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Effect of perceived stress on student performance in dental school.

A commonly held view is that chronic stress has an adverse affect on academic performance. Because dental students typically report high levels of stress, they may be at particular risk. This research examined the relationship between perceived stress ...
Anne E Sanders, Kurt Lushington (J Dent Educ, 200201)
effect-perceived-stress-student-performance-dental-school.asp

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Which measure of adolescent psychiatric disorder--diagnosis, number of symptoms, or adaptive functioning--best predicts adverse young adult outcomes?

OBJECTIVE: To test the ability of psychiatric diagnosis, symptom count, and adaptive functioning in adolescence to predict failure to complete secondary school and criminal involvement in young adulthood. DESIGN: Community-based cohort study. SETTING: ...
A Vander Stoep, N S Weiss, B McKnight, S A A Beresford, P Cohen (J Epidemiol Community Health, 200201)
measure-adolescent-psychiatric-disorder-diagnosis-number-symptoms-or.asp

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Performance of students in the final examination in paediatrics: importance of the "short cases".

AIMS: To determine which component of the final examination in paediatrics at Kuwait University best predicted the final outcome. METHODS: The performance of 356 medical students in the short cases, the long case, multiple choice questions (MCQs), and ...
Z Hijazi, I G Premadasa, M A A Moussa (Arch Dis Child, 200201)
performance-students-final-examination-paediatrics-importance-short.asp

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Socioeconomic status and child development.

Socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the most widely studied constructs in the social sciences. Several ways of measuring SES have been proposed, but most include some quantification of family income, parental education, and occupational status. Research ...
Robert H Bradley, Robert F Corwyn (Annu Rev Psychol, 2002)
socioeconomic-status-child-development.asp

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Measuring functional outcomes after prematurity: developmental impact of very low birth weight and extremely low birth weight status on childhood disability.

Our purpose was to describe functional outcomes in essential activities in preschool, school-age, and adolescent children who were born very (<32 weeks gestation) and extremely (<28 weeks gestation) prematurely. Very low birth weight (VLBW; 1000-1499 g), ...
Michael E Msall, Michelle R Tremont (Ment Retard Dev Disabil Res Rev, 2002)
measuring-functional-outcomes-after-prematurity-developmental-impact.asp