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Filter by:In this study, a prospective, multicenter, randomized, and controlled trial will be performed to evaluate the effectiveness of an audio and animated cartoon questionnaire (AACQ) at improving child understanding and enhancing a positive attitude to participate in biospecific nonspecimen specimen donation.
The purpose of the Assessing Models of Coordinated Services for Low-Income Children and Their Families (AMCS) project is to understand how states and local communities are coordinating services across sectors to most efficiently and effectively serve low-income children and their families. These coordinated services approaches vary along a range of dimensions, including their number and types of partners, funding streams, target populations, goals and objectives, locations, services provided, and monitoring processes. This qualitative study aims to fill gaps in our knowledge by identifying and describing the features of state and local approaches to coordinating early care and education services with family economic security and/or other health and human services.
Shanghai is one of pilot areas for the early education of 3-6 years old infants in China. Shanghai Municipal Education Commission has been actively exploring more effective early education guidance methods. This survey, in the form of online questionnaire and site test, aims to dynamically evaluate the changes in the early development level of children in Shanghai and provide scientific basis for providing better early education services in the future.
In Helsinki Birth Cohort 2018-2022 a large, longitudinal and well-phenotyped birth cohort of infants and their parents will be established. Mothers, fathers/spouses and their children in Helsinki and Uusimaa Hospital District are recruited in the study and newborn composition of the children born in Helsinki Women's Hospital will be measured. Data on maternal and paternal diet quality, physical activity and depression during and after pregnancy will be collected and data from the hospital and national registers will be collected. Health of offspring and parents will be followed during their later life.
Disparities in health begin in early childhood. Early life experiences influence brain development and have significant implications on future health and developmental outcomes. Low-income children are at greater risk of developmental delays in large part due to a lack of an enriched environment. Disparities in early childhood development increase risk for stunted academic achievement throughout the life course. Primary care is a universal exposure in early childhood and therefore is also a significant entry point for promoting optimal child development. There is a need to provide effective, low-cost, and scalable interventions in primary care to support early childhood development.The CenteringParenting intervention is designed to reduce negative health and developmental outcomes within a model of group routine child health care. To date, there is no evidence of the benefits of the CenteringParenting intervention on school readiness, or improvements in parental behaviors that support optimal developmental milestones and achievement. The intent of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the CenteringParenting intervention on school readiness in early childhood, as measured by language development at 24 months, (in addition to health care utilization, child routine care maintenance, parenting stress, caregiver behaviors and attitudes).
It is estimated that over 200 million children under 5 years of age in developing countries are not attaining their developmental potential (e.g., neurobehavioral development) primarily because of poverty and associated health, nutritional deficiencies, and unstimulating home environment. Child's Neurobehavioral development consists of several interdependent domains of sensory-motor, cognitive-language, and social-emotional function. Experiences in the first few years of life are of particular importance because vital development occurs during this period. Early under nutrition, iron-deficiency, environmental toxins, stress, and poor stimulation and social interaction can affect brain structure and function. Stunting, inadequate cognitive stimulation, iodine deficiency, and iron deficiency anemia are identified as key risk factors, where the need for cognitive intervention is urgent, that prevent millions of young children from fulfilling their developmental potential and neurobehavioral development. It is clear that underprivileged children require not only good health, nutrition, and wealth but also supportive and caring environments and cognitive stimulation for their optimum neurobehavioral development as in the case of Bangladesh. Cognitive function and self-esteem of mothers is crucial for having the optimum outcome from intervention. However, little is known regarding the importance of mother's cognitive ability influencing different domains of her children's neurobehavioral development. This is how, the investigators plan to measure the maternal cognitive function and to assess the neurobehavioral development of underprivileged children. The investigators will enroll 200 mothers and children as a sample of the present study. Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development will be used along with other interview scales.
The recent increase in the number of cases of congenital microcephaly observed in Brazil is a reason of great concern. This increase occurred a few months after Zika virus (ZIKV) was introduced in the country, which was associated with reports of pregnant women presenting fever and rash illness during pregnancy. Thus, the hypothesis of a relationship between ZIKV infection and microcephaly became plausible. However, studies on the pathophysiology of maternal ZIKV infection, its consequences for the fetus, and the development of severe encephalopathy are still needed. Knowledge about the natural history of vertical transmission and its association with changes in fetal development in early life is still scarce. Studies on factors which determine the severity and clinical evolution, such as inflammatory response mechanisms, viral evolution, and development of serological tests to identify ZIKV infection, are still needed. The Aedes aegypti is responsible for the transmission of various types of viruses of interest to human health. Currently, it is primarily responsible for the transmission of the dengue, chikungunya, and ZIKV in epidemic proportions. In addition, it is not yet known whether there is an interaction between these viruses and whether the interaction can determine the severity of the disease. The aim of this study is to evaluate the natural history of ZIKV disease in two cohorts( pregnant women and children) starting with pregnant women or newborns or evennursing mothers, identifying risk biomarkers, mapping the anti-viral inflammatory response, evaluating the molecular evolution of the virus,which areimportant to determine the mechanisms of vertical viral infection and verify children neurodevelopment from birth to the end of 3rd year of life.
CrescNet is a network of primary care physicians and pediatricians (n=219) and endocrinological treatment centers (n=33), established in Leipzig in 1998, whose aim is to improve the early detection of growth disorders. Secondary to this clinical aim, epidemiological analyses, for example on secular trends of growth data of children, are performed.
Introdution: The Kangaroo Mother Care is a perinatal care model for preterm and low weight newborn. The Kangaroo Position is the main feature of this method. The infant should be lightly dressed, in prone position and upright against the torax of the parents. Researches provides evidence that the Kangaroo Position induces an increase in myoelectric activity of preterm newborn. However, it is unknown how long the newborn should remain in the kangaroo Position so that ocurr changes in electromyographic. An increase in electromyographic activity was observed after 24 hours or more of submission to the Position Kangaroo, however period lower of submission to the Position Kangaroo have not been evaluated yet. Also unknown are the physiological mechanisms that cause this muscle response. One hypothesis would be the increase in temperature caused by skin to skin contact which could improve circulation in small vessels with direct influence on the infusion and nutrition of muscle tissue. Objective: Evaluate the immediate effect of Kangaroo position in the electromyographic activity and microcirculation of preterm newborn. Method: It will be a randomized and controlled trial from August 2016 to February 2017 with newborn preterm admitted at the Kangaroo Unit, IMIP. Newborns eligible according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be randomized into two groups: Kangaroo Group (experimental group) and Not Kangaroo Group (control group). The data of the electromyographic activity and the microcirculatory parameters will be assessed and recorded in three stages: before the Kangaroo position, one and three hours after of continuous submission in the Kangaroo Position (for the group of cases) and before the Kangaroo position, one and four after the three assessments (for the control group). In the control group, the preterm newborns will be not submitted to Kangaroo position until the completion of the last and third evaluation. The acquisition of the electromyographic signal will be conducted through an equipment electromyography Miotool 400® brand (Miotec Equipamentos Biomédicos - Brasil). To assess microcirculation will be used for the white light spectroscopy method through the drive moorVMS-OXY®. The project was submitted and approved by Ethics Committee for Research on Human Beings of IMIP (52381915.5.0000.5201). This study is part of a anchor project approved by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico- CNPq (process 458163/2014-7).
The purpose of this survey is to collect data from intrauterine life until the age of 18 of children born in Haute Vienne. The interest to realize such survey is to find correlations and interactions that may exist between the events that occurred during intrauterine life and those that will occur after the birth of the child. The investigators will examine every aspect of these children's lives from the perspectives of health, social sciences and environmental health These are medical events (occurrence of disease, medication), but also socio-cultural for this child (living environment, exposure to possible contaminants, events in family history). This cohort aims to include 3000 children a year (whose parents consented to their inclusion), all born at Haute-Vienne.