Sentences with phrase «less for behavioral problems»

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Babies born at this time are less likely than babies born earlier to develop serious disabilities resulting from premature birth, though they remain at a higher risk for learning and behavioral problems.

«This positive behavior meant that the children of light and moderate drinkers had less emotional and behavioral problems through childhood and adolescence,» Dr. Monique Robinson, from Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in West Perth, Western Australia, told Reuters Health by email.

This type of parenting makes children to have less behavioral problems (Tips for Facing Child Behavior Prproblems (Tips for Facing Child Behavior ProblemsProblems).

Other studies also found that children who grew up with fathers who made time for them were less prone to develop behavioral and psychological problems.

With many calling for policy reform to improve race problems in the U.S. criminal justice system, new research suggests that the issue is less political and more behavioral.

While cats confined to an indoor environment generally live longer and are at less risk for contracting infectious diseases or injuries due to trauma, they are at greater risk for a variety of behavioral problems.

Male pets that have been neutered also tend to show less behavioral problems, including wandering (to search for a mate), territorial marking, aggression, and excessive barking.

Rule out medical causes for behavioral problems Senior dogs are less likely to suffer from many issues caused by pent - up energy since they have less to expend.

Outcomes at 36 - month follow - up showed that children in the Early Start series had higher rates of general practitioner contact (P <.05), higher rates of well - child care (P <.05), lower rates of hospital attendance for unintentional injury (P <.01), lower rates of parentally reported child abuse (P <.01), greater use of preschool education (P <.05), more positive and less punitive parenting (P <.05), and lower rates of childhood behavioral problems (P <.05).

Excessive media exposure in early childhood poses many developmental and behavioral health risks.1 Exposure to television (TV) and videos before 3 years of age is associated with later problems with language development, 2 — 4 cognition, 5 attention, 6,7 executive functioning, 8 and school achievement.9 These effects may be more pronounced in low - income populations, where high media exposure is more prevalent.2 Proposed mechanisms for these detrimental effects include replacement of enriching activities with caregivers, 10 reduced language - based and play interactions with parents, 11 — 13 and less creative child play14 while the TV is on.

It may be, for example, that law enforcers and judges are less likely to send girls to detention and that those sent to detention therefore have the most serious behavioral problems.22 It may also be that female delinquency itself is a symptom of significant mental health problems.

Children of mothers who are depressed or who have depressive symptoms are at increased risk for developmental delay, 1 behavioral problems, 2 depression, 3 asthma morbidity, 4 and injuries.5 Depressed mothers are less likely to engage in preventive parenting practices6 and are more likely to use child health care services.7 Though research initially focused on postpartum depression, it is clear that maternal depressive symptoms often persist after the postpartum period, 8 and this persistence further increases the effect on children's health.9 As a result, the pediatric role in identifying and addressing maternal depressive symptoms has received increasing attention.10 - 13

More specifically, plenty of studies demonstrated that negative family functioning and unhealthy parenting are often linked to worse emotional and behavioral outcomes for a child, including more opportunities for conduct problems, peer problems, eating disorders, substance abuse, internalized problems (i.e., anxiety and depression), and less positive outcomes such as diminished social competence and self - esteem later in life (Scaramella et al., 1999; Smetana et al., 2002; Barnes et al., 2006; Dishion et al., 2008; Abu - Rayya and Yang, 2012; Letourneau et al., 2013; Ferro and Boyle, 2014; Angley et al., 2015).