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Pediatric Health
Published in Gia Merlo, Kathy Berra, Lifestyle Nursing, 2023
Lifestyle medicine is the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic approaches to prevent and treat chronic diseases. This modality includes a focus on a healthy eating pattern, regular activity, sleep, management of stress, avoiding risky substances, and maintaining connectedness (Collings, 2021). These approaches are especially important in pediatrics because the early childhood years may set a foundation for health behaviors later in life. This chapter will review the tenets of lifestyle medicine and its application to the pediatric population.
Deep Learning to Diagnose Diseases and Security in 5G Healthcare Informatics
Published in K. Gayathri Devi, Kishore Balasubramanian, Le Anh Ngoc, Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques for Medical Science, 2022
The human brain is vulnerable to a wide range of disorders that can hit at any age. Autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia are two examples of developmental conditions that appear in early childhood. Psychiatric illnesses, like depression and schizophrenia, are often diagnosed in teenagers or early adulthood, but their causes can be found much earlier in life. Then, as people get older, they become more vulnerable to dementia disorders like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and others.
Developmental Diseases of the Nervous System
Published in Philip B. Gorelick, Fernando D. Testai, Graeme J. Hankey, Joanna M. Wardlaw, Hankey's Clinical Neurology, 2020
James H. Tonsgard, Nikolas Mata-Machado
Early childhood: Monitor language and developmental milestones.Check spine for scoliosis.Annual eye examination.Check blood pressure.
Examination of the indirect effect of childhood emotional trauma on internalizing symptoms through distress intolerance
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Min-Jeong Yang, Vyom Sawhney, R. Kathryn McHugh, Teresa M. Leyro
Early childhood trauma is prospectively linked to an increased risk for the development of symptoms of psychological disorders, including anxiety and depression.5 We hypothesized that the relation between childhood emotional abuse and both general and specific anxiety/depression symptoms would be mediated by DI. A latent DI variable was created by entering three indicators (i.e., ASI-III, DTS, and FDS-EI) in the SEM model. Results replicated previous findings suggesting that childhood emotional abuse and DI are both associated with anxiety and depression. Furthermore, consistent with our hypotheses, DI mediated the association between childhood emotional abuse and anxiety/depression, expanding upon previous studies on the relation between childhood emotional abuse and internalizing symptoms5,7 by identifying DI as a potential mediator of this relationship. The effect sizes of the observed indirect effect ranged from medium to large.
Health Equity and Enrollment in Preventive Parenting Programs: A Qualitative Study of Filipino Parents
Published in Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2022
Joyce R. Javier, Alexis Deavenport-Saman, Ellynore Florendo, Kamil Evy A. Bantol, Lawrence A. Palinkas
Parenting skills interventions provided in early childhood have proven to be effective in preventing the onset and escalation of child behavioral and mental health problems (Baydar et al., 2003). However, participation rates in parenting programs differ across racial/ethnic groups, severely limiting the impact of efficacious programs at the population level, which contribute to health disparities (Spoth & Redmond, 2000). Ethnic minority families are especially less likely to enroll and engage in parent behavioral interventions (McCabe et al., 2020). The Institute of Medicine has identified research that examines strategies to reach and retain hard-to-engage populations in evidence-based programs as a primary research objective (IOM, 2009). However, minimal research has focused on developing and evaluating theory-based strategies to overcome barriers to enrollment in preventive parenting programs. The few studies available have been performed with Latino populations but not with hard-to-reach Asian immigrant populations (Abraczinskas et al., 2021; Winslow et al., 2016).
Has the Covid-19 Pandemic Revealed Underinvestment in Early Years’ Health and Social Care Provision?
Published in Comprehensive Child and Adolescent Nursing, 2021
Early childhood is defined by UNESCO as that important period in a child’s life from birth to 8 years of age. The first 5 years of this period, prior to a child entering primary or elementary school education, is especially important because this is a period of rapid development—physically, psychologically, and socially. Throughout this period young children are immensely influenced by the environment in which they live and the actions of the people within their immediate world, usually the parents but most importantly the primary carer, who is usually the mother. These environmental aspects of the early life of the child are the foundation for future life and ongoing development toward full citizenship. UNESCO believes that investment in early years’ health and social care is one of the best ways that a country can ensure that tomorrow’s young people enter adulthood without the need for costly remedial action. Such investments in early years’ life may compensate for other family disadvantages (UNESCO, 2021).