Sentences with phrase «early risk predictors»

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So such tasks could potentially be used as an early predictor or diagnostic of Tourette syndrome in at - risk children,» says Dr Dye.

«The OSA - related predictors of increased diabetes risk that we found in our study may allow for early preventative interventions in these patients,» said Dr. Kendzerska.

MC1R genotype as a predictor of early - onset melanoma, compared with self - reported and physician - measured traditional risk factors: an Australian case - control - family study.

Parenting and predictors of early conduct problems in urban, high - risk boys.

Adolescence is a critical period for the development of depression with prevalence rates rising sharply from childhood to early adulthood.1 Many adult depressive disorders have their first onset in adolescence2 with longer episode duration being the strongest predictor of future problems.3 In addition to increasing the risk of later mental health problems, adolescent depression is associated with significant educational and social impairment and is a major risk factor for suicide.1 Providing effective early interventions to shorten the duration of episodes and potentially reduce the impact on later life is therefore important.3 This study explores this question and compares the effects of...

Best predictors before or at birth of the high physical aggression trajectory group, controlling for the levels of the other risk factors, were having young siblings (odds ratio [OR]: 4.00; confidence interval [CI]: 2.2 — 7.4), mothers with high levels of antisocial behavior before the end of high school (OR: 3.1; CI: 1.1 — 8.6), mothers who started having children early (OR: 3.1; CI: 1.4 — 6.8), families with low income (OR: 2.6; CI: 1.3 — 5.2), and mothers who smoked during pregnancy (OR: 2.2; CI: 1.1 — 4.1).

Main outcome measures: Prevalence of self - reported smoking; predictors and patterns of smoking in early pregnancy; and relationships between smoking and the prevalence of predisposing, enabling and reinforcing factors, including women's knowledge about and attitudes towards smoking and the risks involved.

Exhaustive peer - reviewed research confirms that the absence of a father is the single most reliable predictor for a whole roster of negative outcomes: low self - esteem, parental alienation, high school dropout (71 % are fatherless), truancy, early sexual activity, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, gang membership, imprisonment (85 % of jailed youth are fatherless), drug abuse, homelessness (90 % of runaway children have an absent father), a 40 times higher risk of sexual abuse and 100 times higher risk of fatal abuse.

Having a particular kind of welfare system such as in Scandinavia might affect the association between the early predictors and dissolution risk.

During the prenatal and infant periods, families have been identified on the basis of socioeconomic risk (parental education, income, age8, 11) and / or other family (e.g. maternal depression) or child (e.g. prematurity and low birth weight12) risks; whereas with preschoolers a greater emphasis has been placed on the presence of child disruptive behaviour, delays in language / cognitive impairment and / or more pervasive developmental delays.6 With an increased emphasis on families from lower socioeconomic strata, who typically face multiple types of adversity (e.g. low parental educational attainment and work skills, poor housing, low social support, dangerous neighbourhoods), many parenting programs have incorporated components that provide support for parents» self - care (e.g. depression, birth - control planning), marital functioning and / or economic self - sufficiency (e.g. improving educational, occupational and housing resources).8, 13,14 This trend to broaden the scope of «parenting» programs mirrors recent findings on early predictors of low - income children's social and emotional skills.

Obama must know, or should know, that the «father deficit» is the single most reliable predictor for children's diminished self - esteem, behavioural problems, poor grades and truancy, early school dropout, juvenile delinquency (85 % of youth in prison have an absent father), gang membership, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, risk of sexual abuse, substance abuse and homelessness.

Previous research has suggested that parental and child functioning factors are the most significant predictors of early onset risk behavior (i.e., prior to adolescence), as opposed to more distal factors such as the neighborhood environment and social status among peers (Kaplow et al. 2002).

In addition, clear differences between the predictor profiles confirmed that, compared to the abstainers and late onset groups, the early onset substance use group appeared to be at much higher risk for adverse childhood predictors (revealing a problematic profile), including lower levels of parental knowledge about adolescents» activities and self - esteem and higher levels of novelty seeking and conduct disorder (Flory et al. 2004; Wanner et al. 2006).

In examination of what early predictors discriminate between those who become pathological gamers and those who do not (Table 2), several personal characteristics and gaming habits seem to act as risk factors.

Family and social risk, and parental investments during the early childhood years as predictors of low - income children's school readiness outcomes.