Social Characteristics Of Children Research Articles

Personal and social aspect of psychological diagnosis of children with mental disorders in medical and social expertise

The article discusses the personal and social characteristics of children with impaired mental functions undergoing medical and social examination to establish the category of “disabled childˮ. The results of comparing two groups are presented: children who were assigned the category “disabled childˮ according to the results of the examination, and children who were not assigned this category. Personal and social features were diagnosed using the children's version of R. Kettell's multifactorial personality questionnaire, R. Gilles' method “Film test interpersonal relationships of a childˮ, observation cards. Statistically significant differences in the characteristics of children with different levels of mental disorders were obtained: according to the degree of sociability, verbal intelligence, self-confidence, social courage and risk-taking, sense of responsibility, sensitivity and self-control; according to communication and adaptation strategies in the family and external society. The main conclusion of the study was the statement that conducting a medical and social examination requires taking into account not only the types, persistence and severity of mental disorders, but also to assess the personal and social characteristics of children. This will allow the psychologist to identify the personal potential of the child and the need for specific rehabilitation measures and social support measures.

The effectiveness of using children’s drawings in social care House in producing Purposeful digital stories: فاعلية استخدام رسوم أطفال دور الرعاية الاجتماعية في إنتاج قصص رقمية هادفة

The present study aimed to confirm the importance of art technology in the digital age by discovering the psychological and social ‏characteristics of children’s drawings during the dawning realism stage (7- 9 years old), at the Social Care House. The study also aimed to confirm the efficacy of these drawings for analyzing children’s personalities, their emotional and psychological states and art’s role in delivering a sociocultural message a digital storytelling method, which is in line with the requirements of KSA Vision 2030. By following the descriptive. The study reached a number of results, including the effectiveness of using children’s drawings in the production of digital stories. In addition, the imagination, which the societal environment to which it belongs affects it, is able to integrate with the indicative relationships in digital anthropology with its problematic implications in the production of digital stories that reveal psychological facts and social relationships in the daily life of a child in social care homes.

Issues of children with disabilities registered as disabled

Aim. To analyze the medical and social characteristics of children's disability at the stage of primary medical and social care in the polyclinics of Kazan.
 Methods. 185 case reports of development of children with disabilities aged 0 to 17 years were analyzed as well as the questionnaires for their parents and 96 case reports of healthy peers of the same age group based on the data from children polyclinics N. 9 and 7 of Kazan. Relative values were calculated to process the results.
 Results. The conducted analysis revealed that children with the status of disabled persons were more often born in aged and young mothers, with pathological pregnancy and first birth. In the structure of disability causes, psychiatric disorders and nervous system diseases are prevailing. Disabled children acquire acute diseases more often than their healthy peers that causes additional expanses for the family, including those due to the care for acutely ill child, and requires additional provision with medications. Individual lessons in the rehabilitation of a child with disabilities require additional financial investments from the family budget. We revealed the need for implementation of educational courses for the parents of disabled children due to that every second family did not have specific knowledge and skills of care and rehabilitation, when a child had functional limitations found.
 Conclusion. Families with children with disabilities in the status of a disabled child need additional assistance in solving medical and social problems.

Supplemental Security Income and Children

In 2018, 1.1 million children under the age of 18 received Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Children qualify for SSI if their families have limited income and assets and the children have medically-determinable conditions that result in marked and severe functional limitations. In this study, I use recent data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and the Disability Analysis File to measure the demographic, economic, educational, health, and social characteristics of children receiving SSI. Relative to other children, I find SSI children have high rates of poverty, near poverty, material hardship, hospitalization, mortality, and adverse schooling outcomes. Relative to other parents, parents of SSI children are more likely to have a disability of their own and less likely to be married, working, or with education beyond high school. Within the SSI child population, I find children in households where family members also receive SSI to have higher levels of material hardship. The study concludes with a comparison of findings to the research literature and a policy discussion.

The Effects of Dance/Movement Therapy on Social Characteristics of Children with Developmental Disabilities

The Effects of Dance/Movement Therapy on Social Characteristics of Children with Developmental Disabilities

Mothers' Knowledge and Practices Regarding their Children with Acute Infective Conjunctivitis

Acute infective conjunctivitis is a common worldwide eye disease; especially among children. The purpose of this study was to assess mothers’ knowledge and practices for their children with acute infective conjunctivitis. Design: A descriptive research design was used in the study. Setting: This study was conducted in Ophthalmic Outpatient Clinics at Benha Ophthalmic Hospital. The Sample: Simple random sample which included 25 % of children with acute infective conjunctivitis who accompanied with their mothers in the above mentioned setting. The total sample included 250 children. Instrument: An interview questionnaire was used to assess: Social characteristics of children, characteristics of mothers, mothers’ knowledge and practices regarding their children with acute infective conjunctivitis. Results: 68% of mother’s had poor total knowledge score, 14.8% of mother’s had satisfactory total practices scores regarding care of their children with acute infective conjunctivitis. Conclusion: there were a positive significant correlation between mothers’ total knowledge and practices scores regarding their children with acute infective conjunctivitis. Recommendation: Health educational program should be developed and implemented for mothers to improve and update them with the most current information about the disease and practices.

Terminology for Children in Sumerian Administrative Records

Region: Southern Mesopotamia = Sumer.Period: Ca. 3200-2000 BC, i.e. Early Bronze Age.Sources: Administrative cuneiform texts from temple and palace archives.Subject: Children of low-rank social status in temple and palace households. Aims: 1) Systematize the terminology for children and offer an overview of its development.2) Identify what biological social characteristics of children are hiding behind these terms.3) Recognize the characteristic features in the terminology for children. Methods: Philological, historical, sociological (sex-age groups/classes). Key facts: 1) Children as dependents in central households appear in cuneiform records as early as the Uruk IV Period (ca. 3350-3250 BC).2) The documents enable to reconstruct several sets of terms to describe human resources in temple and palace households. A substantial part of these terms describe two main biological characteristics of children: their sex and age group.3) Originally, during the earliest periods, the terminology for humans and children in particular bore a strong resemblance with the terms for animals, which implies that the former is an offshoot of the latter.Main point: Other age groups, adults and elderly, received specific terms that were reserved exclusively to designate these age groups. The striking fact conclusion about the child terminology is that it obstinately remained dependent on the terminology for animal youth.The comparison of the bureaucratic terms for children with the lexical evidence (“ancient dictionaries”) demonstrates that the rich selection of terms within the field “children/childhood” that existed in the Sumerian society did not find reception in the administrative practice.

A Study on the Educational Status of Tourism Child Labourers in Petra, Jordan

The study seeks to identify the real status of child labour in tourism in the Petra area and the children's cultural and social tendencies through using the descriptive social survey. The study identifies the real status of child labour through revealing the demographic and social characteristics of children working in the field of tourism and the economic and social characteristics of those children and their families, as well as monitoring the set of values those children have pictured, which express their tendencies and stands toward work, education, and future. The study revealed that the majority of the children working in tourism in Petra face educational and health troubles and they are subjected to different types of abuse. As for the characteristics of children working in tourism in Petra, the majority of them come from large families with relatively high monthly income (around or over the national rate), they are residents of Umm Saihoun village, and half of them work permanently between 8-12 hours per day, the majority of them dropped out of school at early age because of their poor academic performance and disinterest of education. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s2p20

Biological and social characteristics of children with gastrointestinal bleeding in peptic ulcer

The paper presents an analysis of the main components of social and biological histories of children with peptic ulcer complicated by gastrointestinal bleeding and uncomplicated one. It was found that patients with gastrointestinal bleeding had significantly more frequent presence of adverse social and biological factors.

Impact of Functional Constipation on Health-Related Quality of Life in Preschool Children and Their Families in Xi’an, China

AimFunctional constipation (FC) is one of the common diseases among children. The aim of this study was to investigate the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in preschool children diagnosed with FC and the impact of the condition on affected families.MethodsIn this cross-sectional, case-control study, 152 children aged 3–6 years with FC, 176 healthy children aged 3–6 years without FC, and their primary caregivers were selected. Chinese versions of the PedsQLTM 4.0 Generic Core Scale and the Family Impact Module (FIM) were used to assess childhood HRQOL and the impact of FC on family members, respectively. HRQOL scores were compared between children with FC and healthy children. In addition, a multiple step-wise regression with demographic variables of children and their caregivers, family economic status, duration and symptoms of FC, as independent variables, was used to determine factors that influenced HRQOL in children and had impacted caregivers.ResultsScores of physical, emotional, social and school functions, and summary scales were significantly lower in children with FC than in healthy children (p < 0.05). Physical, emotional, social, cognitive, and communication scores for caregivers, as well as daily activities and relationships for families of children with FC, were significantly lower than those of caregivers and families with healthy children (p < 0.05). Children’s ages, duration of FC, symptoms of FC, the child-caregiver relationship, family economic status, and caregiver education level emerged as the main factors influencing HRQOL in children, caregivers, and family members. ConclusionsFC had a significant impact on HRQOL of affected children and their caregivers, as well as their family functions. Social characteristics of children and caregivers, duration and symptoms of FC and family economic status significantly affected HRQOL of children and caregivers, as well as family functions of children with FC.

Fetal, Developmental, and Parental Influences on Cystatin C in Childhood: The Uppsala Family Study

The aim was to identify determinants (biomedical and social characteristics of children and their parents) of cystatin C levels in healthy children drawn from a population sample. Cross-sectional study. 425 pairs of consecutive full siblings born 1987-1995 in Uppsala were identified using the Swedish Medical Birth Registry and invited with their parents for examination in 2000-2001. Serum cystatin C level was log-transformed and analyzed using random-effects models. The examination in parents and children consisted of a nonfasting blood sample, anthropometry, and questionnaires about lifestyle and socioeconomic position. Tanner stage was used for assessment of pubertal status. In age-, height-, and body mass index-adjusted analyses, cystatin C level increased by 2.6% (95% CI, 0.3%-4.8%) higher in Tanner stage 2 vs 1 girls, and 1.6% (95%CI, 0.2%-3.1%) lower in boys than girls. For every 10% increase in maternal cystatin C level, offspring cystatin C level increased by 3.0% (95% CI, 2.2%-3.8%); the equivalent effect for paternal cystatin C level was 2.1% (95% CI, 1.3%-2.9%). Lower maternal education was associated with a 2.4% (95% CI, 0.3%-4.6%) higher cystatin C level in their offspring. Cross-sectional study design, missing cystatin C values for subset of parents, lack of urinary measurements, no gold-standard measurement of glomerular filtration rate. There are intergenerational associations of cystatin C level in families in line with previous reports of heritability of kidney disease. Lower maternal education is associated with higher cystatin C levels in their children. Further studies of healthy children are needed to explore the biological mechanisms for these findings. If cystatin C is measured, these studies will need to record pubertal stages.

First response considerations for children exposed to a radiological dispersal device

Children are considered a vulnerable population during an accidental or deliberate release of radioactive material to the environment due to the fact that they have more active cell division compared with the adult population and therefore detrimental effects promulgate very quickly. Additionally, physical and social characteristics of children make them more prone to internalise a toxin (for example, children are closer to the ground where heavy aerosols can collect; children also have more relaxed sanitary habits compared with the adult population, which aids in hand-to-mouth transfer of contaminants). To confound matters, many emergency protocols are based upon a reference as opposed to a child. Although numerous radiological response exercises have been conducted in the years post 9/11, very few have utilised children actively in the scenarios. This paper considers observations made during a NATO exercise with scenarios covering radiological releases and which utilised a variety of children as exercise participants.

Dietary and Social Characteristics of Children with Severe Tooth Decay

Dental decay remains a major public health problem in Scottish children. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between diet, bowel habit, social class, and body mass index (BMI) in children with severe tooth decay. A cross sectional study of 165 children aged 3 -11 years attending Glasgow Dental Hospital for extraction of teeth under dental general anaesthesia (DGA), was undertaken. A structured questionnaire was used to obtain information from each child on diet, bowel habit, and social status of their parents. Fibre and sugar scores were calculated from the frequency of consumption of a range of relevant foods. The children (mean age 5.7 (SD1.8) years) had between 1 and 20 decayed, missing or filled primary teeth (dmft) with a mean dmft of 7.9 (SD 3.5). 37% ate a chocolate bar daily, and 29% regularly drank a sugary drink after brushing their teeth. An excess of children were from the most deprived parts of the city and they had the worst decay. Children with the worst decay were also significantly thinner. No relationship was found between tooth decay and bowel habit. In this selected group of children with poor dental health, those from deprived families were over-represented and had significantly more decay. Severe dental decay was also associated with underweight.

Protecting home: class, race, and masculinity in boys' baseball

What can neighborhood baseball tell us about class and gender cultures, urban change, and the ways that communities value public space? Through a close exploration of a boys' baseball league in a gentrifying neighborhood of Philadelphia, sociologist Sherri Grasmuck reveals the accommodations and tensions that characterize multicultural encounters in contemporary American public life. Based on years of ethnographic observation and interviews with children, parents, and coaches, Protecting Home offers an analysis of the factors that account for racial accommodation in a space that was previously known for racial conflict and exclusion. Grasmuck argues that the institutional arrangements and social characteristics of children's baseball create a cooperative environment for the negotiation of social, cultural, and class differences. Chapters explore coaching styles, parental involvement, institutional politics, parent-child relations, and children's experiences. Grasmuck identifies differences in the ways that the mostly white, working-class old-timers and the racially diverse, professional newcomers relate to the neighborhood. These distinctions reflect a competing sense of cultural values related to individual responsibility toward public space, group solidarity, appropriate masculine identities, and how best to promote children's interests - a contrast between hierarchical communalism and child-centered individualism. Through an innovative combination of narrative approaches, this book succeeds both in capturing the immediacy of boys' interaction at the playing field and in contributing to sophisticated theoretical debates in urban studies, the sociology of childhood, and masculinity studies.

Parental Awareness of Health and Community Resources among Immigrant Families

To examine the association between parental immigrant status and awareness of health and community resources to help address common family problems. Using the 1999 National Survey of America's Families, a survey of the health, economic, and social characteristics of children and adults, bivariate and multivariate analyses were conducted on 35,938 children to examine the relationship between parents' immigrant status (U.S.-born citizens, naturalized citizens, and noncitizens) and their responses to questions about their awareness of specific health and community resources. Compared to U.S.-born citizens, noncitizens were at the highest risk of not being aware of health and community resources for most outcomes, followed by naturalized citizens. The services of which noncitizens were most likely to be unaware were places to get help for family discord, child care issues, and family violence. Multivariate analyses indicate that parental race/ethnicity, education level, employment status, and child age were other significant independent risk factors. Immigrant parents are at particularly high risk of alienation from systems of health care and support services that are available to low-income and other vulnerable populations in the United States. These findings clearly document disparate awareness among parents of different immigrant status. Community and health resources should reach out to immigrant populations, in linguistically and culturally appropriate ways, to alert them to the availability of their services.

Residential Care for Children with HIV/AIDS in Trinidad and Tobago

SUMMARY As do other countries in the Caribbean and the developing world, Trinidad and Tobago continue to use residential institutions for vulnerable children. This demographic study of children with HIV/AIDS in residential care examines issues of poverty, health, race, gender, and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS among children in residential care. By focusing on children within the only institution in Trinidad and Tobago for children with HIV/AIDS, a profile of the social characteristics of children is provided and the care and social work services children receive in the home are examined. The study indicates that some of the children who once tested positive for HIV can mature to adulthood and would, therefore, need child welfare planning for permanence.

Access and Use by Children on Medicaid: Does State Matter?

Although Medicaid is a central component of health care for children, the program is not uniform across the states. Using state and nationally representative data from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF), a survey of the economic, health and social characteristics of children, nonaged adults and their families, we examine differences in access and use by children on Medicaid across 13 states, and compare those differences to national estimates. We find significant differences in access and use across the states for children on Medicaid. The characteristics of the children and their local health care environment explain some, but not all, of the state differences in access and use.

RISK FACTORS EXPOSING YOUNG CHILDREN TO BEHAVIOUR PROBLEMS

The present review describes factors likely to increase the probability of behavioural problems in young children. Specific behaviours, when displayed early on at home, in daycare and at school, are powerful predictors of social maladaptation. In this review, we identify the main behavioural and social characteristics of children experiencing social maladaptation, then examine the risk factors associated with these maladaptations. These risk factors include: child based factors, family‐centered factors and contextual factors. Further, we give greater attention to studies reporting a combination of risk factors and processes. Children's social maladaptation is generally not the result of one biological or socialization process. On the contrary, risk factors combine in a dynamic process and must be examined one by one in terms of their associations. Because many of the risk factors identified in this review have only associative or a non‐causal links with maladaptive behaviours, researchers are urged towards more longitudinal and causal studies of risk factors. Moreover, intervention programs should focus on combinations of factors that might increase (as with risk factors) or decrease (as with protective factors) the probability of behaviour problems in children.

Considerations in the provision of comprehensive care for children with severe visual handicap.

The medical and social characteristics of children attending day special schools for the partially sighted is described. This group is characterized by the large number of additional handicaps and a high rate of familial defect. One third have at least one member of the family handicapped and belong to families larger than average. One tenth of the children are living in anomalous family situations. Some of the implications for the provision of comprehensive care are discussed.

Educational and social characteristics of children with asthmna.

Asthma was found to affect 4·8% of Aberdeen schoolchildren aged 10 to 15 years, the ratio of affected boys to girls being 2·2:1. In the majority of children, asthma caused frequent absence from school in the early years: at the time of the study there was still some adverse effect on education in half of the children with severe asthma but in only a minority of those with moderate or mild asthma. There was an excess of severe asthma in the children of semi- and unskilled manual workers (social classes IV and V). Children with severe asthma tended to come from large families, regardless of social class. The children with asthma had a higher mean IQ than the general study population.