Publications by authors named "Kristin S Valerius"
Purpose: To examine educational and occupational outcomes among survivors of childhood cancer and peers during the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood.
Methods: Families were recruited when children with cancer were 8 to 15 years old and receiving initial treatment for a malignancy that did not primarily affect the central nervous system (CNS). At that time, each child with cancer was matched to a classmate of similar age, gender, and race for inclusion in a comparison group.
Objective: To examine post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and disorder (PTSD) among survivors of childhood cancer and comparison peers during the transition to emerging adulthood.
Method: From elementary and middle school, we prospectively followed a cohort of 56 cancer survivors, 60 comparison peers, and their parents. Assessments were completed after the youth's 18th birthday using questionnaires and a semi-structured psychiatric interview.
Purpose: To examine social and romantic outcomes among survivors of childhood cancer and comparison peers during the transition from adolescence to emerging adulthood.
Methods: Families were recruited when the children with cancer were 8-15-years-old and on initial treatment for a malignancy that did not primarily affect the central nervous system (i.e.
Background: This study examined feeding skills differences in medically complex children born prematurely and full term and sought to determine whether later feeding difficulties within this medically complicated sample were related to medical factors or factors related to preterm status.
Methods: A total of 143 pediatric patients referred to an outpatient clinic for feeding, nutrition, or growth problems were compared by their gestational age at birth across a variety of dependent variables related to feeding development and behaviors.
Results: Full-term and preterm children did not demonstrate significant differences in feeding difficulties at first oral feeding.