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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"spina bifida"”.
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Ophthalmic complications of spina bifida and hydrocephalus
… our knowledge of the ophthalmic complications of spina bifida and hydrocephalus by means of literature review and a long term clinical study, and to determine whether regular ophthalmic supervision can assist in the general management of affected children. The ophthalmic complications of spina …
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Narrative Skills in Children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
This study examined how 22 children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus (SBH) and 22 matched control children with the same vocabulary age (VA) performed on story retelling and story generation tasks. The children were asked to retell two stories of different lengths (Stein and Glenn's Melvin, the …
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Physical education for students with spina bifida : mothers' perspectives
… secondary (2 boys, 1 girl) aged children with spina bifida were collected and analyzed using the hermeneutic phenomenological methods of semi-structured interviews, artifacts, documents, and field notes. The thematic analysis revealed three themes: A Good Thing But…, Connection to Disability …
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Neuropsychological Functioning, Parenting Behaviors, and Healthcare Behaviors Among Youth with Spina Bifida
… among preadolescents and adolescents with spina bifida. <bold>Methods</bold> Questionnaire and observational data were collected from a sample of 8 to 15 year olds with spina bifida (n = 139) and their mothers, fathers, and teachers. Youth also completed neuropsychological testing. …
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Influence of Physically Active Leisure Participation on Obesity in Youth with Spina Bifida
… mass index for age, in a sample of 50 youth with spina bifida, ages 4.5 to 17.9 years. Results indicate that 52% of the sample are classified as at risk of overweight or overweight; 36% were male and 16% were female. The top five leisure time activities and team sport participation are identified. …
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Nutritional and environmental factors in human spina bifida - An emphasis on myo-inositol.
Contains fulltext : nutranenf.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Factors affecting the development of mathematical concepts in children with spina bifida and hydrocephalus
… and Laurence 1972) suggested that children with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus had particular difficulties in the development of mathematical concepts. This research considered factors which may affect such development and consisted of two main sections. Firstly research was carried out in a …
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Autonomy Through Social Skill Development: A Camp Intervention for Young People with Spina Bifida
<p>Spina bifida is a complex condition that presents multiple physical and psychosocial challenges to autonomy development. Pediatric psychology may play a role in promoting autonomy development in this population through the implementation of empirically-supported, developmentally-appropriate, and …
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Visual Perception in Children with Spina Bifida Myelomeningocele and the Impact of Posterior Cortical Changes
… coordinate visual perception in 81 children with spina bifida myelomeningocele (SBM) relative to 28 controls, and related this performance to indices of cortical thickness, gray matter volume, and white matter volume for a subset of these participants. Results revealed weaknesses for children with …
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What Are The Lived Experiences Of Young Adults With Spina Bifida In The UK Today And What Can Be Learned From Challenges in Recruiting This Group To Online Qualitative Research? Lessons From An Unsuccessful Qualitative Online Research Study
Existing research on young adults with spina bifida commonly focuses on how the condition impacts their health outcomes rather than their lived experiences in key areas such as employment, social life and external support systems. The original research study aimed to gain a wider understanding of …
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The effects of peer social interaction and support on the self-esteem of young people with spina bifida.
… and self-concept in a group of children with spina bifida (mean age 9) before and after involvement in a youth support program which employed and combined social support, and social skills instruction. The hypotheses were: (a) after 8-10 bi-weekly group meetings there would be an improvement …
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Social Cognitive Functioning and Social Competence in Children and Adolescents with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus: Social Cognitive Neuroscience As a Model
… was to examine social cognition in children with spina bifida and congenital hydrocephalus (SBH) and to determine whether deficits in these domains are associated with poor social competence, utilizing concepts from social cognitive neuroscience. To build upon extant literature, multi-method …
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The Direct and Indirect Impact of Pain Intensity, Weight Status, and Activity Involvement on Social Competence Outcomes in Children and Adolescents with Spina Bifida
… a mediated effects model in which youth with spina bifida who have greater pain, are more overweight, or have worse motor control were expected to have fewer friends and to display worse social performance in part because their higher degree of condition severity interferes with their …
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PDGFRalpha Signaling Requirements in the Development of Tissues Derived From Sclerotome and Dermatome
… is a defect in the axial skeletal that leads to spina bifida. Using conditional gene deletion I determined that the population of cells responsible for this phenotype is not the chondrocyte but is instead another derivative of the sclerotome. These results demonstrate that signals from adjacent …
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Neuropsychological Symptoms Associated with Multiple Shunts
… is the excessive accumulation of cerebrospinal fluid within the cranium which may result in increased intracranial pressure, dilation of cerebral ventricles and displacement of adjacent brain structures. Ventriculoperitoneal shunting is often needed to treat hydrocephalus. Patients with …
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Iron and its Relationship to Neural Tube Defects among Offspring of Texas Border County Women
… The most common types are anencephaly and spina bifida. In 1992, a small case-control study in Cameron County, TX by the Texas Department of Health found hematocrit values among women giving birth to babies with anencephaly and any NTDs to be significantly lower (p< 0.01) than among …
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Profiles of Neuropsychological Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Spina Bifda
… performance among children with spina bifida (SB) to determine if there are distinct subgroups or "profiles" of cognitive functioning. 96 children with SB myelomeningocele (ages 8-15) completed a brief assessment battery. Hierarchical and non-hierarchical cluster analyses were …
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