Associations Between Temperament and Dental Caries Status in Thai Children.

Purpose: To examine the relationships between (1) the levels of each temperament traits and the levels of milk-feeding frequency, oral hygiene care and dental caries, and (2) the difference in mean numbers of decayed surfaces among temperament types.

Materials And Methods: Four hundred and ninety-three (493) 12-month-old infants were assessed for temperaments and characteristics of child-rearing practices. The data were analysed with their dental caries status at 18 months of age.

Psychiatric disorders associated with intimate partner violence and sexual violence in Thai women: Aresult from the Thai National Mental Health Survey.

Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) and sexual violence (SV) occur commonly and are a violation of basic human rights. There are limited studies to date that examine the impact of IPV, SV and mental health outcomes in Thailand.

Aims: The objective of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of intimate partner physical violence and IPV in Thai women and the association between these forms of violence and psychiatric disorders.

Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness Scale - Thai Version: Translation and Assessment of Psychometric Properties Among Psychiatric Outpatients in Central Thailand.

This paper reports the translation of the English Internalized Stigma of Mental Illness scale into Thai and assessment of its psychometric properties. After forward- and backward-translation, Thai experts completed the content validity index with item agreements of .86 to 1.

Postpartum depression among Thai women: a national survey.

Objective: To determine prevalence rates and associated factors of postpartum depression among Thai women.

Material And Method: A cross- sectional national survey and descriptive study of 1, 731 women was done. The participants were required to complete a self-administered questionnaire consisting of inquiries on social demographic data, obstetric data, maternal and child health, stressful life events within the past 12 months, support system, and 10 items of the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale-Thai version.

Effect of television viewing on social-emotional competence of young Thai children.

Exposure time, program content and cultural context may affect the impact of television (TV) on the social-emotional competence (SEC) of children. This study examined the effects of TV viewing on the SEC of Thai infants. The study was based on a Thai birth cohort study from which duration and content of TV viewing and data from the Modified Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment instrument at 1 and 3 years of age were available.

Mental health and psychosocial support after the tsunami in Thailand.

This article presents an overview of the psychosocial and mental health response after the Asian Tsunami hit Thailand in 2004. The organization and deployment of service modalities that used pre-existing community and school advisory programmes for rapid emergency response were seen as key elements of the response. Mental health programmes were provided to mitigate and ameliorate the effects of the catastrophic event.

Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder and depression among children in tsunami-affected areas in southern Thailand.

Context: On December 26, 2004, an undersea earthquake occurred off the northwestern coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The tsunami that followed severely impacted all 6 southwestern provinces of Thailand, where approximately 20,000 children were directly affected.

Objective: To assess trauma experiences and the prevalence of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression among children in tsunami-affected provinces in southern Thailand.

Psychiatric disorders in Thai school-aged children: II Associated factors.

Background: Many factors have been studied and found to be associated with psychiatric disorders in children. In Thailand, some have been studied but they did not cover the wide range of important factors.

Method: A two-stage survey designed was used in a community sample of 1698 Grade 4 children randomly selected from 107 schools in Bangkok.