Jie Chen, Tao Bai, Jinsong Liu, Lishou Xiong, Weifeng Wang, Huahong Wang, Rongquan Wang, Xiaohua Hou
Significant improvement of physicians' knowledge and clinical practice: an opportune, effective, and convenient continuing medical education program on functional dyspepsia
Frontiers in medicine
depressive moods behaviors developmentally normative yet potentially impairing preschoolaged children addition frequency duration behavior important parameter consider characterizing risk worsening mood dysregulation goal study identify duration severity depressive moods behaviors associations impairment large community sample preschoolaged children using online parentreport daily diary primary caregivers n 900 35yearold children reported daily duration instance seven depressive moods behaviors 14 days used item response theory analyses examine duration item characteristics moods behaviors occurred specific durations considered psychometrically severerare example instances sadness last average total 32 min per day irritability least 38 min tantrums least 30 min tearfulnesssensitivity least 35 min longer durations mood behavior associated daily impairment well older child age less parental education knowledge first study delineate specific duration ranges depressive moods behaviors preschoolaged children data coupled information frequency moodrelated behaviors assist child practitioners differentiating normative patterns less normative mood problems evaluate children may risk future work identify duration depressive moods behaviors early childhood predict clinically significant psychopathology time