Pediatrics News

The results of a longitudinal cohort study published in JAMA Pediatrics suggest that a direct relationship exists between screen time and poorer developmental outcomes for children aged between 18 and 60 months.

Children whose parents were both diagnosed with a psychiatric illness were at 51-times higher risk for developing reactive attachment disorder than those whose parents were not diagnosed with a disorder, according to a nationwide population-based study in Finland.

A movement sensor was able to identify children with internalizing disorders — including anxiety and depression — with 81% accuracy, according to research published in PLoS One.

Tomorrow marks the first day of National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week, a national health awareness week that offers teenagers and young people the facts about drugs, alcohol and addiction backed by clinical research.

Adolescents who self-harmed were three times more likely to commit violent crime than those who did not, according to study findings.

Half of parents were unaware that their teens had thoughts of killing themselves, and when parents reported that their children had thoughts of suicide, nearly half of those children denied having them, according to a study published in Pediatrics.

Findings from a prospective cohort study of more than 30,000 children showed that more than 40% started school with vulnerabilities in social-emotional functioning tied to emerging mental health conditions.

Nearly 9,000 children and adolescents died as a result of prescription and illicit opioid poisonings between 1999 and 2016 in the United States, according to findings published in JAMA Network Open. Most of these deaths occurred in teenagers, who saw an increase in heroin-related mortality of more than 400% during that time.

Study findings published in JAMA Psychiatry indicated a link between depression in fathers during the postnatal period and later depression in their offspring at age 18 years.

After assessing data from a large community sample of more than 7,000 youth, researchers found a high rate of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, particularly in females and after puberty.