The course of severe anxiety surrounding health issues is unknown. The available literature suggests that adults who are overly anxious about health issues often interpret or misinterpret their bodily signs and symptoms to be indicative of a serious illness. The construct of health anxiety has not been examined in children and, to date, there has not been an instrument developed for this purpos...

Childhood is a stage of life that is filled with potential for development, and the early years of childhood see immense physical changes in growth; mastery over body functions like movement; the acquisition of language and cognitive development to understand their own and others' thinking and reasoning; and the psychosocial development of trust in the world, comfort in the care they receive fr...

Childhood trauma and post-childhood chronic/repeated stress could increase the risk of a substance use disorder by affecting five stages of addiction illness-course: (a) initial experimentation with substances; (b) shifting from experimental to regular use; (c) escalation from regular use to abuse or dependence; (d) motivation to quit; and (e) risk of (re-)lapse. We reviewed the human literatur...

lower respiratory illness, infancy, childhood.

OBJECTIVES To provide an overview of issues raised by conducting research in the area of chronic childhood illness, using the example of childhood cancer. METHODS This literature review used informal methods. RESULTS Children with cancer and their families may participate in a wide variety of studies in different research traditions, including social science studies, epidemiological, biolog...

Obsessive--compulsive disorder (OCD) is a severe, highly prevalent and often chronically disabling illness with frequent onset in childhood and adolescence. This underscores the importance of studying the illness during childhood near the onset of illness to minimize potential confounds of long-term illness duration and treatment intervention as well as to examine the developmental underpinning...

More than two thirds of mental health problems have their onset during childhood or adolescence. Identifying children at risk for mental illness later in life and predicting the type of illness is not easy. We set out to develop a platform to define subtypes of childhood social-emotional development using longitudinal, multifactorial trait-based measures. Subtypes discovered through this study ...

Title of Dissertation: DETERMINANTS OF CHILDHOOD MORBIDITY AND THE ROLE OF MALNUTRITION: EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIA Shannon Leigh Wilson, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Dissertation directed by: Professor Maureen Cropper Department of Economics Professor Anna Alberini Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Studies that have attempted to examine the impact of early childhood malnutrition on ...