Mental Health

Teaching Chinese children aged 4 to 6 years to distinguish among faces of a different race resulted in a reduction of pro-Asian/anti-black racial bias,, according to findings published in Child Development.

Eighth-grade students who attended a middle school were more likely to think negatively about their reading skills than students who attended a kindergarten through eighth-grade school, according to data published in The Journal of Early Adolescence.

Insurance mandates enacted in 46 states that require commercial insurers to cover treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder were associated with increases in insurer-covered autism care and monthly spending on autism-specific services, according to data published in Health Affairs.

Although poverty is more prevalent in Hispanic immigrant families, immigrant children are much less likely to experience adverse childhood events — including abuse, violence exposure and family dysfunction — when compared with Hispanic children from United States-native families, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

CHICAGO — Children in the third to fifth grades who own cell phones are more likely to be cyberbullied as well as do the cyberbullying compared with traditional bullying, according to research presented at the 2017 AAP National Conference & Exhibition.

CHICAGO — Approximately 300,000 families living in impoverished towns along the United States-Mexico border in Texas, called colonias, face negative health consequences because of substandard housing, lack of resources and exposure to toxic stress, according to findings presented at the 2017 AAP National Conference and Exhibition.

Eliminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program would be detrimental to the mental health of those impacted by the law, according to two authors of an essay recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Exclusion in school, which was more common in boys, secondary school students and socioeconomically disadvantaged children, was associated with higher psychological distress, according to secondary survey analysis results.

Mobile phone use in the first trimester of pregnancy is not likely to cause adverse effects on a child’s neurodevelopment, and may even have a positive impact, according to findings recently published in BMC Public Health.

Parents of children who were born very prematurely or had a very low birthweight reported similar quality of life to parents of term infants when their children reached adulthood; child mental health problems and poor peer relationships were stronger predictors of negative parental quality of life.