Publications by authors named "S R Levitt"

Background: Children with an intellectual disability (ID) are 3-4 times more likely to present with behaviors that challenge and mental health problems than typically developing children. Parenting and the quality of parent-child relationships are risk factors for these families. The COVID-19 pandemic further exacerbated difficulties, leading to an increase in child mental health problems and behaviors that challenge, a deterioration in parental mental health, and further strain on family relationships.

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  • A survey of 66 specialist mental health services looked at how they care for children with intellectual disabilities who exhibit challenging behaviors or may have mental health issues.
  • Only 24% of services reached out to families at the referral stage, and only 20% provided therapeutic support during either the referral or waiting phases.
  • The findings suggest that services should enhance contact with families and offer more therapeutic options throughout a child's treatment process, especially given the long waiting times for mental health support.
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Background: Increased Posterior Tibial Slope (PTS) angle has been reported to be a risk factor for primary anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears. However, it is unknown whether increased PTS has an associated increased risk for non-contact versus contact ACL injury.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine whether patients with non-contact ACL injury have a higher PTS angle than those with contact ACL injury.

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Two different models have been proposed to explain how the endpoints of chromatin looped domains ('TADs') in eukaryotic chromosomes are determined. In the first, a cohesin complex extrudes a loop until it encounters a boundary element roadblock, generating a stem-loop. In this model, boundaries are functionally autonomous: they have an intrinsic ability to halt the movement of incoming cohesin complexes that is independent of the properties of neighboring boundaries.

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Purpose: To evaluate long-term outcomes of patients treated with posterior medial meniscal root tear (PMMRT) repair through assessment of functional outcome scores and to identify patient surgical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics associated with improved outcomes.

Methods: This was a single-centre, retrospective study evaluating patients who had undergone a PMMR repair using a transtibial suture pullout technique with two locking cinch sutures. This was performed as a follow-up to previously published 2-year and 5-year outcome studies, using the same cohort.

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