... including the importance of parental involvement in treatment and optimal timing of interventions The role of parents in the treatment of PTSD inchildren and adolescents The role of parenting ... timing for delivery of CBT interventions for childhood PTSD In terms of the course of PTSD inchildren and adolescents, the current adult literature and the few existing prospective studies ofchildren ... been involved in assessing eligibility of participants, allocation of individuals to treatment conditions, administration of treatment, collection of follow-up assessment data or entering of data...
... trial of risk screening and early intervention comparing child- and family-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy for PTSD inchildren following accidental injury BMC Psychiatry 2010, 10:92 Scheeringa ... randomised controlled trial of risk screening and early intervention comparing child- and family-focused cognitive-behavioural therapy for PTSD inchildren following accidental injury BMC Psychiatry ... affecting the diagnosis and prediction of PTSD symptomatology inchildren and adolescents American Journal of Psychiatry 2006, 163:644-651 Scheeringa MS, Zeanah CH, Myers L, Putnam FW: New findings...
... study of the potential benefit of prolonged peginterferon therapyin mitigating the progression of fibrotic liver disease [8] In this study, 391 of the 1045 patients enrolled into the initial ... temporary dose discontinuation in 3/20 (15%) Forns and colleagues used relatively high-dose interferon/ribavirin therapyin their cohort of 30 patients awaiting transplantation in Spain in an effort to ... more aggressive dosing of interferon and ribavirin [13, 14] Finally, growing experience with antiviral therapyin this high-risk group has led to novel approaches and increasing success Table...
... lacking in co-operation for instrumented gait analysis using current techniques Managing spasticity inchildrenIn our preliminary open label study into the use of BoNT-A in the lower limbs ofchildren ... These type of blocks produce muscular relaxation in the target area, providing a ‘window of opportunity’ for a focused programme of splinting, casting, gait training and strengthening of antagonist ... Brouwer et al., 2000) In a randomized clinical trial, Corry and colleagues compared serial casting with injection of botulinum toxin in the management of dynamic equinus inchildren with cerebral...
... to diagnose TB inchildren Careful history (including history of TB contact and symptoms consistent with TB) Clinical examination (including growth assessment) Tuberculin skin testing (TST) Bacteriological ... formulations and dosing of first- and second-line TB drugs inchildren DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS INCHILDREN The diagnosis of TB inchildren relies on careful and thorough assessment of all the evidence ... need to be incorporated into existing guidelines and strategies that have been developed by NTPs Reducing the burden of TB inchildren will require changing and improving many existing practices,...
... The findings of the current study underline the importance of combining self- and proxy rating, not only in Germany Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life ... centres participating in the Benchmarking Project, which has been described in detail by Stern et al [2] The number ofchildrenof this age who participated in the Benchmarking Project in 2005 was ... record all impacts of a disease on daily life, they allow investigations in large populations Considering the advances in CF therapy and with regard to the recent increase in interest in PROs, the...
... Health-related quality of life during post-induction chemotherapy inchildren with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission: An influence of corticosteroid therapy International journal of oncology 1997, ... certain items during the second, less intensive year of treatment, might be related to an increasing cumulative dose of corticosteroids This underscores the importance of continuing close monitoring ... drafting of manuscript RL: coordination of the study, gathering and processing of data (questionnaires), performed the statistical analyses, drafting and revising of manuscript JH: participated in...
... in measuring QoL in children, including (1) lack of consensus on suitable instruments, (2) the need for different instruments in different age groups and (3) the need of proxy reporting by parents ... essential in order to meet basic needs, to fulfill usual roles, and to maintain health and wellbeing [5]Quality of life (QoL) is defined as an individual's perception of their position in life, in the ... internal standard of patients, resulting in changes in the meaning of self-evaluation and hence in a possibly different experience of problems and values, such as HRQoL HRQoL studies are influenced...
... time index of the digital recording of the vibration signal Methods Representation of swallowing activity Based on the clinical appeal of cervical auscultation and the recent success of swallowing ... frequently in rehabilitation engineering, for example, in the control of neural prostheses [49] and in the design of an intelligent wheelchair guidance system [50] For our experiments, the number of inputs ... (FEES) of swallowing in determining the risk of aspiration in acute stroke patients Dysphagia 2001, 16:1-6 Sellars C, Dunnet C, Carter R: A preliminary comparison of videofluoroscopy of swallow and...
... added to a domain if it correlated with a domain, it loaded only on one domain, and it generally made sense to include the item in the domain [29] The reliability of the domain, including the added ... losing additional data Various sources of data were systematically considered in the selection of items for domains Some of the data were qualitative in nature, for example the clinical opinion ... typically resulted in the grouping of similar items that could be formed into possible new domains (not necessarily those identified in the card sorting procedure) If a domain contained too many items...
... better quality of life with regard to cognitive and emotional domains Interestingly, treatment-related variables, such as intensity oftherapy and presence of medical complications mainly influenced ... status In order to increase interrater reliability, the different degrees of functional impairment were defined in the questionnaire This measure has successfully been used in an earlier study inchildren ... be used for Swiss children Finally, there may be some concerns regarding our correlational findings, since the chance of falsely significant results increases with the number of comparisons performed...
... measurement of HRQoL, encompassing all three components ofchildren s well-being, is still in its infancy inchildren with SCD [11] For example, compared to over 400 studies on HRQoL inchildren ... and need specific care in the hospital Therefore, we argue for routine monitoring of HRQoL inchildren with SCD Incorporating patient reported outcomes of HRQoL in daily clinical practice will ... subjective HRQoL ofchildren with SCD While interpreting the results of this study, strengths and limitations should be taken into account Findings of this study are strengthened by the use of a well-standardized...
... D: Health-related quality of life during post-induction chemotherapy inchildren with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission: An influence of corticosteroid therapy Int J Oncol 1997, 11(2):333-339 ... sleepiness and night wakenings Similar results have been found inchildren with chronic pain [13] and children referred to a sleep disorder clinic [20], but was not yet demonstrated inchildren ... and offdex as found before in Dutch children with ALL [22], the corticosteroid regimen was different in the previous study (i.e 14 days of dexamethasone in a week cycle as compared to days of...
... Measuring health-related quality of life inchildren with cancer living in mainland China: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic ... The findings support the feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese Mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module inchildren with cancer living in mainland ... The investigation was performed by research students majoring in Pediatrics and nurses All of them were trained in interviewing and administering questionnaires On-treatment status was defined...
... Health-related quality of life during post-induction chemotherapy inchildren with acute lymphoblastic leukemia in remission: An influence of corticosteroid therapy International journal of oncology 1997, ... certain items during the second, less intensive year of treatment, might be related to an increasing cumulative dose of corticosteroids This underscores the importance of continuing close monitoring ... drafting of manuscript RL: coordination of the study, gathering and processing of data (questionnaires), performed the statistical analyses, drafting and revising of manuscript JH: participated in...
... simvastatin in a smaller group of patients [140] The incidence of TCD-defined vasospasm and DID was significantly reduced in the simvastatin group The routine use of statins in SAH is awaiting larger, ... single-center studies investigated the safety and feasibility of statins in SAH In one study, pravastatin reduced the incidence of TCD-defined vasospasm and shortened the duration of severe vasospasm ... development of vasospasm is unsettled The risk of vasospasm is increased in the presence of systemic inflammatory response syndrome [27] Furthermore, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of interleukin-1β...
... cognitive-behavioral therapyin socially phobic adults This result indicates a significant increase of effectiveness [26-28] Very often, cognitive interventions are conceived as being inadequate for children ... concrete thinking, time-limited perceptions and egocentric nature of thinking It has, however, been suggested that children are quite capable of benefiting from cognitive interventions providing that ... was blind to the treatment condition The expert’s ratings were final measures of the outcome Clinicians severity ratings The DIPS-K contains rating scales (0-8-point) to assess the severity of disorder...
... King J, Soldin SJ: IMMULITE 2000 age and sex-specific reference intervals for alpha fetoprotein, homocysteine, insulin, insulin-like growth factor-1, insulin-like growth factor binding protein-3, ... children HOMA showed a predominance of insulin resistance in hyperglycemic children, although b-cell insufficiency or a combination of insulin resistance and b-cell insufficiency was also seen ... that, in critically ill children with impaired glucose tolerance, b-cells can be dysfunctional, resulting in an inadequate compensatory increase in insulin release to the decreased insulin sensitivity...
... within 10min in more children • Does not appear to increase the risk of respiratory depression • Few have given intravenous lorazepam 2008 Jan, Uganda • Single-blind, randomized clinical trial in ... treatment of seizures in children: a randomised controlled trial, Thelancet, vol 366, Luly 16, 2005 Knudsen FU Rectal administration of diazepam in solution in the acute treatment of convulsions in infants ... years • Cessation of seizures within 10mins, without recurrence in 1hr Results • 114 (69.1%) seizures terminated within 10 minutes in the diazepam arm compared with 125 (75.8%) in the midazolam...