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Filter by:The goal of the proposed research is to achieve a major advance in promoting effective and efficient delivery of pediatric rehabilitation services for young children with developmental disabilities and delays. The investigative team will examine the usability, feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary effects of PEM+, an innovative web-based (mobile friendly) guide for care planning by parents of young children with developmental disabilities and delays. PEM+ is designed in partnership with parents and providers to support more collaborative and efficient clinical care planning with individual families who typically access pediatric occupational therapy services. Specifically, PEM+ enables parents to build on their baseline assessment of their child using the Young Children's Participation and Environment Measure (YC-PEM) to design specific solutions to their young child's participation-related problems. PEM+ affords parents the opportunity to do this in their own space and on their own schedule, as well as electronically share their proposed written solutions with their child's provider(s) and/or other important individuals in their young child's life.
The objective of this study is to develop an automated, precise, quantitative assay for detecting atypical motor behavior and development in infants using data from wearable sensors and video recordings.
Patients who self-harm are a heterogeneous population. Outpatient treatments structured for borderline personality disorder are often recommended and hospitalization kept to a minimum. However, few studies have focused on the most severe, complex conditions with extreme suicide risk. A recent national investigation from Norway (2017) demonstrated a far larger cohort of extensively hospitalized inpatients with extreme self-harming behaviors than was expected (N=427) - identified in all health regions. Reported challenges were high-risk situations, severe medical sequelae, difficult collaborations across services, and uncertainty about psychiatric diagnoses. Severe, often bizarre, self-harm is thus a major challenge for both patients and health services. In hospitals, safety measures can involve restrictions and involuntary regimes. As research on this target population is sparse, the current project seeks further understanding of complex conditions - psychopathology, treatment experiences and service collaboration. The project is a national, multi-center cooperation including patients in psychiatric hospitals in all health regions. It is cross sectional. Data is based on diagnostic interviews, patients' self-reported symptoms and both patients and service providers treatment experiences. The inclusion period for inpatients (N=300) and a comparison sample of outpatients (N=300) is one year. The target group is inpatients with extreme hospitalization and severe self-mutilation. A comparison group is patients with personality pathology attending outpatient treatments. Recruitment is across health regions. Aim 1: Investigate psychopathology of patients in the target population and compare to a clinical sample admitted to outpatient treatment Aim 2: Investigate personality functioning in the target population and compare to a clinical sample admitted to outpatient treatment Aim 3: a) Investigate health service use in the target population and compare to a clinical sample admitted to outpatient treatment. b) Investigate treatment experiences and health service collaborations in the target population. The project will provide rational for future preventive treatment interventions
The proposed study will pilot the use of an adapted Game Squad intervention aimed at improving physical activity and other important health behaviors (nutrition, sleep hygiene, screen time habits) for children and adolescents receiving special education supports for behavioral health challenges, or who are served by the Boston Medical Center Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (BMC-DBP) clinic.
the purpose of this current study is to examine the changes in postural stability in adult individuals with developmental disabilities following exposure to a college based integrative dance training course. Integrative dance may be defined as dance that encourages the participation of all individuals, regardless of ability, supporting and celebrating these differences as a community. It is hypothesized that a significantly reduced body sway will be observed in participants following a college based integrative dance training course. Furthermore, in participants that continue dancing in the program over multiple semesters, it is hypothesized that there will be an inverse relationship between body sway and dance participation over time (IE: As participants dance more, body sway will continue to decrease).
This study is planned to measure and compare body composition indexes and growth between typically developing children and those with disabilities in South Korea for understanding the nutritional and growth status.
A significant group of children with functional constipation (FC) continues to have symptoms despite recommended standard therapy. Underlying psychiatric problems could explain therapy resistance. However, a work-up for psychiatric problems is only recommended after unsuccessful 6 months standard therapy. Earlier detection and check-up could lead to faster start-up of a more adequate therapy. Therefore, we investigate the prevalence of emotional, behavioural and social problems in the FC-population at the first contact with a paediatric gastroenterologist in a tertiary care hospital.
The aim of this cross-sectional study is to investigate the level of stress and quality of life in parents of children with developmental disabilities (Down syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, cerebral palsy) and parents of children chronic diseases (diabetes mellitus type 1, epilepsy, asthma) compared to parents of healthy children. The investigators will analyze the level of stress, quality of life, self-esteem, optimism, resilience, happiness, stigmatization, depression, anxiety, sleep quality, parenting challenges and some physiological indicators of the stress such as level of cortisol and heart rate variability. Also, the investigators will measure Advanced Glycation End products (AGEs) in the skin. The investigators assume that parents of children with developmental disabilities and chronic diseases have higher level of stress and lower quality of life compared to the parents of healthy children.
Two groups of subjects will be constitute: (i) patients with circumscribed brain injury (including stroke, vascular malformations, tumor or circumscribed infectious lesions) or degenerative/developmental disorders and selective cognitive disorders; (ii) healthy control subjects. The objective of this project is to evaluate specific neuropsychological deficits and apply current brain imaging techniques (anatomical, diffusion, functional, magnetic stimulation) to patients suffering from these cognitive deficits due to brain damage, in order to elucidate the brain mechanisms underlying these deficits.
In this study workers are trying to test the correlation between Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination and MRI brain/cranial ultrasound with early prediction of neurological developmental outcome of preterm neonates. This study is prospective cross-sectional collecting the data of patients according to daily standard medical practice