BACKGROUND Substantial attention and resources are aimed at the reintegration of child soldiers, yet rigorous evaluations are rare. METHODS This tracer study was conducted among former child soldiers (N=452) and never-recruited peers (N=191) who participated in an economic support program in Burundi. Socio-economic outcome indicators were measured retrospectively for the period before receivi...

Problem 1. [20 points] You are organizing a neighborhood census and instruct your census takers to knock on doors and note the sex of any child that answers the knock. Assume that there are two children in a household, that children are equally likely to be girls and boys, and that girls and boys are equally likely to open the door. A sample space for this experiment has outcomes that are tripl...

The evidence base for cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to treat child emotional and behavioral symptoms following exposure to trauma in youth is compelling, but relatively few studies are available on preschool children and on moderators of treatment outcomes. This paper examines maternal and child characteristics as moderators of posttraumatic stress (PTS) treatment outcomes in preschool chi...

Few behavioral parent training (BPT) treatment studies for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have included and measured outcomes with fathers. In this study, fathers were randomly assigned to attend a standard BPT program or the Coaching Our Acting-Out Children: Heightening Essential Skills (COACHES) program. The COACHES program included BPT plus sports skills training for the chi...

Several child conduct problem interventions have been classified as either efficacious or well established. Nevertheless, much remains to be learned about predictors of treatment response and mechanisms of behavioral change. In this study, the authors combine data from 6 randomized clinical trials and 514 children, ages 3.0-8.5 years, to evaluate moderators, mediators, and predictors of outcome...

Methods A male infant was born at 38 gestational weeks with birth weight of 3.605 kg. He presented with convulsion at 28 days of life. Physical examination was unremarkable. He was initially treated as meningoencephalitis. CT brain was unremarkable. Bacterial and viral cultures were negative. Plasma glucose upon admission was 1.2 mmol/l with negative urine ketone. Glucose infusion was high up t...

This article provides a brief review of current large-scale, longitudinal data collection initiatives focusing on children. These studies will be available for secondary data analyses in the twenty-first century. In addition to child outcome data, process-oriented information is being collected on child-parent interactions, quality of child care, elementary school teacher reports and classroom ...

background: in india, child malnutrition is mostly the result of high levels of exposure to infection and inappropriate infant and young child feeding and caring practices and has its origins almost entirely during the first 2 to 3 years of life. this study aims in assessing the impact of breast feeding on child development of children at 3 years. methods: about 530 children at 3 years were ass...

Abstract We study a parent's demand for gratitude from his child. view this as an intervening variable between the earnings and incidence of child labor. The arises desire parent to receive care support late in life, while inclination provide during adulthood is determined by how was treated childhood. Specifically, we model child's inverse function intensity labor show that when keep (imputed)...

conclusions in this study, hepatitis b had a cause effect on lga and fetal macrosomia. among the other considered adverse pregnancy outcomes; it didn’t have any significant effect. context hepatitis is a term used to describe any type of hepatitis inflammation. screening for the virus antigen during pregnancy is mandatory in some parts of the world and is recommended in others. so that, most wo...