Stability and Change of Psychopathology Symptoms Throughout Childhood and Adolescence

Child Psychiatry & Human Development - Assessing stability and change of children’s psychopathology symptoms can help elucidate whether specific behaviors are transient developmental...     

Brief Report: The Benefits of an Employer-Based Work-Experience Program for Participants with ASD

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - An employer-based work-experience program run by a multinational organization temporarily employs people with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to...     

Caring for Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder: Factors Associating with Health- and Care-Related Quality of Life of the Caregivers

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders - This study investigated the association of child, caregiver, and caregiving measurements with the quality of life (QoL) in 81 caregivers (mostly...     

Peser les patients habillés induit un risque de surestimation de leur statut nutritionnel

In institutions and at home, some patients may have difficulty mobilizing and undressing, or refusing to put on their underwear. It is therefore likely that weighing dressed patients is a common practice. The overestimation of the body weight thus obtained could lead to an error in the evaluation of the nutritional status. The aim of the study was to determine the extent to which adult patients dressed versus underwear could alter their nutritional status. Fifty-one patients were included. Dressed weighing overestimated the actual weight of 1.6 ± 0.6 kg and induced an overestimation of nutritional status classification in almost 14% of cases. In addition, the weight of the clothes was different according to the sex and the conditions of outside temperature. These results suggest that it is desirable as much as possible to weigh all adult patients in underwear.