Child: care, health and development
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Child Care Health Dev · Mar 2008
ReviewParenting children requiring complex care: a journey through time.
Parents of children requiring complex care provide intense and demanding care in their homes. Unlike professionals who provide similar care in institutions, parents may not receive regular breaks from care giving. As a result, parents, over time, experience health and social consequences related to care giving. Respite care, one form of a break from care giving, is frequently cited as an unmet need by such parents. ⋯ Existing literature focuses on the day-to-day experiences of parents, who are carers, rather than their experiences over time. As parents of children requiring complex care are providing care from infancy through the death of either child or parent, respite needs will change. This developmental map identifies how a group of parents reported these changes in care giving and their perceived needs for respite care.
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Child Care Health Dev · Mar 2008
Access to and use of NHS Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS): the views of children, young people, parents and PALS staff.
The English National Health Service Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS) was set up to provide patients and their relatives with a way of obtaining information or expressing concerns about their health care. This study examined children's, young people's and parents' access to and use of PALS, and how this could be improved. ⋯ and recommendations Patient Advice and Liaison Service has not been designed and developed in ways that are fully inclusive of children, young people and parents. Based on their views and experiences, and the suggestions of PALS staff, the authors recommend that access to and use of the service could be improved, increasing awareness of PALS, facilitating access to and use of the service, providing training for PALS staff on dealing with young people and their issues, and developing links between PALS and other organizations that deal with young people and parents.
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Child Care Health Dev · Jan 2008
Multicenter StudyThinness, overweight and obesity in a national sample of Iranian children and adolescents: CASPIAN Study.
This study was conducted to assess the national prevalence of different grades of nutritional status (underweight, normal weight, overweight and obesity) among Iranian school-students and to compare the prevalence of overweight and obesity using three different sets of criteria. ⋯ The findings of this study warrant the necessity of paying special attention to monitoring of the time trends in child obesity based on uniform definitions, as well as to design programmes to prevent and control associated factors.
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Unintentional firearm injuries are an important cause of preventable deaths and disabilities among children. Keeping firearms at home and letting children to see or touch them increases the risk of injury. ⋯ Results of this study pointed to the urgent need for preventive measures for the physical separation of guns from children. The establishment of effective firearms safety programmes requires an understanding of the culture and routine behaviours of the target population.
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Child Care Health Dev · Sep 2007
ReviewAbuse of the disabled child: a systematic review of population-based studies.
To ascertain the strength of the association between childhood disability and abuse and neglect. ⋯ The evidence base for an association of disability with abuse and neglect is weak. Psychological and emotional problems, and learning difficulties appear to be associated with abuse but this association might arise because these conditions share a common aetiological pathway with abuse. There is limited evidence that physical disability predisposes to abuse.