The Effectiveness of Baby Books for Providing Pediatric Anticipatory Guidance to New Mothers

Providing anticipatory guidance to children and adolescents.

Anticipatory guidance, a component of Bright Futures, refers to communicating with patients and caregivers to identify and provide information most needed. Providing reliable, appropriate, and culturally competent anticipatory guidance to children, adolescents, and their families at every visit is one of the most essential roles of a primary care provider. D etermining the right information for...

Anticipatory Guidance in Pediatric Dentistry

Using baby books to change new mothers' attitudes about corporal punishment.

OBJECTIVE Research has found corporal punishment to have limited effectiveness in altering child behavior and the potential to produce psychological and cognitive damage. Pediatric professionals have advocated reducing, if not eliminating its use. Despite this, it remains a common parenting practice in the US. METHODS Using a three-group randomized design, this study explored whether embeddin...

New Algorithmic Approaches for the Anticipatory Route Guidance Generation Problem

The emergence of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) has considerably changed the field of transportation modeling during the past ten years. By Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) we refer to transportation systems which apply emerging information technologies to alleviate congestion problems (see, for example, Transportation Research Board 1999). They combine advanced surveillance s...

Short-term effectiveness of anticipatory guidance to reduce early childhood risks for subsequent violence.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether newly developed anticipatory guidance materials designed to teach the use of time-outs and the importance of reductions in childhood television viewing would be recalled by parents and if their use would result in changes in self-reported parental behavior. SUBJECTS AND SETTING A total of 559 parents of children aged 14 months to 6 years recruited at the time of...