OBJECTIVES This study examines gender and age differences in maternal reports of injuries in a cross sectional group of children aged 0-11 years. The cause, nature, body part injured, and location of injury are explored, as are the associations with family socioeconomic indicators and associations with limitations in activities. METHODS Data for 22831 children and their families come from cyc...

Background: Studies have pointed out the influence of different children’s activities and prolonged use digital products on their social development. However, whether parent-child using devices were serial mediators relationship between health development needs further verification. Purpose: This study explored how competence. Method: used data from Kids in Taiwan: National Longitudinal Study C...

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, parents reported that their children spent majority of time at home, which can dramatically change activities and negatively impact social skills. However, research has yet to uncover relationships between changes during pandemic children’s skills, nor degree these might differ across race ethnicity. To fill this gap knowledge, we leverage a nationally representa...

It is well accepted that the home learning environment impacts school performance; however, much of previous research has focused on preschool children. This exploratory study used an online, Qualtrics survey to ask parents (n = 177) elementary students about environment. Our questions addressed (1) amount time children spend mathematics, reading, written language, and science at home, differen...

a simmering crisis in the nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. one of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...