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Irish Child Health Database - Peer Reviewed Papers

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How to use this database.

• Method 1- uses a free natural language approach.

  After choosing the object of the search – by ticking title, abstract, aims and objective, or author - enter a term, word or name in the ‘Search’ box to return references answering your research question.

• Method 2 - utilises key words.

  Those key words assigned from thesauruses of controlled vocabulary by the trained coders of international bibliographic databases.
  The controlled vocabularies key word are listed alphanumerically under 'Bibliographic database keywords' .
  Use the drop down menu to identity which 'key words' you are interested in to return references to answer your research question.

• Method 3 - is based on the indexing system

  developed by the researchers who compiled this database.
  It adopts a thematic approach to mapping Irish child health research. The themed areas represent outcomes mapped to the International Classification of Disease version 10 (ICD-10) or one of 23 other health-related themed outcomes. Themes are defined in Tables 5 to 7 (of the study report).
  Use the alphabetic drop down menu under ‘ICD-10 or themed health-related outcomes’ to identity which themed areas you are interested in to select references to answer your research question.

• Method 4 – allows papers to be searched by Study type.

  Indexing by study type offers a valuable insight into understanding the population impact of the topic of interest. More than 20 study types were identified across the 2,152 study papers. These are defined in Table 3 (of the study report). Within 'Study type' papers are further stratification by geographical region (Table 49), topic area of interest and study aims and objectives.
  Click on 'Study type' to select the type of study of interest, progressively select sub-categories by topic area or other sub-classification of interest to answer your research question.

The complete background, methods and findings from this mapping exercise are detailed in the study report.

Psychomotor Performance

Your search returns 3 documents

• 1.   Cerebral palsy after maternal trauma in pregnancy

  The aim of this study was to examine cases of cerebal palsy in infants born at term to mothers who earlier in the pregnancy had been involved in accidents without suffering overt abdominal injury, placental abruption, or premature onset of labour

  

  Abstract:

  Ten children (six males, four females) with spastic (n=9) and mixed spastic-dyskinetic (n=1) cerebral palsy were born at term to mothers who earlier in the pregnancy had been involved in accidents without suffering overt abdominal injury, placental abruption, or premature onset of labour. At follow-up (at ages 2-24y), Gross Motor Function Classification System levels were II (n=7) and V more...

  International Classification:

  Diseases of the nervous system - Cerebral palsy and other paralytic syndromes - cerebral palsy

  Categories:

  cerebral palsy

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Dev Med Child Neurol, Vol: 49 Page: 700-6 September 2007
  B. Hayes; S. Ryan; J. B. Stephenson; M. D. King

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• 2.   Reduced electrodermal response to errors predicts poor sustained attention performance in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  The aim of this study was to examine if reduced electrodermal response to errors predicts poor sustained attention performance in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  

  Abstract:

  Research into attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has indicated abnormalities in electrodermal system activity (EDA) and separately, deficits in sustained attention. Here we asked whether reduced EDA in ADHD was consequential for the attention problems associated with this disorder. On a sustained attention task ADHD participants had higher overall error rates and exhibited more...

  International Classification:

  Mental and behavioural disorders - Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Categories:

  electrodermal response; -attention performance; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Neuroreport, Vol: 15 Page: 2535-8 November 2004
  R. G. O'Connell; M. A. Bellgrove; P. M. Dockree; I. H. Robertson

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• 3.   Response variability in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: evidence for neuropsychological heterogeneity

  The aim of this study was to examine response time variability in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  

  Abstract:

  Response time (RT) variability is a common finding in ADHD research. RT variability may reflect frontal cortex function and may be related to deficits in sustained attention. The existence of a sustained attention deficit in ADHD has been debated, largely because of inconsistent evidence of time-on-task effects. A fixed-sequence Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) was given to more...

  International Classification:

  Mental and behavioural disorders - Behavioural and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence - attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Categories:

  esponse time; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

  Geography:

  Republic of Ireland

  Neuropsychologia, Vol: 45 Page: 630-8 March 2007
  K. A. Johnson; S. P. Kelly; M. A. Bellgrove; E. Barry; M. Cox; M. Gill; I. H. Robertson

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