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Depression, anxiety, and psychological distress among caregivers of young children in rural Lesotho: Associations with food insecurity, household death and parenting stress
Good mental health is a critical resource for mothers and caregivers of young children, given the central role of mental health in enabling responsive …
A better way to reduce child maltreatment
A first-of-its-kind national study has found that a special program adopted in many states to help some families at risk of child maltreatment has …
Chlorinated water supplies don’t disturb healthy gut microbiomes in young children
Scientists find chlorinated water supplies in Bangladesh have little effect on the abundance and diversity of bacteria in children's guts. This set of bacteria, …
Pre-school children’s emotional eating partly shaped by innate food drive
New research is helping to unpick the complex connections between the eating habits of children and their mothers. The research surveyed 185 mothers of …
Lead as a social determinant of child and adolescent physiological stress and behavior
Lead is an environmental neurotoxicant that causes neurocognitive deficits and cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. It also disproportionately affects socially disadvantaged communities. The association between …
Sport improves concentration and quality of life
Physically fit primary school pupils feel better and can concentrate better. They are more likely to make it to higher-level secondary grammar schools than …
Omicron 'less severe' than Delta for children ages 4 and younger, study suggests
New research suggests that the children younger than age 5 who are infected with the COVID-19 Omicron variant have less risk of severe health …
Maternal socialization, not biology, shapes child brain activity
Children of mothers with clinical depression are at three times greater risk to develop depression themselves than are their low-risk peers. Researchers are working …
Kids with rare autoimmune disease show these symptoms before blood clots
Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is rare in children and known to cause inflammation and recurring, potentially fatal, blood clots. Researchers found that two-thirds of children …
Natural COVID-19 antibodies lasts seven months for children, according to new study
Children previously infected with COVID-19 develop natural circulating antibodies that last for at least seven months, according to a new study.
How toddler-mother attachment impacts adolescent brain and behavior
Interpersonal trust is a crucial component of healthy relationships. When we interact with strangers, we quickly gauge whether we can trust them. And those …
Treatment length reduced for children with tuberculosis
An international trial exploring the effectiveness of tuberculosis (TB) treatment in children has led to a change in the World Health Organization's global guidelines …