The biological basis of parenting has received recent attention given the profound effects of parenting on both child and parent health outcomes. This study examined the moderating role of child temperamental effortful control on the association between observed parental hostility and parents' cortisol awakening response (CAR), a critical index of stress system functioning. Participants include...

The COVID-19 pandemic that has lasted for almost 2 years, certainly brought a significant change to human life. This study aims determine the relationship between parental stress and children’s emotion regulation during COVID19 which been running long time. method in this uses correlational quantitative methods. population sample were parents who school-age children participate online learning ...

BACKGROUND This study examines the impact of pulmonary hypertension (PH) on the quality of life (QoL) of affected youth, as well as the relationships among PH disease severity, parental adjustment variables, and family relational functioning. METHODS Subjects were 47 eligible parents of children with PH aged 2 to 18 years who were evaluated at Boston Children's Hospital. Measures of patient Q...

This review will provide a concise description of mental health problems in parents of children with a (non-syndromic) congenital heart disease (CHD) during different stressful periods. Predictors of these problems and also implications for clinical practice will be mentioned. Having a child with CHD can be very stressful for parents, who have to face overwhelming emotions and also extra physic...

If a mother's nutritional status predicts the nutritional environment of the offspring, it would be adaptive for mothers experiencing nutritional stress to prime their offspring for a better tolerance to poor nutrition. We report that in Drosophila melanogaster, parents raised on poor larval food laid 3-6% heavier eggs than parents raised on standard food, despite being 30 per cent smaller. The...

Background: This study aimed to identify the most important obstacles to proper interaction of parents with their neonates who were hospitalized in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on 90 NICU nurses and 400 female and male parents using census and convenience sampling methods. To collect data, in a period of three months, a re...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of antenatal education focussing on natural childbirth preparation with psychoprophylactic training versus standard antenatal education on the use of epidural analgesia, experience of childbirth and parental stress in first-time mothers and fathers. DESIGN Randomised controlled multicentre trial. SETTING Fifteen antenatal clinics in Sweden between January 20...

Most of the severe cases of acute gastroenteritis in infants and children under 5 globally are caused by rotavirus infection. There are nearly 15,000 rotavirus gastroenteritis (RVGE) hospitalizations in Italy each year, which could be reduced by available rotavirus vaccines. In addition to the economic and societal burden, RVGE hospitalization could impact families negatively. The aim of this s...