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..This is the first study to report on the mental health of Australian siblings of children with cancer and examines the effects of a therapeutic peer support camp-Camp Onwards, as an intervention...

..The purpose of this study was to describe adolescent adaptation in the four adaptive modes of the Roy Adaptation Model in campers attending a Young Teen Asthma Camp and relate that adaptation to the acquisition of asthma responsibility...

This paper presents an introduction to the role of camping programs for children with cancer and their families and a hypothesized theory of action...

..This article describes adventure-based programming in the context of its effectiveness and utility in a summer camp program for children who have life-threatening illnesses...

In recent years, specialised camping programmes, based largely on the premise of therapeutic recreation, have emerged as a form of intervention for children with chronic illnesses, and their siblings...

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..To describe the reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) after attending an IBD summer camp...

..The burn camp experience though an enriching summer activity, did not necessarily increase self-esteem in the majority of campers as measured by the survey tool employed...

..However, LOC significantly accounted for variability in the child's cooperation level, according to parent report. Other results are discussed, as well as implications for future research and clinical work in this area...

..Increasingly, more children and adolescents are attending camps with mental health concerns. This can pose a challenge for camp nurses who may lack experience in assessment and treatment of mental health issues...

..Results indicate that practicing the task of estimating is not an effective way to increase accuracy and may be contra-indicated. These results can help guide research and clinical use of glucose estimation in children...

..Diabetic camps give the opportunity to children and adolescents with diabetes to verify, outside the family and under health professionals' supervision, their ability to manage the disease, and to increase own self-esteem...

..To characterize the intraindividual relationships between changes in weight, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) levels, and reported total daily insulin dose between clinic visits in adolescent boys with type 1 diabetes (T1D)...

..Using a short-term longitudinal design, this study links specific behaviors to peer functioning in groups of previously unfamiliar children with ADHD...

..Lack of specific children's camp regulations and failure to implement and enforce existing regulations may have contributed to the outbreak...

..Investigating individual, as opposed to predetermined, quality of life domains may yield important information about quality of life. This study investigated the individual quality of life domains nominated by youth with type 1 diabetes...

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..The camp comprised a program that involved personal challenges and group-building activities, as well as social recreational activities. This article outlines the camp intervention, with recommendations for future camp evaluation...

..The risk for LD in campers and staff was much higher than that of the general population despite the use of tick-exposure precautions. Focused interventions need to be put in place in summer camps to prevent transmission of LD...

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..Experiential and biological contributions to risk for BPD and recommendations for prevention and intervention are discussed...

..The findings contribute to enhancing our understanding of the developmental processes whereby early maltreatment experiences are linked to later maladjustment...

..The purpose of this study was to investigate the scale recalibration construct of response shift and its relationship to glycemic control in children with diabetes...

..Insect repellent is recommended but often not used. It is unknown whether permethrin treatment of a location, such as a campsite, provides passive prophylaxis reducing mosquito bites among all persons in the immediate vicinity...

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..0 +/- 3.1% and 9.0 +/- 2.6% (p = 0.008) respectively. The diabetes camp is a valuable program for patients to learn diabetes-self management skills, especially in countries where the diabetes education programs are not always available...

..These results suggest that camps may help to improve nutritional and physical education and psychological outcome of obese children...

..Camp-assisted IIT with RAI improved metabolic control of diabetic children. Additionally, camp-assisted education has a positive effect on disease-related educational level and self-management...

..Even so, they identify crisis and learn to control them in an special risky life period. Asthma camps is a good experience for both groups and also for sanitary equipment...

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..In July 2005, an outbreak of mumps occurred during a children's summer camp in upstate New York. An investigation was initiated to describe the cases and evaluate vaccine effectiveness...

..We identify many opportunities for future education and research to provide quality nursing support to this unique population...

..The author discussed these courses and the innovative opportunities they provide for students to gain self-confidence in working with children...

..025). CONCLUSIONS: These findings confirm the hypothesis that the prevalence of LJM has decreased, most likely the result of improved blood glucose control during the past 2 decades...

..The aim of this research was to evaluate the frequency of high variability in a population of diabetic children and adolescents attending summer camp...

..are unique to this population and describes the intentional programming and special considerations within this camping environment...

We evaluated the occurrence of intestinal parasites and commensals among children and adults from a landless camping in the rural area of Uberlândia, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, from October to November 2001...

..We think that Italian guidelines for summer camps should help in standardizing the organization and management; in this way it will be probably easier to evaluate the impact of summer camps on the quality of life...

..It is necessary to improve studies in this way. In any case present day camping experiences are invaluable.

..The impact of the experience on self-esteem, quality of life and metabolic control is currently under investigation...

..Using HbAlc levels as a measure of glycemic control, we have found the camp to be effective in achieving this goal...

..To determine the incidence of type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) among children aged 0-14 yr inclusive in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador (NL)...

..The discrepancy between the quantitative and qualitative results is discussed, and implications and challenges for further evaluation of Burns Camps are raised...

..The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of healthy eating by youth with diabetes as well as facilitators of and barriers to healthy eating behavior...

..Until the onset, she was healthy and she had been camping with her classmates in a wooded mountainous area in Oku-etsu, Fukui Prefecture...

..The two most important injury patterns, more common among women, were getting burned while using a camping gas stove or while refilling the chamber of kerosene-burning appliances without first extinguishing them...

Gas mantles for camping gas lanterns sometimes contain thorium compounds. During the last years, the use of thorium-free gas mantles has become more and more popular due to the avoidance of a radioactive heavy metal...

To determine whether using a camping stove to bring a pan of ice to boiling point produces higher carbon monoxide (CO) concentration than would bringing a pan of water to boiling point...

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..Men engaged in significantly higher hunting and fishing rates than women, but there were no gender differences in camping and hiking rates...

..A penetrating odor of bitter almonds was noticed when opening the doors. A camping stove and a cooking pot containing large amounts of dark blue crystals were found in the footwell of the car...

..To provide a 5-year longitudinal assessment of risk of acquiring disease from Sierra Nevada Wilderness area lakes and streams. This study examines the relative risk factors for harmful water microorganisms, using coliforms as an indicator...

..The study aimed to find out age at menarche, menstrual patterns, attitudes and premarital sexual partners of female athletes in Ibadan Nigeria...

Management of camping impacts in protected areas worldwide is limited by inadequate understanding of spatial patterns of impact and attention to spatial management strategies...

..S. game licenses issued, (iii) indicators of time spent camping, and (iv) indicators of time spent backpacking or hiking...

..We hypothesized that ambient CO and serum carboxyhemoglobin (COHb) levels would increase and that even low levels of COHb would be associated with symptoms of CO poisoning at high altitude...

..A 8-year-old female was bitten on her head by a tick at a camping ground, near Tamagawa, Shizuoka...

..More individuals engaged in fishing than any other consumptive activity, and more people engaged in camping and hiking than other nonconsumptive activities...

..Various recreational facilities and activities (including picnicking, sports facilities and playgrounds, camping sites, walking paths, food and local outlets, etc...

..faeces and toilet paper), and urination, on Tasmanian vegetation types that occur in areas used for wild country camping, in order to develop appropriate guidelines...

..We report a case of bacteremia caused by Streptobacillus moniliformis...

..The potential transmission risk to humans using public picnic and camping areas in parks and forests, especially in the southeastern Australia, could be substantially reduced through ..

..However, the number of humans stricken by the disease varies from year to year. A method for predicting major increases and decreases is needed...

..To describe a case of uveitis that is associated with Borrelia hermsii relapsing fever...

..people attending the Mayfest reported their activities as birdwatching, photographing, fishing, hiking, camping, and hunting...

..2% (81/615) in Spain and 9.5% (75/789) in France. Overall, 641 cases were reported. Hotels, camping sites and ships and other sites represented respectively 83%, 10% and 7% of the total accommodation sites, with ..

Ethnographic research at a therapeutic camping program for troubled youth in Vermont suggests that therapeutic landscapes can be productively theorized as 'taskscapes' [Ingold, T., 1993. The temporality of the landscape...

..these nurses faced the challenges of daily life at war and managed to adapt themselves to the adversities of the camping sites and wards...

..having a higher preference for using it as a preserve, and whites having a higher preference for a research park, camping, hiking, and hunting...

..To report the new ocular and neurologic features of West Nile virus (WNV) meningoencephalitis...

..pan diameter influences carbon monoxide (CO) concentration during heating of water to boiling point with a camping stove...

b>Camping programs for children with chronic diseases are designed for specific needs, but rigorous evaluation of their impact is largely lacking...

..demonstrated that laparoscopic liver resection is associated with more frequent use and longer duration of portal camping than open liver resection, a fact that may partially explain the improvement in operative blood loss reported by ..

..The programme included camping and field trips, recreational activities and games, role play and theatre, story-telling, life-skill activities, ..

In Saudi Arabia, camping in the desert is commonly practiced by families. A campfire is usually lit and unsupervised crawling infants are at risk of burns from these campfires...

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..The most effective method to accomplish this goal in a cold prehospital, wilderness, or combat setting is unknown. We evaluated various methods of warming intravenous fluids for a bolus infusion in a cold remote environment...

..The purpose of the Camp For All Connection project is to facilitate access to electronic health information resources at the Camp For All facility...

Nearly 10 years ago, I looked at a poster exhibit for a nonprofit organization's camping experience for cancer survivors. One of the images in particular remains with me to this day...

..a case study of a community intervention aimed at reducing excessive drinking in young men on holiday in seaside camping resorts in the Netherlands...

..These results suggest that these tundra communities can tolerate moderate levels of hiking and camping provided that use is maintained below disturbance thresholds and that visitors employ appropriate minimum-impact ..

..generally correlated with the number of days people engaged in particular activities (hunting, fishing, hiking, camping), people who hunted and fished rated nearly every recreational activity higher than did people who only camped or ..

..In our series the number of burn injuries associated with domestic barbeques is increasing and we have reviewed the records of these patients to document their injuries and identify possible causes...

..occurred over the summer months and particularly at weekends at sites frequented by visitors, either for 'wild' camping or day visits, or where water was drawn from the river for drinking...

..boating, fishing, diving and snorkelling, (wind)surfing, sandboarding, four-wheel driving, (bush)walking, camping, horseriding and sightseeing...

..To describe and evaluate a pilot community based rehabilitation programme for severe brain injury...

..The tick infestation of the lower lid is a quite rare condition...

Leisure-time activities expose us to a variety of infections. The traveler confronts new pathogens and vectors. Camping, hiking and gardening have attendant risks, as does exposure to fresh and salt water...

..One of the triggers interlocked with the button of a camping chair's cushion and a shot was fired...

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..Investigators: Multicultural team of experienced outcomes experts, obesity experts, endocrinologists, and community agents will collaborate to recruit, study, publish, and disseminate results. ..

..Participants for this study will be recruited from sites in Seattle, Chicago, and Chapel Hill, NC. ..

..As such, developing early interventions for relationally aggressive girls may help to reduce serious mental health disorders later in life. ..

..Increased use of inexpensive dietary assessment tools will be invaluable as part of genetic or disparities research with children, when multiple days of assessment are possible. ..

..S., and one in the United Kingdom. Adolescents and their parents will complete questionnaires at baseline, and gain at 1-2 year clinical follow-up. ..

..Three pilot projects will support mentoring of faculty by senior substance abuse researchers and serve as platforms for fully developed research proposals. ..

..Moreover, the results will have implications for prevention and intervention efforts with families who have offspring with disabling birth defects. ..

..As such, developing early interventions for relationally aggressive girls may help to reduce serious mental health disorders later in life. ..

..The broad effects of this training grant are felt by the faculty, the trainees, the affiliate fellows, and,indeed, by the departments and schools that house all of us. We seek continuous funding for our next five years. ..

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..Investigators: Multicultural team of experienced outcomes experts, obesity experts, endocrinologists, and community agents will collaborate to recruit, study, publish, and disseminate results. ..

..Moreover, the results will have implications for prevention and intervention efforts with families who have offspring with disabling birth defects. ..

..3. To compare verifiable quality of life reported by adolescents with craniofacial conditions with those of their mother (or primary caretaker). ..

..This will be the first obesity prevention project to employ a month-long summer camp, web technology, and sophisticated biological measures to assess factors predictive of body composition change. ..

..The extent to which this research enhances the validity and reliability of measurement, future research on correlates will be more successful. ..

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..As such, developing early interventions for relationally aggressive girls may help to reduce serious mental health disorders later in life. ..

..Understanding how PROP sensitivity relates to obesity and food intake could provide an easily determined stratifying variable to which dietary interventions could be tailored. ..

..Relevance: This study will develop and validate a culturally-relevant.measure that could be extremely useful in future studies examining the social information processing among urban African American girls. ..

..Furthermore, the proposed research will provide critical information for the development of effective preventive interventions for child abuse and neglect. ..