We studied associations among parents’ gender role attitudes, gender stereotyping in children’s environments, and children’s gender role attitudes and whether these associations were similar for families with lesbian and heterosexual parents. Fifty-seven 4to 6-year-olds and 114 parents from the US participated. Parents completed selfreport questionnaires and responded to interview questions. Re...

Background Parents' knowledge of and attitudes toward concussions are often vital factors that affect care for injured adolescent athletes. It is important to understand the role that parents' personal experiences with concussions play with regard to current concussion knowledge and attitudes so that clinicians may tailor their educational approaches. Purpose/Hypothesis The purpose of this st...

The media plays a powerful role in shaping health-related attitudes and behaviours. We investigated reports about children's independent mobility (CIM) associations with parental towards CIM. CIM-related (newspaper, online, television) during 3-month period were extracted from two databases. Concurrent collected via telephone interview 1779 parents of children aged 9–15 years. Media overwhelmin...

BACKGROUND Parents of young athletes play a major role in the identification and management of sports-related concussions. However, they are often unaware of the consequences of concussions and recommended management techniques. HYPOTHESIS This study quantitatively assessed parental understanding of concussions to identify specific populations in need of additional education. We predicted tha...

INTRODUCTION Current study aimed to investigate the possible relations between parental attitudes and depression in a sample of mid-pubertal, high-school students under the light of several sociodemographic variables. METHODS With the permission of Ministry of National Education, a total of 391 students from second and third grades in a state high school and occupational high school in Sisli ...

OBJECTIVE To assess neonatologists' attitudes and practices regarding treatment of extremely preterm infants in the delivery room, particularly in response to parental wishes. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey of all neonatologists in Sweden registered with the Swedish Pediatric Society. RESULTS The response rate was 71% (88 of 124 neonatologists). At 24[1/7] to 24[6/7] weeks of gestation...

Considerable research has suggested that homeownership imparts a variety of positive individual, family, neighborhood, and community effects. Yet, much of the research to date has failed to examine such effects by level of income [Dietz, R.D., & Haurin, D.R. (2003). The social and private micro-level consequences of homeownership. Journal of Urban Economics, 54(3), 401-450.]. This study adds to...

The aim of the study was to investigate whether in the clinical picture of unipolar depression we can find symptoms of abnormal ties in the generational family and their relationship with aggression, assessed during adulthood o patients. Problem questions concerned the following issue: Do patients with depression differ from healthy people in their assessment of the parental attitudes and the s...

BACKGROUND Parental feeding styles were linked to child weight in cross-sectional studies, which were unable to test the direction of effect. Prospective studies can best establish causal relationships among such variables. OBJECTIVE We tested the 2-year stability of parental feeding attitudes and styles and investigated whether these variables predict child body mass index (BMI) z scores 2 y...