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Evaluation of the physical and psychological reactions of indian parents with female children suffering from cancer in a pediatric oncology center: A pilot study

International Journal of Gynecology & ObstetricsVolume 70, Issue S1 p. A46-A46 Adolescent gynecology 2 Evaluation of the physical and psychological reactions of indian parents with female children suffering from cancer in a pediatric oncology center: A pilot study K. Gupta, K. GuptaSearch for more papers by this authorN.R. Mondol, N.R. MondolSearch for more papers by this authorI. Basu Mallik, I. Basu MallikSearch for more papers by this authorB. Chakraborty, B. ChakrabortySearch for more papers by this author K. Gupta, K. GuptaSearch for more papers by this authorN.R. Mondol, N.R. MondolSearch for more papers by this authorI. Basu Mallik, I. Basu MallikSearch for more papers by this authorB. Chakraborty, B. ChakrabortySearch for more papers by this author First published: 09 December 2003 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-7292(00)82123-2AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume70, IssueS12000Pages A46-A46 RelatedInformation

Infant Sleep Position: A Telephone Survey of Inner-city Parents of Color

To assess what positions parents were placing their infants to sleep and their opinion about sleep positioning. A prospective telephone survey of parents of 2-month-old infants with repeated measures at 4 months that began during the second wave of the Back to Sleep campaign in 1994. African-American, Hispanic, Asian, and American Indian parents from inner cities in the north central United States. Preference for prone positioning existed at both 2 and 4 months (over 40%). Twenty-four percent of parents disagreed with the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding supine or lateral positioning. Although prone sleep positioning has decreased over the past 5 years, many inner-city parents of color prefer this over supine. The Back to Sleep campaign appears effective in changing attitudes and medical personnel appear influential in promoting risk reductions associated with sudden infant death syndrome. More efforts are clearly needed to convince parents who disagree with and resist recommendations.sleep, infants, SIDS, African-Americans, Back to Sleep (campaign).

Sexual Experiences and Their Correlates Among College Students in Mumbai City, India

Sexual behavior among unmarried young people and its correlates among college students were examined in the metropolitan city of Mumbai India. Data from a 1997 survey of 966 low-income college students were analyzed in order to identify levels of sexual behavior. Multivariate analysis was used for behavior correlation. Findings showed that 47% of males and 13% of females had had any sexual experience; 26% and 3% respectively had had intercourse. In the analysis of factors affecting the odds of any sexual behavior between males and females that reached a marginal level of statistical significance (p < 0.10) individual and intermediate variables were found to have had significant effects on students sexual behavior but most familial factors were not significant. Degree of knowledge degree of exposure attitudes and amount of social interaction concerning sex-related issues were foundational in predicting sexual behavior of the students. The outcomes of the study differed between male and female students. The relationship between knowledge about sexual issues and sexual behavior was found to be an inconsistent one. Thus in spite of the opposition of Indian parents school-based sexuality programs are needed in order to provide students with accurate information about pregnancy contraception and sexually transmitted diseases.

Beyond Bounds: Cross-Cultural Essays on Anglo, American Indian, & Chicano Literature

Beyond Bounds: Cross-Cultural Essays on Anglo, American Indian, & Chicano Literature. Robert Franklin Gish. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1996. xiv + 170 pages. $24.95 cloth. Robert Franklin Gish declares a personal focus for his text in his Introduction: These essays about Anglo, Indian, and Chicano literature reflect certain aspects of my own life and values, as a student of literature, a writer, and a person. He is concerned with the protean nature of personal, professional, and ethnic boundaries. As a son of American Indian parents and as a citizen of New Mexico, he sees himself as beyond all shifting boundaries. Although this personal focus is asserted strongly in the Introduction, Gish sends mixed signals within the text when he refers to various critical theories--new historicism, magic realism, for example--but does not thoroughly explore them in relation to the texts he discusses. He gives very general introductions to each section but then moves to a very specific analysis with little middle ground. As the title suggests, the text is divided into three sections with a brief introduction to each section. The first and third sections have connections to the Southwest. The second section seems, therefore, out of place in that the Native American writers Gish chooses to discuss are not from the Southwest. His book would be more cohesive, and more useful to teachers, if he had discussed Leslie Marmon Silko or some other American Indian writers from that area. As is, his readers cross boundaries which may be political popular but which leave them feeling disoriented and puzzled by Gish's choices. He does tell us that Earlier versions of some of these essays have appeared previously in various listed publications; however, he does not give us dates of publication or specific journals for each essay. Apparently, this text is loosely organized on the boundary theme because Gish is revising and republishing articles in book form and using the crossing boundaries metaphor to rationalize the disparate sections. This reader wishes he had spent more time on arguing and analyzing the rationalization; as is, the argument is weak and appears to be superficial. In spite of these criticisms, interesting ideas appear in these essays. Part One: Anglo Visitors is intriguing because the Anglo writers discussed--Charles F. Lummis, Erna Fergusson, Harvey Fergusson, and Witter Bynner--are often neglected and even unknown to many. This section will be of interest to teachers who want to bring into their classrooms views of the Southwest and its peoples by Anglos who visited or came to live there from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Gish is often forgiving of their cultural misreadings or what many would term racist views and allows them to speak often in their own voices so that we can understand their loving responses to the beauty of the land they encountered. He is particularly effective in defending these writers against the indictment of easterners such as Stanley Walker in the 1954 New Yorker and in convincing us that Walker's envisioning of these writers as victims of a landscape who end up with a style he calls `New Mexico baroque' is erroneous and unfair. In Part Two: Indian Voices, Gish presents essays on the works of Blackfeet/Gros Ventre poet and novelist James Welch and on the poet Ray A. …

Conversations with V. S. Naipaul

Intense, controversial, unfailingly clever, V. S. Naipaul has won nearly every major British writing award, including the prestigious Booker Award (in 1971 for In a Free State) and in 1990 was knighted for his literary accomplishments. Born of Indian parents in Trinidad in 1932, he has little sympathy for the land of his birth or forefathers. All that he puts under his microscope--nations, peoples, religions, or ethnic groups--are targets of his clear-sightedness, and he shows no patience with pretense or delusions.This collection brings together interviews from a thirty-six-year span and reveals a witty, sometimes scathing talker with a free-ranging curiosity, but one who dreads intimacy and cherishes a solitary detachment. This collection shows the changing faces of this world-class author. In early interviews, mostly given to such fellow writers and colleagues as Derek Walcott and the poet Eric Roach, Naipaul is clipped, brusque, and clearly impatient with interviewers. More recent interviews, given primarily to journalists rather than literary figures, reveal a maturing Naipaul, often warm, passionate, and forthcoming about his private life.

Communication Gatekeeping: A Response to Mediating Conditions in American Indian and School Personnel Interactions

The findings reported in this paper indicate the need for a more robust explanation of communication failure between American Indian parents and school personnel than cultural discontinuity provides. According to the data, conditions that constrain interactions between American Indian families and educators in one consolidated school district lie within the bounds of politics, economics, and social circumstance. The conditions of distrust, racial tension, maintenance of tribal identity, dependence, and isolation inform the perceptual frame that influences the ways American Indian people interact with school personnel. Through “gatekeeping,” American Indian parents act to control the dilemma they face in American public education. Proposed solutions to problematic American Indian educational issues suggest that transformative school leaders must create inclusive learning communities in which American Indian students have opportunities to thrive.

All my sins are relatives

The customary cant about being an American Indian goes like this: Indians must live in wide open spaces; they must define their spirituality by chant, dance, and drum; they must pass down their traditions with reverent care; and they must offer tourists Indian art and Indian experiences to take home. On one side of commercial Indianness there is sloppy sentimentality, and on the other, speechless hatred. But what of those born between, like W. S. Penn, with an Anglo parent demanding that Indianness be abandoned and an Indian parent clinging to all that can be held? What of those who grew up in the cities? Can they express more than confusion, frustration, and rage? Are there alternatives to assimilation, submission, or revolt? In All My Sins Are Relatives Penn finds in his own family three generations trying to come to terms with their differences and their Indianness. Within its pages, Penn describes learning the depths of his love for his grandfather, to whom he dedicated this book. As arrogant as youth can be, I was often too busy silently grading his grammar to pay real attention and see what he was giving me. Among the gifts was an awareness of what a story could tell, what it could conceal, and what it could never tell. His grandfather inhabited a different sense of time, and it was a long while before Penn lived there too. When he did, he was back again with a story, working on how Indian writers wrote poetry and prose. In the work of other Indian writers and in his own Penn found that although white and Indian cultures cannot mingle, they can be bridged. All My Sins Are Relatives is a bridge.

Sleep patterns in children: cultural differences

AbstractThe paper examines the nature of sleep in general and the patterns of sleep in children in particular. It explores the variations in sleeping patterns in children from different cultures, with a special emphasis on Indian children (both in India and England) and English children. The influence of climate, culture, and other relevant social factors on sleep disturbances in children are critically examined. The merits of the diverse therapeutic strategies, ranging from the psychodynamic to behavioural strategies, which have been advocated by health professionals to assist parents to cope with the sleeping disorders in their children, are carefully scrutinized. It is argued that there is merit in training parents in the use of simple, clearly formulated, behavioural and cognitive behavioural intervention strategies to help them to alleviate sleep disorders in their children. The paper also examines the value of indigenous therapeutic interventions, employed by Indian parents both in India and in Britain.

Psychiatric morbidity in preschool children--a clinic based study.

Psychiatric morbidity patterns in preschool children attending a general hospital psychiatric clinic were studied. No psychiatric problem was detected in 48% of the sample, epilepsy being the diagnosis in more than half of these children. Common psychiatric problems were mental retardation (27%), breath-holding spells (11%) and hyperkinetic syndrome (7%). Emotional and behavioral problems, and habit disorders, which are quite common in this age group, were poorly represented in the clinic sample. It appears that mental retardation and epilepsy are the only two main disorders usually perceived by Indian parents as psychiatric problems in preschool age group.

The Power of American Indian Parents and Communities

The Power of American Indian Parents and Communities

Sex Preference and Fertility in Peninsular Malaysia

This study uses data from the Second Malaysian Family Life Survey, conducted in 1988, to examine parents' preferences for the sex of their children within each of Malaysia's three ethnic groups. While Malay and Indian parents do not show a consistent sex preference, Chinese parents prefer to have all sons, or a combination of sons and daughters, with more sons than daughters, or at least an equal number of them. Son preference among the Chinese does not seem to be a constraint to fertility decline among that population. Since 1970, Chinese fertility has dropped rapidly; at the same time, Chinese son preference has become more pronounced. Evidence indicates that further reductions in Chinese fertility, through the reduction in sex preference, would be small.

Indian Music in the Indian School in South Africa: The Use of Cultural Forms as a Political Tool

music is primarily a means of release of psychological tension (1964:47). Within the context of South African society, these suggestions hold true in part, but are inadequate in other ways. In this paper, I address these inadequacies by wrestling with an apparent dichotomy: Indian music thrives through its viability for the Indian community; yet Indian music, as presently imposed by the South African state in Indian public school education, functions as a powerful political tool to Indianize the image of these institutions, thereby legitimizing larger apartheid structures.1 My preliminary findings resulted from my informal investigation, while I worked as a music teacher in the Indian South African public school system for three and a half years. My subsequent research, spanning eight months in 1986, took the form of informal interviews with Indian students, parents, and teachers.2 None of the interviews were tape recorded or written down in the presence of the respondents lest I be falsely deemed an informant of the South African government. As an insider among the group, I sensed that none of the people I spoke to would have shared their real views had I documented anything in their presence. Instead, when alone at the end of each interview, I quickly jotted down everything I could recall. Whether this methodology was successful, given the trying political circumstances at the time of research, is a question I raise at the end of the paper. Even more important than methodological success however, are the potent ethical issues which confronted me during the research process, including subsequent disclosures of my findings. Was it proper to conduct the research in

Parent–Infant Rough Play: Its Cultural Specificity

The salience of father-infant rough play in some industrialized and nonindustrialized countries around the world was reviewed, and data were presented on the physical play interactions of 34Indianmothers and fathers with their year-old infants in the home. Our review of the parent-infant physical play literature failed to show that fathers had a uniformly greater propensity to engage in vigorous rough activity with infants than mothers did. The data from the observational study suggest that Indian parents are not vigorous play partners to infants. Mothers were more likely to engage in object-mediated play than were fathers. In total, the data reviewed do not support the contention that rough play is a major activity between fathers and infants across cultures. Rather, the data from parent–infant play in the nonindustrialized countries suggest that rough play may be culture specific, casting doubts about its biological underpinnings.

The Use of Media Materials and Role Training Programs with Parents in India

This report examines, in the context of role-model analysis, why parents in India sometimes fail to assume appropriate roles in the rehabilitation of their visually impaired children. It describes the media—films, audiovisual materials, and literature—that are available to educate parents, and two direct training programs in rural villages which taught rehabilitation techniques to parents as well as to their children.

Epilepsy: disappearing lesions appearing in the United Kingdom.

Investigation of spontaneously resolving lesions associated with epilepsy. Observational study during one year. One neurology department. 4 cases in patients (one of Indian parents, one African, one white English, and one Afro-Caribbean) resident in the United Kingdom, who presented with transient epilepsy. Findings on computed tomography and on screening for infections. In all four cases a small mass lesion in one cerebral hemisphere was observed on computed tomography, which resolved after 9, 4, 3 and 1.5 months respectively without surgery. The number of cases seen in one year suggests that the lesions may be more common in the United Kingdom than previously recognised and that research into their cause is warranted.

Culture and Consistency in Ideal and Actual Child-Rearing Practices: A Study of Canadian Indian and White Parents

Culture and Consistency in Ideal and Actual Child-Rearing Practices: A Study of Canadian Indian and White Parents

Insulin response in obese and nonobese offspring of conjugal Indian diabetic parents with increasing glucose intolerance.

Pancreatic beta cell function in response to glucose was assessed in three different groups of offspring of conjugal diabetic parents (OCDP): those with normal glucose tolerance, those with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT), and those with diabetes. Serum immunoreactive insulin (IRI), C-peptide (CP), insulin/glucose (I/G) ratio, and IRI/CP ratios were estimated at fasting and 90 min after glucose load. Insulin secretion, measured as CP, was found to be low even in normal nonobese OCDP, but the change was not reflected in IRI value as the IRI/CP ratio was found to be elevated. The values decreased with increasing glucose intolerance. In obese OCDP, all the parameters were abnormal even among those with normal glucose tolerance, and further deterioration occurred with increasing glucose intolerance. The study shows that insulin secretory defects are detectable even in normal OCDP, and these changes deteriorate with increasing glucose intolerance. Differences are noted in the peripheral concentrations of IRI and CP between obese and nonobese OCDP before development of diabetes. After development of diabetes mellitus, these differences disappear, and the CP and IRI values in both groups are similar and low.

High prevalence of type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes among the offspring of conjugal type 2 diabetic parents in India.

The prevalence of Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes among offspring of conjugal Type 2 diabetic parents in India was determined by performing oral glucose tolerance tests. Diabetes was present in 50% of offspring, and 12% had impaired glucose tolerance according to the National Diabetes Data Group criteria. Thus, 62% of all offspring had abnormal glucose tolerance tests. This is the highest prevalence rate for diabetes among offspring of conjugal diabetic parents and might represent an ethnic variation of the genetic factors operating in Indian patients with Type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes.

Indian parents and their youth: some perceived and actual differences

The present study examined perceived and actual differences in the perception of mental illness, religiosity and westernization in a selected group of Indian adolescents and their mothers. The total sample comprising 80 male and 80 female adolescents and their mothers were tested on a specially constructed Eastern-Western Mental Illness Scale and a biographical questionnaire. Analyses of the data indicated that mothers have a greater acceptance of mental illness than the youth credit them with. Generally, the adolescents perceive themselves as less religious and more westernized than their parents. The implications of these generational and sex differences were discussed in terms of conflict and change in a transitional society.S. Afr. J. Sociol. 1984, 15(3): 124–128

Children's Social Interaction and Parental Attitudes Among Hupa Indians and Anglo-Americans

Summary Observations of California preschool children in early childhood education centers in Davis and on the Hoopa Indian Reservation were recorded by videotape. Social interactions of the children were categorized according to 12 social acts in the Whitings' study of children in six cultures. Parental attitudes of Indian and white parents were surveyed, and differences in Davis and Hoopa child rearing attitudes were examined with reference to differences in the children's social behaviors and the values of their cultural background. Although both children's groups were found to show predominantly nurturant and responsible behavior, the Anglo-Americans were highly authoritarian-aggressive, while the Hupa children were sociable-intimate. These behaviors are shown to be consistent with the expectancies of their respective cultures.