Role of maternal beliefs in seeking intervention for developmental delay
1. In-depth, semi-structured interviews of Hispanic and African American mothers about their beliefs surrounding developmental delay and utilization of Early...
Synthetic cannabinoid users more likely to use other illegal drugs
1. Among a representative sample of U.S. high school students, those who used synthetic cannabinoids (SC) were more likely to...
Features predicting treatment failure in acute otitis media
1. In this study of children with acute otitis media randomized into treatment and placebo groups, older children were less...
Study reveals suburban clinicians’ perspectives on screening for food insecurity
1. In a mixed methods study of screening for food insecurity (FI) among 6 suburban practices, 3 major themes emerged....
Clinical scale, clinician suspicion poorly predict serious infections
1. In a prospective study of febrile full term infants 60 or fewer days old, neither the Yale Observation Scale...
AAP supports limits on juice consumption in pediatric diet
1. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) states that children under 1 year of age should not drink juice. Children...
Higher rates of child abuse deaths in poorer communities
1. Using nationally representative retrospective data of children 0 to 4 years old, authors found that children living in counties...
Tdap vaccination in pregnancy effective in preventing pertussis in infants
1. Maternal vaccination with tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid, acellular pertussis (Tdap) during pregnancy was found to be highly effective...
AAP endorses humane treatment of all immigrant children
1. The current conditions under which immigrant children are detained and the support services that are provided during the immigration...
Children with disabilities at variable risk for maltreatment
1. In this population-based study of Australian children, children with disabilities made up 25.9% of children with maltreatment allegations and...