590 PEDIATRICS September 1958 O NE of the main interests of the Child Psychiatry Unit of the Massachusetts General Hospital from its beginning has been the study of emotions in the sick child and the prevention or treatment of emotional disturbances associated with illness. When the child is hospitalized his fears, anticipations, and concepts of his medical illness are important not only as psy...

Platelet monoamine oxidase (MAO) activity was studied in 108 children and adolescents with psychiatric illness and 67 control subjects. Platelet MAO activity was higher in male children with a psychiatric disturbance than in male control subjects. There was a gradual decline in platelet MAO activity during childhood and adolescence. Associations were demonstrated between MAO activity and hemogl...

Although estimates of the number of children afflicted with chronic illness vary widely, in part due to the difficulty in defining what constitutes a chronic illness, it is clear that most chronic illnesses are on the rise among children (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2009; Van Cleave, Gortmaker, & Perrin, 2010). By definition, these illnesses persist; thus, it is important to exa...

During the past two decades, the prevalence of obesity in children has risen greatly worldwide. Obesity in childhood causes a wide range of serious complications, and increases the risk of premature illness and death later in life, raising public-health concerns. Results of research have provided new insights into the physiological basis of bodyweight regulation. However, treatment for childhoo...

There are few studies of environmental factors in familial forms of schizophrenia. We investigated whether childhood adversity or environmental factors were associated with schizophrenia in a familial sample where schizophrenia is associated with the NOSA1P gene. We found that a cumulative adversity index including childhood illness, family instability and cannabis use was significantly associa...

This is a comprehensive review about the role of direct and second hand cigarette smoke exposure in the development of childhood asthma. Smoking, both during pregnancy and postnatal have an adverse impact on the infant's chances of developing respiratory illness. Second hand smoke exposure has also known to cause worsening of childhood asthma with an impact on hospital admissions. Correlation b...

Workers' working conditions, work-related health problems and sickness absence are interdependent factors. Both workers' health problems and their absence are adverse events which generate significant costs for both Poland's Social Insurance Institution (ZUS) and employers. Despite the related burdens, it is difficult to assess the number of workers who experience work-related health problems, ...

Is sickness absence related to attitudes? Several studies point to attitudes as an important factor for sickness absence. We study the relation between sickness absence and attitudes towards possible reasons for sick leave, towards cheating and towards work, by linking a survey among Norwegian healthcare workers, aimed at identifying attitudes, to detailed data on sickness absence from the empl...

Pocock, S. J. (1973). Brit. J. industr. Med., 30, 64-70. Relationship between sickness absence and length of service. A longitudinal study of 454 new employees in one factory showed that sickness absence rates in the first six months of service were less than half the rates during the next four and a half years. This is presumed to be partially caused by the lack of company sick pay during this...

BACKGROUND Alongside work environment factors, interference between work and domestic life has been proposed as an important explanation for long-term sickness absence, particularly for women. The aim was to investigate the association between work-to-family interference, family-to-work interference and long-term sickness absence among women and men in different family- and work-related setting...