OBJECTIVES Studies of adolescent psychiatric disorders often collect information from adolescents and parents, yet most eating disorder epidemiologic studies only rely on adolescent report. METHOD We studied the eating disorder symptom reports, from questionnaires sent at participants' ages 14 and 16 years, provided by 7,968 adolescents from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children...

Twin studies indicate that dyscalculia (or mathematical disability) is caused partly by a genetic component, which is yet to be understood at the molecular level. Recently, a coding variant (rs133885) in the myosin-18B gene was shown to be associated with mathematical abilities with a specific effect among children with dyslexia. This association represents one of the most significant genetic a...

BACKGROUND The impact of underlying parental psychological vulnerability on the future mental health of offspring is not fully understood. Using a prospective cohort design, we investigated the association between dysfunctional parental personality traits and risks of offspring self-harm, depression and anxiety. METHODS The association between dysfunctional parental personality traits (monoto...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the prevalence of reduced sound tolerance (hyperacusis) in a UK population of 11-year-old children and examine the association of early life and auditory risk factors with report of hyperacusis. DESIGN A prospective UK population-based study. STUDY SAMPLE A total of 7097 eleven-year-old children within the Avon longitudinal study of parents and children (ALSPAC) were a...

a b s tract b a c kground:   hospitalization and surgery are among of the most difficult experiences for the children and their parents have to face. many parents experience preoperative anxiety during the hospitalization of their children. o b j ec t i v e s : this study attempts to quantify pre operative anxiety in the parents of children admitted to hospital for elective surgery and to isola...

During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, face-to-face schooling could not be performed continuously, and alternative ways of learning had to organized. Parents act as their children’s home tutors while working from home, schools deal with various alternatives distance education. Since parents are by all means both important school users partners, perceptions can considered a central indicator for...

objective: the purpose of this study was to examine the role of parenting styles in predicting behavioral and emotional problems in adolescents.  methods: this study is a descriptive, cross sectional, and correlation research. all students enrolled in the first grade in boys’ guidance school of district 3 in tehran city and their parents constituted the population. one hundred and eighty partic...

background: having an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) is a stressful and painful experience. unlike to normal births, this birth is associated with admission and separation of infant from parents. the aim of this study was to compile the supporting-emotional needs of iranian parents who have a premature infant admitted in (nicu). methods: this study was performed using qualita...

objectives: the aim of present study was determining the level of satisfaction and its relative factors among parents of mentally retarded children using the services of private rehabilitation centers. methods: this was a descriptive-analytical study that was conducted on parents of 150 mentally retarded children, who were selected by quota sampling from eight private rehabilitation centers in ...