Sentences with phrase «beneficial effects on our children»

In recent years we've heard that gathering regularly for a family dinner has all kinds of beneficial effects on our children, from improved academic performance to a lower incidence of drug use.

But, some experts also believe that extended breastfeeding can have some beneficial effects on a child's social and emotional development, too.

Although some participants saw more stringent time limits as creating more difficulties for minority families, the majority felt that focusing on permanency and foster care time limits had a beneficial effect on children.

This observation suggests that interventions focused on maternal feeding practices can have a beneficial effect on children's adiposity.

Group based parenting programmes, run both by professionals and by parents, are becoming increasingly popular in the UK and a range of different programmes are available.10 Four recent systematic reviews, one focusing entirely on group based programmes, 11 and three covering these programmes within wider reviews of mental health promotion and behaviour problem prevention12 — 14 have provided evidence that group based parenting programmes are an effective and cost effective way to improve parenting, and that such changes have a beneficial effect on children's mental health and behaviour.

Parental intervention (based on Wesbter - Stratton techniques) seems to have a beneficial effect on children with oppositional defiant disorder and may be particularly suitable for children with irritability, although this needs to be tested further.18

The Kids Sleep Study found that the sleep strategies had no lasting harmful or beneficial effects on children and parents.

Research on families of youths without chronic medical conditions reveals beneficial effects on child development, adjustment, and health when two adult caregivers are actively involved in parenting activities (Booth & Croutier, 1998; Lamb, 1997).

We have included reviews of the treatment as well as prevention of «child abuse» on the grounds that treatment of abusive parenting can prevent the development of mental illness concomitant on abuse and could have beneficial effects on children other than the victim of abuse.

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Just as reading to your unborn child is beneficial, the effects music has on a baby can be seen at just one day old as they respond differently to the -LSB-...]

However, we found no evidence of widening inequalities in child verbal IQ scores owing to the intervention, despite the beneficial effect of the intervention on cognition.

Evidence suggests that many of the changes that take place in the brain during and after pregnancy have a beneficial effect on a woman's ability to care for her children.

A recent study has reported an association between dietary long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids and mental development in infants.32 It has been suggested that these fatty acids can be an explanation for the beneficial effect of nutrition with human milk on mental development of the child.33 34 This may be a plausible biological explanation of the correlation between breast feeding and mental development.

The beneficial effects of breastfeeding for both mother and child are widely known, but previous studies on the association between breastfeeding and RA have been mixed.

If the apparently «beneficial» effects of higher parental alcohol consumption on children's balance were true, those whose mums had the «low alcohol» gene would be expected to have poorer balance.

In the second high - quality trial of its kind, published in PLOS ONE, the researchers found an entirely different result to an earlier study carried out in 2012, where omega - 3 supplements were found to have a beneficial effect on the reading ability and working memory of school children with learning needs such as ADHD.

«We already knew that quitting smoking during pregnancy was beneficial for mothers and children in the short and long term, but, to our knowledge, this study is one of a few to compare the effects of using nicotine patches and the drug Zyban during pregnancy on smoking cessation and the risks to the fetus,» Berard said.

It is also understood to have beneficial effects on brain and retina development in children.

Researchers examining 33 different fish species found that for most species, the adverse effect of mercury on the children's IQ scores exceeded the beneficial effects of DHA from the ingested fish oil.

A high fat, low carbohydrate diet was first described in the medical literature in 1921 as a treatment for epilepsy in children, following other reports of the beneficial effects of fasting on seizure control.

Tallon, M.J., Child, R., Kre - alkalyn suppplementation has no beneficial effect on creatine - to - creatinine conversion rates., in 4th International Society of Sports Nutrition (ISSN) annual meeting.

The child care crisis impacts many families, but poor families face the most significant access and cost barriers to high quality child care, putting their children at risk for the detrimental effects of low quality care and missing out on the beneficial effects of high quality care.

Life and family events premigration and postmigration have been found to have a profound effect on the health and well - being of immigrant children.1, 2 Risk factors include trauma, separation from parents, nonvoluntary migration, obstacles in the acculturation process, 3 and children who immigrate in their mid - or late teens.1, 4 Research also shows that parents who have experienced or witnessed violence have poorer mental health, 2,5 which is likely to affect parent — child attachment and negatively impact child development and mental health.5 Transitioning to a new country may be beneficial for both parents and children, but it may render new and unexpected constraints in the parent — child relationship (eg, children tend to acculturate to the new country faster than their parents), cause disharmony and power conflicts, 6 — 8 and, subsequently, affect the child's mental health.9

The concentration of beneficial nurse effects on the emotional, language, and mental development of children born to mothers with low psychological resources in the current trial is consistent with corresponding nurse effects on child abuse, neglect, and injuries among children born to low - resource mothers in earlier trials of this program.10, 17,19 The vulnerable and low - vitality emotion classifications are relevant to child maltreatment.

The current study suggests that the early stages of a national large - scale area - based intervention that has a focus on the coordination and integration of early childhood services can have beneficial effects for child receptive vocabulary, parenting and reducing jobless households.

This occurred even though these children's mothers showed almost none of the postnatal benefits observed for those visited during pregnancy and infancy (such as reduced welfare dependence, substance abuse, criminal behavior, and child abuse and neglect).8 The mechanisms through which these beneficial effects occurred will be examined in future reports, with a focus on the alteration of maternal prenatal health and the children's corresponding neuropsychological functioning, 22,23 as well as prenatal stress, given that stress during pregnancy affects the social and neuromotor development of nonhuman primates.24, 25

The concentration of beneficial effects among children born to unmarried women of low SES is consistent with the results of other preventive interventions that have shown greater effects for children of families at greater social risk.20 This suggests that these kinds of services ought to be focused on families in greater need by virtue of the mothers» being unmarried and poor.

EIP showed favorable impacts on 8 outcomes, including fewer days and episodes of hospitalization, relative to those in the comparison group, covering a range of 6 weeks to 2 years postpartum.13, 23,24 EIP also showed a favorable effect on the percentage of children who were adequately immunized by 1 year, but the difference was no longer statistically significant by 2 years.13, 24 Early Start demonstrated favorable effects on 3 outcomes, including percentage who received well - child visits and dental service.25 — 27 HFA had favorable results for 4 health care outcomes, such as the number of well - child visits and whether the child had health insurance.28 — 31 HFA had an unfavorable effect on the number of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits.32 The research showed that Healthy Steps had a beneficial effect on 2 outcomes: 1 - month well - child visits and diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccinations.33 Finally, NFP had favorable results on 3 outcomes measuring the number of ED visits at different follow - ups but an unfavorable / ambiguous effect on number of days hospitalized between 25 and 50 months.34, 35 The research on 2 programs (Oklahoma's CBFRS and PAT) showed no effects on measures of health care use or coverage.36 — 40 The research on 5 programs (Child FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcchild visits and dental service.25 — 27 HFA had favorable results for 4 health care outcomes, such as the number of well - child visits and whether the child had health insurance.28 — 31 HFA had an unfavorable effect on the number of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits.32 The research showed that Healthy Steps had a beneficial effect on 2 outcomes: 1 - month well - child visits and diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccinations.33 Finally, NFP had favorable results on 3 outcomes measuring the number of ED visits at different follow - ups but an unfavorable / ambiguous effect on number of days hospitalized between 25 and 50 months.34, 35 The research on 2 programs (Oklahoma's CBFRS and PAT) showed no effects on measures of health care use or coverage.36 — 40 The research on 5 programs (Child FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcchild visits and whether the child had health insurance.28 — 31 HFA had an unfavorable effect on the number of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits.32 The research showed that Healthy Steps had a beneficial effect on 2 outcomes: 1 - month well - child visits and diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccinations.33 Finally, NFP had favorable results on 3 outcomes measuring the number of ED visits at different follow - ups but an unfavorable / ambiguous effect on number of days hospitalized between 25 and 50 months.34, 35 The research on 2 programs (Oklahoma's CBFRS and PAT) showed no effects on measures of health care use or coverage.36 — 40 The research on 5 programs (Child FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcchild had health insurance.28 — 31 HFA had an unfavorable effect on the number of pediatric emergency department (ED) visits.32 The research showed that Healthy Steps had a beneficial effect on 2 outcomes: 1 - month well - child visits and diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccinations.33 Finally, NFP had favorable results on 3 outcomes measuring the number of ED visits at different follow - ups but an unfavorable / ambiguous effect on number of days hospitalized between 25 and 50 months.34, 35 The research on 2 programs (Oklahoma's CBFRS and PAT) showed no effects on measures of health care use or coverage.36 — 40 The research on 5 programs (Child FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcchild visits and diphtheria toxoid, tetanus toxoid, and pertussis vaccinations.33 Finally, NFP had favorable results on 3 outcomes measuring the number of ED visits at different follow - ups but an unfavorable / ambiguous effect on number of days hospitalized between 25 and 50 months.34, 35 The research on 2 programs (Oklahoma's CBFRS and PAT) showed no effects on measures of health care use or coverage.36 — 40 The research on 5 programs (Child FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcChild FIRST, EHS, Family Check - Up, HIPPY, and PALS for Infants) did not report health care coverage or usage outcomes.

Thus, despite several decades of research, there is little consensus on whether childhood television viewing has beneficial, harmful, or negligible effects on educational achievement.10 This uncertainty is at least partly due to a lack of long - term follow - up data, particularly for school - age children.

If medication is determined to have a beneficial effect for a child on the symptoms that are most important for him or her, beyond the beneficial effects 0f the 0ng0ing behavioral treatments and without adverse effects, then medication may be recommended as an adjunct to ongoing behavioral intervention.

Although several forms of intervention have proved beneficial for mothers with PND, none has been shown to have enduring effects on maternal mood, and there is limited evidence that any intervention improves the long - term course of child development.

Extensive study of two model programs (the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program and the Carolina Abecedarian Study) has shown that high quality early childhood education can have significant and long - term positive effects on school readiness, and are significantly more beneficial to children from disadvantaged families.

Recognizing the potentially beneficial effects of mindfulness training on healthy attachment, this article reviews relevant literature in presenting a case for exploratory and empirical research into the dynamic relationship between mindfulness, attachment style, maternal health, and children's development.

Nearly 80 percent of long term child poverty occurs in broken or never - married families.Each year government spends over $ 200 billion on means - tested aid to families with children; three quarters of this aid flows to single parent families.Children raised without a father in the home are more likely to experience: emotional and behavioral problems, school failure; drug and alcohol abuse, crime, and incarceration.The beneficial effects of marriage on individuals and society are beyond reasonable dispute, and there is a broad and growing consensus that government policy should promote rather than discourage healthy marriage.

In this study, we investigated whether this program is also beneficial for younger children with ASD, whether effects last on the long - term, and whether it reduces common comorbid problems.

About 5 % of all children in the Western world fulfill diagnostic criteria for attention deficit — hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), 1 and a large proportion of such children are treated pharmacologically.2 ADHD has been associated with criminality3, 4 and externalizing disorders.5 Beneficial short - term effects of ADHD medication on symptoms of ADHD and associated conduct problems have been shown in numerous randomized, controlled studies involving children6 - 8 and adults.9 - 11 ADHD symptoms are largely persistent from childhood into adulthood, 12 but one prominent feature of ADHD treatment is that the discontinuation of medication is common, 13,14 especially in adolescence and early adulthood.15 The importance of treatment discontinuation for criminality and other longer - term outcomes is largely unknown.