. However, little is known about the internal biological mechanisms underlying their motivation to help. Here, we compiled data from five separate studies in which children, ... -
Utility of Autopsy among Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients: One Last Chance to Learn?
(Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, 2018-06-09)Autopsy may confirm clinical diagnoses or identify conditions that were not suspected prior to a patient's death. Previous studies evaluating the utility of autopsy in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients ... -
VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF FUNCTIONAL TESTS AND QUESTIONNAIRES FOR CHILDREN WITH A CONGENITAL UPPER LIMB REDUCTION DEFICIENCY
(2005)Standardized measures are required to adequately measure arm and prosthetic functioning in children with unilateral upper limb reduction deficiency (ULRD). A prerequisite for a test or questionnaire is that the instrument ...
