Application of the Scale for the Assessment of Feeding Interaction (SVIA) to Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Feeding problems occur more frequently among children with Autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The aim of this study was to analyse eating difficulties of ASD children through the direct observation of the caregiver-child co-regulation system. We compared 60 ASD children with a control group of 50 typically developing Italian children on the Scale for the Assessment of Feeding Interaction (SVIA).

Screening for Developmental Disorders in 3- and 4-Year-Old Italian Children: A Preliminary Study.

Background: The "Osserviamo" project, coordinated by the Municipality of Rome and the Department of Pediatrics and Child Neuropsychiatry of Sapienza University, aimed to validate an Italian version of the Ages and Stages Questionnaire-3 and to collect, for the first time in Italy, data on developmental disorders in a sample of 4,000 children aged 3 and 4 years. The present paper presents the preliminary results of the "Osserviamo" project.

Methods: 600 parents of children between 39 and 50 months of age (divided in two age stages: 42 and 48 months) were contacted from 15 kindergarden schools.

The role of post-migration living difficulties on somatization among first-generation immigrants visited in a primary care service.

The role of post-migration living difficulties (PMLD) on somatization was studied in 101 first generation immigrants visited in primary care. Premigratory traumas and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) were also assessed. About one third of patients somatized.

[Immigration, trauma, living difficulties and psychopathology: a preliminary study in a primary care setting].

Aim: Investigate the prevalence of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), anxiety, depression and somatizations in a sample of immigrants visited in a transcultural primary care service. The relationship among psychopathological symptoms, pre-migratory events and post-migration living difficulties is also considered.

Methods: We studied 101 outpatients, attending the "Caritas" Primary Care Unit for immigrants in Rome.

The relationship between somatization and posttraumatic symptoms among immigrants receiving primary care services.

Traumatic experiences and somatization are related in studies on complex trauma, though this relation is rarely studied in immigrants. The relationship between somatization and self-reported traumatic experiences and posttraumatic symptoms in patients attending a primary care service for immigrants was studied. The sample consisted of 101 patients attending a primary healthcare service dedicated to immigrants.