The intersection of infant substance exposure, foster care placement & child welfare policy by Abigail Novak, Colleen K. Gutman, Vitoria De Francisco Lopes, Brian B. Boutwell

“…Using the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being II (NSCAWII)'s sample of infants (<1 year) referred to the child welfare system for substance exposure (Feb 2008–April 2009), we used propensity score weighting to assess the association between out-of-home placement in infancy and measures of child attachment, behaviors, and social and cognitive development at 18 and 36 months. …”
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Development of a Brief Client Satisfaction and Quality Improvement Tool for Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs: Opportunities for Enhancing Client Perspectives by Rachel K. Myers PhD, MS, Hillary M. Kapa MPH, Stephanie M. Garcia MPH, Laura Vega DSW, LCSW, Joel A. Fein MD, MPH

“…We conducted a quality improvement project to develop an HVIP-specific tool that can be used to collect information regarding client satisfaction with services to inform ongoing and future program improvement efforts. Four former adolescent clients and 5 caregivers who received services participated in cognitive interviews to share interpretation of questionnaire items, improvements to response options, comfort responding, and missing topics. …”
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Recurrent Painful Ophthalmoplegic Neuropathy and Oculomotor Nerve Schwannoma: A Pediatric Case Report with Long-Term MRI Follow-Up and Literature Review by Maria Giuseppina Petruzzelli, Mariella Margari, Flora Furente, Maria Carmela Costanza, Anna Rosi Legrottaglie, Franca Dicuonzo, Lucia Margari

“…The age of presentation is most often during childhood or adolescence. MRI has a central role in the assessment of the RPON, especially to distinguish orbital, parasellar, or posterior fossa lesions that mimic symptoms of RPON. …”
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Association between Reactive Attachment Disorder/Disinhibited Social Engagement Disorder and Emerging Personality Disorder: A Feasibility Study by Khadija Mirza, Gracia Mwimba, Rachel Pritchett, Claire Davidson

“…A systematic review of reactive attachment disorder (RAD)/disinhibited social engagement disorder (DSED) in adolescence highlighted that young people with the disorder had indiscriminate friendliness with difficulties in establishing and maintaining stable relationships. …”
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Self-Management in Daily Life with Psoriasis: An Integrative Review of Patient Needs for Structured Education by Gitte Susanne Rasmussen, Helle Terkildsen Maindal, Kirsten Lomborg

“…The research on patient needs has hitherto focused on adults, but the problems and vulnerability associated with having a chronic and visible disease during adolescence must be acknowledged, and patient education initiatives designed for this young group are recommended.…”
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Hip Impingement after Anterior Inferior Iliac Spine Avulsion Fractures: A Case Report with Review of the Literature by Mark J. Lambrechts, Aaron D. Gray, Dan G. Hoernschemeyer, Sumit Kumar Gupta

“…Avulsion fractures of the anterior inferior iliac spine (AIIS) are rare injuries in adolescent athletes. We present a case of a 15-year-old male who sustained an avulsion injury to his right AIIS when kicking a soccer ball. …”
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Review of celiac disease in the pediatric population by Aleksandra Strawińska, Maria Wydro, Magdalena Grotowska, Martyna Łukasiewicz

“…Older children and adolescent patients may frequently present atypical, vague symptoms such as fatigue, failure to thrive, weight loss, short stature, behavioral changes and anemia. …”
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Protocol for an intervention development and pilot implementation evaluation study of an e-health solution to improve newborn care quality and survival in two low-resource settings... by Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, Michelle Heys, Caroline Crehan, Erin Kesler, Monica Lakhanpaul, Emma Wilson, Fabiana Lorencatto, Felicity Fitzgerald, Mario Cortina Borja, Msandeni Chiume, Hannah Gannon, Simbarashe Chimhuya, Gwendoline Chimhini, Tim Hull-Bailey, Tarisai Chiyaka, Yali Sassoon, Deliwe Nkhoma, Nushrat Khan, Alexander G. Stevenson, Kristina Curtis

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COVID-19 and children with congenital anomalies: a European survey of parents’ experiences of healthcare services by Ingeborg Barisic, Carlos Matias Dias, Amanda Neville, Anna Pierini, Anke Rissmann, Joan K Morris, Judith Rankin, Ester Garne, Anna Latos-Bielenska, Elena Marcus, Anna Jamry-Dziurla, Ljubica Odak, Clara Cavero- Carbonell, Elly Den Hond, Lucas Genard, Ana João Santos, L Renée Lutke, Christina Neergaard Pedersen, Annika Niemann, Lucía Páramo-Rodríguez

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Derivation of Pluripotent Cells from Mouse SSCs Seems to Be Age Dependent by Hossein Azizi, Sabine Conrad, Ursula Hinz, Behrouz Asgari, Daniel Nanus, Heike Peterziel, Akbar Hajizadeh Moghaddam, Hossein Baharvand, Thomas Skutella

“…We demonstrate the possibility to derive ESC-like cells from SSC cultures until they reach adolescence or up to 7 weeks of age, but we point out the impossibility to derive these cells from older, mature adult mice. …”
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Osteogenesis Imperfecta with Celiac Disease and Type II Diabetes Mellitus Associated: Improvement with a Gluten-Free Diet by Luis Rodrigo, Isabel Pérez-Martinez

“…From her infancy, she has had multiple fractures, needing several surgical interventions, and she was diagnosed of OI type 2 at adolescence age. Due mainly to difficulties in walking remaining in wheel-chair in the last three years, she was overweight with morbid obesity (BMI=45.4) and had a type-II DM associated. …”
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Evaluation of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Risk Factors by Javad Golmirzaei, Shole Namazi, Shahrokh Amiri, Shahram Zare, Najme Rastikerdar, Ali Akbar Hesam, Zahra Rahami, Fatemeh Ghasemian, Seyyed Shojaeddin Namazi, Abbas Paknahad, Forugh Mahmudi, Hamidreza Mahboobi, Tahereh Khorgoei, Bahareh Niknejad, Fatemeh Dehghani, Shima Asadi

“…All the participants were interviewed by a child and adolescent psychiatrist to survey risk factors of ADHD. …”
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Serum Cytokine Profiles in Children with Crohn’s Disease by Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Sayar Abdulkhakov, Georgi Cherepnev, Ekaterina Martynova, Irina Mayanskaya, Alina Valeeva, Rustam Abdulkhakov, Dilyara Safina, Svetlana Khaiboullina, Albert Rizvanov

“…There are two major patient groups based on diagnosis of this disease, before or after the age of 20 (juvenile/adolescent or adult), with disease progression in adults usually milder than in juvenile CD patients. …”
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Thematic Review of Endocrine Disruptors and Their Role in Shaping Pubertal Timing by And Demir, Adem Aydin, Atilla Büyükgebiz

“…Addressing methodological gaps is crucial for producing reliable, actionable insights to protect adolescent development from the adverse effects of EDCs.…”
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Who is lying and who is telling the truth? The role of education in the development of understanding of lies by Šimonji Gabrijela, Major Lenke

“…Our research question focuses on whether adolescent children view lying in the same way as adults or if they perceive various lying situations and elements differently. …”
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A Pediatric Patient with Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Comorbid Depression and Substance Abuse by Caitlin E. Leconte, Joshua W. Ng, Ann M. Manzardo, Mitchell M. Douglass

“…OSA can often be overlooked in patients with MDD or substance abuse. Among adolescent patients with poorly managed psychiatric conditions, significant sleep disturbances, and polysubstance abuse, providers should maintain a high degree of suspicion for OSA, as its proper management will aid in the management of the other conditions.…”
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Maternal Docosahexaenoic Acid Increases Adiponectin and Normalizes IUGR-Induced Changes in Rat Adipose Deposition by Heidi N. Bagley, Yan Wang, Michael S. Campbell, Xing Yu, Robert H. Lane, Lisa A. Joss-Moore

“…We previously demonstrated IUGR-induced increased visceral adipose deposition and dysregulated expression of peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-γ2 (PPARγ2) in male adolescent rats, prior to the onset of obesity. In other studies, activation of PPARγ increases subcutaneous adiponectin expression and normalizes visceral adipose deposition. …”
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Sensory seeking and its influence on sustained attention performance in adult males with Autism Spectrum Condition by Takashi Itahashi, Ryuta Aoki, Motoaki Nakamura, Haruhisa Ohta, Ryu-ichiro Hashimoto

“…A gradual-onset continuous performance task and the Adolescent/Adult Sensory Profile were employed to assess sustained attention performance and sensory profiles, respectively. …”
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Construction of a Complex System Based on Big Data for the Intelligent Service System of Youth Physical Health by Xinwen Li, Chao Song, Christine A. Rochester, Chaobing Yan

“…From the experimental data, the improved particle swarm algorithm in this paper increases the effectiveness of the system in adolescent health data mining from 80.5% to 92.19%, which undoubtedly optimizes the system. …”
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Taquicardia ortostática postural em adolescentes: como e por que diagnosticar by Camila Magalhães Silva, Ludimila Dos Anjos Teixeira Romão, Lalleinny Franthiesca da Costa Alves, Roberta Leão Bassi, Rose Mary Ferreira Lisboa da Silva, Fátima Derlene da Rocha Araújo, Zilda Maria Alves Meira

“…We present a case report of an adolescent referred to pediatric cardiology to investigate intermittent and recurrent episodes of sweating, chest pain, muscle weakness without loss of consciousness, palpitations, pallor, and tachycardia. …”
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