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Psychometric properties of the Italian version of Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (DCDQ'07): A preliminary study
No full textThe Developmental Coordination Disorder Questionnaire 2007 (Wilson et al., 2007) is a parent-completed screening tool for motor coordination. It has been recently translated into Italian and adapted to the Italian culture (Caravale, Baldi, Gasparini & Wilson, 2014). This work presents an investigation conducted on 312 Italian subjects aged 5-12 years. The Italian version of DCDQ'07 revealed a good internal consistency. A good convergent validity was also proved analyzing the scores of 70 participants who were administered the Movement Assessment Battery for Children (Henderson & Sudgen, 1992) in addition to the DCDQ'07. Clinical and research applications of DCDQ'07 are discussed
Developmental Coordination Disorder and dysgraphia DCD e disgrafia
No full textIn Italy, Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) continues to be under-diagnosed and school age children who come on first consultation are often reported for handwriting difficulties or suspected dysgraphia and, rarely, for general motor coordination problems. Since handwriting difficulties are described in more than 50% of children with DCD, it is the clinician’s responsibility to understand whether such difficulties are the symptoms of DCD, or they represent an isolated condition. We discuss the need to investigate global motor skills when, at school-age, an handwriting problem emerges. Recognizing DCD in children with handwriting difficulties or dysgraphia allows for more specific rehabilitation programs
Handwriting readiness e abilità motorie: quale contributo nell’apprendimento della scrittura
No full textLo studio ha come obiettivi: (a) analizzare le caratteristiche grafo-motorie di bambini con sviluppo tipico e con sospetto Disturbo di coordinazione motoria di età prescolare e di I classe primaria b) individuare la relazione tra abilità motorie, grafo-motorie e scrittura a mano in bambini di I e II classe primaria seguiti longitudinalmente. Hanno partecipato 50 bambini di 5 anni anni e 39 bambini di I e di II classe primaria. Sono state proposte: una prova di Handwriting Readiness, il questionario DCDQ (Caravale e Baldi, 2014), le prove di velocità di scrittura (BVSCO-2, Tressoldi, Cornoldi e Re) e la copia di una frase in corsivo (DGM-P) per i bambini di I classe. I dati sono stati analizzati attraverso una serie di analisi correlazionali (Pearson) e di analisi di regressione semplice. I risultati mostrano una relazione significativa tra abilità motorie e scrittura a mano, sia rispetto a criteri di leggibilità che di velocità di scrittura
Do antiepileptic drugs differ in suppressing interictal epileptiform activity in children?
No full textAntiepileptic drugs may suppress interictal epileptiform activity in addition to suppressing seizures, although the comparative rates of suppression of interictal epileptiform activity for phenobarbital (PHB), carbamazepine (CBZ), and valproate (VPA) in children are unknown. Electroencephalogram (EEG) pairs were identified in which the first tracing illustrated interictal epileptiform activity before antiepileptic drug treatment; the rate of clearance of such activity in the subsequent tracing was assessed according to the drug introduced. EEG pairs (n = 213) were identified for CBZ, PHB, and VPA. Overall suppression rates of epileptiform activity in the second EEG were 12/55 (22%) for PHB, 27/81 (33%) for CBZ, and 35/77 (46%) for VPA (P = 0.005 for VPA vs PHB). When suppression rates were assessed comparing sleep-state pairs, suppression rates were 24/80 (30%) for PHB, 51/129 (40%) for CBZ, and 60/120 (50%) for VPA (P = 0.005 for PHB vs VPA). A subanalysis for focal discharges yielded suppression rates of 10/43 (23%) for PHB, 19/60 (32%) for CBZ, and 8/19 (42%) for VPA; for generalized discharges, 2/12 (17%) for PHB, 8/21 (38%) for CBZ, and 27/58 (47%) for VPA. VPA, and to a lesser extent CBZ, appeared superior to PHB in suppressing interictal epileptiform activity, including both focal and generalized epileptiform activity. (C) 2001 by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Late-preterms: A group of infants at risk for cognitive developmental delay. Systematic review and description of evaluation tools
No full textChildren born at 34-36 weeks' gestation are defined as late-preterms (LP); they are considered as being at risk for adverse cognitive outcomes compared to infants born at term. We performed an extensive search and systematic review of English language articles on the cognitive development of LP from the first year of life to school age, published between January 2006 and June 2013. General cognitive outcome, specific neuropsychological abilities and school performances were investigated. We selected the studies that had used standardized instruments for the evaluation. Nineteen studies were reviewed; eleven were on pre-school children and eight on school-age children. The results suggest that pre-school LP children reach a lower general cognitive level than term children, and perform worse when specific neuropsychological abilities are measured. At school age LP still reach a lower cognitive level and have more academic difficulties in comparison to term infants. The reasons for the lower cognitive performances of LP might be related to prematurity itself, but also to the causes of the preterm birth
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Prognostic value of the cerebral function monitor (CFM) and of the eeg in term newborns with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopaty
No full textThe prognostic value of the neonatal EEG has been well established, while the role of the neonatal CFM in predicting neurological outcome is more controversial. The aim of the study was to compare the prognostic value of the conventional EEG with CFM trace in 35 term newborns with HIE. The recordings were made with a CFM for a period of at least 48 hours during the first days of life; repeated EEG recordings were also performed during the first week and severity of EEG and CFM abnormalities was graded using a score. Survivors were followed until 1 year of age, by repeated standardized neurological examinations. There were no significant differences between early EEG and CFM in predicting neurological outcome, but the conventional EEG recorded at the end of the first week of life prooved to be the more valuable tool in predicting prognosis for infants with HIE. Our results support the hypothesis that HIE prognosis is well valued by simultaneous recording of CFM trace and repeated EEG
Sudden Infant Dead: Reaction to Bereavement in Siblings and Mothers
No full textBackground: This study aims to determine if surviving siblings of children who died from Sudden Infant Dead Syndrome (SIDS) had behavioural or psychological problems and if their mothers had suffered from alexithymia. Methods: We have enrolled 39 families (58 children). The “Mourning Group” (MG) consisted in 16 families (28 children) with following characteristics: 1) having an infant die from SIDS; 2) having at least one surviving child aged 6 to 18 years; 3) at least 8 years of mourning. The control group (CG) consisted of 23 families (30 children) free from any kind of mourning experiences. We used CBCL 6-18 questionnaire to assess behavioural and psychological problems on siblings, and TAS-20 in order to measure alexithymia in mothers. Results: Children in the MG compared with children in the CG presented a significantly higher score in CBCL on “social problems”, whilst reported a significantly lower score on “social competencies”. Mothers in the MG compared with mothers in the CG presented significantly lower scores in the externally oriented thinking (subscale F3 of TAS). A positive significant correlation emerged between time of bereavement and difficulty in identifying feelings (subscale F1). Conclusions: Our study confirms the presence of social difficulties in siblings born in families that experienced SIDS and shows that most of the mothers had long lasting difficulties in identifying their feelings
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