Development of a Psychosocial Risk Screener for Siblings of Children With Cancer: Incorporating the Perspectives of Parents
ConclusionsPsychosocial screening requires sibling-specific screening items that correspond to preexisting risk (at diagnosis) and reactions to cancer (several months after diagnosis). Validated, sibling-specific screeners will facilitate identification of siblings with elevated psychosocial risk. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - April 3, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Featured Article: Interpersonal Stressors and Resources as Predictors of Adolescent Adjustment Following Traumatic Brain Injury
ConclusionInterpersonal stressors and social support have important implications for adolescent adjustment after TBI. Adolescents with low levels of school resources, with high levels of friend stress, and who sustain severe TBI are at greatest risk for difficulties with adjustment. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - March 29, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Multimethod Assessment of Medication Nonadherence and Barriers in Adolescents and Young Adults With Solid Organ Transplants
ConclusionsMultimethod nonadherence evaluations for AYA transplant recipients should assess objective nonadherence using the MLVI, particularly in light of low reported nonadherence rates for antirejection medications. Assessments should include adherence barriers measures, given associations with the MLVI, and potentially prioritize assessing barriers over gauging nonadherence via self- or proxy-reports. Caregiver emotional distress symptoms may also be considered to provide insight into family or environmental barriers to adherence. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - March 17, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Describing Perceived Racial Bias Among Youth With Sickle Cell Disease
This study provides a description of racial bias experiences within community and medical settings and highlights the need for further evaluation of the impact of racial bias among youth with SCD. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - March 17, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Patterns of Spillover Between Marital Adjustment and Parent –Child Conflict During Pediatric Cancer Treatment
ConclusionTargeting problems in marital relationships soon after diagnosis may prevent conflict from developing in the parent –child relationship. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - March 17, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Psychometric Evaluation of the Caregiver Burden Inventory in Children and Adolescents With PANS
ConclusionsParents of patients with PANS experience high caregiver burden. The CBI may be confidently used to assess caregiver burden in this population. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - March 14, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
JPP Student Journal Club Commentary: Smartphone-Delivered Interventions for Pediatric Populations: Improving Methodologies to Address Concerns of Feasibility and Efficacy
Smartphones demonstrate growing popularity as a delivery mechanism for pediatric interventions for multiple reasons. First, smartphone ownership is growing exponentially in the United States (Pew Research Center, 2018) and internationally (Poushter, 2016). Many now rely on smartphones as their sole source of Internet access (Smith, 2015), particularly users who are younger, minorities, and of lower socioeconomic status (Pew Research Center, 2018). Smartphones therefore promote access to large numbers of diverse groups, and do not require users to have costly broadband and/or computer access nor to take the time to physical...
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - March 13, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Screening for Family Psychosocial Risk in Pediatric Cancer: Validation of the Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PAT) Version 3
ConclusionsResults reinforce the psychometric properties of this approach for screening of family psychosocial risk. The PAT provides an evidence-based screener that identifies families at three levels of risk and can provide the basis for further evaluation and treatment of children with cancer and their families. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - March 2, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Psychometric Evaluation of the PROMIS ® Pediatric Psychological and Physical Stress Experiences Measures
ConclusionsThe Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Pediatric Psychological and Physical Stress item banks and short forms provide efficient, precise, and valid assessments of children ’s stress experiences. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - February 27, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Featured Article: Caregiver Perceptions of Stress and Sibling Conflict During Pediatric Cancer Treatment
ConclusionsDuring pediatric cancer treatment, some stressors may spill over into family relationships and contribute to increases in sibling conflict. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - February 21, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Selective Difficulties in Lexical Retrieval and Nonverbal Executive Functioning in Children With HbSS Sickle Cell Disease
AbstractLanguage deficits in multilingual children with sickle cell disease (SCD) are poorly understood. We tested the hypothesis that selective language deficits in this population could relate to an impaired frontal lobe functioning often associated with high-risk homozygous HbS disease (HbSS). In all, 32 children from immigrant communities with HbSS SCD aged 6 to 12 years (mean age = 9.03,n = 9 with silent infarcts) and 35 demographically matched healthy controls (mean age = 9.14) were tested on their naming skills, phonological and semantic fluency, attention, and selected executive functions (response inhibi...
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - February 8, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Health-Care Utilization Patterns of Maltreated Youth
AbstractTo examine in detail the health-care utilization patterns of maltreated children, we studied electronic health records (EHRs) of children assigned maltreatment-related codes in a large medical system. We compared youth with maltreatment-related diagnoses (N = 406) with those of well-matched youth (N = 406). Data were based on EHRs during a 4-year period from the University of Minnesota’s Clinical Data Repository, which covers eight hospitals and over 40 clinics across Minnesota. A primary care provider (PCP) was assigned to over 80% of youth in both groups. As expected, however, the odds of not having a P...
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - February 2, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Young Adult Outcomes for Children With 22q11 Deletion Syndrome and Comorbid ADHD
ConclusionsA categorical diagnosis of ADHD in childhood predicted a greater variety of worse outcomes than dimensional levels of ADHD symptoms. Despite the significant impact of comorbid ADHD in 22q11DS, evidence-based treatment rates were low. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - January 25, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
Trajectories of Acute Diabetes-Specific Stress in Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes and Their Caregivers Within the First Year of Diagnosis
ConclusionsDistinct patterns of stress emerged for both the adolescent and parent cohorts. Resilience at the time of diagnosis was particularly protective for adolescents. These results suggest that stress-reducing and resilience-promoting interventions for newly diagnosed adolescents with T1D may have potential to improve longer-term outcomes. (Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology)
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - January 24, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
JPP Student Journal Club Commentary: Linking Biology to the Environment: Novel Methods for Understanding Pediatric Obesity
Pediatric obesity is a complex, seemingly intransient public health concern that has spurred research to identify causes and potential solutions. Both obesity-related behaviors and outcomes are affected by dynamic processes of many factors across multiple levels of the social ecological model. The environmental –behavioral relationship is reciprocal, dynamic, and dominated by temporally dependent feedback. Pediatric psychology and public health have generated substantial literature on predictors of obesity, with pediatric psychology focusing on individual social determinates and public health focusing on environmental de...
Source: Journal of Pediatric Psychology - January 19, 2018 Category: Pediatrics Source Type: research
