Publications by authors named "H De Moll"
Objective: To investigate a dose-response relationship between the magnitude of decrease in pediatric respiratory tract infections (RTI) during the 2020 implementation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) and the rise thereafter during NPI lifting.
Study Design: We conducted an interrupted, time-series analysis, based on a multinational surveillance system. All patients <16 years of age coming to medical attention with various symptoms and signs of RTI at 25 pediatric emergency departments from 13 European countries between January 2018 and June 2022 were included.
Two-year-olds selectively seek help, but not based on helper maturity.
Br J Dev Psychol
November 2024
Help-seeking is a strategy by which children signal their need for social learning. In three experiments, we examined when and from whom 2-year-old (N = 146 children; mean age = 31.4 months) US children from diverse ethnoracial and economic backgrounds (62% White; 9% Latine; 24% low-income) seek help in problem-solving contexts.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEmpirical studies on selective teaching and informing indicate that children may vary what they teach depending on whom they are teaching, taking into account how helpful the information is for a given audience. The current meta-analysis quantifies the effect of selective informing and teaching in 2-7-year-olds by examining the relationship between the helpfulness of the information and the frequency of information transmission. Through a systematic search that yielded 1483 results, 28 studies (104 effect sizes, N = 2716) met the inclusion criteria.
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- The study aimed to assess whether short-term treatment with lamotrigine can enhance cognitive functioning in adolescents with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).
- A double-blind, randomized clinical trial involved 31 participants aged 12 to 17 taking 200 mg of lamotrigine for 26 weeks, measuring outcomes like performance IQ and various cognitive skills.
- Results indicated that lamotrigine did not significantly affect overall cognitive performance or most secondary outcomes, with only a slight trend towards improved visual sustained attention noted in the treatment group.
Article Synopsis
- The study assesses the effectiveness of white blood cell count (WBC) in predicting serious bacterial infections (SBI) in children compared to C reactive protein (CRP) and absolute neutrophil count (ANC).
- After analyzing data from over 17,000 febrile children across multiple European emergency departments, WBC showed poor predictive value with a sensitivity of 56% and specificity of 74% for WBC >15.
- The findings suggest that CRP is a better marker for identifying SBI in children, and WBC should only be used for specific cases rather than as a routine diagnostic tool.