A lifestyle screening tool for young children in the community: needs and wishes of parents and youth healthcare professionals.

Background: Youth healthcare has an important role in promoting a healthy lifestyle in young children in order to prevent lifestyle-related health problems. To aid youth healthcare in this task, a new lifestyle screening tool will be developed. The aim of this study was to explore how youth healthcare professionals (YHCP) could best support parents in improving their children's lifestyle using a new lifestyle screening tool for young children.

Development and evaluation study of FLY-Kids: a new lifestyle screening tool for young children.

Evaluating, discussing, and advising on young children's lifestyles may contribute to timely modification of unhealthy behaviour and prevention of adverse health consequences. We aimed to develop and evaluate a new lifestyle screening tool for children aged 1-3 years. The lifestyle screening tool "FLY-Kids" was developed using data from lifestyle behaviour patterns of Dutch toddlers, age-specific lifestyle recommendations, target group analyses, and a Delphi process.

Behavior Change Techniques That Prevent or Decrease Obesity in Youth With a Low Socioeconomic Status: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Interventions, targeting youth, are necessary to prevent obesity later in life. Especially youth with low socioeconomic status (SES) are vulnerable to develop obesity. This meta-analysis examines the effectiveness of behavioral change techniques (BCTs) to prevent or reduce obesity among 0 to 18-year-olds with a low SES in developed countries.

The Preventive Child and Youth Healthcare Service in the Netherlands: The State of the Art and Challenges Ahead.

The Netherlands has a unique system for promoting child and youth health, known as the preventive Child and Youth Healthcare service (CYH). The CYH makes an important contribution to the development and health of children and young people by offering (anticipatory) information, immunisation, and screening, identifying care needs and providing preventive support to children and their families from birth up to the age of 18 years. The CYH is offered free of charge and offers basic preventive care to all children and special preventive care to children who grow up in disadvantaged situations, such as children growing up in poverty or in a family where one of the members has a chronic health condition.

Costs and effects of conventional vision screening and photoscreening in the Dutch preventive child health care system.

Background: Little is known about costs and effects of vision screening strategies to detect amblyopia. Aim of this study was to compare costs and effects of conventional (optotype) vision screening, photoscreening or a combination in children aged 3-6 years.

Methods: Population-based, cross-sectional study in preventive child health care in The Hague.

Socio-economic inequality in oral health in childhood to young adulthood, despite full dental coverage.

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to assess differences in caries experience according to socio-economic status (SES) in a health-care system with full coverage of dental costs for children up to the age of 18 yr. In 2011 and 2014, by performing hurdle negative binomial models, we obtained data on 3,022 children and young adults aged 5, 8, 11, 14, 17, 20, and 23 yr, living in four cities in the Netherlands. At all ages between 5 and 23 yr, the percentages of children with caries-free dentitions were lower and mean caries experience were higher in low-SES than in high-SES participants.

Food Consumption and Nutrient Intake by Children Aged 10 to 48 Months Attending Day Care in The Netherlands.

The diet of young children is an important determinant of long-term health effects, such as overweight and obesity. We analyzed two-day food consumption records from 1526 young children (10-48 months old) attending 199 daycare centers across The Netherlands. Data were observed and recorded in diaries by caregivers at the day nursery and by parents at home on days that the children attended the daycare center.

Prevalence and pattern of alcohol consumption during pregnancy in the Netherlands.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of alcohol consumption during pregnancy in the Netherlands in 2007 and 2010.

Method: During two identical, nation-wide surveys in 2007 and 2010, questionnaires were handed out to mothers of infants aged ≤6 months who visited a Well-Baby Clinic. By means of the questionnaire mothers were, in addition to questions on infant feeding practices and background variables, asked about their alcohol consumption before, during and after pregnancy.

[Contribution of lifestyle factors to cancer: secondary analysis of Dutch data over 2010 and a projection for 2020].

Objective: To calculate the proportion of cancer cases in the Netherlands in 2010 that were attributable to lifestyle factors by using the most recent data.

Design: Secondary analysis.

Method: Lifestyle risk factors studied were tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption, overweight, lack of physical exercise, and six elements of diet (consumption of vegetables, fruit, processed meat and red meat, and calcium and fibre intake).

Insufficient vitamin D supplement use during pregnancy and early childhood: a risk factor for positional skull deformation.

Vitamin D insufficiency during pregnancy is associated with disturbed skeletal homeostasis during infancy. Our aim was to investigate the influence of adherence to recommendations for vitamin D supplement intake of 10 μg per day (400 IU) during pregnancy (mother) and in the first months of life (child) on the occurrence of positional skull deformation of the child at the age of 2 to 4 months. In an observational case-control study, two hundred seventy-five 2- to 4-month-old cases with positional skull deformation were compared with 548 matched controls.

[Guidelines for 'Asthma in children (ages 0-19)' for youth healthcare].

The objective of the evidence-based guidelines 'Asthma in children (ages 0-19)' for youth healthcare (CHC) is the prevention and reduction of asthma symptoms. The guidelines contain a lot of recommendations that apply to all disciplines in healthcare that deal with children. Primary prevention (preventing asthma): the main proven effective intervention is no smoking, neither passive nor active.

[Smoking during pregnancy: trends between 2001 and 2010].

Objective: To establish trends in the prevalence of smoking during pregnancy between 2001 and 2010 and to relate these to differences in educational gradient in the Netherlands.

Design: National surveys.

Method: In 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2010, 28,720 questionnaires were handed out to mothers with infants aged up to 6 months at periodic check-ups at well baby clinics.

Clustering of socioeconomic, behavioural, and neonatal risk factors for infant health in pregnant smokers.

Background: Tobacco smoking is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, including during pregnancy. Although effective ways of promoting smoking cessation during pregnancy exist, the impact of these interventions has not been studied at a national level. We estimated the prevalence of smoking throughout pregnancy in the Netherlands and quantified associations of maternal smoking throughout pregnancy with socioeconomic, behavioural, and neonatal risk factors for infant health and development.

Breastfeeding duration related to practised contraception in the Netherlands.

Aim: The aim of this study was to gain insight into contraception practised and related to breastfeeding duration.

Methods: Mothers with infants up to 6 months received a questionnaire on infant feeding (breast or formula feeding) and contraception (hormonal or non-hormonal methods). Estimates of the time interval between resuming contraception and cessation of lactation was calculated by Chained Equations Multiple Imputation.

Neonatal screening for congenital hypothyroidism in the Netherlands: cognitive and motor outcome at 10 years of age.

Context: Patients with thyroidal congenital hypothyroidism (CH-T) born in The Netherlands in 1981-1982 showed persistent intellectual and motor deficits during childhood and adulthood, despite initiation of T(4) supplementation at a median age of 28 d after birth.

Objective: The present study examined whether advancement of treatment initiation to 20 d had resulted in improved cognitive and motor outcome.

Design/setting/patients: In 82 Dutch CH-T patients, born in 1992 to 1993 and treated at a median age of 20 d (mean, 22 d; range, 2-73 d), cognitive and motor outcome was assessed (mean age, 10.

Infant milk feeding practices in the Netherlands and associated factors.

Aim: The aim of the study was to describe infant feeding practices and associated factors, and to explore mothers' main reasons for starting and stopping breastfeeding.

Methods: We performed a national inquiry into milk feeding practices among 9133 Dutch infants aged < 7 mo by means of a questionnaire.

Results: 78% of mothers initiated breastfeeding.

Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the use of the thyroxine/thyroxine-binding globulin ratio to detect congenital hypothyroidism of thyroidal and central origin in a neonatal screening program.

Context: Since the introduction of screening for congenital hypothyroidism (CH) in 1974, the optimal laboratory strategy has been the subject of debate.

Objective: To assess the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of various types of thyroxine (T(4))-based strategies to screen for CH.

Design, Setting, And Participants: In the Netherlands, since January 1, 1995, a primary T(4) determination with supplemental thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and T(4)-binding globulin (TBG) measurements has been used.

Exposure to tobacco smoke and infant crying.

Aim: To examine the association of excessive infant crying with maternal smoking during and after pregnancy, paternal smoking, and smoking by other people in the living environment of the infant.

Methods: We collected data on infant crying and smoking in a Dutch national sample of 5845 infants aged 0-3 mo (response 62.8%).

Effects of prenatal PCB and dioxin background exposure on cognitive and motor abilities in Dutch children at school age.

Objective: Our purpose was to evaluate whether effects of exposure to environmental levels of PCBs and dioxins on development in the Dutch cohort persist until school age.

Study Design: In the Dutch PCB/dioxin study, cognitive and motor abilities were assessed with the McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities in children at school age. During infancy, half of this population was fully breast-fed for at least > or = 6 weeks and the other half formula fed.