BACKGROUND Complementary and alternative medical (CAM) therapies are commonly used by pediatric patients with chronic medical conditions. Little is known about parents' perceptions of these therapies. This study describes the views of parents of patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) regarding conventional and CAM therapies. METHODS Parents of children with JIA seen at a pediatric ...

The aim of this study was to compare father-infant interaction with mother-infant interaction, and explore differences and similarities between parents. Related factors for quality of father-infant interaction were also examined. Sixteen pairs of parents with infants aged 0 to 36 months were observed for play interaction between parents and their children. Results suggested no significant diffe...

Eighteen families in which both parents had refractions within the range of + 4 0 D to 4 0 D and axial lengths seen in emmetropia (22.3-26-0 mm) showed coefficients of correlation of the order 0 5 indicative of polygenic inheritance. Such coefficients were seen for axial length (0.407) and for the cornea (0-487), but not for the lens (which is known to be yoked to the axial length). No such coe...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to analyse changes in meal pattern among Norwegian children from 2001 to 2008 in general; to analyse associations between meal pattern and gender, parental educational level and number of parents in the household; and to analyse the association between intake of unhealthy snacks, meal pattern and the mentioned variables. DESIGN Within the Fruits and Vegetable...

thin films of binary bi 0 -teo and bi 0 -v 0 systems were prepared by the thermal co-evaporation technique in a vacuum at room temperature. the optical absorption edge of these systems are studied in the wavelength of 200-800 nm using a perkin-elmer uv/vis spectrophotometer. it is found that the value of n=3/2 in the davis-mott equation is best fitted for the fundamental absorption edge for the...

OBJECTIVE To determine the psychological consequences for parents of children with Down's syndrome of having received a false negative result on prenatal screening. DESIGN Comparison of adjustment of parents who received a false negative result with that of parents not offered a test and those who declined a test. SETTING Parents were interviewed in their own homes. PARTICIPANTS Parents o...

OBJECTIVE Increasing childhood asthma rates may be due to changing dietary lifestyle. We investigated the association of dietary intake of antioxidant vitamins and fatty acids with asthma in Japanese pre-school children. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING School-based survey on lifestyle/diet and health status in children in Japan. SUBJECTS Parents of 452 children aged 3-6 years comple...

BACKGROUND Young people whose parents have depression have a greatly increased risk of developing a psychiatric disorder, but poor outcomes are not inevitable. Identification of the contributors to mental health resilience in young people at high familial risk is an internationally recognised priority. Our objectives were to identify protective factors that predict sustained good mental health ...