Parent empowerment as a buffer between perceived stress and parenting self-efficacy in immigrant parents.

U.S. immigrant parents encounter various challenges during the migration and resettlement process, such as acculturative stress and dissonance in parenting practices between the cultures in the U.

Parent Experiences of Empowerment: Understanding the Role of Parent Empowerment in Child Health Promotion.

Background: Establishing healthy behaviors during a child's first 5 years is essential for healthy growth. Parents are targeted as agents of change because they serve as primary models of behavior during this period. Although parent-focused interventions often target empowerment as a driver of change, our understanding of how parents experience the process of empowerment in the context of child health promotion remains limited.

Incongruence in Perceptions of Pain: Associations with Mental Health in Couples Living with Fibromyalgia.

Guided by the theory of dyadic illness management, this study examined the association between the within-couple incongruence regarding perceptions of pain experienced by adults with fibromyalgia (AwFM) and symptoms of depression and anxiety in AwFM and their partners. Participants included 204 couples. Three second-order dyadic variables were created from the couples' perceptions of pain interference experienced by AwFM: (1) absolute magnitude of incongruence in perception of pain, (2) average perception of pain, and (3) direction of incongruence (i.

Coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination among young children: Associations with fathers' and mothers' influenza vaccination status.

Objectives: To examine the association between parents' influenza vaccination and their children's coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination status.

Methods: Participants included father-mother dyads from , a cohort of fathers and their co-parents living in the United States. Parents' influenza vaccination status and children's COVID-19 vaccination status were reported from June 2022-July 2023.

Maternal and Paternal Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and Offspring Health and Wellbeing: A Scoping Review.

Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are common, often co-occur, and are associated with poor health outcomes across the life course. Emerging research has emphasized the lasting consequences of ACEs across generations, suggesting parental ACEs are associated with poor physical and mental health outcomes in children. However, the individual effects of fathers' ACEs and pathways of transmission remain unclear.