BACKGROUND About one-third of U.S. children are overweight or obese and the number is even higher among Hispanics children (41%). In this regards, the time spent in sedentary behaviours is higher among Hispanic children versus non-Hispanic white children. But whether the home environment contributes to the obesity disparity among Hispanic children through the promotion of sedentary behaviours a...

How does a parent’s or other adult’s involvement in a child’s TV viewing influence that child's responses to television? Much of the evidence on this question comes from experimental research. It has been shown that adult commentary can inhibit or intensify children’s imitative responses to a visual medium; that mothers’ comments can counteract children’s tendencies to follow the dictates of a ...

BACKGROUND A variety of performance outputs are strongly determined by lower limbs volume and composition in children and adolescents. The current study aimed to examine the validity of thigh volume (TV) estimated by anthropometry in late adolescent female volleyball players. Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) measures were used as the reference method. METHODS Total and regional body com...

This study aims to evaluate the sedentary behavior, caloric content of snacks and sleep time preschool children in two different regions Portugal (Bragança Gondomar). Participated this 230 healthy preschoolers (103 girls; 127 boys), which 176 (76.5%) were from Bragança (mean age 4.5±0.7 years) 54 (23.5%) Gondomar 4.3±1.0 years). A questionnaire about (morning afternoon) answer by parents childr...

The Sanofi Pasteur tetravalent dengue vaccine candidate is composed of 4 recombinant live attenuated vaccines based on a yellow fever vaccine 17D (YFV 17D) backbone, each expressing the prM and envelope genes of one of the four dengue virus serotypes. Pre-clinical studies have demonstrated that the TV dengue vaccine is genetically and phenotypically stable, non-hepatotropic, less neurovirulent ...

Vaccines are traditionally tested under the optimal conditions of clinical trials (efficacy). However, their public health impact is better assessed under the real conditions of a clinical practice (effectiveness). The authors aimed to estimate the effectiveness of a rotavirus vaccine (rhesus rotavirus vaccine-tetravalent (RRV-TV)) to prevent rotavirus-related hospitalization among children <or...

BACKGROUND Children in households of lower socioeconomic status (SES) are more likely to be overweight/obese. We aimed to determine if home physical activity (PA) environments differed by SES and to explore home environment mediators of the relation of family SES to children's PA and sedentary behavior. METHODS Participants were 715 children aged 6 to 11 from the Neighborhood Impact on Kids (...

objective: knowledge and attitude of parents about attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is an important factor in management of the disorder in children. this study investigates the parents’ knowledge and attitude towards adhd, its symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. method: in this cross-sectional descriptive study, the subjects were 150 parents (120 mother and 30 father) ...

BACKGROUND We recently showed that in preschoolers risk factors for overweight show stronger associations with BMI in children with high BMI values. However, it is unclear whether these findings might also pertain to adolescents. METHODS We extracted data on 3-10 year-old (n = 7,237) and 11-17 year-old (n = 5,986) children from a representative cross-sectional German health survey (KiGGS) con...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to investigate whether mothers' perception of distance from home to green/open spaces is associated with their child's screen time. METHOD We used mother-reported data from sweep six (2010-2011) of the Growing Up in Scotland study (n=3586 children aged 5.9yrs) to examine associations between walking distance from home to green/open space and screen time (TV ...