Conclusions Prevalence of decreased visual acuity was high compared with other population-based studies. Decreased visual acuity at school entry is associated with reduced literacy. This may have important implications for the children's future educational, health and social outcomes.
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To analyse the association between amount of sleep and daytime sleepiness and health-related quality of life in schoolchildren during adolescence and to study the effect of age on this association. Login using your SSSFT NHS Athens for full text. SSOTP - request a copy of the article from the library http://www.sssft.nhs.uk/library
The identification of developmental problems in a child's acquisition of speech, language and/or communication is a core activity in child surveillance. These are common difficulties with up to 15% of toddlers being ‘late talkers’ and 7% of children entering school with persisting impairments of their language development. These delays can confer disadvantages in the long term, adversely affecting language, cognition, academic attainment, behaviour and mental health. To read the full article, log in using your NHS Athens
To study the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) in children. To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
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Fall T, Lundholm C, Örtqvist AK, et al. Early Exposure to Dogs and Farm Animals and the Risk of Childhood Asthma. JAMA Pediatr 2015;169:e153219.
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Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood. The risk of developing asthma is associated with environmental exposures, including tobacco smoke, air pollution, dust mites, endotoxin and farm animals.1 A lower prevalence of asthma among children in farm environments supports the hygiene hypothesis on the role of childhood exposure to microbes in developing a more favourable immune system. The effect of exposures to domestic dogs has been less clear. Fall et al undertook a nationwide study to investigate the association between early exposures to dogs as well as farm environment and risk of childhood … To read the full article, log in using your NHS OpenAthens details
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This is an important multi-centre study for those working in paediatrics, where guidance lags behind that in adult populations because of a lack of evidence on which to make recommendations. Possibly because of limited power and a low baseline rate, primary analyses demonstrated no significant effect in the time to first bloodstream infection however despite these limitations secondary analyses demonstrated a benefit from the use of antibiotic-impregnated catheters in reducing infection rates by over 50%.
Acute bronchiolitis is a common emergency in the first two years of life, and there is no effective treatment. The authors have identified that there is no evidence that chest physiotherapy is useful, nor is this surprising given the pathophysiology of the disease. Also, handling these sick babies may cause acute decompensation, so chest physiotherapy may actually be harmful.
This randomised control trial suggests two behavioural approaches to remedy disturbed sleep in infants may work better than a sleep education only control group approach.
This may be true, but may also be a chance finding or affected by bias. For example, the statistical significance of some of the results was hard to interpret, as many were presented as graphs only. This means we can't be sure that some, or even many, of the differences are down to chance.
The study was also very small, with only 14 to 15 people in each of the three test conditions at the start of the study.
There were even less after three months – only seven in each group. This isn't enough to make accurate, reliable or generalisable statements about which method works best.
Young people in Rochdale can now get easier access to health advice thanks to a new text-messaging service.
Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR) School Nursing Service, part of Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust, will be launching the ChatHealth service for young people aged 11 to 19 years on 23 May.
Those who attend school in Heywood, Middleton or Rochdale, or live in the borough, can access the service by texting their concern or question to 07507330382.
ChatHealth is an award-winning initiative, developed by Leicestershire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, which is available Monday to Friday from 9am to 4:30pm, throughout the year excluding bank holidays.
The natural response to the intrusive bodily sensation is positional change. This study explored how children and young people (CYP) with intellectual disabilities had their comfort needs met when using adaptive positioning equipment. Please contact the library to request a copy of this article - http://bit.ly/1Xyazai