Siblings' interactions and shared experiences influence their perceptions of quality life. Recently, research about siblings children with intellectual developmental disabilities has been significantly expanded but data from Southern European countries is still missing. This was carried out in Catalonia (northeast Spain) a region the Mediterranean area its own culture, language traditions that ...

Siblings of children with ADHD have experiencing anxiety for various reason, including parents who focus more on caring ADHD, pressure to take care their siblings, and feeling concerned about that had impact quality life. The goal this research was get an overview the life adolescents siblings ADHD. 6 aged 13-17 years participated in research. This study used descriptive qualitative method. dat...

Determining the fitness consequences of sibling interactions is pivotal for understanding the evolution of family living, but studies investigating them across lifetime are lacking. We used a large demographic dataset on preindustrial humans from Finland to study the effect of elder siblings on key life-history traits. The presence of elder siblings improved the chances of younger siblings surv...

Positive emotional engagement develops in the context of face-to-face interactions during the first 6 months of life. Deficits in emotional engagement are characteristic of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and may characterize the younger siblings of children with ASD (high-risk siblings). High-risk siblings are likely to exhibit a broad range of positive emotional engagement that may or may not ...

AIM To use a virtually simulated population, generated from published allele frequencies based on 15 short tandem repeats (STR), to evaluate the efficacy of trio sibship testing and sibling assignment for forensic purposes. METHODS Virtual populations were generated using 15 STR loci to create a large number of related and unrelated genotypes (10,000 trio combinations). Using these virtual po...

OBJECTIVE: Screening siblings of index patients with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) has been proposed to identify children who are at risk for renal damage. However, screening siblings for VUR remains controversial. We investigated the prevalence of VUR and renal cortical abnormalities in the sibling population in a large cohort of families with VUR. METHODS: Between 1998 and 2012, parents of inde...