Child: care, health and development
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Child Care Health Dev · May 2014
Multicenter StudyPaediatricians' decision making about prescribing stimulant medications for children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is now the most common reason for a child to present to a paediatrician in Australia. Stimulant medications are commonly prescribed for children with ADHD, to reduce symptoms and improve function. In this study we investigated the factors that influence paediatricians' decisions about prescribing stimulant medications. ⋯ Paediatricians' decisions to prescribe stimulant medications are influenced by multiple factors that operate concurrently and interdependently. Paediatricians do not make decisions about prescribing in isolation; rather, they actively involve parents, teachers and patients, to arrive at a collective, well-informed decision.
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Child Care Health Dev · May 2014
Multicenter StudyParents of children with physical disabilities - perceived health in parents related to the child's sleep problems and need for attention at night.
Approximately half of all children with moderate to severe physical disabilities have persistent sleep problems and many of these children need parental attention at night. ⋯ Sleep problems need to be acknowledged within the paediatric setting in order to prevent psychological exhaustion and poor health in mothers and fathers of children with physical disabilities.
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Child Care Health Dev · May 2014
What do parents know about their children's comprehension of emotions? accuracy of parental estimates in a community sample of pre-schoolers.
Parents' ability to correctly perceive their child's skills has implications for how the child develops. In some studies, parents have shown to overestimate their child's abilities in areas such as IQ, memory and language. Emotion Comprehension (EC) is a skill central to children's emotion regulation, initially learned from their parents. In this cross-sectional study we first tested children's EC and then asked parents to estimate the child's performance. Thus, a measure of accuracy between child performance and parents' estimates was obtained. Subsequently, we obtained information on child and parent factors that might predict parents' accuracy in estimating their child's EC. ⋯ Parents' ability to estimate the level of their child's EC was characterized by a substantial overestimation. The more competent the child, and the more sensitive and structuring the parent was interacting with the child, the more accurate the parent was in the estimation of their child's EC.