Compulsive Internet Use Scale for assessment of self-reported problematic internet use in primary school-aged children.

Introduction: The tremendous growth of internet use during past few decades has been primarily led by young people. Despite a plenitude of studies reporting the pros and cons of excessive internet use by adolescents, the internet use of primary school-aged children is under-researched. First, there is lack of reliable and valid cultural invariant self-report instruments for children younger than 11-years-old.

Early temperament and physical health in school-age children: Applying a short temperament measure in a population-based cohort.

Temperament has drawn considerable attention in the understanding of behavioural problems and psychopathology across developmental stages. However, less of a focus has been placed on the role of temperament in physical aspects of health. We aimed to examine the relations between early temperament traits and physical health in school-age children.

Children's Internet Use Profiles in Relation to Behavioral Problems in Lithuania, Latvia, and Taiwan.

This study explored the profiles of elementary-school-aged children's Internet use in relation to their emotional and behavioral problems. Participating in this cross-sectional study were 877 child-parent dyads from Latvia, Lithuania, and Taiwan. Children (8-10 years old) provided information on three variables: the amount of time they spent online, frequency of online activities, and knowledge of how to do things online.

Parental work characteristics and diet quality among pre-school children in dual-parent households: results from a population-based cohort in Taiwan.

Objective: To examine the relationship between parental work characteristics and diet quality among pre-school children in dual-parent households.

Design: Cross-sectional study. Parental work characteristics were measured by the types of combined parental work schedules and work hours.

Variation in the association between socioeconomic status and breastfeeding practices by immigration status in Taiwan: a population based birth cohort study.

Background: The relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and breastfeeding has been extensively discussed in the literature. However, there is some evidence that this relationship can differ with immigration status. To date the majority of research investigating the relationships among SES, breastfeeding and immigration status has been conducted in Europe and the United States with a lack of similar research from Asia.

Healthy living practices in families and child health in Taiwan.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to examine the hypothesis that inexpensive and feasible healthy living practices in families, particularly in disadvantaged families, can promote the health of children.

Methods: The dataset was obtained from the Taiwan Birth Cohort Study and comprises a nationally representative sample of 19,712 3-year-old children in Taiwan. The Child Healthy Living Practices in Families (CHLPF) Index, which rates various items of personal hygiene, vegetable and fruit consumption, physical activity, time spent viewing television, and exposure to smoking, was created, and a logistic regression analysis was conducted to test the hypothesis.

Universal coverage for primary health care is a wise investment: evidence from 102 low- and middle-income countries.

We aimed to provide systemic, empirical evidence on the coverage expansion of primary health care (PHC) linking to good health in low- and middle-income countries. We conducted a pooled, cross-sectional analysis using the 2011 World Health Statistics for World Health Organization Member States at low- and middle-income levels (n = 102). With life expectancy, infant mortality, and under-5 mortality as health indicators, we examined the effect of service coverage rate using variables under 2 domains: health expenditure and PHC (public health provision, primary care access).

Comparing child mortality in Taiwan and selected industrialized countries.

This study compares the mortality rates of children in Taiwan with selected industrialized countries, and identifies the explanations of cross-national variations. We ranked all comparison countries by infant mortality rate (IMR) and under-five mortality rate (U5MR). Multiple regression models were used to examine the relationship of child mortality with gross domestic product, national health expenditure, public social expenditure, and Gini coefficient.