Factors predicting out-of-school suspensions for young children

Predicting Factors of Atherosclerosis in Children with Beta-Thalassemia Major

Background: Atherosclerosis is an important cardiovascular disorder in beta-thalassemia major patients. The present study aimed to predict factors of atherosclerosis in children with beta-thalassemia major. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 36 patients with beta-thalassemia major and 36 healthy children as the control group. The carotid intima-media thickness ...

Left out of School Children in Rural and Tribal Areas: Causes and Ways of Remediation

  To identify the hurdles that 6 to 12-year-old children in rural and tribal areas face in going to school and ways of removing them a large sample of administrators, teachers, and students in the rural and tribal areas of Azerbaijan provinces was interviewed and given questionnaires with assumed validity and reliability of 0.70 through test-retest. Results show that three cultural, one p...

Acting-out Behavior in Young Children Thesis

School Refusal Behavior in Young Children

School refusal behavior is defined as any child-motivated refusal to attend classes and/or difficulty remaining in classes for an entire day. Although many researchers have focused on older children and adolescents in their samples, few have specifically focused on young children aged 5-9 years (i.e., kindergarten to third grade). In this article, a general description is made of school refusal...

Predicting service use for mental health problems among young children.

OBJECTIVE To identify sociodemographic, child, parent, and day care provider factors at age 4 that predict Norwegian children's service use for mental health problems at age 7. METHOD Two birth cohorts of 4-year-old children and their parents living in the city of Trondheim, Norway, were invited (82% consented). We successfully interviewed 995 parents among 1250 drawn to participate using the...