policy on ensuring the well-being of children. Whilst much is known about the difficulties and challenges parents with a disabled child face, and what parents want for their children, very little is known about how parents want their own lives to be. We report here the findings from research with parents of disabled children about the outcomes they desire for themselves, and their views on the ...

PURPOSE Children long-term involvement with cancer may have a negative impact on the quality of life their parents. Design and implementation of training programs for parents whose children have been diagnosed with leukemia, as the primary caregivers of children, will have a special significance and can contribute to better taking care of such children. The main purpose of the present study was...

Bullying at school can be a distressing experience for children. It is also likely to be distressing for their parents. In spite of this, research in the field of school bullying and peer victimisation has tended to overlook the experience of parents when their child is bullied. This study explored school bullying from the parent's perspective. Twenty-one parents took part in semi-structured fo...

BACKGROUND Parents caring for children with complex and long-term conditions at home take on responsibility for technical health-care procedures that may cause their child distress. Little evidence exists about parents' experience of this specific aspect of their caring role. AIMS To explore and understand parents' experiences of administering distressing health-care procedures as part of car...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the prospective associations between dietary patterns in childhood and CVD risk in adolescence. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. Exposures were dietary patterns at age 7, 10 and 13 years derived by cluster analysis. Outcomes were physiological and biochemical cardiovascular risk markers. SETTING Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), UK. SUBJECT...

in 2006, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) formally recommended the use of developmental surveillance at each well child visit and the use of standardized developmental screening tools at nine, 18, and 30 (or 24) month visits. In 2007 the AAP recommended the incorporation of an autism-specific screening at the 18 and 24-month visits. In 2006 the Rhode Island Department of Health conducte...

Locus of control is one of the most widely studied concepts in the history of personality psychology. In spite of its popularity and its associations with numerous relevant outcomes, the ability of locus of control to predict future behaviors involving parenting effectiveness has been under researched. The few parent locus of control children's outcome studies are characterized by cross-section...