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Tyler Moore; Katherine Graff; Teal R. Bell – Journal of School Health, 2024
Background: We aimed to better understand the impact of statewide legislation removing personal belief exemptions (PBEs) for the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) school immunization requirement and factors associated with resulting health-seeking behaviors. Methods: We used chi-squared tests and logistic regression models to determine individual-…
Descriptors: Preventive Medicine, Communicable Diseases, Disease Control, Educational Legislation
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Bennett, Kimberley Ann – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2015
Students may need explicit training in informal statistical reasoning in order to design experiments or use formal statistical tests effectively. By using scientific scandals and media misinterpretation, we can explore the need for good experimental design in an informal way. This article describes the use of a paper that reviews the measles mumps…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Thinking Skills, Research Design, Data Interpretation
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Schultz, Stephen T.; Klonoff-Cohen, Hillary S.; Wingard, Deborah L.; Akshoomoff, Natacha A.; Macera, Caroline A.; Ji, Ming – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2008
The present study was performed to determine whether acetaminophen (paracetamol) use after the measles-mumps-rubella vaccination could be associated with autistic disorder. This case-control study used the results of an online parental survey conducted from 16 July 2005 to 30 January 2006, consisting of 83 children with autistic disorder and 80…
Descriptors: Autism, Rubella, Drug Therapy, Drug Use
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Penner, Justin D.; Brown, Alan S. – School Psychology Quarterly, 2007
In a birth cohort prenatally exposed to rubella, we assessed whether prospectively documented premorbid neuromotor dysfunction, mannerisms, deviant behaviors, and temperament during childhood and adolescence were impaired in cases who developed depressive disorder (DD) relative to rubella-exposed controls and cases who developed schizophrenia…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Children, Depression (Psychology), Psychosis
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Moores, Donald F. – Sign Language Studies, 2006
Responding to Johnston's projections for the future of Australian Sign Language (Auslan), I analyzed school enrollments in American educational programs and found similar trends. There are fewer deaf and hard of hearing children in school now than twenty years ago, with the largest decline, approximately 50 percent, among children with profound…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Enrollment Trends, Assistive Technology, Deafness
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Johnston, Trevor – Sign Language Studies, 2006
According to enrollments in schools for the deaf and data from the national census and neonatal hearing screening programs, the incidence of severe and profound childhood deafness in Australia is, and has been, less than commonly assumed. Factors implicated include improved medical care, mainstreaming, cochlear implants, and genetic science. Data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Population Trends, Genetics