An increasing number of families are enrolling their children in out-of-home early childcare services. In addition, a growing number of community childcare programs are including children with developmental disabilities. While some studies have explored the effects of inclusion for preschool children with disabilities, there is little knowledge about the effects of inclusion for typically devel...

The authors investigate the nature of child play for young children with disabilities using two different research models—the traditional psychoeducational research paradigm and the more recent interdisciplinary approach of the childhood studies paradigm. They base their discussion on a research study of toddlers with disabilities, and they review the history of the scholarship on the issue. In...

conclusions the results suggest that massage reduced hospitalization anxiety, pr, and bp. therefore, we propose that nurses can use massage to reduce anxiety in school-age children in hospital. this method has no side-effects and is easily applicable. background the outcomes of hospitalization anxiety are mental health disorders. one of the methods of anxiety reduction is massage, which can cau...

OBJECTIVE [corrected] The objective of the present study was to evaluate the kinetic disposition of vancomycin in preterm infants with emphasis on the apparent volume of distribution, biological half-life, and total body clearance as well as whether their variations cause significant modification of the trough plasma concentration of the drug, depending on the postconceptional age (PCA) and the...

PURPOSE The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) prospective cohort was used to determine the accuracy of the Paley multiplier method for predicting leg length. Using menarche as a proxy, physiological age was then used to increase the accuracy of the multiplier. METHODS Chronological age was corrected in female patients over the age of eight years with documented date of ...

abstract  background: low birth weight neonates are confronted with some problems after  birth, they should be followed up and evaluated at different ages of life.the aim of this study was to determine the impact of birth weight on the risk of sensorineural hearing impairment on children.  method: this cross sectional and retrospective study determined the prevalence  of hearing problems in low...

OBJECTIVE To describe physical activity, sedentary behaviors and sleep duration in toddlers' participants of the WIC program in Puerto Rico and assess its association with excessive weight. METHODS This was a cross-sectional analysis of data gathered in the follow-up visit (12 months later) of a longitudinal study among toddlers 12-36 months old participants of the WIC program. In this follow...

The aim of the present study was to investigate the influence of anxiety at 13 years of age on the presence of chronic pain, pain-related anxiety, and pain-related disability at 17 years of age in a large longitudinal cohort. We hypothesized that mother-reported anxiety at 13 would be associated with the presence of chronic pain at 17 and an increase in pain-related anxiety using all available ...