Sentences with phrase «quality as a protective factor»

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There is also strong evidence supporting a valid association for monounsaturated fatty acid intake and a prudent diet (protective factors) as well as a western diet (harmful factor) among studies of high methodologic quality.

In a world - first, nib foundation's funding support will enable Smiling Mind to conduct the largest evaluation of an app - based mindfulness intervention program - to measure the impact of their program on increasing the protective factors associated with mental health and wellbeing such as social connection, sleep quality, and developing personal coping skills and resilience to deal with the stresses of everyday life.

The FRIENDS website, www.friendsnrc.org has an extensive library of resources and information on topics such as: collaboration, continuous quality improvement, evaluation, evidence - based programs and practices, parent leadership, protective factors and maximizing resources.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

Emerging research from the fields of public health, psychology, education and others demonstrates that the condition of «parent - child connectedness» serves as an important protective factor for a variety of adolescent health outcomes... [Parent - child connectedness] is characterized by the quality of the emotional bond between parent and child and by the degree to which this bond is both mutual and sustained over time.

Of particular interest, risks associated with poverty were mediated by disruptions in the quality of the caregiving environment, particularly instability and disorganization of the family, while affectional ties within the family and within extrafamilial informal support systems acted as protective factors.

Others, such as the Healthy Families Parenting Inventory and the Protective Factors Survey, examine a range of skills parents may have (e.g., child development knowledge, emotional well - being) as well as situational challenges, such as the quality of the home environment or access to social supports, that enhance or limit their capacity to meet their child's needs.