Predictors of maternal distress among mothers in economic hardship: A classification and regression tree analysis (CART).

A recurrent observation in poverty research is the association between many attendant stress factors and the high incidence of maternal distress. In this study, we reason that such risk factors do not preclude mothers from possessing adaptive capacities, through perceived parenting efficacy and family hardiness, as buffers against two common distress sources in low socioeconomic status (SES) households-perceived children's emotional and behavioral problems, and family's economic hardship. Using classification and regression tree analysis, we examined the moderating roles of these maternal factors in emotional distress with 513 Singaporean mothers of elementary school-age children on government financial scheme.

Why did COVID-19 not further harm the mental health of poor mothers? A mixed-method study on low-income families in Singapore.

Objectives: This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on a disadvantaged group of financially poor mothers' mental health conditions in Singapore during the phase of acute COVID-19 infection.

Design: A mixed-method design is used. We conducted five focus group discussions with interviewers (n=39) who administered a third wave of survey questionnaire to 424 mothers from low-income families between June and September 2020.

"I have HIV but I'm not the HIV" - the experiences of heterosexual Chinese men living with HIV in Singapore.

As HIV is widely acknowledged as a stigmatized chronic condition which impacts the self, it is important to study the experiences of people living with HIV in relation to their selves and identities. According to extant literature on HIV and identity, the incorporation of an HIV identity is essential to adapting to the diagnosis. However, most of the participants in this study reject HIV as an identity.

Identifying Positive Adaptive Pathways in Low-Income Families in Singapore: Protocol for Sequential, Longitudinal Mixed-Methods Design.

Background: This study aims to examine the adaptive process of children and mothers from multistressed low-income families in Singapore. It aims to bridge the knowledge gap left by existing poverty studies, which are predominately risk focused. Through a sequential longitudinal mixed-methods design, we will differentiate children and mothers who demonstrate varied social, developmental, and mental health trajectories of outcomes.

Why some children from poor families do well-an in-depth analysis of positive deviance cases in Singapore.

Purpose: Research documents that children from low-income families face higher risks in many areas of their development including academic performance. However, some children from low-income homes excel academically despite their disadvantaged environment.

Method: Using Positive Deviance methodology (PD), audio-diary and interview data were collected from ten children who scored at least 70 percentile in school examinations in spite of their financial deprivation.

Paternal involvement of Singaporean fathers within six months postpartum: A follow-up qualitative study.

Objective: This study aims to understand paternal involvement within the six-month postpartum period to identify the challenges and needs of Singaporean fathers.

Design: The study used a descriptive qualitative design.

Setting And Participants: This research is a follow-up study of 50 first-time and experienced fathers who were originally interviewed in the early postpartum period.

Factors influencing paternal involvement during infancy: A prospective longitudinal study.

Aims: To explore factors influencing paternal involvement at 6 months postpartum and to detail the trend of these factors over a period of 6 months.

Background: There is a dearth of studies on paternal involvement during infancy in the unique Asian context.

Design: A prospective four-time point longitudinal design was adopted.

Lived experiences of Asian fathers during the early postpartum period: Insights from qualitative inquiry.

Objective: this study aims to understand fathers' expectations, needs, and experiences in infant care during the early postpartum period in Singapore.

Design: a descriptive qualitative study design was adopted.

Setting: the study was conducted in a tertiary public hospital in Singapore.

How HIV patients construct liveable identities in a shame based culture: the case of Singapore.

This article interrogates the mainstream healthcare narrative that frames human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as a chronic disease, and triangulates it with the lived experiences of people with HIV in Singapore. It also examines how HIV patients reconstruct their identities after the diagnosis of HIV. Four HIV patients (two males and two females) were interviewed in depth by an experienced medical social worker.

Vulnerable families as active agents of their own change process: a bidirectional perspective.

The literature on successful practice with vulnerable families reports social workers' efforts in forging therapeutic bonds with clients, their ability to both recognize clients' strengths and pain and support them as they work through adversity. Vulnerable families' own contribu- tions to their change process, however, have remained largely opaque. This article offers concrete conceptual tools to consider both social workers and clients from vulnerable families as active agents in the change process.

Dynamics of ADHD in familial contexts: perspectives from children and parents and implications for practitioners.

This article provides in-depth insights on the bidirectional dynamics between parents and their children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Five family units (8 parents, 5 children, N = 13) participated in this study. Parents and their child with ADHD were interviewed individually in their homes.

Cross Sectional: bilateral parent-child interactions in school-age children's tooth-brushing behaviors.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine bilateral dynamics between parents and children in influencing children's tooth-brushing behaviors.

Methods: In-depth conversational interviews-a specific qualitative method-were conducted with 38 parents in urban Xiamen, China and Singapore to learn insights into parental strategies for encouraging tooth-brushing habits in 6- to 9-year-old children. The interviews also examined the range of responses from children toward these parental strategies.