Participation and quality of life among youth with spinal cord injury.

Aim: Examine relationships between participation and quality of life (QOL) among youth with spinal cord injury (SCI).

Method: Youth ages 6-18 years with SCI completed the Children's Assessment of Participation and Enjoyment, which measures participation frequency (diversity/intensity) and context (with whom/where), and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, which measures emotional, social, school, and overall psychosocial QOL. Analyses were conducted separately for children (ages 6-12) and adolescents (ages 13-18) and included correlations and multiple regression.

Health-related quality of life after pediatric spinal cord injury.

Objective: To describe health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among youth with spinal cord injury (SCI), examine agreement between child and caregiver report HRQOL, investigate relationships between HRQOL and demographic, injury and psychological variables.

Methods: Caregivers and youth with SCI completed a pediatric HRQOL measure and mental health measures; injury information was gathered from medical records.

Results: One hundred and ninety-seven youth with SCI and their caregivers participated.

Society for women in academic psychiatry: a peer mentoring approach.

Objective: Despite an increasing presence of women in medicine, the percentage of women in academic psychiatry remains low. At the University of California, Davis, women represent two-thirds of psychiatry residents; however, the percentage of female faculty is one-third. This article presents a novel approach to the academic gender gap problem.

Saturday-morning television: do sponsors promote high-risk behavior for burn injury?

Television has become an important tool for learning and socialization in children. Although television violence has been associated with adverse effects, data on depiction of fire and burn injury are lacking. We sought to determine whether Saturday-morning television programming, viewed primarily by children, depicts fire and burn injury as safe or without consequence, thus potentially increasing the incidence of burn injury in children.