BACKGROUND This study examined the relations between treatment process variables and child anxiety outcomes. METHOD Independent raters watched/listened to taped therapy sessions of 151 anxiety-disordered (6-14 yr-old; M = 10.71) children (43% boys) and assessed process variables (child alliance, therapist alliance, child involvement, therapist flexibility and therapist functionality) within a...

Motor function, cognition, functional independence and quality of life have been described in myelomeningocele patients, but no study has investigated their relationships. We aimed to investigate the relationships between motor function, cognition, functional independence, quality of life, age, and lesion level in myelomeningocele patients, and investigate the influence of hydrocephalus on thes...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to establish the construct validity of the Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six (FOCUS©). This measure is reflective of concepts in the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health--Children and Youth framework. It was developed to capture 'real-world' changes (e.g. communicative participation) in preschoolers' communication f...

OBJECTIVE To synthesize recent evidence from systematic and comprehensive reviews on the effectiveness of universal and selective child maltreatment prevention interventions, evaluate the methodological quality of the reviews and outcome evaluation studies they are based on, and map the geographical distribution of the evidence. METHODS A systematic review of reviews was conducted. The qualit...

OBJECTIVE This article describes the application of quality improvement methodology to implement a measurement tool for the assessment of functional status in pediatric patients with chronic pain referred for behavioral intervention. METHODS The Functional Disability Inventory (FDI), a validated instrument for assessment of pain-related disability, was chosen as the primary clinical outcome m...

When the public, elected officials, and child advocates focus on the risks and opportunities inherent in after-school hours, discussions quickly hone in on the benefits that after-school programs might offer. This article points out, however, that parents and children consider a wide variety of options for the after-school hours. Children may be with a parent or relative, they may go to lessons...

This study investigates the incidence of self-care arrangements among school-aged children and it examines why some mothers choose this form of child care. The study finds that the incidence of self-care differs by region and family size, and therefore the relevance of aggregate estimates of self-care to the child care policy debate is questioned. Also, mothers' hours of work are found to incre...

This project is only a predictive exercise, and I cannot claim any causalities. For instance, I found that the number of days spent in foster care is important in predicting the exit outcome of a child. However, I cannot claim that staying longer in foster care causes a child to exit one way or another. There can be other unaccounted variables that impact both the length of stay and the exit ou...

OBJECTIVE Examine the associations between caregiver health literacy (HL) and smoking-related outcome expectancies, implementation of home/car smoking bans (H/CSBs), and child secondhand smoke exposure (SHSe). METHODS Caregivers of Head Start children residing with a smoker(s) completed measures assessing HL, outcome expectancies, and H/CSB implementation. Biomarkers of child SHSe included ho...