Parents - Research News and Information

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

The associations between psychosocial stress and the frequency of illness, and innate and adaptive immune function in children.

Aug 2008 OBJECTIVE: Family processes have a substantial impact on children's social and emotional well-being, but little is known about the effects of family stress on children's physical health. To begin to identify potential... Read more...

Social support is a primary influence on home fruit, 100% juice, and vegetable availability.

Jul 2008 Children tend to eat more fruit and vegetables when more are available in the home. We proposed and tested a model that predicts the availability at home (hereinafter termed "home availability") of fruit, 100% juice,... Read more...

Parental feeding practices predict authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles.

Jul 2008 BACKGROUND: Our goal was to identify how parental feeding practices from the nutrition literature link to general parenting styles from the child development literature to understand how to target parenting practices to... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Parents'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The associations between psychosocial stress and the frequency of illness, and innate and adaptive immune function in children. Aug 2008
• Social support is a primary influence on home fruit, 100% juice, and vegetable availability. Jul 2008
• Parental feeding practices predict authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive parenting styles. Jul 2008
• Impact of childhood cancer on parental employment and sources of income: a Canadian pilot study. Jul 2008
• [Study on discrepancy in perceptions of parents and teachers regarding children with developmental disorders] Jul 2008
• Parental subfecundity and risk of decreased semen quality in the male offspring: a follow-up study. 15 Jun 2008
• [The need for psychological help for haemophilic children and their families] 11 Jun 2008
• A survey on smoking habits and attitudes among adolescents in Greece. 11 Jun 2008
• Cis-acting factors promoting the CAG intergenerational instability in Machado-Joseph disease. 5 Jun 2008
• Defining key features of the broad autism phenotype: a comparison across parents of multiple- and single-incidence autism families. 5 Jun 2008
• The impact of child disability type on the family. 4 Jun 2008
• The effect of parental immigration authorization on health insurance coverage for migrant Latino children. Jun 2008
• Parents' knowledge and attitudes about preventing injuries in motor vehicle accidents in children in Greece. Jun 2008
• Tailoring treatment to parental values: a comment on TADS. Jun 2008
• Examination of long-lasting parental concern after false-positive results of neonatal hearing screening. Jun 2008
• Day-care management of severe and very severe pneumonia, without associated co-morbidities such as severe malnutrition, in an urban health clinic in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Jun 2008
• A randomized, controlled trial of smoking cessation counseling provided during child hospitalization for respiratory illness. Jun 2008
• 'What remains'. Jun 2008
• Total and specific IgE associations between New York City Head Start children and their parents. Jun 2008
• Outcomes of management decisions by parents for their infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome born with and without a prenatal diagnosis. Jun 2008

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

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)