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Filter by:This prospective study aimed to detect neuromotor signs early in preschool children suspected of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD). Preschool children aged 3-5 years old from municipal kindergartens in Thessaloniki participated in this study. The Little DCDQ questionnaire and the BOT-2 (Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency) were used for assessment.
The PKUBC-WF is a prospective cohort study carried out in Weifang city of Shandong, China. The primary aim of this study is to investigate the short-term and long-term effects of pre-pregnant and prenatal exposure on maternal and child health. Data are collected regarding environmental, nutritional and lifestyle exposures as well as short-term and long-term health outcomes of mothers and their children from birth to before 18 years old. Biological samples including peripheral blood, urine, placenta, umbilical cord, cord blood, and faeces are also collected.
This study aimed to examine the effect of the cough trick method and pinwheel blowing on the severity of pain during blood collection in school-age children.The study will be conducted with children aged 6-12 years who are subjected to blood tests by a pediatrician."Descriptive Questionnaire", "Visual Analogue Scale (VAS)", "FLACC Pain Rating Scale" and "Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale (WBFPRS)" will be used to collect data.The data will be uploaded to the computer and coded by the researchers, and the data will be evaluated in the SPSS package program.The sociodemographic data of the children participating in the study will be given as numbers and percentage distributions. Appropriate tests will be used by analyzing the data for normal distribution. The statistical significance level of the study was determined as p< 0.05. In addition, at the end of the research, the status of working with sufficient sample size will be tested with post-hoc power analysis.
The goal of this observational study is to investigate perinatal, cognitive and social-emotional correlates of neurodevelopmental disorders and educational difficulties in children and adolescents. The study group consist of minimal 500 childrens over 5 years of age who will be examined by qualified diagnosticians. Participants will be evaluated with tasks related to the studied variables: cognitive functioning, social-emotional functioning. Furthermore informations regarding social-emotional functioning of children, will be collected from parents and teachers. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Is there a relationship between perinatal factors and the risk of occurrence of neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning difficulties? 2. Is there a specific pattern of cognitive functioning in children and adolescents with indicated neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning difficulties? 3. Is there a specific pattern of social-emotional functioning in children and adolescents with indicated neurodevelopmental disorders and/or learning difficulties? 4. Do gender and age moderates specific patterns of cognitive and social-emotional functioning in the studied groups? Researchers will compare the following groups of children over 5 years old: 1. With perinatal risks factors 2. With neurodevelopmental disorders: 1. Developmental learning disorder 2. Disorder of intellectual development, mild 3. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 4. Autism spectrum disorder 3. With Learning difficulties 4. Control group
School age child development is a range from 6 to 12 years of age. During this time period observable differences in height, weight, and build of children may be prominent. The language skills of children continue to grow and many behavior changes occur as they try to find their place among their peers. School-age children gain between four and seven pounds each year., Increases in height will vary, and a three-to-six height difference in age groups is typical. Growth spurts are common in school-age children, as are periods of slow growth. Fundamental Movement Skills (FMS) are a specific set of gross motor skills that involve different body parts. These skills are the building blocks for more complex skills that children will learn throughout their lives. They help children take part in games, sports and recreational activities. While the Motor cognition takes into account the preparation and production of actions, as well as the processes involved in recognizing, predicting, mimicking, and understanding the behavior of other people It will be a randomized controlled trial. This study will include 48 school going children who meet the inclusion criteria will be recruited from Qazi Grammer School, The Cardour School. Two groups will be formed and 24 students will be allocated in each group. Before applying the techniques pre and post reading will be taken.Tools used during our study will be Parent proxy report format and Six minutes Walk test and portage guide to early education. In Group A which will be experimental group Experimental Group students will participate in fundamental motor skills(FMS) program that will include 12 basic motor skills(running,hopping,galloping,leaping,jumping,sliding,strinking,dribbling,catching overhand throwing and underhand rolling) will be applied and Group B which will be control group regular afterschool programs which include unstructured child's free play including sliding, hide and seek, sea-saw, and runing, along with reading, drawing will be used. These activities will continue for 3 sessions per week for the period of 8 weeks. Data will be analyzed by using SPSS for windows version 25.
The most important aspect of physical fitness is flexibility, which can be greatly impacted by bad posture. Long periods of sitting in school going children can cause the hamstring muscles to shorten because they bend the knee. There are numerous methods for improving hamstring flexibility, but very few of them produce immediate results. The purpose of this study will be to compare between the immediate effects of hold-relax proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation and muscle energy technique (MET) for hamstring flexibility in school going children. This will be the randomized clinical trial in which total time of six month will be utilized after the approval from BASR. Data will be collected from Unique Science School Al-Rehman Campus, Lahore. 106 participants will be taken with 05-12 years of age through purposive sampling technique. Participants will be divided into two equal groups. Participants in group A will be given hold-relax PNF and the group B will underwent METs (reciprocal inhibition). Hamstring ROM will be assessed through AKET. Measurements will be taken by goniometer. Wong-Baker faces pain scale (WBFPS) and Timed 'Up and Go' (TUG) test will be used to evaluate pain and functional mobility respectively. Data will be analyzed on SPSS version 25. Results after statistical analysis will show which technique is more effective and will have best outcomes.
This implementation research study aims to evaluate the impact and implementation of a group-based parenting program for improving early child development and caregiver outcomes. This study is enrolling primary caregivers with children 0 to 24 months of age to promote caregiver knowledge and skills about nurturing care for young children and support caregiver psychosocial wellbeing. Parenting groups will leverage existing community group networks and be facilitated by trained volunteers for 20 total sessions (groups will meet twice a month for 10 months). ChildFund Kenya and its community partners will implement the program in Busia and Homabay counties. The research study design will involve a cluster-randomized controlled trial and a qualitative implementation evaluation. This research is being led by Emory University with funding from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.
This RCT aims to design and develop a developmental guidance program delivered by a smartphone app "Happy Baby HK" and evaluate its effectiveness for enhancing the mental well-being of recently born infants in Hong Kong. This study will evaluate the effectiveness of the improvement in the effect of infants and decrease of risk of developmental delay in very young children. The smartphone app "Happy Baby HK" will be designed and developed by different professionals. Then, participants will be invited to use this app or the MCHC parenting booklet. They will also be invited to fill in some questionnaires at 6, 12 and 18 months postpartum to screen the developmental stages. Researchers will compare the intervention group and the control group to evaluate the effectiveness of this app for enhancing the mental well-being of infants.
An estimated 43% of children under age 5 in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience compromised development due to poverty, poor nutrition, and inadequate psychosocial stimulation. Numerous early childhood development (ECD) parenting interventions have been shown to be effective at improving ECD outcomes, at least in the short-term, but they are a) still too expensive to implement at scale in low-resource and rural settings, and b) their early impacts tend to fade over time in the absence of continued support. New ways to deliver effective ECD parenting interventions are sorely needed that are both low-cost to be potentially scalable, while also able to sustain impacts long-term. The rapid growth and low cost of mobile communications in LMIC settings presents a potentially promising solution to the competing problems of scalability and sustainability. Yet there is no rigorous research on mobile-health (mHealth) interventions for ECD outcomes in LMIC settings. Study investigators recently showed that an 8-month ECD parenting intervention featuring fortnightly group meetings delivered by Community Health Workers (CHWs) from Kenya's rural health care system significantly improved child cognitive, language, and socioemotional development as well as parenting practices, and a group-based delivery model was more cost-effective than previous ECD interventions. Yet it is still too expensive for scaling in a rural LMIC setting such as rural Kenya, particularly if interventions are needed that can be extended for longer periods of time to increase their ability to sustain impacts. This study will experimentally test a traditional in-person group-based delivery model for an ECD parenting intervention against an mHealth-based delivery model that partially substitutes remote delivery for in-person group meetings. The relative effectiveness and costs of this hybrid-delivery model will be assessed against a purely in-person group model, and the interventions will extend over two years to increase their ability to sustain changes in child outcomes longer-term. The evaluation design is a clustered Randomized Control Trial across 90 CHWs and their associated villages and 1200 households. The central hypothesis is that a hybrid ECD intervention will be lower cost, but remote delivery may be an inferior substitute for in-person visits, leaving open the question of the most cost-effective program.
The aim of this study was to establish reference values for three compartments of the abdominal skeletal muscle area (psoas muscle area, paraspinal muscle area, and total skeletal muscle area) obtained from cross-sectional Computed tomography images in Turkish Children