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Fall 2013

Liu, Stacy

More and more parents are seeking care for their children in emergency departments (EDs) to stabilize acute emergencies related to mental health problems, request guidance for at-home child management, and gain access to health care resources. This retrospective cohort study explored patient and...

Spring 2023

Ali, Amber Z

Meaningful development and evaluation of mental health care services requires the involvement of individuals who use the services. However, the lived experiences of children and adolescents with mental health concerns as well as their parents/caregivers are seldom considered in studies seeking to...

Fall 2017

Hancock, Myles T

ABSTRACT Background: Health care requires constant improvement. Harms in health care are becoming a priority, as is incorporating the patient’s voice in both clinical research and clinical care. Patients have been found to provide a more subjective, detailed perspective of their treatment...

Fall 2022

Hammond, Leah M

Background: Perinatal stroke is a vascular brain injury between the 20th gestational week and the 28th postnatal day. Perinatal stroke can lead to significant impairments to daily functional abilities and executive functions (EF: inhibition, working memory, and shifting). Longitudinal research...

Spring 2013

van Manen, Michael A

PURPOSE AND PROBLEM: Neonatology, the study of the newborn, marks the moment when the infant enters the world and encounters the parent. As the branch of medicine concerned with caring for this new child, neonatology facilitates the process of receiving the child. It is after the delivery, the...

Fall 2018

Lansing, Marihan

Premature infants are at increased risk of short bowel syndrome (SBS), which leads to dependence on parenteral nutrition (PN). While lifesaving, PN support has multiple complications, such as increased risk of sepsis and liver disease. Autonomy from PN is dependent on adaptation of the remnant...

Spring 2017

Kang, Liane J

Introduction: Secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) plays a critical role in gut mucosal immunity and is a marker of immune maturation in early life. Delayed IgA production is associated with increased risk of allergic diseases. Animal models of stressful events before birth and during infancy show...

Fall 2020

Choudhury, Bipasha

Background Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) continues to be a major public health issue globally. An estimated 150,000 infants are infected annually through vertical transmission (VT). The prevention of vertical transmission of HIV can be mitigated through HIV screening in pregnancy; however,...

Fall 2016

Shave, Kassi DR

Background: Procedural pain is the unpleasant sensory and emotional experience children endure when undergoing a medically situated intervention that may cause pain, anxiety, or distress. Procedural pain is a major contributor to every child’s experience with acute pain. Poorly managed procedural...

Spring 2013

Yu, Xiaoyang

C-reactive protein (CRP) is a biomarker of systemic inflammatory response (SIR) which is associated with the extent and activity of disease. The profiles of SIR and the changes of CRP remain unknown in children undergoing ventricular assist device (VAD) support and heart transplantation (HTx). We...