Sentences with phrase «adolescent children aged»

Only adolescent children aged 12 — 20 years old (N = 256) were included in the current analyses.

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Working with a third - party clinical testing group, Neba studied 275 children and adolescents ranging in age from 6 to 17 years old, all of whom exhibited signs of attention or behavioral concerns.

The report envisions a Europe where the damage wrought by internet porn and skanky Abercrombie ads is repaired by school - based «compulsory, age - appropriate and gender - sensitive sexuality and relationship education, provided in a mixed - sex setting, for all children and adolescents.»

A growth group can help persons at any age avoid letting the inner Child take over at inappropriate times (often a crucial issue for adolescents).

Analysis shows that dairy helps consumers of all ages — children, adolescents and adults — achieve the recommended intakes of nutrients.

Dietary sugar intake and dietary behaviors in Korea: a pooled study of 2,599 children and adolescents aged 9 - 14 years.

A study of the dietary intake of Cypriot children and adolescents aged 6 — 18 years and the association of mother's educational status and children's weight status on adherence to nutritional recommendations

Children whose fathers were highly involved with them at ages 3 - 5 and 7 - 9 hold less traditional views as adolescents about both parents working and sharing childcare (Williams et al, 1992).

This article provides physical activity guidance for children and adolescents aged 6 to 17, and focuses on physical activity beyond baseline activity.

In other words, your child will undoubtedly undergo some pretty major changes between the ages of 10 to 18, and adolescents might even change fairly dramatically over any given six - month period.

Baseline and post-concussion neuropsychological (NP) testing is now recommended for all athletes in sports with a high risk of concussion (e.g. football, lacrosse, hockey, soccer, basketball), regardless of age or level of performance, but the timing and type of testing may need to be adjusted for children and adolescents.

Hence, we need to pay attention to meal timing, and to start at an early age because children and adolescents who skip meals have a higher risk of developing health issues, including higher BMI, more belly fat, higher serum insulin and blood glucose.

Helping adolescent males to delay fatherhood may also be important from a child health perspective: research that controlled for maternal age and other key factors found teenage fatherhood associated with an increased risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes, including preterm birth, low birth weight and neonatal death (Chen et al, 2007).

«ACL Tears in School - Aged Children and Adolescents: Has There Been an Increased Incidence over the Last 20 Years?»

Adolescents who skip breakfast are at high risk for having an inadequate intake of dietary fiber, as are other age groups; so make sure your child does not skip this important meal.

Children whose creativity is nurtured at a young age are also often found to have more confidence as they mature and develop through their adolescent years.

More than 1 million children ages 6 to 12 have had a depressive episode and between 20 and 30 percent of adolescents have a major depressive episode before reaching adulthood.

As our baby develops through the various stages, from birth to baby stage, toddler to preschool, school age, puberty and through the adolescent development stages, the child's developmental milestones are marked and usually celebrated.

Children and adolescents should meet the Guidelines by doing activity that is appropriate for their age.

Toddlers need simple answers, preschoolers live in a world of fantasy and reality simultaneously, school - aged children are more prone to desire facts, and adolescents are starting to form a moral compass of their own.

In fact, it appears the sheer amount of time parents spend with their kids between the ages of 3 and 11 has virtually no relationship to how children turn out, and a minimal effect on adolescents, according to the first large - scale longitudinal study of parent time to be published in April in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder occurs in an estimated 3 to 5 percent of school - age children, according to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

«For example, children at this age like to pretend they are reading,» says Dr. Robert Myers, Ph.D., a clinical child and adolescent psychologist at the Child Development Instichild and adolescent psychologist at the Child Development InstiChild Development Institute.

Adapted from CARING FOR YOUR BABY AND YOUNG CHILD: BIRTH TO AGE 5, Fifth Edition, edited by Steven Shelov and Tanya Remer Altmann © 1991, 1993, 1998, 2004, 2009 by the American Academy of Pediatrics and BRIGHT FUTURES: GUIDELINES FOR HEALTH SUPERVISION OF INFANTS, CHILDREN, AND ADOLESCENTS, Third Edition, edited by Joseph Hagan, Jr., Judith S. Shaw, and Paula M. Duncan, 2008, Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics.

We see more than 4,000 children a year, and our doctors and nurse practitioners continue to help set the standards of care for sleep problems in children of all ages, from newborns to adolescents.

While they specialize in treating the sleep problems of young children, they also address sleep difficulties arising in children of all ages, from infants to adolescents.

The best available estimates indicate that childhood obesity is driven by a surplus of approximately 110 to 165 kcal · d − 1 for children ages 2 to 7 years and 678 to 1,017 kcal · d − 1 for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years (57).

According to an August 2005 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the incidence of cavities in children ages two to five increased 15.2 percent from 1988 - 1994 to 1999 - 2002, the only child and adolescent age group to exhibit increased tooth decay.

Based on a survey by the Office of National Statistics (UK) from 1999 [1], 5.3 % of all children and adolescents between the ages of 5 — 15 had clinically significant conduct problems, the commonest reason for referral for psychological and psychiatric treatment in childhood [2].

Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50

The statistics are scary: about 17 percent of children and adolescents, age 2 - 19, are obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

We treat babies, toddlers and children, but also adolescents and adults who have «aged out» of other pediatric programs.

Dr Paul Ramchandani — a researcher and clinical psychiatrist now based at the Academic Unit of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London — led the study, which assessed father - infant interactions in the family home when the child was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour at the age of twelve moChild and Adolescent Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London — led the study, which assessed father - infant interactions in the family home when the child was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour at the age of twelve mochild was aged three months and compared them against the child's behaviour at the age of twelve mochild's behaviour at the age of twelve months.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Among children, both acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) and acute myeloid leukemia (AML) are usually diagnosed in their acute form.4 From 1975 to 2011, the incidence rate of leukemia increased in the United States by an annual average of 0.7 % for children and adolescents aged 0 to 19 years, 5 while in the European Union, the yearly increase in leukemia incidence between 1978 and 1997 averaged 0.6 %.6

She has always worked with children and adolescents ranging in ages from 3 to 18.

Having worked with clients from ages 2 - 86, Julie has developed a passion for engaging children and adolescents beyond «talk therapy».

As adolescents have a low prevalence of infections such as pneumonia and gastroenteritis compared with younger children, and of chronic disease compared with ageing people, they have generally been given little health and nutrition attention, except for reproductive health concerns.

Given the relatively young ages of children at follow - up assessment, longer term evaluations of these cohorts will be important to see if these findings remain as children enter the more behaviourally challenging late middle childhood and adolescent years when emotional and behavioural problems often become more pronounced.

Overall, the standards synthesize the best available evidence about how to design and offer healthy and nutritious meals, snacks, and beverages for school - aged children and adolescents.

Children between the age of two and 6 are most prone to night terrors though even adolescents and adults do experience them less frequently.

Mental Illness Across the Ages: From Children, to Adolescents, to Middle Aged and the Elderly [September 30, 2015] Mental illness is a brain disorder that often results in a diminished capacity for coping with the ordinary demands of life.

This event focused on what we know about the causes, effects and treatments of mental illness, from young children, to adolescents, to middle - age and elderly patients.

Of the adolescents, 664 were victims of sibling bullying, 486 children were pure bullies to their siblings and 771 children were bully - victims (victimized by siblings and bullied their siblings), at age twelve.

Loyola researchers studied vitamin D data from a nationally representative sample of 2,877 U.S. children and adolescents ages 6 to 18 who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Existing research has often highlighted the adverse effects of air pollutants on lung function in school - age children and adolescents, but the effects of a mother's exposure to pollution on the lung function of her unborn child and shortly after birth are less well known.

A study published in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found a very much higher discharge rate for pediatric bipolar (PBD) in children and adolescents aged 1 - 19 years in the US compared to England between the years 2000 - 2010.

Published in the October Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, this is the first large - scale, multi-site study aimed at identifying specific social - communicative behaviors that distinguish infants with ASD from their typically and atypically developing high - risk peers as early as 18 months of age.

«We found children at a very early age — from the most conservative to the most liberal societies — quickly internalize this myth that girls are vulnerable and boys are strong and independent,» said Robert Blum, director of the Global Early Adolescent Study based at Johns Hopkins University.

For the study, 555 Palestinian adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 were presented with a classic «trolley dilemma» that involved a Palestinian man being killed to save the lives of five children who were either Jewish - Israeli or Muslim - Palestinian.