Using data from the Durham Child Health and Development Study (n=148), the current study examines the associations between child and parenting variables at 6 months and child attachment quality at 12 months of age and maternal report of child self regulation at 24 months of age. Child and parent variables predicted distinct forms of insecure attachment relationships. Observations of infant soot...

BACKGROUND Indications for the ex utero intrapartum therapy (EXIT) procedure have evolved and nowadays in addition to secure the airway, obtain vascular access, administer surfactant and other resuscitation medications, EXIT is used to resect cervical or thoracic masses, for extracorporeal membrane circulation (ECMO) cannulation, as well as to rescue maximum intra-thoracic space for ventilation...

introduction: a deaf child creates a feeling of stigma in many hearing parents. stigma in mothers can have a negative impact on a child’s treatment and rehabilitation process. therefore, this study was conducted to evaluate the extent of stigma in mothers with deaf children.  materials and methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted in 2013 among 90 mothers with deaf children...

Secure the Future, Bristol-Myers Squibb's landmark $115 million program to offer care and support for the women and children affected and infected by HIV/AIDS in 9 countries in Southern and Western Africa, recently marked its 5-year anniversary. During that time it has supported nearly 200 programs in these countries to offer new approaches to medical research and care and community outreach an...

the main purpose of this research was 10 study the relationship between attachment styles (secure. avoidant, ambivalent) and personality dimensions (neuroticism. extraversion, openness, agreeableness. consciousness) . two hundred and thirty three students ( 102 male. 131 female ) from the university of tehran participated in this study . adult attachment inventory (aai) was applied for measurin...

OBJECTIVE To examine the influence of parent-child relationship quality on the association between illness-related functional status and depressive symptoms in children with asthma. METHODS Questionnaire data were collected from the child, caregiver, and physician. Fifty-five children with asthma (8-17 years of age), their caregivers, and physicians participated. RESULTS Regression analyses...

The paper presents telematic system designed for providing secure medical data communication through the Internet. Security is achieved by strong enctription. The data transmission between remote hospitals and center can be done in both directions. Transmitted data may be of different type especially HTML forms. The HTML forms filled in hospitals are automatically loaded to tables of relational...

This study investigated the impact of maternal reflective functioning (RF) and attachment security on children's mentalization. The Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) was administered to mothers in a sample of 41 mother-preadolescent dyads. AAI transcripts were rated in terms of the Berkeley AAI System (Main and Goldwyn, 1998) and the Reflective Functioning Scale (RFS; Fonagy et al., 1998). Pread...