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Children, Volume 5, Issue 8

2018 August - 11 articles

Cover Story: Physical inactivity is a global problem, and many young Australians are insufficiently active. However, evidence on the positive effects of physical activity on physical, mental, and cognitive health is emerging. Sustainable school-based physical activity interventions that integrate physical activity with learning instruction are required to compensate for the lack of time, which is cited as a major barrier by teachers. The Thinking While Moving in English program provides teachers with the knowledge and skills to deliver physically active English lessons that may have physical and cognitive health benefits for children. View Paper here.
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Articles (11)

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,919 Views
13 Pages

Pediatric Integrative Medicine: Vision for the Future

  • Anna Esparham,
  • Sanghamitra M. Misra,
  • Erica Sibinga,
  • Timothy Culbert,
  • Kathi Kemper,
  • Hilary McClafferty,
  • Sunita Vohra and
  • Lawrence Rosen

20 August 2018

Pediatric integrative medicine (PIM) is of significant interest to patients, with 12% of the general pediatric population and up to 80% of children with chronic conditions using PIM approaches. The field of PIM has evolved over the past 25 years, app...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Implementing Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,392 Views
14 Pages

Fundamental Motor Skills of Children in Deprived Areas of England: A Focus on Age, Gender and Ethnicity

  • Leanne Jaye Adeyemi-Walker,
  • Michael Duncan,
  • Jason Tallis and
  • Emma Eyre

13 August 2018

This study compared the mastery of fundamental motor skills (FMS) of males and females in early-childhood (four to five years, n = 170) and in middle-childhood (nine to ten years, n = 109) who attend schools in deprived and ethnically diverse areas o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 5th Anniversary Issue)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,553 Views
13 Pages

10 August 2018

Background: The physical, cognitive, and learning benefits of physical activity for children have already been established. However, many schools are failing to provide children with sufficient activity at school due to a crowded school curriculum. P...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,559 Views
25 Pages

Integrating Pediatric Hypnosis with Complementary Modalities: Clinical Perspectives on Personalized Treatment

  • Pamela Kaiser,
  • Daniel P. Kohen,
  • Melanie L. Brown,
  • Rebecca L. Kajander and
  • Andrew J. Barnes

7 August 2018

While pediatric integrative medicine (PIM) emphasizes an “evidence-based practice using multiple therapeutic modalities”; paradoxically, literature reviews examining the prevalence and/or efficacy of such mind–body approaches often...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Implementing Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Practice)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,495 Views
9 Pages

Correlates of the Timely Initiation of Complementary Feeding among Children Aged 6–23 Months in Rupandehi District, Nepal

  • Dilaram Acharya,
  • Radha Subedi,
  • Kwan Lee,
  • Seok-Ju Yoo,
  • Salila Gautam and
  • Jitendra Kumar Singh

6 August 2018

Although the predictors of the timely initiation of complementary feeding are well-known elsewhere, there is less awareness of the topic in Nepal. The current study was undertaken to identify the correlates of timely initiation of complementary feedi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
10,643 Views
15 Pages

Late Effects and Survivorship Issues in Patients with Neuroblastoma

  • Danielle Novetsky Friedman and
  • Tara O. Henderson

6 August 2018

Over the past two decades, marked progress has been made in understanding the biology of neuroblastoma; this has led to refined risk stratification and treatment modifications with resultant increasing 5-year survival rates for children with neurobla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Neuroblastoma)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,380 Views
11 Pages

Comparison of Accelerometer-Based Cut-Points for Children’s Physical Activity: Counts vs. Steps

  • Cheryl A. Howe,
  • Kimberly A. Clevenger,
  • Ryann E. Leslie and
  • Moira A. Ragan

3 August 2018

Background: Accelerometers measure complex movements of children’s free play moderate-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), including step and non-step movements. Current accelerometer technology has introduced algorithms to measure steps, along w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,152 Views
16 Pages

Regional Variations in Physical Fitness and Activity in Healthy and Overweight Ecuadorian Adolescents

  • Cheryl A. Howe,
  • Sharon Casapulla,
  • Jay H. Shubrook,
  • Pablo Lopez,
  • Mario Grijalva and
  • Darlene E. Berryman

2 August 2018

Background: Insufficient physical activity (PA) and excessive sedentary behavior (SB) are the main contributors to adolescent obesity. However, it is uncertain whether recent economic growth and urbanization in Ecuador are contributing to an obesogen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,955 Views
8 Pages

Pediatric blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) is one of the most challenging allopathic treatments a patient and family can be faced with. A large Midwest academic health center, and leader in pediatric BMT, made the decision in 2013 to incorporat...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Implementing Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Practice)
  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,200 Views
10 Pages

Piloting a Developmental Screening Tool Adapted for East African Children

  • Mollika A. Sajady,
  • Christopher J. Mehus,
  • Emily C. Moody,
  • Ericka G. Jaramillo,
  • Ezekiel Mupere,
  • Andrew J. Barnes and
  • Sarah E. Cusick

There is a need for developmental screening that is easily administered in resource-poor settings. We hypothesized that known risk factors would predict failed developmental screening on an adapted screening tool in East African children living in po...

(This article belongs to the Section Global Pediatric Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,793 Views
7 Pages

Pediatric integrative medicine focuses on the whole child and the environment in which the child grows up during the treatment of a child’s illness. Nowadays, many different treatment modalities are applied even in children, and doctors need to...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Implementing Pediatric Integrative Medicine in Practice)
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