Curriculum, school environment, and parent interventions are designed to improve students' social skills, adjustment to school, school performance, and resistance to problem behavior. The study is currently in the implementation stage. The goal of this research is to identify determinants of the lack of age-appropriate immunizations. The subjects include 480 mothers of low-income, minority infants born in the District of Columbia. Infant sleep position is a secondary study outcome.
Analyses are ongoing.
Nonfatal, medically-attended injuries are a problem of great magnitude in U.S. children aged 1 to 4 years. The majority of these injuries occur in and around the child's home. The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of an integrated system of primary pediatric care office-based interventions in the prevention of medically attended injuries. The study is in the contract development stage. Although effective medical self-management strategies are available for control of asthma in children, pediatric asthma morbidity and mortality has increased.