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Rethinking development interventions through the lens of decoloniality in sub-Saharan Africa : the case of global health
(Routledge, 2020-12-08)
There has been much talk about decolonizing global health lately. The movement, which has arisen in various communities around the world, suggests an interesting critique of the Western dominant model of representations. ...
Maternal depression symptoms and internalising problems in the offspring : the role of maternal and family factors
(Springer, 2017-12-22)
Maternal depression symptoms (MDS) are a robust risk factor for internalising problems (IP) in the offspring. However, the relative importance of MDS and other factors associated with it (i.e. other types of maternal ...
Missing single nucleotide polymorphisms in Genetic Risk Scores : a simulation study
(Public Library of Science, 2018-07-19)
Using a genetic risk score (GRS) to predict a phenotype in a target sample can be complicated by missing data on the single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that comprise the GRS. This is usually addressed by imputation, ...
Articulating care and responsibility in design : a study on the reasoning processes guiding health innovators’ ‘care-making’ practices
(Elsevier, 2020-12-16)
This article explores how health innovation designers articulate care and responsibility when
designing new health technologies. Towards this end, we draw on Tronto’s ethic of care framework
and Responsible Research and ...
The mediating role of adolescents’ loneliness and social withdrawal in the association between maternal depressive symptoms and suicidality in adolescence : a 20-year population-based study
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-01-25)
We examined whether adolescents’ loneliness and social withdrawal mediated the association between maternal depressive symptoms and adolescent suicidality. Secondary analyses on the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child ...
Anticipatory governance and moral imagination : methodological insights from a scenario-based public deliberation study
(Elsevier, 2019-12-03)
The fields of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and participatory foresight seek to establish, and toinclude publics within, anticipatory governance mechanisms. While scenario-based methods can bring to thepublics’ ...
Impact of an early childhood intervention on the home environment, and subsequent effects on child cognitive and emotional development : a secondary analysis
(Public library of science, 2019-07-03)
The objective of this study was to use secondary data from the Preparing for Life (PFL) trial to test (1) the impact of a prenatal-to-age-five intervention targeting women from a disadvantaged Irish community on the quality ...
Examining the impact of a social skills training program on preschoolers’ social behaviors : a cluster-randomized controlled trial in child care centers
(BMC, 2020-04-23)
Background
Preschoolers regularly display disruptive behaviors in child care settings because they have not yet developed the social skills necessary to interact prosocially with others. Disruptive behaviors interfere ...
Self-reported weight loss attempts and weight-related stress in childhood : heightening the risk of obesity in early adolescence
(Wiley, 2021-01-26)
Objective
Weight loss attempts occur as early as childhood. The impacts of weight loss attempts and weight-related stress on the occurrence of obesity during childhood remain unknown. We aimed to: (a) assess the prevalence ...
The associations between child-care services during the preschool years and high school graduation : a 20-year longitudinal population-based study
(Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2021-11-03)
Objective:
Together with family factors, early care and education (ECE) services were shown to improve school readiness in kindergarten. However, it is not clear whether better school readiness at age 6 years translates ...