OBJECTIVE THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS ANALYSIS WERE TO: 1) assess the impact of socio-demographic factors on parents' perception of the benefits of attending a parenting program designed to prevent child maltreatment vs. the costs in terms of time and difficulty to attend, 2) determine if perceived costs and benefits affected the association between socio-demographic factors and participation in a p...

Objective Shared decision-making (SDM) is the process by which patients, clinicians, and in pediatrics, parents/caregivers, discuss treatment options, communicate available evidence for or against the different options, share preferences and values, and eventually arrive at a joint decision. This study evaluates the use of a novel, universally applicable, SDM intervention, provided to parents, ...

BACKGROUND We have previously demonstrated that it is difficult to obtain a representative subject sample when conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) at or near the time of birth and obtaining antenatal consent. Waiver of consent has been used in neonatal trials, but parents' reactions to being enrolled in these trials have never been reported. METHODS The parents enrolled in a RCT in...

Environment plays a vital role in affecting participation of young children in home, school, and community. Knowledge of environmental barriers helps to develop solutions or strategies that enable participation. The study compared the environmental barriers perceived by parents of preschool children with physical disabilities (PD, n = 142) and with typical development (TD, n = 192) in Taiwan. P...

ABSTRACT To investigate dimensions of fathers' participation in family work and to examine the effects of each, dimension on children's sex-role related attitudes, this study collected data from 160 fathers of kindergarten and fourth-grade children, their wives, and their children. Fathers and mothers were interviewed jointly as -separately and they independently filled out a questionnaire. Chi...

The LIFE-DCY research project has two aims. First, to evaluate disabled children’s quality of life (QoL) as reported by themselves and their parents, second, locate commonalities, differences, conflicting issues in the processes that may influence participation. This paper describes study design, methodology, methods along with lessons learned. In addition various methodological ethical concern...