Research in the neurosciences has highlighted the importance of intersubjective relationships in promoting neuromental development of the child. Children's learning in early childhood occurs mainly in...
A multicentre randomised controlled trial is being conducted to evaluate DBS parenting intervention for children aged between 14 and 20 months. Parent-child dyads are randomly allocated to a book-shar...
DBS programme in early childhood could enhance the educational resources offered by Italian health, educational and maternal-child centres, in support of child's development and parenting. DBS represe...
The trial is registered on the International Standard Randomised Controlled Trial Number database, registration number ISRCTN11755019 Registered on 2 November 2023. This is version 1 of the protocol f...
The objective was to identify if family social exclusion is associated with child motor and social development delay in Southeastern Brazil....
A cross-sectional study was conducted using data from a sample of 348 children under 3 years, proportional to the number of children registered in the primary care centres of the municipality....
Child development was measured using the "Developmental Surveillance Instrument" which was developed by the Ministry of Health in Brazil and is used for public health nurses and clinicians in their pr...
The prevalence of child motor and socioemotional developmental delay was 27.6% and 17.2%, respectively. Children in the most social excluded group were more likely to have delayed motor development (O...
Studies on circadian rhythms throughout development and their physiological and behavioral impacts at early stages are still scarce. Previous studies have shown that mother-infant interactions are imp...
the following were used to evaluate mothers: the Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS) and Self-Reporting Questionnaire 20 ...
A hundred and eight mother-infant dyads participated in the study. Sleep disorders were observed in 38 (35%) infants and atypical development (ASQ3) in 35 (32%). The infants' sleep phases were partial...
We found evidence for the contribution of sleep quality and chronotypes to mothers' mental health and infant development. However, further studies are needed to confirm the influence of sleep and circ...
Reading difficulties are prevalent worldwide, including in economically developed countries, and are associated with low academic achievement and unemployment. Longitudinal studies have identified sev...
Cognitive control consists of high-level cognitive processes regulating thoughts and actions during goal-directed behavior and problem-solving. This study analyzes the performance of 4- to 8-year-old ...
It is now well established empirically that families and children who could not attend educational and childcare institutions during the COVID-19 pandemic experienced disadvantages. This is particular...
The German National Centre for Early Prevention conducted a nationally representative survey of families with children of age 0 to 3 years in April to December 2022, "Kinder in Deutschland 0‑3 2022" (...
Parents with very young children experienced their situation in the COVID-19 pandemic as stressful. A clear difference depending on social class emerged. Both from the parents' perspective and in pedi...
In order to mitigate the psychosocial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic for families and to improve children's chances of growing up in a healthy way that promotes their development, it is necessa...
Early childhood experiences have a lifelong impact on a child's future. Social and environmental experiences and interactions have a profound relational effect on children's physical and mental health...
The Good Start in Life study will use a quasi-experimental design (with a matched control geographical area) consisting of a combination of interventions that will build multisectoral collaboration ac...
ACTRN12621001140842....
Executive functions (EF) develop rapidly across early childhood and play a prominent role in promoting adaptive outcomes later in development. Although the existing literature suggests that the develo...
Developmental screening improves the detection of developmental concerns, yet numerous children are not screened/assessed. Remote child developmental tool administration has been utilized to increase ...
We conducted a realist review to: (1) identify existing multi-domain child development assessment and screening tools for children 0-5 years; (2) review psychometric data on their digital (i.e., only ...
Of 33 multi-domain child development tools identified in objective one, five tools (in five studies) were delivered digitally and compared to traditional (e.g., paper) delivery (i.e., objective two). ...
Digitally delivered ASQ-2, R-PDQ, Vineland, and Bayley-3 and NEPSY-II components show promise for equivalence with traditional administration....
To explore environmental and individual factors that are associated with child development and to investigate whether the strength of these associations differs according to the age of the children....
Cross-sectional study....
This study was part of the LIFE Child study, a large cohort study conducted in Leipzig, Germany....
778 children aged between 0.5 and 6 years (48.6% girls, mean age=2.67 years)....
The outcomes were cognitive development, language development, body and hand motor skills, social-emotional development, and tracing skills, measured with a standardised development test. We analysed ...
Higher gestational age (b ranging between 0.12 and 0.26) and higher SES (b ranging between 0.08 and 0.21) were associated with better outcomes in almost all developmental domains (all p<0.019). Childr...
Some factors had a protective, others an adverse effect on development of children under 6 years of age. The effect of SES and sex increased, while the effect of gestational age decreased with age....
NCT02550236....
