Epidemiology of maternal depression, risk factors, and child outcomes in low-income and middle-income countries.

With the prevalence of obesity on the rise, keeping young children physically active is an important strategy to promote their health and well-being. But survey instruments to measure physical activity in preschool-aged children are lacking. Furthermore, direct measures of their physical activity are often not feasible in large studies. Time spent playing outdoors is a potential surrogate measure of physical activity for this group, but parental-report measures of outdoor playtime have not been evaluated. This study compared a direct measure of children's physical activity with two parental-report measures of it, finding that they are significantly correlated and suggesting that parental reports are worth future evaluation as a survey measure.

Parental Report of Outdoor Playtime as a Measure of Physical Activity in PreschoolAged Children

Advances in developmental resilience science are highlighted with commentary on implications for pediatric systems that aspire to promote healthy development over the life course. Resilience science is surging along with growing concerns about the consequences of adverse childhood experiences on lifelong development. Resilience is defined as the capacity of a system to adapt successfully to challenges that threaten the function, survival, or future development of the system. This definition is scalable across system levels and across disciplines, applicable to resilience in a person, a family, a health care system, a community, an economy, or other systems. Robust findings on resilience in childhood underscore the importance of exposure dose; fundamental adaptive systems embedded in the lives of individuals and their interactions with other systems; developmental timing; and the crucial role of healthcare practitioners and educators as well as family caregivers in nurturing resilience on the “front lines” of lived childhood experience. Resilience science suggests that human resilience is common, dynamic, generated through myriad interactions of multiple systems from the biological to the sociocultural, and mutable given strategic targeting and timing. Implications for pediatric practice and training are discussed.

Resilience in Children: Developmental Perspectives

Prevention of pelvic inflammatory disease by screening for cervical chlamydial infection

Screening for Social Determinants of Health Among Children and Families Living in Poverty: A Guide for Clinicians

Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity

https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(13)00072-7/pdf

Rahil D. Briggs

Papers

Associations Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD Diagnosis and Severity

Maternal depressive symptoms and child obesity in low-income urban families.

Comparing Two Models of Integrated Behavioral Health Programs in Pediatric Primary Care

Integrated pediatric behavioral health: Implications for training and intervention models.

Integrated Early Childhood Behavioral Health in Primary Care