Background This study assessed the knowledge of
personal safety skills among children with
developmental disabilities and their parents’ perceptions
of children’s knowledge.
Method This exploratory study examined the mental
Objective: The present study describes factors related to fatal abuse in three age groups in the United
States Air Force (USAF).
Method: Records from 32 substantiated cases of fatal child abuse in the USAF were independently
reviewed for 60 predefined factors.
Background: Family caregivers of youth with DD and behavioral health issues experience the highest level of caregiving strain. Many must also deal with their own or another family member’s chronic health condition, which may place them at additional risk for poor outcomes.
We examined associations between overall posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, symptom clusters of PTSD (reexperiencing, avoidance, dysphoria, and arousal), and relationship adjustment cross sectionally and longitudinally using self-report measures from a dyadic sample of U.S.
Since the onset of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan attention has increased on the importance of mental health with military service members. An integral component, although far less studied, are the ties between mental health and military spouses.
Communication about one’s grief is both essential and complicated. We employ communication privacy management theory to examine how bereaved individuals manage the revelation and concealment of private information about the death of a parent or sibling.
We assessed the prevalence of high body mass index (BMI) in a large cohort of military children. We compared BMI data from electronic medical records of military children aged 2 to 18 years with BMI data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
In this, study, the authors examined the moderating effects of partnership on the relationship
between services and supports adequacy and family quality of life (FQOL) for families of
children with deaf-blindness ages birth to 21. A social-ecological approach enabled examining