OBJECTIVES To identify and characterize respiratory viruses that infect children from daycare centers with symptoms of respiratory infection and to evaluate the association of clinical and epidemiological disease data with the identified virus. METHODS We conducted a study between 2003 and 2005 in 176 children with respiratory infection symptoms attending a municipal daycare center. Samples f...

In this study we used Virtual Reality technology to simulate a toddler’s first few days’ experiences in daycare and improve the caregiver’s understanding of their state of mind. The virtual worlds were developed in accordance with the toddler’s way of thinking and from her/his cognitive and visual viewpoint. The aim of the research was to investigate whether the caregiver’s awareness to the cog...

Given the rate at which humans shed their skin (desquamation), skin flakes that contain squalene and cholesterol are anticipated to be major constituents of indoor dust. These compounds have been detected in more than 97% of the dust samples collected from 500 bedrooms and 151 daycare centers of young children living in Odense, Denmark. The mass fractions of squalene in dust were approximately ...

ISSUES Cases of discrimination occur in Quebec daycares towards HIV-positive children as well as HIV-negative children born to seropositive parents. OBJECTIVES Offer three-hour information sessions on bloodborne diseases, specifically HIV and hepatitis B, universal precautions, as well as legal, ethical and psychosocial aspects of HIV/AIDS to: 1) ensure that daycare workers have basic medical...

A maternal authoritarian style has been related to the development of physical aggression during childhood and later future social problems; however, not too many studies have detected other than individual or family factors that may buffer this maternal effect. This work examines whether daycare center attendance may moderate the relationships between a mother authoritarian style and physical ...