Multiple informants in the evaluation process and the identification of the relationship between risk factors and children's behavioral problems could help mental health professionals planning necessary strategies for preventing and managing behavioral problems. This study examined the relationship between risk factors and behavioral problems in a group of 25Brazilian children and their parents...

The aim of this study was to identify the role of psycho-social factors in headgear compliance. Fifty-one patients, with an Angle Class II division 1 malocclusion comprised the study sample. The treatment plan aimed to correct the malocclusion using cervical pull headgear. An electronic module timer was attached to the neckstrap to evaluate the number of hours the patients wore the headgear. On...

Recent meta-analyses suggest that psychotherapy is quite effective with children and adolescents. However, most research in those analyses involved controlled laboratory interventions that may not represent typical therapy in clinics. We studied more representative treatment as it routinely occurs, in 9 clinics. We compared 93 youngsters who completed a course of therapy with 60 who dropped out...

The current study assessed the associations between sleep and psychosocial symptoms in 157 Finnish adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Sleep trouble was self-rated in Sleep Self-Report (SSR) and in Youth Self-Report (YSR). Psychosocial symptoms of the adolescents were assessed by the YSR and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Patients reporting sleep trouble had significantly more ...

OBJECTIVES To validate a three-factor model for the Pediatric Symptom Checklist-17 (PSC-17) and evaluate its diagnostic accuracy with African-American and Caucasian children with and without a chronic illness. METHODS Mothers of 723 youth diagnosed with either type I diabetes (n = 210) or sickle cell disease (n = 191) and a nonill peer group (n = 322) completed a demographic questionnaire, th...

Se presentan resultados de una investigación empírica sobre problemas comportamentales en niños y niñas escolarizados entre 6 11 años. El objetivo principal es describir, desde la perspectiva epidemiológica, los muestra clínica (N = 395; edad: M 7.92 DE 1.75) no 363; 8.78 años 1.73). Son objetivos específicos el analizar las diferencias por sexo variables sociodemográficas ambos contextos: clín...

This is the first study to investigate whether positive family history (FH) of psychosis and affective disorders moderates the relationship between child diagnostic status and parent-reported social and behavioral problems on the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) in clinical high-risk adolescents. This longitudinal investigation assessed 122 participants (mean age=14.25±1.8years) from three group...

BACKGROUND Children with chronic illnesses are known to have increased risks for emotional and behavioral problems. In the present study, children and adolescent suffering from celiac disease (CD) were compared with healthy controls to assess differences in the psychological profile. METHODS A total of 100 well-treated and compliant CD patients (65 females/35 males; age mean ± SD: 10.38 ± 2.7...

BACKGROUND While symptoms of deficient emotional self-regulation (DESR) have been long associated with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), there has been limited investigation of this aspect of the clinical picture of the disorder. The main aim of this study was to examine the predictive utility of DESR in moderating the course of ADHD children into adolescence. METHODS Subjects ...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the current study was to examine the effectiveness of Barkley's parent training program, working memory training and the combination of these two interventions for children with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). METHODS In this study, 36 participants with ADHD (aged 6 to 12 years) were selected by convenience sampling. Revision of the Swanson, Nolan and Pel...