Fifth graders participated in a study designed to examine the development of intentional self-regulation which is defined as selecting and enacting behaviors that attain goals that are pertinent to oneself.
Objective: The aims of this study were 2-fold: to provide a brief introduction to the prospective longitudinal Great Smoky Mountains Study and review recent findings; and to use this sample to conduct an epidemiologic analysis of common childhood anxiety disorders.
Participants from 11 rural counties in western North Carolina participated in a prospective longitudinal study aimed at characterizing developmental patterns, prevalence, and comorbidity of childhood anxiety disorders and their relationships to adult functioning.
We examined the prevalence of childhood (?18 years) physical and sexual abuse reported among patients admitted to the psychiatric inpatient service and the differential rates of this abuse associated with psychiatric diagnoses.
Researchers conducted a retrospective chart review of 603 consecutive psychiatric inpatients at one Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital to assess the prevalence of reported childhood physical and sexual abuse. The prevalence of reported childhood physical or sexual abuse was 19%.
Objective: Prenatal exposure to inappropriate levels of glucocorticoids (GCs) and maternal stress are putative mechanisms for the fetal programming of later health outcomes.
Whether prenatal maternal psychosocial stress and cortisol (a biological indicator of stress) exerts a joint or independent influence on infant stress regulation was examined. Mothers completed measures of stress, anxiety, and depression during pregnancy, and provided cortisol assays.