BACKGROUND This study aimed to compare efficacy and cost of key informants and survey for ascertainment of childhood epilepsy within a treatment context in rural India. METHODS The study was set in a non-governmental, community programme for the functional and socioeconomic rehabilitation of children with disabilities in rural West Bengal, India. Ascertainment was by two methods: house-to-hou...

The global pattern of implementing proactive policing to address crime and insecurity continues drive undercover techniques, including the deployment police informants. Our aim in this article is reflect upon research on informants policing, setting out a more comprehensive agenda that appreciates moral significance power dynamics at play. starting point practice embodies immense emotional tens...

The cross-informant ratings of social competence displayed by children and adolescents were investigated in a meta-analytic study. Effect sizes from 74 studies containing the ratings of the social competence of children and adolescents from at least two different informants were included in this meta-analysis. Results indicated that studies investigating the correspondence of the child or adole...

Abstract: Recent research has suggested informant trust is an important factor in preschoolers’ observational learning. This poster will present data from an ongoing study examining if 3.5to 6.5-year-old children (current n=24) relate perceptions of effort and trust. Children watched two informants solving problems using different solutions, exerting either high or low effort. Children’s eye ga...

Background. This cross-sectional study evaluated rate of reported ADHD symptoms among male preschoolers in Ahvaz by different informants and rate of their agreement. Method. One hundred ninety-two 5-6-year old boys from nine kindergartens in Ahvaz were selected. Teacher and parents' Conners ADHD rating scales were used. Findings. For 133 children, questionnaires were returned. Prevalence of chi...

This paper responds to the criticism that "observer effects" in ethnographic research necessarily bias and therefore invalidate research findings. Instead of aspiring to distance and detachment, some of the greatest strengths of ethnographic research lie in cultivating close ties with others and collaboratively shaping discourses and practices in the field. Informants' performances - however st...

The ability to recognize and evaluate reliable informants is a critical skill for effective social learning. Building on prior work showing children’s sensitivity to informants who omit relevant information, here we asked whether children’s teacher evaluations incorporate information about 1) the epistemic state of the teacher, and 2) the amount and value of information taught. Preschool-aged c...

BACKGROUND Aconitum species are poisonous plants that have been used in Western medicine for centuries. In the nineteenth century, these plants were part of official and folk medicine in the Slovenian territory. According to current ethnobotanical studies, folk use of Aconitum species is rarely reported in Europe. The purpose of this study was to research the folk medicinal use of Aconitum spec...

Discrepancies often arise among multiple informants' reports of child and adolescent psychopathology and related constructs (e.g., parenting, family relationship quality and functioning, parental monitoring). Recently, studies using various designs (laboratory, longitudinal, randomized controlled trial, meta-analysis) have revealed that discrepancies among informants' reports (a) yield importan...

This study examined how children's intuitions and informants' expertise influence children's trust in informants' claims. Three- to 8-year-olds (N = 192) watched videos in which experts (animal/biology experts or artifact/physics experts) made either intuitively plausible or counterintuitive claims about obscure animals or artifacts. Claims fell either within or beyond experts' domains of exper...