Sentences with phrase «pediatric health care research»

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As part of its mission to excel in Care, Advocacy, Research and Education, Children's National Medical Center is leading the creation of innovative solutions to pediatric health challenges.

Our mission is to raise funds statewide to support Riley Hospital funding priorities: pediatric research and patient care, maternity and newborn health and family support programs.

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The Services for Kids in Primary - care (SKIP) treatment research program (www.skipprogram.org) integrates personalized behavioral health services in practice settings serving pediatric patients.

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 outcomes.

Promising school - based interventions (Gross et al., 2003; Reid, Webster - Stratton, & Hammond, 2003) may not be useful if ODD symptoms occur primarily at home, and interventions and referrals originating in pediatric primary care offer certain advantages: (a) other than teachers, physicians have the most professional contact with the families of preschoolers; (b) pediatricians report that research on the role of the primary care provider in treating mental health problems is important to them (Chien et al., 2006); and (c) parents tend to trust physicians» opinions, and pediatricians» recommendations are the best predictor of help - seeking for preschoolers» behavior problems (Lavigne et al., 1993).

Dr. Feyh has also presented on a variety of mental health topics and has published research articles focused on conduct - disordered children and pediatric palliative care.

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

Given that parents play a critical role in children's health and pediatric care, a large body of research dating back at least to the 1970's (e.g., Mechanic, 1980) has focused on parental characteristics and behavior to help explain variations in children's health care use.