Child: care, health and development
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Child Care Health Dev · Nov 2008
Qualitative analysis of Coroners' data into the unnatural deaths of children and adolescents.
Unintentional injury and suicide are leading causes of death for adolescents, and reducing these is an important health priority. Coroners' records provide a valuable source of information on the events leading up to the death of an individual, and analysis of these records may help our understanding of the causal pathway, and elucidate potential areas for intervention. ⋯ This study based on comprehensive data from one region highlights some of the difficulties faced by young people as they negotiate how to deal with complex emotions and relationships. It also demonstrates how some parents and carers are uncertain about how to address their concerns. Finally, it shows how mortality among young people could potentially be markedly reduced if availability of alcohol and illicit and prescribed substances were reduced.
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Child Care Health Dev · Sep 2008
Review Meta AnalysisParenting interventions and the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood: systematic review and meta-analysis.
To evaluate the effectiveness of parenting interventions in preventing unintentional injury and increasing parental safety practices. ⋯ Parenting interventions, most commonly provided within the home, using multi-faceted interventions appear to be effective in reducing unintentional child injury. Further research is required to explore the mechanisms by which parenting interventions reduce injury, the features of interventions that are necessary to reduce injury, and their generalizability to different population groups.
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Child Care Health Dev · Sep 2008
Comparative StudyBehaviour problems and social competence deficits associated with symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: effects of age and gender.
Previous research has shown that children with high levels of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms often have a wide variety of associated behaviour problems. However, relatively little is known regarding to what extent these associated behaviour problems are present to the same degree in younger as well as older children and in girls as well as in boys. ⋯ Children with high levels of ADHD symptoms have many associated behaviour problems, even in pre-school years, and boys with high levels of ADHD symptoms are more severely affected compared with girls.
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Child Care Health Dev · Sep 2008
ADHD and transition to adult services--the experience of community paediatricians.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is now recognized as a disorder that can persist into adulthood, and therefore, there is a need for transitional care. ⋯ There is a gap in provision of services for young people with ADHD when they leave pediatric care, with many pediatricians struggling to find appropriate ongoing care for their patients. Commissioners need to address the problem.
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This research aimed to look in depth at the factors affecting the ability of four Sure Start local programmes, based in a multicultural Midlands city, to engage with 'hard-to-reach' populations. ⋯ The results suggest that a multi-method approach to data collection is useful and appropriate in gaining access to those parents who are non-users of the Sure Start services and enabling their voices to be heard. These findings offer some explanations and insight into the apparent ambivalent attitudes of some families toward Sure Start services. Implications for future practice are discussed.