Swimming is recognized as a vital life skill with significant physical, emotional and developmental benefits for children. However, parental motivations for enrolling children in swimming lessons, particularly in Ghana, remain underexplored. This study investigates the primary motivations of Ghanaian parents and guardians for enrolling their children in swimming lessons, focusing on health, skill development, social influences and safety awareness.

Outdoor play is essential for children's development. However, children with disabilities face barriers in outdoor play. In the Netherlands, there are limited opportunities for children with and without disabilities to play together. While previous research examined the perspectives of parents, professionals and children regarding inclusive outdoor play, little is known about actual outdoor play behaviour. This exploratory study uses observational research to investigate how children with and without disabilities engage in outdoor play together.

While mothers have an important role in shaping their children's physical activity (PA) behaviours, their participation in PA with their young child is limited. This study aimed to understand mothers' perceptions of co-participation of PA (co-PA) with their young child and compared these perceptions between White and Black, Indigenous, and people of colour (BIPOC) mothers.

Nutrition is important for early childhood health and development. During this time, a large majority of children across developed nations attend Early Education and Care (ECEC) services.

The Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth ('Guidelines') were the world's first public health guidelines to integrate recommendations for physical activity, screen time/sedentary behaviour, and sleep. Build Your Best Day! (BYBD) is an interactive website developed as part of the Guidelines' knowledge translation strategy. Guided by Diffusion of Innovations Theory, the current study examined whether interacting with BYBD alters parents' and youths' perceptions of the Guidelines and increases their intentions for adoption.

This comparative qualitative case study examined psychological challenges associated with parents of children who have cerebral palsy (CP) in Pakistan's provinces and sought to identify provincial differences driven by socioeconomic, cultural and healthcare conditions.

Limited research in Ghana explores the emotional well-being of children with visual impairments (CwVIs). Guided by the stigma theory (ST), this study investigated how factors such as social stigma, resources and support systems shape their happiness.

This study aimed to cross-culturally adapt and validate the Health Activation Scale for Children (HAS-C) in Chinese elementary school populations.

School dropout remains a pressing issue in rural China. Despite an increasing number of studies exploring its antecedents, there is still limited understanding of the protective factors and mechanisms pertaining to rural students' school retention. Drawing on self-determination theory, this study investigates the interrelationships among four dimensions of social support (i.e., caregivers, peers, school and community), satisfaction of basic psychological needs and school dropout intentions among Chinese rural students.

Many autistic young people and/or those with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have co-occurring mental health conditions. These individuals can experience significant challenges when transitioning from child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to adult mental health services (AMHS). However, barriers and enablers to the transition from CAMHS to AMHS are poorly understood for this population. This scoping review sought to synthesise the available evidence on barriers and enablers to the transition from CAMHS to AMHS for autistic young people and/or those with ADHD.

Identity development plays a crucial role in the rehabilitation of adolescents with mental disorders. Understanding the key factors influencing self-identity during adolescence can enhance rehabilitation strategies, especially in the context of mental health recovery.

Autistic students experience many problems with school attendance. School exclusion and truancy are among the least researched school attendance problems in this population. The study aimed to describe levels of exclusion and truancy in a UK population-representative sample of autistic adolescents and identify child, family and school factors associated with each school attendance problem.

Preterm birth and early bonding disruptions such as delayed first cuddling may increase parental vulnerability and support needs in the postnatal period. However, little is known about how these factors interact to shape paternal perceptions of care and unmet support needs across different domains.

Creating a supportive environment for the health and well-being of children with disabilities is essential to enhancing their quality of life and promoting positive outcomes for families and society. In South Korea, children with disabilities face numerous structural and social challenges that threaten their well-being and lower their life satisfaction. This study aimed to examine the factors affecting life satisfaction among school-attending children with disabilities aged 19 years or younger in South Korea, using a framework based on the social determinants of health.

This study aims to assess the construct validity, inter-rater and intra-rater reliability and application of the newly developed Paediatric Posterior Drooling Scale (PPDS), a novel clinical screening tool that uses cervical auscultation (CA) to evaluate posterior drooling in children with neurological disorders.

Research has explored family life with neurodevelopmental disabilities (NDDs); however, many studies have focused on specific diagnoses or conditions. This study sought to broaden our understanding of parents' experiences of caring for children with NDDs and explore factors that may predict successfully integrating the child's care into family life.

Poverty remains a significant determinant of childhood health outcomes in the United States. This study examines the relationship between household income and children's health outcomes in the United States, focusing on how income disparities contribute to health inequalities.

This systematic review investigated the association between smartphone/tablet exposure and motor development in children aged 0-6 years.

Physical activity (PA), sedentary behaviour (SB) and sleep (SLP)-key components of 24-h movement behaviours-have each been independently linked to motor development in preschool children. However, the lack of understanding regarding their integrated and mutually exclusive nature has limited research on their combined impact on early health outcomes. This study employed compositional data analysis (CoDA) to examine the relationships between these behaviours and fundamental movement skills (FMS), as well as potential changes in FMS resulting from isotemporal reallocation.

Child mental health challenges have long-term implications for social and emotional functioning. The quality of the interparental relationship is an important contributor to children's mental health challenges. Evidence supports the use of brief couple interventions to enhance couple functioning, though secondary benefits to child outcomes are unknown. The current study examines whether changes to the interparental relationship following participation in a brief couple intervention, in turn, lead to changes in child mental health challenges.

Against the background of the climate crisis, the transport sector is being targeted by policies aimed at encouraging low-carbon means of transport such as cycling. In France, teaching children to ride a bicycle is one approach being taken, following the creation in 2018 of the scheme Savoir Rouler à Vélo (Learn to Ride a Bike), SRAV for short. The scheme is run as part of the curriculum at primary school, an institution which, since the start of this century, has broadened its goals to educate pupils about the environment and sustainable development.