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The awareness and acceptance of anti-COVID 19 vaccination in adolescence

2022

Abstract Background COVID-19 had devastating effects on children’s and adolescents’ life, including neuropsychological impairment, discontinuation of social life and education. Since June 2021, antiCOVID19 vaccination has become available to adolescents in Italy up to 12 years and since December 2021 to children aged more than 5 years. The pediatric population represents a challenging target for vaccination. Aim of the study is to perform a survey among adolescents to explore factors associated with COVID 19 immunization and their perceptions about COVID-19 vaccines. Methods Italian students aged 10–17 years were invited to participate in an anonymous online survey regarding their immunizat…

The pandemic within the pandemic: the surge of neuropsychological disorders in Italian children during the COVID-19 era

2022

Abstract Background Quarantine and isolation measures during COVID-19 pandemic may have caused additional stress and challenged the mental health of the youth. Aim of the study is to investigate the COVID-19 pandemic impact on neuropsychological disorders (NPD) of Italian children and adolescents to provide general pediatric recommendations. Material and methods A retrospective multicenter observational study was planned by the Italian Pediatric Society (SIP) to explore the impact of COVID-19 on the access of children to pediatric Emergency Departments (pED) for the evaluation of neuropsychological symptoms, collecting the classification codes of diagnoses between March 1, 2019 and March 2,…

The Use of Social Media in Children and Adolescents: Scoping Review on the Potential Risks.

2022

In recent years, social media has become part of our lives, even among children. From the beginning of COVID-19 pandemic period, media device and Internet access rapidly increased. Adolescents connected Internet alone, consulting social media, mostly Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. During “lockdown”, the Internet usage allowed communication with peers and the continuity activities such as school teaching. However, we have to keep in mind that media usage may be related to some adverse consequences especially in the most vulnerable people, such as the young. Aim of the review is to focus on risks correlated to social media use by children and adolescents, identifying spies of ris…

Maternal Competence, Maternal Burnout and Personality Traits in Italian Mothers after the First COVID-19 Lockdown

2022

This study aimed to investigate the maternal sense of competence and maternal burnout in Italian mothers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The sample was composed of 278 mothers of children/adolescents aged 4 to 17 years old. Participants were recruited after the end of the first spring total Italian lockdown (June–October 2020) through online advertisements on websites and social media. We hypothesized a model in which a specific personality trait, such as neuroticism, affected maternal competence by the mediating role of maternal burnout. Results showed that neuroticism was directly and negatively predictive of perception of maternal competence, and it was negatively associated with maternal …

The perception of food products in adolescents, lay adults, and experts:A psychometric approach

2022

Almost 40% of global mortality is attributable to an unhealthy diet, and adolescents and young adults are particularly affected by growing obesity rates. How do (young) people conceptualize and judge the healthiness of foods and how are the judgments embedded in people’s mental representations of the food ecology? We asked respondents to rate a large range of common food products on a diverse set of characteristics and then applied the psychometric paradigm to identify the dimensions structuring people’s mental representations of the foods. Respondents were also asked to rate each food in terms of its healthiness, and we used the foods’ scores on the extracted dimensions to predict the heal…

The Children of Risk Communication

2022

For the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, risk communication has been a much-needed preventive and educative action to support citizens – including children – to adopt preventive and health protective measures. However, the COVID-19 pandemic is not the only health concern at hand that has raised concerns about the health status of children and required disease-preventive strategies. Bearing in mind the mental health problems and learning losses reported during the pandemic, in this commentary, we will argue that by now, it is time to consider critically if there could be more space for positive communication and education, both alongside and as an integral part of risk communication, to…

Consumo alcohólico y hábitos de cuidado de la salud en jóvenes de una comunidad urbana periférica

2002

En este trabajo se realiza un análisis estructural del consumo de bebidas alcohólicas en una muestra de 337 jóvenes seleccionada entre las 2129 personas comprendidas entre los 15 y los 29 años empadronadas en el barrio de Casablanca (distrito periférico de la ciudad de Zaragoza). Para obtener los datos de la investigación fue utilizado el cuestio¬nario de comportamientos saludables CS-94 elaborado por Herrero, Musitu y Gracia (I 996). Se describen los hábitos de consumo alcohólico en función del sexo y la edad, y se realizan análisis de varianza con la finalidad de encontrar posibles diferencias signi¬ficativas entre el consumo de alcohol, por un lado, y por otro, las variables estructura¬l…

Factors psicosocials rellevants en la violència de preadolescents i adolescents escolaritzats

2010

A pesar de la considerable evidència acumulada sobre els efectes de la violència en els mitjans, encara hi ha controvèrsia sobre el tema. La comunitat científica debat la influència de la TV i els videojocs en el comportament dels subjectes (vid. Kids, TV viewing, andaggressivebehavior, Science (Letters) 297, 49-50, 2002). Aquells que s'oposen al fet que la TV i els videojocs tenen influència sobre el comportament agressiu, defensen que la causalitat no es pot establir tan fàcilment, ja que als individus violents els agradarà més veure actes agressius en TV i que estiguen presents en els videojocs. En l'actual estudi realitzat amb escolars preadolescents i adolescents 'amb una grandària de …

Los fantasmas del Parlamento

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Increasing Functional Avidity of T Cell Receptor (TCR)-Redirected T Cells by Removing Defined N-Glycoslyation Sites in the Constant Domain of Introdu…

2007

Abstract Adoptive transfer of T lymphocytes transduced with a TCR to impart tumor reactivity has been reported as potential strategy to redirect immune responses to target cancer cells. However, the affinities of most TCRs specific for shared tumor antigens that can be isolated are usually low, in part reflecting the nature of the targeted tumor antigens which are self-proteins. Thus strategies that can increase the affinity or functional avidity of TCRs to be used in therapy to transduce T cells might be therapeutically beneficial. However, current strategies for increasing TCR affinity require extensive and usually random mutagenesis followed by screening the many derived mutations, and m…