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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"Infant development"”.
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Maternal postnatal health and infant development
… period is a critical time for long-term infant development. The current research sought to investigate the differential associations between PND, maternal-infant attachment and breastfeeding on long-term child developmental outcomes (i.e., cognitive, language, neuromotor and …
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Parity and mothers' knowledge of infant development
… facto study assessed the level of knowledge of infant development of primiparous and multiparous mothers when the mothers' level of education was controlled. The conceptual framework of experiential learning was tested. The nonrandom sample of 54 mothers was comprised of first-time mothers and …
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Autistic mothers and the perinatal period: Maternal experiences and infant development
… mothers, their parenting behaviours, and the development of their infants. Chapter 1 reviews the literature, and Chapter 2 reports on qualitative interviews with both autistic (n = 24) and non-autistic women (n = 25). Compared with non-autistic women, autistic women reported greater challenges …
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A home-based physical activity programme in combination with massage therapy to improve motor and cognitive development in HIV positive children on antiretroviral therapy: A randomised controlled trial
… with massage therapy, on motor and cognitive development in children infected with HIV. This study used a randomized controlled trial design. One hundred and twenty-eight infants and toddlers (children) were recruited between March 2010 and September 2010 and randomly allocated to receive …
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Investigating Parenting Stress And Neurodevelopment In Infants With Congenital Heart Defects During The First Year Of Life
Background: Parents of infants with CHD, the most prevalent group of congenital anomalies, experience increased parenting stress levels. These can potentially interfere with the normal parenting process, and with establishing a healthy parent-child relationship, which are important for proper …
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Individual Differences in Physiology, Behavior, and Temperament Over the First 15 Months of Life
… in newborn physiology and behavior and 15-month developmental outcome was investigated. Forty-four healthy infants who had participated in a newborn study of physiological correlates of behavior were again tested at 15 months. During the newborn assessment, ten minutes of heart rate pattern and …
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The accuracy of the Denver Ii Screening Test for children under two years of age
… through the use of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development. The results indicated that the Denver II Screening Test was accurate for children under two years of age, especially when using the more sensitive approach in detecting children by combining questionable results and abnormal …
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The Effects Of Parental Behaviors And Prosody On The Language And Cognitive Development Of Infants
… stress patterns, and rate of speech) of infant-directed speech is a salient communicative feature (e.g., Fernald, 1989) that aids in the cognitive and language development of infants (e.g., Kaplan, Bachorowski, Smoski, & Hudenko, 2002; Tamis-LeMonda & Bornstein, 2002). The way parents …
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Iron and DHA in Relation to Early Cognitive Development
… acid (DHA) are important nutrients for brain development. Negative effects of DHA supplementation when status of both nutrients is low have been shown on cognitive outcomes. We sought to determine if DHA status interacts with iron deficiency (ID) and influences offspring cognition among a …
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Evaluation of the Associations between Prenatal Cannabis Use and Infant Developmental Outcomes at 12 Months of Age
… to cannabis 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 …
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Heart Rate Characteristics and Neurodevelopmental Outcome in Very Low Birth Weight Infants
Sepsis in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants has been associated with an increased risk of adverse developmental outcome. We have identified abnormal heart rate characteristics (HRCs) that are predictive of impending sepsis, and we have developed a summary measure of an infant’s HRCs during the …
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Parent education in family literacy programs: a mixed methods study
… surveys using questions from the Knowledge of Infant Development Inventory- Short Form- Short Form (KIDI-SF) and the Parental Sense of Competence Scale-Revised (PSOC-R), as well as through a quantitative observation tool known as the Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment …
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Addressing geometric abnormalities and algorithmic shortcomings in metagenomic analysis.
… approaches, including LMdist, to a large infant microbiome dataset. The infant microbiome is well known to diversify over the first two years of life, but the influence of intrapartum and pediatric antibiotics on the infant microbiome and growth is still largely unknown. We explore the …
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Elucidating the Relation between Human Milk Fatty Acids, Extracellular Vesicles, and Infant Developmental Outcomes in the First Year of Life
<p>For most infants, human milk 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 …
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Maternal childhood risk status as a predictor of emotional availability and physical contact in mother-child interactions : an intergenerational study
… risk status, maternal scaffolding and child developmental competence was also examined. Participants were recruited from the subjects making up the Concordia Risk Project, which commenced in 1977 when children in Grades 1, 4, or 7, from low SES, inner-city neighbourhoods, were classified …
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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
… study investigated maternal supportiveness of infants at 1, 2, and 3 years of age in low-income families. Maternal supportiveness over time was categorized as stably low, stably medium, stably high, increasing, or decreasing. The study determined associations between supportiveness group and …
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Avaliação da introdução precoce da alimentação complementar em crianças menores de 6 meses em João Pessoa - PB
… are essential conditions for growth and infant development. Breastfeeding provides nutritional, economic, immunological, cognitive and social benefits. Breast milk should be the only source of food for the child until six months of life, since you can feed them properly and protect them …
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The validation of a new development screening tool for developmental delays among HIV-Infected South African children
… of HIV-infected children in South Africa have developmental delays. Early identification of affected children will lead to early intervention and favourable long-term outcome. Screening for developmental delay is not yet routine by many primary healthcare providers due to lack of locally …
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Mothers matter: a critical exploration of motherhood and development through a video card intervention in a local clinic
New discourses of foetal and infant development, individual well-being and population futures, argue that mothers matter during the first thousand days of a baby's life, which commences from conception to the age of two. Women, particularly (black, working class) pregnant women and mothers, have …
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Marital Harmony and Conflict: Linkages to Infants' Emotional Regulation, Cardiac Vagal Tone, and Developmental Status at Six- and Nine-Months of Age
… between marital harmony and conflict and infants' emotional and physiological regulation abilities and developmental status at six- and nine-months of age. Participants included 93 first-time mothers and their infants (43 males, 50 females) from a Mountain West community. Mothers were …
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