Sentences with phrase «problems than the average child»

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However baby - led weaning — which advocates babies feeding themselves solid foods, rather than being spoon fed purees — could lead to nutritional problems for the small number of children who develop later than average.

There were no significant differences between the two groups, although both sets of children showed more behavioral problems than average — a finding that Eyler and Behnke attribute to poverty and bad living conditions.

Elementary school children who play video games more than two hours a day are 67 % more likely than their peers who play less to have greater - than - average attention problems, according to the study, which appears in the journal Pediatrics.

Elementary school children who play video games more than two hours a day are 67 % more likely than their peers who play less to have greater - than - average attention problems, according to a new study.

But this stress is magnified in vulnerable communities, because young children living with the adversities of poverty exhibit more behavior problems, on average, than their peers (Evans et al., 2004; Gunnar, 2000).

We also found that children with low - average IQ scores did not generally experience more severe language deficits, educational difficulties, or social, emotional and behavioural problems than those who scored in the average range.

If you have a problem with your credit score, a history of filing claims, or on - premises hazards (such as a biting dog or toys that children could hurt themselves on), insurers could rate you as «riskier» than average and charge you more.

If you have a problem with your credit score, a history of filing claims, or on - premises hazards (such as a biting dog or toys that children could hurt themselves on), insurers could rate you as «riskier» than average and charge you more.

All the average scores in this study were much higher than those reported in a sample of Japanese children aged 4 - 18 (N = 5159) from the general population: internalizing problems = 3.1 - 3.8 (SD = 4.2 - 4.8); externalizing problems = 3.1 - 5.3 (SD = 4.3 - 5.6); total problems = 11.7 - 16.1 (SD = 13.4 - 14.5)[23].

Preliminary results indicate that children who experienced either event had higher behavior problem scores than children in stable, single - partner families, and children who had experienced both events had the highest average levels of behavior problems.

[16] Statistics on the large Aboriginal community of Wadeye in the Northern Territory reflect a parlous situation, with a death rate four times higher than the rate for the Northern Territory, an average life expectancy of 46 years, a range of serious and endemic health problems, and a high percentage of children in the 0 - 5 age group who are stunted (20 %), wasted (10 %) and / or underweight (21 %).

The average scores for the following subscales of the CBCL among the children who visited their fathers were significantly higher than those who did not visit their fathers: withdrawn behavior (4.8 versus 1.5, p = 0.00); somatic complaints (4.1 versus 1.5, p = 0.03); anxious / depressed behavior (8.4 versus 3.8, p = 0.02), thought problems (2.1 versus 0.77, p = 0.02); attention problems (6.5 versus 3.4, p = 0.00); other problems (7.9 versus 4.9, p = 0.05); internalizing problems (17.4 versus 6.8, p = 0.00); and total problems (37.6 versus 19.1, p = 0.00).

Children group in Phu Tho province reported a higher score of hyperactivity problems than those in Bac Ninh province (the average difference score between two groups is 0.66,

Considering every aspect, there is a statistically significant difference in hyperactivity problems between these children groups F (429) = 3.699, p = 0.02, in which the group of children with both parents working far away from home reported higher score of hyperactivity problems than those having migrant father (the average difference score is 0.56, p = 0.00); emotional problem F (424) = 4.124, p = 0.01, in which the group children whose both parents work away from home reported higher scores of emotional problems than those with only fathers migrating for employment (the average difference score between 2 groups is 0.71, p = 0.00).

Emotional problems: F (442) = 7.904, p = 0.00, children group in Phu Tho also reported a higher score of emotional problems than those in Bac Ninh (the average difference score between two groups is 0.91, p = 0.00).

Considering each aspect of the difficulty, on notable point is that there is difference between those children groups in hyperactivity, F (341) = 5.921, p = 0.003, in which children of parents working away from home for less than 2 years reported higher score in hyperactivity problems than those having parents working away for 2 - 5 years (the average score of difference between two groups was 0.84, p = 00.1); conduct problems F (339) = 10.396, p = 0.000, in which children whose parents working away from home for less than two years had higher score in conduct problems than those having parents working away for 2 - 5 years (the average score of difference between 2 groups was 1.00, p = 0.00).

Children aged 12 - 15 reported a higher score of hyperactivity / inattention problems than those aged 9 - 11, the average score is 3.57 and 3.03, respectively and t (443) = 2.916, p = 0.00.

The overall results of these studies suggest that while children from divorced families may, on average, experience more major psychological and behavioral problems than children in intact families, there are more similarities than differences.

Although many children of unwed couples flourish, research has shown that, on average, they are at higher risk of living in poverty and of developing social, behavioral, and academic problems than are other children.

Children have low pro-social scores and higher than average scores for emotional symptoms, conduct problems and peer relationship problems.

Children whose mothers had good or average mental health throughout the survey period had better social, behavioural and emotional development than those whose mothers had brief mental health problems, and they in turn, had better development than those whose mothers had repeated mental health problems.

«Children who live with their biological fathers are, on average, at least two to three times more likely not to be poor, less likely to use drugs, less likely to experience educational, health, emotional and behavioral problems, less likely to be victims of child abuse, and less likely to engage in criminal behavior than their peers who live without their married, biological (or adoptive) parents.»

Children who got reliably worse had on average lower baseline levels of conduct problems (MECBI = 103.94) than children who either showed no reliable change (MECBI = 125.52) or who got reliably better (MECBI = Children who got reliably worse had on average lower baseline levels of conduct problems (MECBI = 103.94) than children who either showed no reliable change (MECBI = 125.52) or who got reliably better (MECBI = children who either showed no reliable change (MECBI = 125.52) or who got reliably better (MECBI = 144.09).