Parents
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Sunday, November 08, 2009

Factors affecting the delivery of family-centered care in pediatric oncology.

29 Nov 2009 BACKGROUND: The provision of family-centered care (FCC) emphasizes a partnership between parents and health-care providers so that families are involved in every aspect of services for their child. Our study examines factors related to parental ... Read more...

Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: To develop a scale for measuring parental perceptions of childhood injury risk. METHODS: The Worry Assessment and Risk Estimation (WARE) Scale was administered to 256 parents/guardians to examine reliability, factor structure, and ... Read more...

Informed consent recall and comprehension in orthodontics: traditional vs improved readability and processability methods.

29 Sep 2009 INTRODUCTION: Low general and health literacy in the United States means informed consent documents are not well understood by most adults. Methods to improve recall and comprehension of informed consent have not been tested in orthodontics. The ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Parents'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Factors affecting the delivery of family-centered care in pediatric oncology. 29 Nov 2009
• Permanent sterilization of mentally disabled individuals: a case study. 30 Oct 2009
• Measuring injury risk perceptions: feasibility of a Risk Estimation Scale. 30 Oct 2009
• [Parenthood in exile] 29 Sep 2009
• Informed consent recall and comprehension in orthodontics: traditional vs improved readability and processability methods. 29 Sep 2009
• What's new is old: maximizing the benefits of parental presence at bedside rounds through 100 years of insights from the literature. 29 Sep 2009
• Randomized trial of a parenting intervention for very preterm infants: outcome at 2 years. 29 Sep 2009
• The vaccination war. 26 Sep 2009
• The prenatal visit. 26 Sep 2009
• Do parents understand growth charts? A national, Internet-based survey. 26 Sep 2009
• Estimating blood loss: comparative study of the accuracy of parents and health care professionals. 26 Sep 2009
• Evaluation of a multiple ecological level child obesity prevention program: Switch what you Do, View, and Chew. 16 Sep 2009
• Relationship between alcohol use and violent behavior among urban African American youths from adolescence to emerging adulthood: a longitudinal study. 15 Sep 2009
• Depression in at-risk adolescents and their parents. 14 Sep 2009
• Parent-child communication patterns during the first year after a parent's cancer diagnosis: the effect on parents' functioning. 13 Sep 2009
• Antenatal education programmes: do they work? 10 Sep 2009
• PEDS and ASQ developmental screening tests may not identify the same children. 5 Sep 2009
• Misgivings. 30 Aug 2009
• Parental engagement and barriers to participation in a community-based preventive intervention. 30 Aug 2009
• The intolerance of uncertainty scale for children: a psychometric evaluation. 30 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Parents'

Definition: Persons functioning as natural, adoptive, or substitute parents. The heading includes the concept of parenthood as well as preparation for becoming a parent.

Descriptor UI: D010290

Alternative terms: Parents; Parent; Parenthood Status; Status, Parenthood; Step-Parents; Step Parents; Step-Parent; Stepparent; Stepparents; Parental Age; Age, Parental; Ages, Parental; Parental Ages;

Related Mesh Headings: Single Parent; Child of Impaired Parents; Parental Consent; Parental Notification;

Allowable Qualifiers: education; psychology;

Tree Number: F01.829.263.500.320; I01.880.225.500.340; M01.620;

History Note: 69(67)

Technical Notes: HUMAN only; /psychol: consider also PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; "unwed parent": coord IM with ILLEGITIMACY (IM)