Category: children

  • Problematic internet use in children and adolescents: Associations with psychiatric disorders and impairment

    Problematic internet use in children and adolescents: Associations with psychiatric disorders and impairment

    Children today seem like they were born with an iPad in hand. Toddlers might not be potty trained yet, but they know how to switch from one app to the other, Facetime their grandparents and even change WiFi networks. Researchers are still unsure as to what effects this precocious use of technology, particularly increased use…

  • Household chaos associated with a number of adverse child, parent, and family-level outcomes

    Household chaos associated with a number of adverse child, parent, and family-level outcomes

    Since the early 2000’s there has been growing interest in the phenomenon of household chaos and how it impacts on the well-being and development of children. Yet despite this interest, no review has been conducted that comprehensively brings the existing literature together. A systematic scoping review we have published in BMC Public Health aims to…

  • Mitigating Violence against Women and Children in East Africa

    Mitigating Violence against Women and Children in East Africa

    More than a third of women worldwide – within every culture, race, ethnicity, and throughout every socioeconomic class – have experienced some form of sexual or physical violence or abuse from partners or ex-partners These incidents, referred to as intimate partner violence (IPV), severely affect not only the women themselves but also the children and…

  • Sharing data for the benefit of children with cancer

    Sharing data for the benefit of children with cancer

    Michal Jarmoluk /Pixabay September is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, a time to recognize issues facing children with cancer. Several new developments in childhood cancer research at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and other institutions hold promise for accelerating the development of new treatments, and emphasize the importance of sharing data. FatCamera / Getty Images…

  • Malaria vaccine promises a better future for African children

    Malaria vaccine promises a better future for African children

    Healthy children (Photo credit: Nigeria Health Watch) According to the WHO’s World Malaria Report 2018, there has been “no significant progress in reducing global malaria cases” between 2015 and 2017. In 2017, an estimated 219 million cases of malaria occurred worldwide, most of them (92%) in the WHO African Region. Of these cases, 435,000 patients…