Childhood Studies - Science topic

The purpose of this article is to contribute new insights to critical disability and disabled children’s childhood studies that center on the valuing of disabled children’s lives—a guiding purpose in the disability justice movement. We use published findings from the Inclusive Early Childhood Service System project, a longitudinal, institutional et...

El os trigonum es un osículo que normalmente aparece durante la infancia y normalmente se fusiona a la parte posterior del astrágalo alrededor de la edad de 8-11 años. En ocasiones, puede haber una interrupción en el proceso de fusión usualmente por microtraumatismos. Una actividad intensiva del tobillo puede causar este grado de trauma necesario p...

Background Continuous electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring after seizures may provide an early clue to the diagnosis of perinatal arterial ischemic stroke (PAIS). We aimed to explore EEG biomarkers and seizure patterns of PAIS within 7 days. Methods Data of children with PAIS were retrospectively analyzed. Using multi-channel video electroencepha...

In recent years, the globalization of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) policy has grown exponentially, driven by socio-economic, political, cultural, and educational desires and forces. Despite having a well-established elite English-medium education in Bangladesh, EMI-based, a new type of education system has emerged recently at primary an...

Study aim : The purpose of the study was to assess the level of physical fitness (PF) and somatic structure in children training a Korean martial art (ITF taekwondo) and untrained peers and to determine the associations of children’s BMI with that of their parents. Material and methods : The research material consisted of data from 135 individuals,...

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Objectives: To investigate the association between physical and mental health symptoms in adolescents and having a parent in the Canadian Armed Forces and the moderation of these associations by various sources of social support. Methods: We used data on a nationally representative sample of 18,886 adolescents (11-15 years) in the 2017/18 Canadi...

Later-borns tend to be shorter than first-borns in childhood and adulthood. However, large-scale prospective studies examining growth during infancy according to birth order are limited. We aimed to investigate the relationship between birth order and growth during the first 4 years of life in a Japanese prospective birth cohort study. A total of 2...

Despite the recent international ascendance of children as independent actors and rights bearers, reiterated by the UNCRC, in the eyes of the state children appear as not-yet-fully-citizens. As minors, they do not have the capacity to launch legal procedures on their own behalf or to formally approach a court of law to vindicate their rights, indep...

Background: The aim of this study was to analyse the relationship between the type and amount of fluid intake and the incidence of erosive tooth wear in a group of healthy children and children with disabilities. Methods: This study was conducted among children aged 6–17 years, patients of the Dental Clinic in Kraków. The research included 86 child...

Investigating sex chromosome trisomies (SCT) may help in understanding neurodevelopmental pathways underlying risk for neurobehavioral problems and psychopathology. Knowledge about the neurobehavioral phenotype is needed to improve clinical care and early intervention for the increasing number of early diagnosed children with the recent introductio...

A simultaneous, high-throughput and sensitive method for analysing nine neonicotinoid pesticides (NEOs) and four metabolites (NEOms) in urine using a liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MSMS) was developed. The method detection limit (MDL) and lowest concentration minimum reporting limit (LCMRL) of the nine NEOs were 0.0013–0.048 ng/...

Those who choose to engage with the academic world of early childhood are frequently caught between encouraging students to advocate for children and contribute to the construction of a good life and navigating the regulatory frameworks that shape future practice. In short, we must prepare students for the highly skilled work of supporting people w...

This observational cohort study aimed to examine the association between the duration of phototherapy for neonatal jaundice and the risk of developmental delay at 3 years of age using nationwide birth cohort data. Data from 76,897 infants were analyzed. We divided participants into four groups: no phototherapy, short phototherapy (1–24 h), long pho...

Background: Menkes disease (MD; OMIM #309400) is a progressive neurodegeneration that results from abnormalities in the copper metabolism which are already present before birth. It is an extremely rare condition. The study was conducted to assess the quality of life of children with MD syndrome and the impact of the disease on family functioning....

Background Dental caries is one of the most common diseases affecting children world widely as well as in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Supervised tooth brushing programs are implemented throughout the world to provide young children’s developing teeth with additional fluoride as a form of dental caries prevention. While school-based supervised toot...

Exercise is one of the major determinants of a healthy lifestyle, which is particularly important in childhood and serves as a powerful preventive tool. On the other hand, obesity and arterial hypertension rates are increasing in children, representing a huge risk for developing major cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in adult life. Of fundamen...

Changes in household endotoxin concentration may affect the prognosis of food allergy (FA), but data on the association between household endotoxin concentration and an already-developed FA are scarce. Thus, we investigated the association between environmental endotoxin exposure and tolerance to hen's egg (HE) and cow's milk (CM) using data from c...

Background Atopic dermatitis (AD) is reported to be more prevalent in children who were born in autumn than in spring. Here, we investigated how early the association between season of birth and eczema or AD can be observed in the postnatal period. We also examined whether specific prevalence outcomes for infant eczema and AD differed according to...

In thus day and age, the Indonesian nation is experiencing a crisis that is so influential, namely a crisis of character. Where there are many deviations from social norm, legar norm, and even religios norms. The inculcation of religious and moral values from an early age through early childhood education institutions is very important to be carrie...

Background: Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) teachers at urban preschools are potential key figures to promote healthy behaviours in disadvantaged young children and to engage parents in lifestyle-related topics. An ECEC teacher-parent partnership regarding healthy behaviours may support parents and stimulate their children's development....

Background The purpose of this study was to identify how various negative health indicators are associated with energy drink consumption frequency among 13- and 15-year-old Finnish adolescents. Methods Data (N = 2429) from the nationally representative international Health Behaviour in School-aged Children study (2018) were analyzed via descriptiv...

Objectives: Some newborns that are not small-for-gestational-age (non-SGA, birthweight ≥10th percentile for a given gestational age) may have pathologic growth restrictions. This study examined the association of adverse obstetric and neonatal outcomes with chest/head circumference ratio at birth in non-SGA and SGA newborns. Methods: This study...

Background: Few prospective studies have investigated the association between paternal occupational exposures and risk of infant congenital heart defects (CHDs). We investigated the associations between paternal occupational exposures, frequency of use, and concurrent or sequential exposure to a mixture of compounds and the risk of infant CHDs. Met...

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (HDP) are associated with poor maternal and neonatal prognoses. Although several studies have indicated an effect of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure on HDP, such evidence is lacking in Japan. Therefore, we analyzed data from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study, a large-scale epidemiological investigation,...

Breastfeeding has many benefits for infant growth and maternal health, such as reducing breast cancer risk. However, data on maternal factors influencing breastfeeding are insufficient. To clarify the associations between maternal lifestyle and diet during pregnancy and exclusive breastfeeding (EBF), we conducted a prospective study of pregnant wom...

Purpose: While there are a few studies that show the prevalence of blindness and ocular morbidity in children, studies on socioeconomic factors in childhood cataracts are scarce. We aimed to study the socioeconomic status, education and occupation of the parents, consanguinity, and gender inequality among children presenting with cataracts. Metho...

Background The impact of excessive screen time with personal listening devices (PLDs) on vision, hearing, balance, and overall health among adults has been reported in the literature. However, its impact on children is not well documented. A survey was undertaken to highlight the possible effects of screen time combined with transducers on vision,...

Childhood Studies per se is an interdisciplinary domain of knowledge. The article looks at the scope of interdisciplinarity in Childhood Studies and provides a state-of-the-art in this direction.

The association between maternal pre-pregnancy smoking status and asthma risk is unclear. This study aimed to investigate the association between pre- and post-pregnancy maternal smoking status and bronchial asthma at 3 years of age in a large birth cohort. Data of 75,411 mother–child pairs from the Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS) wer...

The facial looks have an impact on self-esteem and emotional well-being, playing an important role in social interactions. Changing in these functions will therefore affect the standard of living of children. Objective: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the effect of malocclusion on psychological well-being on school going children using the...

Background Technology plays a significant role in the lives of adolescents. Our knowledge is predominantly based on research exploring the risks associated with it, but adolescents also feel that technology supports their lives. This has received less consideration. Therefore, we aim to examine how adolescents perceive the benefits of digital techn...

The Cianjur earthquake resulted in hundreds of deaths, minor to severe injuries, buildings destruction and landslides. Children studied in tents with appalling conditions. In addition, the impact of the earthquake that is even more serious is the emergence of trauma to children and adults. Before the earthquake happened, the children were cheerful...

Background: The relationship between the season of birth, allergen sensitization, and allergic rhinitis have been inconsistent, and there are no studies that simultaneously consider vitamin D and allergen exposure. This study aimed to determine the associations between the season of birth, house dust mite (HDM) and Japanese cedar pollen (JCP) sens...

Background: Halitosis is a common and well-studied condition throughout the world. There are several publications on the etiology and prevalence of halitosis in the adult population. However, in children, studies are inconclusive. This study aims to perform a systematic review and meta-analysis to establish the prevalence and factors involved in ha...

Schools in Bali Learn Online (BDR) according to directions from the government due to the high Covid-19 cases. Learning activities carried out from home during the Covid-19 pandemic, especially at the SD/MI level, require the readiness of parents to accompany their children to learn at home. This study aims to determine the readiness of parents of...

This article examines the discursive narratives in academic literature about the nomadic boat-dwelling children of the Sama-Bajau group in Southeast Asia. Through examining academic literature from 1989 to 2021, this paper explores how the literature shapes and mediates the narratives about Sama-Bajau children. Findings suggest two threads of discu...

Malnutrition is a pathological state resulting from the relative or absolute deficiency or excess of one or more essential nutrients, whether this state manifests itself clinically, or whether detectable only by biological, anthropometric, or physiological analyses. This study uses a cross-sectional survey conducted on a representative sample of 60...

Through registering the chronopolitics of Cypriot teenage antiauthoritarian activists, this article explores the antichronocratic labour of children as a way to engage with processes of degrowth and to create dissident everyday temporalities through which to build alternative communities and relations in the present. It is argued that paying attent...

Background While major pathways of human PFAS exposure are thought to be drinking water and diet, other pathways and sources have also been shown to contribute to a person’s cumulative exposure. However, the degree of contribution of these other sources to PFAS body burdens is still not well understood and occurrence data for PFAS in conssumer prod...

Background Accumulating evidence suggests a long-term health risk of cesarean section for the mother and child, but few studies have examined the link between cesarean section and parenting stress. Here, we examined this association by exploiting a large dataset. Methods Participants were 65,235 mothers participating in the Japan Environment and C...

Background: Adolescent loneliness and poor mental health represent dual public health concerns. Yet, associations between loneliness and mental health, and critically, how these associations vary in school settings are less understood. Aims: Framed by social-ecological theory, we aimed to identify key predictors of adolescent mental health and e...

Background: Education stress is widely recognized as one of the most important precursors leading to depression in adolescent life. This study explores the prevalence of academic stress among high school going adolescents, contributing factors and the coping strategies used by students. The finding of this study aids the teaching institutes to bett...

In a retrospective case series of 10 children with cryptogenic FIRES, we sought to describe the early clinical course and potential biomarkers following anakinra initiation. Six children achieved anesthetic withdrawal within 3 weeks of therapy and one in week four. Of the available cEEG (six children), CRP (10 children), and serum cytokine (six chi...

Modular distance learning (MDL) poses significant challenges to teachers, parents, and students in the delivery of quality education in the country. The study evaluated the effectiveness of School-Based Audio Clip Lessons in Social Studies. It is an intervention program proposed to address the learning issues raised by parents of Grade 1 to Grade 6...

Despite the extensive literature on the psychosocial determinants of bullying and cyberbullying among adolescents, there is not sufficient comprehensive analysis of the differences between perpetrators. This study aims to assess the psychosocial similarities and differences between bullies and cyberbullies. Data of 3650 students from two grades, K9...

Neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) in children are associated with a complex combination of genetic and/or environmental factors. Pre-/perinatal events are major known environmental suboptimal factors, and their individual and combined contributions vary. This study investigated the association between pre-/perinatal reduced optimality and child d...

Este texto apresenta o dossiê “A infância Urbana nas ciências sociais: problemáticas e desafios metodológicos”. Seu objetivo é situar as principais questões que caracterizam os estudos das relações entre a infância e a cidade. Em uma primeira parte, indicamos como os estudos urbanos (Seixas 2003; Harvey 2008; Fernandez Martorell 2009) e os estudos...

Hearing loss (ototoxicity) is a major adverse effect of cisplatin and carboplatin chemotherapy. The aim of this study is to identify novel genetic variants that play a role in platinum-induced ototoxicity. Therefore, a genome-wide association study was performed in the Genetics of Childhood Cancer Treatment (GO-CAT) cohort (n = 261) and the United...

Background Oral chloral hydrate is widely used in pediatric sedation. Intranasal dexmedetomidine has been increasingly used for pediatric sedation; however, its improvement is warranted. The combination of dexmedetomidine with ketamine can improve onset and hemodynamic stability while maintaining sedative efficacy. This study aims to determine the...

Basic physical skills are common motor movements used for locomotion, the more efficient they are, the better the subject's motor pattern will be, and therefore the better the individual's physical performance can be. Numerous factors can influence the motor movement quality, most of them studied by the physical activity sciences and sport. Among t...

This research fills the gap in studies of communication models towards children because, from the existing studies, there is still a space that requires a more profound discussion regarding communication patterns that emphasize the values and spirit of Islamic education from the perspective of the Qur'an. The novelty of the researcher's writing. Th...

Researching Social Inclusion, Political Discourse, Policy, and Education 2023 In line with the key principles guiding UNESCO call for action, the 16th International Summer School seeks to promote innovative thinking and active response to the major contemporary global challenges. Inspired by the vision of the 2030 Agenda and the delivery of the Su...

This study aimed to determine the meanings that mothers attribute to the concept of child and examine the self-regulation skill levels of their children within the context of the meaning attributed to the child. The research was carried out with a mixed method design entitled “Completely Mixed Sequential Equal Status Design”. The study group of the...

Background Mental health issues in youths have cascading negative effects on school outcomes, professional life, and physical health. Psychological well-being (P-WB) is an important protective factor against mental illness. Preliminary research suggests that mindfulness- and yoga-based socio-emotional learning (SEL) interventions can each have a po...

Introduction: This study aimed to assess congenital anomalies among infants from 2011 to 2014 in Fukushima and compare the assessment with that from other geographical regions in Japan. Methods: We used the dataset of the Japan Environment and Children's Study (JECS), which is a nationwide prospective birth cohort study. For the JECS, participan...

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Background: The development of healthy relationships and connections is of fundamental importance to adolescent well-being. The use of social media plays a vital role in the lives of young Canadians, yet the association between different types of social media use and the quality of relationships and connections remains unknown, and most existing a...

Objectives We examined whether providing educational events for participants in a birth cohort study would increase the response rates of study questionnaires. Design Birth cohort study. Setting Questionnaires were distributed and returned by post twice in 1 year. We developed and implemented two educational sessions; a Baby Food lecture for moth...

Introduction Helicobacter pylori infection rates are high in China and worldwide, and maintaining good hygiene is effective in preventing H. pylori infection. Childhood is a critical stage for developing good hygiene practices. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to explore whether a comprehensive hygiene intervention can prevent H. pylori infection...

O conceito de infância atravessa o olhar do grupo no que corresponde as nossas pesquisas. Trata-se de um conceito que mobiliza diferentes discussões quando interligados por exemplo, na contraposição entre a infância moderna, concebida pelo conhecido historiador Philipe Ariès e pela infância contemporânea, já ressignificada por alguns autores de nos...

The Covid 19 pandemic entered Indonesia from 2020, this resulted in children's study time at their respective homes and carried out online. This study aims to describe the impact of implementing the campus teaching program in improving the literacy and numeracy of students at SMPN 1 Dongko. The research method used is a qualitative method. The subj...

A critique of the adult-centred theory and research methods traditionally used in the exploration of children and adolescent' s development and lives entered the discourse of social sciences in the 1990s with the theory of New Sociology of Childhood (James and Prout, 1997), arguing that children 1 and young people are in traditional discourses cons...

This study evaluated the association between labour duration (LD) and incidence of low neonatal Apgar scores and foetal acidosis. Data of 37,682 women with full-term singleton spontaneous vaginal deliveries from the Japan Environment and Children’s Study were analysed. Women were classified according to the median LD as nulliparous (< 10 or ≥ 10 h)...

(1) Background: In March 2020, the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Education (MoE) closed all schools and universities in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. All lessons had to be delivered online. This mixed methods case study explores responses to this change in learning environment from 35 BA Education and Early Childhood Studies preservi...

Objective In children, studies have shown that balance performance is worse in boys compared to girls and further studies revealed inferior performance when arm movement was restricted during balance assessment. However, it remains unclear whether restriction of arm movement during balance testing differentially affects children’s balance performan...

Diverging definitions and uses of concepts such as “ageism,” “aetonormativity,” “adultism,” and “childism” point at the relative separateness of the fields of childhood studies, age studies, and children’s literature studies, while also highlighting their shared interest in questions of age, prejudice, and agency. This article uses John Wall’s conc...

Ergonomics is the study of fitting products for users and tasks to fit for humans. Compared to designing for children, designing for adults is simpler, but school-aged children are more susceptible to musculoskeletal problems and ergonomic risks. In Pakistani context, notably, nothing is known about ergonomic examinations in school-going youngsters...

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Individuals are typically happy when engaging in enjoyable activities. But many enjoyable activities could be harmful when engaged in to excess. Do children consider the normative goodness of activity engagement levels when attributing happiness? To examine this question, we presented children with enjoyable activities that are often harmless in mo...

Background Following the SARS pandemic, jurisdictions around the world began developing ethical resource allocation frameworks for future pandemics—one such framework was developed by Thompson and colleagues. While this framework offers a solid backbone upon which decision-makers can rest assured that their work is driven by rigorous ethical proces...

Background In utero exposure to nicotine, largely assessed by smoking, is a risk factor for impaired offspring health, while potential effects of non-combustible nicotine use such as snus (oral moist tobacco), are less well-known. Maternal serum concentrations of placental growth factor (PlGF) and soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt-1) may be...

Adolescent development is strongly influenced by peers and parents. However, little is known about the intersection of bullying, life satisfaction, and parental support among adolescents living in single-parent households (SPH). We investigated whether bullying and poor life satisfaction are disproportionately more common among SPH adolescents and...

This article discusses the meanings of school for children between 8 and 12 years old amid class suspension over the COVID-19 pandemic. The comprehension of the children’s points of view is based on the recognition of their rights and their ability to participate in social life, as demonstrated by childhood studies in the social sciences. We analyz...

Background Children in mixed dentition are highly at risk for dental caries, which is a major health issue worldwide. Despite their effect in controlling dental caries, using probiotics can be challenging. Therefore, it has been advised to use their inanimate forms, called postbiotics. We hypothesize that postbiotics can enhance the oral immunity....