Challenges to School Success Among Children in U.S. Military Families.

Introduction: More than 90% of children in military families attend civilian schools that may lack understanding of the unique experiences and stressors of military life. School success in children of military families has important implications on future academic achievement, health outcomes, and military groups; yet there has not been an examination of challenges of school success among children of military families in the United States using nationally representative data.

Materials And Methods: Data captured in the 2021-2022 National Survey of Children's Health, limited to children aged 6 to 17 years, were used to examine the association between child's caregiver military status and challenges of school success: lack of school engagement measured through caring about school and completing schoolwork, school absenteeism, and grade repetition (n = 60,599).

Examining the Association Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and ADHD in School-Aged Children Following the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have long been associated with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder (ADHD) diagnoses in children; but the data used is now over 6 years old (from 2017 to 2018). Understanding the current landscape of their prevalence and association is needed to capture evolving social, environmental, and economic conditions, and ensure interventions remain relevant to addressing current childhood trauma.

Objective: This study provides an updated analysis of the association between ACEs and ADHD using post-acute-COVID-19 pandemic data.

The Health of Children in U.S. Military Families: Evaluation of the 2020-21 National Survey of Children's Health.

Introduction: The health of children and adolescents, particularly children of military families, is instrumental for military departments; yet, there has not been an examination on the overall physical health status, or access to health care, among children of military families compared to children of civilian families.

Materials And Methods: This study used the 2020-2021 National Survey of Children's Health, children aged 0-17 years, to examine the association between military status of the caregiver of the child and the child's health status, financial stability, and health care access via health insurance coverage (n = 90,711 children). Bivariate analyses used Pearson's chi-squared tests and were weighted to be nationally representative.

Rural-Urban Differences in Self-Reported Participation in Diabetes Self-Management Education.

Context: Rural America faces a dual challenge with a higher prevalence of diabetes mellitus (hereafter, diabetes) and diabetes-related mortality. Diabetes self-management education (DSME) can improve glucose control and reduce adverse effects of diabetes, but certified DSME programs remain disproportionately limited in rural counties than in urban counties.

Objective: The goal of this study is to examine the proportion of urban and rural adults who report having received DSME using a nationwide, 29-state survey while considering the potential consequences of lower service availability.

Brief Report: Rural-Urban Differences in Disability Prevalence, Healthcare Services Utilization, and Participation in Special Education.

Previous research has found that rural children are more likely to be disabled but are less likely to receive care. Both rural and disabled children were significantly impacted by the pandemic, particularly in terms of service utilization. Therefore, this study seeks to identify rural-urban differences in the prevalence of various disability indicators and in the receipt of educational and healthcare services.

Overcoming barriers to the involvement of deafblind people in conversations about research: recommendations from individuals with Usher syndrome.

Plain English Summary: Usher syndrome is the most common cause of deafblindness worldwide and is estimated to affect between 3 and 6 people in every 100,000. Children are born with hearing loss and develop sight loss in their early years of life. A barrier to the involvement and participation of deafblind people in research is access to information in appropriate formats.

End-damage-specific proteins facilitate recruitment or stability of X-ray cross-complementing protein 1 at the sites of DNA single-strand break repair.

Ionizing radiation, oxidative stress and endogenous DNA-damage processing can result in a variety of single-strand breaks with modified 5' and/or 3' ends. These are thought to be one of the most persistent forms of DNA damage and may threaten cell survival. This study addresses the mechanism involved in recognition and processing of DNA strand breaks containing modified 3' ends.

Global defects in the expression and function of the low density lipoprotein receptor (LDLR) associated with two familial hypercholesterolemia mutations resulting in misfolding of the LDLR epidermal growth factor-AB pair.

The low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor is a modular protein involved in the endocytosis of cholesterol-rich lipoproteins from the circulation. Mutations to the receptor result in familial hypercholesterolemia, and over 60 of these occur in the calcium-binding epidermal growth factor-like domain pair. Two selected mutations in this region (G322S and R329P) were introduced into the domain pair and analyzed by in vitro refolding.