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The six-minute walking test in children with cystic fibrosis: Reliability and validity
There is a need to judge general exercise tolerance in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) under normal daily activity conditions and -when more extensive testing is required-in ...
Reliability of diagnostic reporting for children aged 6-11 years: a test-retest study of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children- Revised
The results suggest that highly structured diagnostic interviews such as the DISC-R may not be appropriate for use with younger children of elementary school age in community-ba...
Corticosteroids as Adjunctive Therapy in the Treatment of Influenza: An Updated Cochrane Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Objectives: Corticosteroids may be beneficial in sepsis, but uncertainty remains over their effects in severe influenza. This systematic review updates the current evidence rega...
The role of the child in abuse: A review of the literature.
Current theories generally emphasize the role of the parent in the etiology of child abuse, and frequently fail to consider other factors, in particular the role of the child. T...
Measurement of Activities of Daily Living in Hospitalized Elderly: A Comparison of Self‐Report and Performance‐Based Methods
Objective To determine the accuracy of self‐reports of physical functioning by hospitalized elderly. Design Comparison of two measures. Patients and Setting Two‐hundred forty‐se...
Fathers' and mothers' responses to the faces and cries of normal and premature infants.
32 White, middle-class couples with 5-mo-old infants were shown videotapes depicting infants who were, in turn quiescent, crying, and quiescent. Half of the parents viewed a nor...
The concept of self‐management of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents: an evolutionary concept analysis
The concept of self‐management of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents: an evolutionary concept analysis Aim. An evolutionary concept analysis was undertaken to clarify t...
On Operationalizing the Concept of Commitment
In this study of 318 school teachers and 395 hospital employed nurses, commitment to profession or organization is operationalized as the willingness to leave each system when o...
Morbidity and school absence caused by asthma and wheezing illness.
A survey in the London Borough of Croydon was conducted among an entire school cohort, aged about 9 years, to describe the current morbidity from wheezing illness, its relation ...
Origins and Evolution of Behavior Disorders: From Infancy to Early Adult Life
Beginning in 1956, Stella Chess and Alexander Thomas tracked the lives of 133 children from infancy to young adulthood, examining in detail their psychological development over ...
Small Changes in Dietary Sugar and Physical Activity as an Approach to Preventing Excessive Weight Gain: The America on the Move Family Study
OBJECTIVES. The intent of this study was to evaluate whether small changes in diet and physical activity, as promoted by the America on the Move initiative, could prevent excess...