The biggest decrease in prevalence after the treatment was observed for the items of parents feeling upset and guilty.
For feature gene, uniform crossover is used: each element of the child gene is selected randomly from the corresponding items of parents.
Future investigations of the similarities and differences in parent and teacher ratings could conduct latent class analysis on individual items of parent and teacher ratings, to identify whether parents and teachers are observing clusters of behavioural symptoms that fall into comparable groups.
Among the Mobility items, 27% of parents reported that the child could not turn his/her head all the way to the side, while 68% could not get up from a regular toilet.
Parental stress was measured with the Parenting Stress Index (PSI) [ 51], a 120-item scale of parents' perceived stress (in our sample, alpha = 0.85) that yields scores on two subscales.
Maternal Self-Efficacy Scale (MSES) [ 44 ]: will be assessed at 6 weeks post intervention, then at 12 and 24 months CA. The MSES is a 10-item measure of parents' self-efficacy that has good internal consistency (α = 0.86) and a strong concurrent validity with the PSI Sense of Competency Scale [ 65 ].
Each item of the parent version of the KIDSCREEN is reworded so it could be answered by a third person.
The alarming rate of school shootings across the country appears to have added an unsettling new item to parents' list of "back to school" items: bulletproof armor for their children.
In the fall of each school year, mothers completed a 30-item measure of parenting practices, the Raising Children Checklist (Shumow et al. 1998).
Other types of WE included: separation (2 items), Deaths (7 items, e.g. deaths of parents, siblings, or extended family members), material loss (4 items), physical threat to self (5 items), harm to loved ones (4 items), physical threat to relatives or loved ones (4 items), displacement (5 items), and drug and substance abuse (1 item).
