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Showing 1 to 20 of 126 for “"Developmental outcomes"”.
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A father's supportive presence: Understanding how fathers influence children's developmental outcomes
… with his child influences his/her social outcomes in adolescence. Ethological theories of attachment provide a theoretical basis for the investigation of father-child interactions because they provide us with an explanation regarding how and why child-caregiver relationships function to …
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Home environments and developmental outcomes of children born to teenage mothers
… environments in the cognitive and behavioral outcomes of children born to teenage mothers. The sample consisted of 1,011 firstborn children aged 6 to 18 and their mothers selected from the 1990 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). Multivariate regression analyses revealed that the …
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Corporal punishment as a determinant of developmental outcomes: Longitudinal and process models
<p>There were two goals of this research: (1) to establish that normative corporal punishment has an impact on children's mental health and the parent-child relationship and (2) to identify intrapersonal variables that determine the impact of this parenting behavior. The first study examined the …
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Testing the specificity question - do environmental factors have broad or specific associations with key developmental outcomes?
… impacts a broad range of child development outcomes – ranging from depression, drug use, and cognitive development. The first study is a validation study for a series of novel cognitive assessments created for the Cambridge-based RED longitudinal study, which are utilized in later chapters …
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Evaluation of the Associations between Prenatal Cannabis Use and Infant Developmental Outcomes at 12 Months of Age
… prenatally and adverse childhood development outcomes; however, some of these studies fail to control for important confounding variables, and many are becoming outdated. Using data from the Pregnancy During the Pandemic cohort, the current project evaluated prenatal cannabis use and its …
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An exploratory study of social media usage and developmental outcomes by government and emerging political leaders : the Nigerian experience
Most political systems around the world, including long-standing democratic systems, have been afflicted by corruption: non-transparent decision making processes, power distribution, cynical public relations and poor consultation exercises. The consequence has been a sense of prevailing injustice; …
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Developmental outcomes of small infants at a South African high-risk follow-up clinic : a short-term longitudinal study
Small, preterm infants face more developmental risks than their full-term peers, necessitating early intervention and long-term monitoring. The study examined developmental and hearing outcomes of small infants at a high-risk clinic in a low-income setting, using developmental and hearing screening …
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Developmental outcomes in a nationally representative sample of sexually abused boys: The moderating influence of family and peer context
… processes that lead to positive and negative outcomes in nationally representative sexually abused boys. This study focused on a sub-sample of 171 boys with reports of sexual abuse at the baseline. When weighting is applied this reflects a population of approximately 65,000 sexually abused …
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Elucidating the Relation between Human Milk Fatty Acids, Extracellular Vesicles, and Infant Developmental Outcomes in the First Year of Life
… is the recommended source of nutrition. Improved developmental outcomes have been reported in infants that consume human milk compared to infant formula. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) confer health benefits. However, EFAs cannot be synthesized by the body, and therefore must be consumed in diet. …
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Learning (contexts) environments of young children in Zambia: daily experiences, quality of care and developmental outcomes in day care centres in Lusaka.
… countries at risk of not reaching their developmental potential. Thus, investigating the quantity of care in more challenging, developing world context like Zambia is imperative. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between ECE daily experiences, quality of care and …
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The impact of after-school childcare arrangements on the developmental outcomes of low-income children and the labor conditions of their working mothers
… for school-aged children on other family outcomes, including mothers' labor conditions. Furthermore, most existing studies focus on structured childcare settings, including center-based care and after-school programs; only a few studies have looked at the effects of informal care, …
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A randomised control trial comparing occupational therapy interventions that aim to improve developmental outcomes for HIV9positive children (aged 6 months - 5 years) on ART
… increased risk for encephalopathy and associated developmental delays. Research is lacking in the extent of developmental delay on children established on ART, along with evidence-based occupational therapy interventions to treat these developmental delays. A play-informed, caregiver-implemented, …
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Maternal Supportiveness of Infants at 1, 2, and 3 Years of Age in Low-Income Families: Associations With Maternal Characteristics, Child Characteristics, and Developmental Outcomes at 5 Years
… child characteristics, and (c) child-development outcomes at age 5 years. The child-development outcomes were cognitive and social-emotional outcomes as measured by the Leiter-R, Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Third Edition, Woodcock-Johnson® III Tests of Achievement, Achenbach Child Behavior …
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Interactions of Parent and Adolescent Temperament Dimensions in Relation to the Emotion Regulatory System
… shows that it may be related to certain developmental outcomes. However, according to the goodness-of-fit hypothesis (Chess and Thomas, 1999), developmental outcomes are the result of how well the biological tendencies of an individual (i.e. temperament) fit with the contextual demands of …
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Regulation of Drosophila eye development by the transcription factors : eyes absent and Spenito
… but rather are integrated to yield desired developmental outcomes. While there are a variety of mechanisms by which signaling pathways are integrated, our work has focused on signal integration at the level of transcriptional control. Signaling pathways have been demonstrated to converge at …
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Trauma, Depression, Early Attachment, and Neonatal Health Outcomes among African American Mothers and their Infants
… depressed are vulnerable to a range of negative developmental outcomes beginning during the prenatal period and persisting throughout childhood. There is a large and growing need for evidence-informed pre-and postnatal services for pregnant women, especially in high-risk populations. More …
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Maternal postnatal health and infant development
… attachment and breastfeeding on long-term child developmental outcomes (i.e., cognitive, language, neuromotor and social-emotional development) at 12- and 24-months postnatal follow-up. While a significant amount of research has been conducted in several of these research areas, there remains …
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The Impact of academic advising center interventions on freshmen
… involvement in the university, and certain developmental outcomes. From a population of 628 freshman business students, 300 were randomly selected and assigned to three groups. Each group was randomly assigned to one of three treatments: a traditional advising center, an additional three …
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