Inclusion of preschool children into organized activity in leisure time by Milenko Janković, Karolina Berenji, Zoran Milić, Sandra Vujkov

“…All physical activity of preschool children during the day occurs while they are in kindergarten or during their leisure time. The aim of the study was to present the results related to the participation of children in organized activities during leisure time and what is the perception of parents about the scope of their children's physical activity and the time spent on watching TV, using computers and playing video games (as a part of wider study). …”
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Modeling eating behaviors: The role of environment and positive food association learning via a Ratatouille effect by Anarina L. Murillo, Muntaser Safan, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Elizabeth D. Capaldi Phillips, Devina Wadhera

“…Hence, the incorporation of food association learning may be a better strategy for creating resilient communities of healthy and non-healthy eaters. A Ratatouille effect can be observed when food association learners become food preference learners, a potential sustainable behavioral change, which in turn, may impact the overall distribution of healthy eaters. …”
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Rhythm and Movement for Self-Regulation (RAMSR) intervention for preschool self-regulation development in disadvantaged communities: a clustered randomised controlled trial study p... by Kate E Williams, Sally Savage, Rebecca Eager

“…The study aims to establish the effectiveness of RAMSR, which is designed to translate the cognitive benefits that accrue from rhythm participation to address self-regulation for children who do not typically access high-quality music programmes.Methods and analysis We will recruit 237 children from up to eight kindergartens in low socioeconomic areas. …”
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Ocular biometric parameters in Chinese preschool children and physiological axial length growth prediction using machine learning algorithms: a retrospective cross-sectional study by Yan Li, Kai Wang, Tao Tang, Heng Zhao, Jingwei Zhou, Mingwei Zhao, Duanke Liu, Xuewei Li, Xiaoqing Shi, Jiahui Ma, Chenxu Zhao

“…Boys had longer AL, larger AL-to-corneal radius ratio, deeper anterior chamber depth and lower lens power. …”
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Improving future fish consumption: A case study on developing fish products for preschool children by Hui Jia, Zdeněk Fuka, Jan Hora, Magdalena Marešová, Věra Adámková, Koushik Roy, Jan Mraz

“…Economic evaluations indicated that production costs varied (cost: 3.69–7.19 USD/kg, price: 5.51–10.71 USD/kg excluding taxes) inversely with the use of fish fillets versus fish baader. …”
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The Joint Association of Sleep Quality and Outdoor Activity with Asthma and Allergic Rhinitis in Children: A Cross-Sectional Study in Shanghai by Lu R, Zhang Y, Chen Y, Lyu J, Li R, Kang W, Zhao A, Ning Z, Hu Y, Lin X, Tong S, Lu Z, Li S

“…Poor sleep quality (asthma: aOR, 1.45; 95% CI: 1.23 to 1.73; allergic rhinitis: aOR, 1.16; 95% CI: 1.03 to 1.31) and low outdoor activity (asthma: aOR, 1.30; 95% CI: 1.14 to 1.49, allergic rhinitis: aOR, 1.18; 95% CI: 1.07 to 1.32) were separately associated with higher risk of asthma and allergic rhinitis, and when the two were superimposed, an additive effect (asthma: aOR, 1.76; 95% CI: 1.30 to 2.39; allergic rhinitis: aOR, 1.46; 95% CI: 1.17 to 1.82) was revealed. …”
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Multidimensional comparative analysis of the number of students in Poland with the view to the demographic crisis and its impact on social security by Aleksandra Skrabacz, Bartosz Kozicki, Paweł Jaśkiewicz

“…Objectives The article presents the original multidimensional comparative analysis of the number of students in terms of their population in Poland with the view to the demographic crisis and its impact on the acceptable level of social security. The demographic low in Poland is one of the largest in the European Union and the largest after the Second World War. …”
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The relationship between primitive reflex profile and development of vestibular maturity in early school years by Erzsébet Stephens-Sarlós

“…The sample consisted of 506 children aged 5–8 years (237 boys and 269 girls). In kindergartens and schools, 443 participants performed reflex inhibition exercises 3–5 times a week for 7 months. …”
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Paediatric norms for photopic electroretinogram testing based on a large cohort of Chinese preschool children by Henry Ho-lung Chan, Sonia Seen-hang Chan, Kai Yip Choi

“…AL was significantly associated with all amplitudes of a-wave, b-wave and 30-Hz flicker (p≤0.01) and implicit time of both a-wave and 30-Hz flicker (p<0.05). …”
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Immunogenicity and safety of a live attenuated varicella vaccine in children aged 1 to 12 years: A double-blind, randomized, parallel-controlled phase III clinical trial in China by Shiyuan Wang, Yang Zhang, Guifan Li, Jinhui Shi, Xianyun Chang, Hao Zhang, Fengcai Zhu, Jingxin Li, Kai Chu, Jinfang Sun

“…The lower limits of the 95% CI for the differences in seroconversion rates and GMT ratios between the two groups were greater than their respective pre-set non-inferiority margins. …”
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Associations between caregivers’ health behaviours and overweight/obesity among children aged 2–6 years in Beijing, China: a cross-sectional study by Yan Hu, Juan Du, Wenjing Ji, Xueling Li, Aimin Liang, Xiwei Xu

“…Additionally, children whose caregivers consumed sweets 2–3 times/week (OR 1.535, 95% CI 1.133 to 2.081) or ≥4 times/week (OR 1.916, 95% CI 1.258 to 2.918), as well as children whose caregivers consumed fast food ≥4 times/week (OR 2.298, 95% CI 1.349 to 3.914), were more likely to be overweight and obesity than children whose caregivers consumed these foods ≤1 time/week. …”
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Associations between contextual and compositional characteristics of early childcare facilities with health, health behaviours and well-being among young children aged 0 to 6 years... by Jennifer Hilger-Kolb, Sven Schneider, Raphael Herr, Nina Osenbruegge, Stephanie Hoffmann, Max Herke, Claudia Pischke, Leonie Sundmacher, Katharina Diehl

“…At the meso-level (institutional-level), early childcare facilities (eg, kindergartens, preschools) are the most important agent of socialisation next to families in young children aged 06 years. …”
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