Models of emotion skills and social competence in the Head Start classroom

Research Findings: Fostering the social competence of at-risk preschoolers would be facilitated by knowing which of children\u27s emotion skills are most salient to social outcomes. We examined the emotion skills and social competence of 44 children enrolled in a Head Start program. Emotion skills were examined in terms of children\u27s emotional lability and emotion regulation, whereas social competence was measured in terms of three aspects of preschoolers\u27 social relationships: social skills, student-teacher relationships, and peer likeability. Although emotion regulation emerged as an important predictor for social skills and positive relationships with teachers, emotional lability was a significant predictor of student-teacher conflict and peer likeability. In fact, emotional lability mediated the relation between student-teacher conflict and peer likeability. Practice or Policy: The findings are discussed in terms of the complex associations between children\u27s emotion skills and early social relationships. © 2010 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC

Periodontitis and health‐related quality of life in hemodialysis patients

Periodontitis is common among dialysis patients. The current cross‐sectional study aimed to explore associations between periodontitis and health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) among hemodialysis patients. Data from 188 dentate patients undergoing hemodialysis between May and July 2008 at a medical center in Kitakyushu city, Japan, were analyzed while applying modified Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/American Academy of Periodontology periodontitis case definitions to categorize the participants into the following three groups: severe, moderate, and no/mild periodontitis, respectively. HRQoL was assessed by the Medical Outcomes Study 36‐Item Short Form Health Survey (SF‐36) where a higher score indicates better health status. Associations between periodontitis groups and the eight health domains of SF‐36 were evaluated using general linear models that were adjusted for age, sex, underlying cause of dialysis, duration of dialysis, comorbidities, serum biomarkers, body mass index, smoking status, and alcohol use. Among the 188 participants, 18 (9.6%) had severe periodontitis, 100 (53.2%) had moderate periodontitis, and the remaining 70 (37.2%) had no/mild periodontitis. Compared with the participants with no/mild periodontitis, those with severe periodontitis had worse scores in the following five of eight SF‐36 health scales: physical functioning, role physical, vitality, social functioning, and mental health (P < 0.05). The findings suggest an independent relationship between severe periodontitis and decreased HRQoL among dialysis patients.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136253/1/cre250_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/136253/2/cre250.pd