Online psychosocial group intervention for adolescents with a chronic illness: A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: The present study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of , a protocolled online psychosocial group intervention for adolescents with a chronic illness (CI).

Methods: Adolescents (12-18 years) with different types of CI ( = 59; Mean age = 15.1 years, SD = 1.

Growing up with Down syndrome: Development from 6 months to 10.7 years.

Background: We analysed developmental outcomes from a clinical trial early in life and its follow-up at 10.7 years in 123 children with Down syndrome.

Aims: To determine 1) strengths and weaknesses in adaptive functioning and motor skills at 10.

Attention in 3-Year-Old Children with VLBW and Relationships with Early School Outcomes.

Aim: To compare attention skills of children with a very low birth weight (VLBW) with children with a normal birth weight (NBW) when entering primary school, and explore the association of attention skills with school career 2 years later.

Methods: Participants were 151 children with VLBW and 41 with NBW. Attention was assessed at 3 years and 8 months of corrected age (CA) and school career at 5½ years of CA.

Effects of early thyroxine treatment on development and growth at age 10.7 years: follow-up of a randomized placebo-controlled trial in children with Down's syndrome.

Context: In 2-year-old children with Down's syndrome (DS), early T4 treatment was found to result in slightly better motor development and growth.

Objectives: This study sought to determine long-term effects of early T4 treatment on development and growth in children with DS with either an elevated or normal neonatal TSH concentration.

Design: Patients received a single follow-up visit 8.

Parental perceptions of child vulnerability in a community-based sample: Association with chronic illness and health-related quality of life.

The study aimed to assess the prevalence of parental perceptions of a child's vulnerability (PPCV) in a Dutch community-based sample and its relationship with children's health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Parents completed the Child Vulnerability Scale and a socio-demographic questionnaire. The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.