Do children use their own moral judgments as a template against which to judge a parent’s fairness, and does that depend on the child’s age? Piaget’s concept of objective-to-subjective responsibility (a focus on outcome to a focus on intentions) was the template for the current study. The research question was how do children of different ages evaluate the fairness of mothers’ praise/blame for ...

AIM To determine the outcome and identify predictive factors in children with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES). METHOD The biographies of 35 children with PNES, attending a tertiary paediatric neurology centre, were reviewed. RESULTS Thirty five children attending the department between 1987 and 1997 were evaluated at a mean follow up of 4.6 years. The age range was 6-18 years. Twe...

BACKGROUND Recent research shows that parental sensitivity can explain a significant and unique amount of growth in speech and language outcomes in children with cochlear implants. In this intervention study we explored the impact of an intervention designed to support parental sensitivity on children's communication development. AIMS This study tests the effect of a complex intervention in t...

BACKGROUND Disruptive behavior disorders are among the most common child and adolescent psychiatric disorders and associated with significant impairment. OBJECTIVE Systematically review studies of psychosocial interventions for children with disruptive behavior disorders. METHODS We searched Medline (via PubMed), Embase, and PsycINFO. Two reviewers assessed studies against predetermined inc...

Behaviour management of a child in the dental office refers to methods obtaining childs approval treatment chair which is based on proper communication, patient/ parent education with empathy, coaching and listening. The concept behind guiding behaviour treating them rather than just operating tooth alone. outcome these techniques could maintain communication or extinguish disruptive related tr...

BACKGROUND Despite the presence of high impact interventions to improve infant and young child feeding, only about 52% of mothers in Ethiopia exclusively breastfeed their child for the first six months after delivery. Although the decision to breastfeed a child is ultimately that of the mother, this decision could be influenced by a variety of factors including social-cognitive ones. OBJECTIV...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of child-resistant packaging in reducing the mortality rate from the unintentional ingestion of aspirin for children younger than 5 years. DESIGN Estimates of the annual aspirin-related mortality rate for children younger than 5 years in the United States were developed for the 1958-1990 study period. A multivariate negative binomial regression model wa...

This study aimed to evaluate knowledge on child survival among mothers of children under five years of age living in nine municipalities in North and Northeast Brazil. A standardized questionnaire was used for home interviews of mothers visited by volunteers from the Pastorate of the Child and mothers not visited by the program (control areas). The association between independent variables and ...