UNLABELLED Theme: Professional issues Aim: To understand nurses' perspective about the presence and participation of parents/caregivers during child's hospitalization. METHOD Quantitative, descriptive and exploratory study. Data collection in 2011 through questionnaire. RESULTS The sample comprised 146 nurses that work in paediatric wards in five different hospitals in the North of Portugal...

Research has shown that parent education programs can address some of the distinct challenges that parents of youth with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) encounter. This study examined the effectiveness of the Social Competence Intervention for Parents (SCI-P), a parent education program, administered in conjunction with a social competence intervention that targeted youth with ASD ages 11-14 (...

It is widely believed that parents’ involvement in students’ music learning is vital to their success. Shinichi Suzuki not only provided teachers with useful and logical teaching skills, but also stressed on the importance of the parents as a “home teacher”. To enhance the interactions among parents, students, and teachers as well as encourage parental participation, this paper proposes a Web 2...

OBJECTIVES Parental occupations within families include parents' participation in household work and in play with their children. This study explored the nature of parents' play with their preschool-aged children and how it was orchestrated within their daily occupations. METHOD Participant observations and intensive interviews were conducted with 10 families with preschool-aged children. Dat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the psychological burden of parents facing increasing risk of type 1 diabetes in their children. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In the population-based Type 1 Diabetes Prediction and Prevention (DIPP) Study, newborn infants with HLA-DQB1-conferred diabetes risk were enrolled in sequential analyses of diabetes-associated autoantibodies. Those persistently positive for at lea...

This study examined parent characteristics and barriers to participation in a community-based preventive intervention with a sample of 201 parents from low-income and predominantly ethnic minority backgrounds. Person-centered analyses revealed five subgroups of parents who demonstrated variability in their parent characteristics, which included psychological resources and level of parental invo...

OBJECTIVE To qualitatively evaluate parent perspectives of eating problems, nutritional status, and the potential for nutritional intervention in children with sickle cell disease (SCD). METHODS Twenty parents of children with SCD participated in one of three focus groups to discuss questions related to the study's objectives. Three coders rated transcripts to identify common perceptions and ...

Parents have the potential to play an important role in the development of social capital in their children’s classrooms. Both theoretical and empirical evidence suggest that parents’ classroom participation is directly linked to higher academic achievement and pro-social behaviour in the children. This study examines the influence that the in-class parent reading component of the Partners in E...

the purpose of this study is to compare socialization factors affecting youth political participation in shiraz. this study was done using a survey method. the data was collected using a questionnaire, completed by 888 young people living in shiraz. the results show that age and sex do not bring about a significant difference in the level of political participation. parents and friends’ partici...