Parental and healthcare provider attitudes towards the Healthy Child Programme in England: a qualitative analysis.

Background: The Healthy Child Programme (HCP) in England, delivered by Health Visitors (HV) and Nursery Nurses (NN), aims to assess growth and development in pre-school age children. This qualitative analysis aimed to evaluate the perceptions and experiences of HCP providers and parents located in a London borough.

Methods: This qualitative analysis is part of a larger study piloting an automated growth screening algorithm in a London borough.

A Digital Health Solution for Child Growth Monitoring at Home: Testing the Accuracy of a Novel "GrowthMonitor" Smartphone Application to Detect Abnormal Height and Body Mass Indices.

Objective: To develop and evaluate a smartphone application that accurately measures height and provides notifications when abnormalities are detected.

Patients And Methods: A total of 145 (75 boys) participants with a mean age ± SD of 8.7±4.

Parental and health visitor perceptions on growth screening in early childhood: a qualitative study.

Background: Growth screening in early childhood can help identify children with a range of medical and psychosocial vulnerabilities. In the UK, childhood growth and development up to age 5 years are assessed through the Healthy Child Programme, delivered by health visitors. However, formal criteria to trigger referrals for onward investigation are unclear.

Short stature and language development in the United Kingdom: a longitudinal analysis of children from the Millennium Cohort Study.

Background: In low- and middle-income countries, poverty and impaired growth prevent children from meeting their cognitive developmental potential. There are few studies investigating these relationships in high-income settings.

Methods: Participants were 12,536 children born between 2000 and 2002 in the UK and participating in the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS).

Religiosity and Quality of Life in Older Christian Women in Ireland: A Mixed Methods Analysis.

This study used a mixed methods approach to understand the ways in which religion and quality of life (QoL) are associated in later life in Ireland. Longitudinal quantitative data from 2112 Christian women aged 57 and over at baseline (2009-10) participating in the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), as well as qualitative data from semi-structured interviews from 11 Christian women aged 65 and over in 2018, were used. The quantitative data showed an association between lower religiosity and lower QoL.

Mini-mental state examination trajectories after age 50 by religious affiliation and practice in Ireland.

Unlabelled: Religious attendance is sometimes associated with better health outcomes, although the link between religion and cognitive ageing is inconclusive. We aimed to assess differences in cognitive performance trajectories by religious affiliation and religious attendance. We further sought to test possible mechanisms for an association.

Regional differences in short stature in England between 2006 and 2019: A cross-sectional analysis from the National Child Measurement Programme.

Background: Short stature, defined as height for age more than 2 standard deviations (SDs) below the population median, is an important indicator of child health. Short stature (often termed stunting) has been widely researched in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), but less is known about the extent and burden in high-income settings. We aimed to map the prevalence of short stature in children aged 4-5 years in England between 2006 and 2019.

Higher Parity Is Associated With Lower Mortality in a European Population of Women With High Fertility: Results From Ireland.

Research has often found a U- or J-shaped association between parity and mortality. Many researchers have suggested repeated pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation taxes the body beyond a certain parity level. Available research has concentrated on populations with controlled fertility or historic populations.

Longitudinal Associations of Religiosity and Physical Function in Older Irish Adults.

Objectives: Research into the link between religion and physical function has shown inconsistent results. Most studies have used self-reported measures of physical function, and many have excluded those who are not religious and only compared levels of religious engagement within those groups that are religious. We aimed to assess the longitudinal associations of religious affiliation and religious attendance on two objective measures of physical function.

Religious Attendance, Religious Importance, and the Pathways to Depressive Symptoms in Men and Women Aged 50 and Over Living in Ireland.

Objectives: We aimed to explore the relationship between religiosity and depressive symptoms longitudinally.

Method: We used four waves (2009-2016) of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to create growth curve models (GCM) of depressive symptoms and religious attendance/importance in a sample aged 50+ in Ireland and structural models to assess the longitudinal associations between religious attendance/importance and depressive symptoms. We tested whether this relationship was mediated by social connectedness.

Sexual Activity and Relationship Quality in Middle and Older Age: Findings From The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA).

Objectives: This study assessed the association between sexual activity, mismatches in the importance attributed to sex within couples, and relationship quality in older Irish adults.

Method: We used data from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to derive a scale of subjective relationship strain in married or cohabiting individuals. Negative binomial regression was used to assess the association between relationship strain and sexual activity.