Are Your Kids Driving You Crazy This Summer?
Key points
- Kids are still off from school and keeping them entertained is getting tougher by the day.
- Experts: “Just five more minutes, Mom!”- Examining the impact of screen time, physical activity and health in school-aged youth.
- Determining how positive and negative parenting practices influence a child’s mental health.
- Risky behaviour: Exploring why injury is the leading cause of death among Canadian youth.
Kids are still off from school and keeping them entertained is getting tougher by the day. But, can children have fun this summer while staying safe and healthy? Several experts from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) are attempting to take out some of the guesswork, and are available to comment on the various aspects of youth health.
Experts:
“Just five more minutes, Mom!”- Examining the impact of screen time, physical activity and health in school-aged youth.
Dr. Ian Michael Janssen, CIHR-funded researcher at Queen’s University (Kingston)
How far does the apple fall from the tree? Determining how positive and negative parenting practices influence a child’s mental health.
Dr. Paul David Hastings, CIHR-funded researcher at Concordia University (Montreal)
Risky behaviour: Exploring why injury is the leading cause of death among Canadian youth.
Dr. William Francis Boyce and Dr. William Pickett, CIHR-funded researchers at Queen’s University (Kingston)
Are girls more likely than boys to light up? - Examining the role of gender on youth tobacco dependency.
Dr. Chris Galliford Richardson, CIHR-funded researcher at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver)
Is where we live influencing physical activity and obesity in children?
Dr. Jason Andrew Gilliland, CIHR-funded researcher at the University of Western Ontario (London)
Sticking together: Paths for living well for Aboriginal youth.
Dr. Pammla Petrucka, CIHR-funded researcher at the University of Saskatchewan (Regina)
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) is the Government of Canada's agency for health research. CIHR's mission is to create new scientific knowledge and to catalyze its translation into improved health, more effective health services and products, and a strengthened Canadian health-care system. Composed of 13 Institutes, CIHR provides leadership and support to more than 11,000 health researchers and trainees across Canada.
Source: Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
Written and revised by
David Cohen, M.D.
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