The focal point of this article is the design a game-based tool for dialogue (‘Dads’ Round’) developed in collaboration with Danish Prison and Probation Service Parenting Program. unique insofar as it includes stories collected from prisoners’ children about their troubled relationship fathers. By evaluating through interviews incarcerated fathers, we demonstrate how they work together peers to...

background: glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (g6pd) deficiency is the most common disease of the hexose monophosphate pathway existing in more than 400 million people worldwide. the aim of this study was to identify neonates with g6pd deficiency following national program for screening and education of affected newborns’ parents started since june 2007 in mazandaran, a northern province of ira...

background: the aim of this study was to assess the infant oral health (ioh) related knowledge, attitudes and practices (kap) of parents in udaipur, india. materials and methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted among 470 parents visiting the department of pediatrics, rabindranath tagore medical college and hospital. a 32-item questionnaire covering socio-demographic characteri...

BACKGROUND Mutations in proteins involved in telomere maintenance lead to a range of human diseases, including dyskeratosis congenita, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and cancer. Telomerase functions to add telomeric repeats back onto the ends of chromosomes, however non-canonical roles of components of telomerase have recently been suggested. METHODS Here we use a zebrafish telomerase mutant w...

Three studies investigated attitudes toward traditional parents (stay-at-home mothers and employed fathers) and nontraditional parents (stay-at-home fathers and employed mothers) among adult men and women. Using a between-subjects design, Study 1 found that nontraditional parents were liked significantly less than traditional parents. Participants also believed that stay-at-home fathers were no...

Residence with parents and unemployment during studies were chosen as the two behavioural indicators of dependency among 601 undergraduate students. Students completed a demographic questionnaire, Costa and McCrae's (1992) NEO-FFI and Beck, Davis, and Freeman's (1990) Typical Beliefs of DPD. Unemployed students, living with their parents, were found to be significantly more dependent, neurotic ...

BACKGROUND Polybrominated biphenyl (PBB), a brominated flame retardant, was accidently mixed into animal feed in Michigan (1973-1974) resulting in human exposure through consumption of contaminated meat, milk and eggs. Beginning in 1976 individuals who consumed contaminated products were enrolled in the Michigan Long-Term PBB Study. This cohort presents a unique opportunity to study the associa...