The Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) is a two-year home-based early education intervention program designed to help parents with limited formal education prepare their four- and five-year-old children for school. This article begins with a brief overview of the HIPPY program and then presents the findings from a series of interconnected research studies, including a two...

The article discusses measures for reverent attitude towards the issues of upbringing youngsters, giving them confidence and right directions, creating conditions full disclosure their capabilities abilities, strengthening leadership qualities.

This paper presents an attractive solution to integrate multiple services in the context of sports associations. The mobile solution is tailored to youngsters and makes use of a contactless RFID chip embedded in a bracelet. It realizes a reasonable trade-off between multiple (often conflicting) requirements, namely low-cost and low-power, security, privacy and flexibility to allow for easily ad...

BACKGROUND Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity-Disorder (ADHD) is, with a prevalence of 5 %, a highly common childhood disorder, and has severe impact on the lives of youngsters and their families. Medication is often the treatment of choice, as it currently is most effective. However, medication has only short-term effects, treatment adherence is often low and most importantly; medication has seri...

Sir, In Asia, Illicit opium and cannabis are produced mainly in Afghanistan, which makes major social and health problems for some countries, particularly Iran as the neighborhood. [1] In Iran, opium and hashish have been used for near 300 years, [2] but other drugs such as heroin, buprenorphine, cocaine, tramadol, and ecstasy are new drugs of abuse in this country. [3-6] Abuses of the new drug...

BACKGROUND In this article, the psychometric properties of the Forensic Inpatient Observation Scale (FIOS) were examined. This instrument was developed to observe behavioral functioning of forensic psychiatric patients. Up till now, it has only been used among adult forensic psychiatric patients and this is the first study in which the FIOS is used with youngsters. METHODS Data were gathered ...

BACKGROUND Sport participation has been associated with improved life prospects such as academic performance and employability prospects. As such, promoting sport participation might be a way to increase life prospects, especially for socially vulnerable youth because they are less physically active than their peers. However, the evidence for the causal effect of sport participation on these ou...

Concordance between child and parent-proxy report on a new self-report tool of vision related quality of life for children with JIA-associated uveitis – “Effects of Youngsters’ Eyesight on QOL -EYE-Q” Sheila T Angeles-Han, Sampath Prahalad, Lori Ponder, Kerrie Fields, Rachel Robb, Marla Shainberg, Larry B Vogler, Phoebe Lenhart, Amy Hutchinson, Sunil K Srivastava, Scott R Lambert, Carolyn Drews...