OBJECTIVE Weight suppression (WS), maintaining a body weight below one's maximum adult weight, is associated with bingeing, purging, and weight gain in clinical samples. METHOD We investigated associations between eating disorder-related variables and WS and additive genetic (A), common (C), and unique (E) environmental contributions to WS in a population-based sample of 1,503 female adult tw...

Worldwide, more than 185,000 children under 18 years die from road traffic accidents annually (each four minutes a child death occurred due to road crashes); with most casualties from developing countries. 95% of road traffic fatalities among children occur in developing countries. Many more children are injured, often severely, and suffering from different disabilities. Road accidents cause ex...

Injury characteristics of child passengers in accidents are summarized in this paper. Based on the accident data about child passengers from 2011 to 2017 collected in the National Automobile Accident In-Depth Investigation System (NAIS), the analysis of the patterns of the traffic accident where child passengers are involved and injury characteristics of child passengers in the aspects of crash...

background: the use of physical restraint as an intervention in the care of psychiatric patients dates back to the beginning of psychiatry. although it is a challenging question, it is still one of the common procedures in psychiatry. considering that very little research has been done in iran in relation to physical restraint, this qualitative study aimed to investigate the experiences of nurs...

OBJECTIVE To compare child care center-based booster seat education and distribution with no intervention when implemented immediately after booster seat legislation. DESIGN Cluster randomized controlled trial. SETTING Thirty-nine urban child care centers. PARTICIPANTS Eight hundred fifty-four parents and 1010 children aged 4 to 8 years in vehicles leaving centers. Intervention We trained...

Described is a 2-year-old child who required a tracheotomy for an obstructing laryngeal tumor. Post-operatively the child responded with extreme anxiety and refused to cooperate with tracheostomy care including suctioning, tie changing and cannula change. A novel approach was attempted. We performed a tracheotomy on the child's favorite doll and taught her to perform all the necessary tracheost...

Objectives: Child Restraint System (CRS) misuse is common. We characterized caregivers’ use of child passenger safety informational and instructional resources and determined whether there were differences in the quality of CRS installations associated with prior exposure to specific resources as evaluated in a standardized CRS installation environment. Methods: Caregivers completed self-report...