Using cleft lip and palate as an exemplar, this article examines parents’ decision-making for children in the context … purposive and theoretical sampling, 35 parents with children from infancy to young adulthood were recruited through a specialist … revealed a core category, ‘doing the “right” thing’, that encapsulated parents’ main concern in relation to their children …

-adolescent children less susceptible to the influence of food promotions. Since children have lower media literacy levels due to their … contingent on children having understood them; and (2) whether counter-ads may be detrimental when they are misinterpreted. A … various nutritional and image-related attributes were recorded for each child. Sixty-six percent of children who viewed a …

being US- vs. Mexican-born, two proxies for acculturation. This pattern is less clear for Mexican-origin children and young … immigrant advantage in obesity prevalence for Mexican-origin populations in the US does not hold for children and young adults …

the obesity epidemic. Parents (and children) negotiate complex and often contradictory messages in constructing a set of … and one child in Victoria and South Australia, we explored how parents and children conceptualise and discuss issues of …. Three thematic clusters emerged from the analysis. First, both parents and children perceived that weight was the primary …

 = 3677) represented four age groups (children, adolescents, adults, older adults). MAPS audits were conducted along a 0 … were related to leisure/neighborhood PA. The overall score was related to objective PA in children and older adults …

Many studies suggest that quality childcare can positively influence children’s outcomes in a wide range of domains …, including mental health. While an extensive literature on the effects of childcare on individual children exists, how quality … differences in the quality of childcare and the mental health of children attending childcare centres in three communities in …

stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms), functioning, and received social support of children in Burundi. Data were obtained from … face-to-face interviews with 176 children over three measurement occasions over the span of 4-months. Cognitive social … capital measured the degree to which children believed their community was trustworthy and cohesive. Mental health measures …

Numerous studies in the last ten years have investigated racial/ethnic disparities in obesity for young children …. Increasing attention is paid to the influence of neighborhood environments – social and physical—on a variety of young children … weights for young children in socioeconomically depressed areas, and shows consistently higher rates of obesity in more …

hypothesis that young children of immigrants would be at lower obesity risk if they lived in neighborhoods where neighbors share … for Women, Infants and Children in Los Angeles County, we examined the relation between BMI z-scores in low …-income children aged 2–5 years (N = 250,029) and the concentration of neighborhood residents who spoke the same language as the …