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Nutrition & Dietetics
Valerie Hruska, Nitin Shivappa, James R. Hebert, Alison M. Duncan, Jess Haines, David W. L. Ma
Summary: This study investigated the link between family-based stress and dietary patterns that promote inflammation. It found that chaotic and dysfunctional family environments were associated with more proinflammatory dietary profiles in parents, indicating an increased risk of chronic disease. No direct association was found between children's dietary inflammatory profiles and family stress, suggesting the need for further research to explore possible indirect connections through family food-related behaviors.
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Psychology, Developmental
E. M. Westrupp, C. Bennett, T. Berkowitz, G. J. Youssef, J. W. Toumbourou, R. Tucker, F. J. Andrews, S. Evans, S. J. Teague, G. C. Karantzas, G. M. Melvin, C. Olsson, J. A. Macdonald, C. J. Greenwood, A. Mikocka-Walus, D. Hutchinson, M. Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, M. A. Stokes, L. Olive, A. G. Wood, J. A. McGillivray, E. Sciberras
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the mental health of the population, including parents and children. During the pandemic period, parents reported higher rates of depression, anxiety, and stress, as well as increased irritability and alcohol consumption. Younger parent age, financial deprivation, pre-existing physical and mental health conditions, COVID-19 stressors, and housing dissatisfaction were associated with poorer parent and child functioning and strained family relationships.
EUROPEAN CHILD & ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
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Psychology, Clinical
Mark E. Feinberg, Jacqueline A. Mogle, Jin-Kyung Lee, Samantha L. Tornello, Michelle L. Hostetler, Joseph A. Cifelli, Sunhye Bai, Emily Hotez
Summary: The study found a significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on family, especially in terms of children's psychological problems and parental depression. Mothers and families with lower income are more likely to experience deteriorating family functioning.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Anika Kaestner, Vanessa Sophie Ernst, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Marco Franze
Summary: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social-emotional developmental risks (SE-DR) of preschool children was studied. The findings showed a decrease in SE-DR among preschoolers after the first wave of the pandemic. However, the study only examined short-term effects and further research is needed to investigate the long-term impact of the pandemic on preschoolers' SE-DR.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
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Psychology, Clinical
Ruben Trigueros, Noelia Navarro, Isabel Mercader, Jose M. Aguilar-Parra, Remedios Lopez-Liria, Patricia Rocannora-Perez
Summary: This study explores the relationships between self-stigma, depression, stress and anxiety and their relationship with healthy habits such as sport and a healthy diet. The results show that self-stigma is positively related to anxiety, stress and depression, and in turn, these three variables are negatively related to sporting activity and healthy eating.
PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH AND BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Psychiatry
Mohcene Abdessemed, Fatima Mougharbel, Kaamel Hafizi, Jameason D. Cameron, Brandon Heidinger, Joel Barnes, Amedeo D'Angiulli, Kristi B. Adamo, Valerie Carson, Anthony D. Okely, Justin J. Lang, Brian W. Timmons, Patricia E. Longmuir, Mark S. Tremblay, Patricia Tucker, Gary S. Goldfield
Summary: The study found that children's daily steps and moderate physical activity time were positively associated with better social emotional functioning, while light physical activity time and sedentary time were not associated with social emotional functioning.
MENTAL HEALTH AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(2021)
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Psychology, Educational
Elma Lorenzo-Blanco, Minyu Zhang, Cory Cobb, Alan Meca, Jose Szapocznik, Jennifer B. Unger, Miguel Angel Cano, Seth J. Schwartz
Summary: The study found that adolescent hope increased over time. Higher cultural stress predicted lower initial hope, while higher family functioning predicted higher initial levels of hope and a less steep increase in hope. Increasing hope levels helped improve emotional and behavioral health, and family functioning predicted better health outcomes by influencing hope.
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Family Studies
Carmela J. DeCandia, Janette E. Herbers, George J. Unick, Katherine T. Volk
Summary: Children rely on their parents or other primary caregivers to support their neurodevelopment, and the mental health of parents significantly affects their children's neurodevelopmental outcomes. In a study of 231 homeless children and their parents, it was found that parent distress, including depression, post-traumatic stress symptoms, and overreactive parenting, was negatively associated with child neurodevelopmental functioning. The findings highlight the importance of addressing parent mental health in supporting child development.
JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Jessica Marks, Silvia Schneider, Babett Voigt
Summary: Future-oriented cognition plays a significant role in children's mental health, with externalizing problems related to lower future-oriented cognition and higher levels of optimism associated with higher episodic foresight.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Stefania Vacaru, Roseriet Beijers, Carolina de Weerth
Summary: This study examined whether family functioning and peer connectedness can protect adolescents with earlier internalizing or externalizing symptoms from increased depressive symptoms during the first COVID-19 lockdown in a low-risk community sample. Results showed that one-in-four adolescents reported clinically relevant depressive symptoms during the lockdown, and higher earlier internalizing symptoms and lower quality of family functioning increased the risks.
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Pediatrics
Nimmi Parikh, Alexandra Faulkner, Maria Hadji-Michael, Isobel Heyman, Tara Murphy, Eve Mcallister
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a parent training programme for parents of children with neurological conditions and challenging behaviors. The study found that both face-to-face and remote group formats of the programme had high attendance rates (80% and 79% respectively). The intervention showed medium to large effect sizes in improving child behavior and parental well-being. Statistically significant improvements were found in child behavior, quality of life, goal-based outcomes, parental self-efficacy, and parental anxiety. Parents also indicated that the group format was acceptable.
ARCHIVES OF DISEASE IN CHILDHOOD
(2023)
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Pediatrics
Emily A. Simonds, Katrina Arlene P. Gobenciong, Jonathan E. Wilson, Michael R. Jiroutek, Nicole R. Nugent, Miranda A. L. van Tilburg
Summary: Providing secondary prevention to promote resilience and prevent mental health concerns after a disaster for children is important. OperationSAFE, an early intervention for children after community-wide trauma, was evaluated in this study. Data analysis of 158 OperationSAFE camps showed that this intervention improved children's trauma-related functioning and well-being. Older children and those in man-made ongoing trauma situations responded better, while gender and the number of days between a traumatic event and the start of the camp had negligible effects.
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Psychology, Developmental
Rachel Brathwaite, Ozge Sensoy Bahar, Massy Mutumba, William Byansi, Phionah Namatovu, Flavia Namuwonge, Torsten B. Neilands, Mary M. McKay, Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, Fred M. Ssewamala
Summary: This study evaluates the mid-intervention (8 weeks) and short-term (16 weeks) impact of a culturally adapted multiple family group (MFG) intervention, Amaka Amasanyufu, on the mental health of children with disruptive behavior disorders (DBDs) and primary caregivers in Uganda. The results show that children in MFG groups facilitated by parent peers or community health workers had lower depressive symptoms and higher self-concept, while caregivers experienced lower caregiving-related stress and fewer mental health problems. This study provides support for the adaptation and scale-up of culturally adapted mental health interventions in Uganda and other low-resource settings.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
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Psychology, Educational
Corina Goodwin, Emily Carrigan, Kristin Walker, Marie Coppola
Summary: Research has shown that early exposure to language has a positive impact on the development of executive functioning in children, while early exposure to auditory input seems to have little significant effect. Few cases of executive dysfunction were observed, suggesting that overall, deaf and hard-of-hearing children do not show significant differences in executive functioning compared to typically hearing children.
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Clinical Neurology
Jack Peltz, Ronald Rogge
Summary: This study examines the role of adolescents' and their parents' sleep quality as mediators of family-level processes and family members' psychological distress. The findings suggest that parents' sleep quality mediates the association between their baseline reports of romantic relationship satisfaction and daily levels of psychological distress, while adolescents' sleep quality mediates the association between family-level dysfunction and their own psychological distress.
