Biomedical subjects

Hisako Matsuo

Publications and source records attributed to Hisako Matsuo.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2006

Payments to children and adolescents enrolled in research: a pilot study.

OBJECTIVES: The goal was to identify current payment practices in research involving children. METHODS: A 4-page survey was mailed to the first author or corresponding author of pediatric research studies. Questions concerned whether children enrolled in research and/or their parents received any form of payment, values and types of remuneration, federal categories of pediatric research under which studies were approved, institutional policies regarding payments to children and/or their parents, institutional review board review of payment plans, factors that influenced payment decisions, prorating of payments, purposes of payments, perceived effects of payments on recruitment, and investigators' attitudes toward payments and the perceived risks and discomforts of studies. RESULTS: Payment practices varied, and the reasons for which investigators adopted particular payment practices varied. Approximately one half offered payment. The most popular form of payment was cash. The number of institutions with policies addressing directly payments for children enrolled in research has increased, but still only approximately one half of institutions studied had such policies in place. CONCLUSIONS: Awareness of the variations in payment practices and policies and additional study of the ethical issues surrounding payments for research participation are essential for building consensus and developing the guidelines the Institute of Medicine has said are necessary. Additional research also is needed to understand why parents enroll their children in research, how payments affect research participation decisions, and what the relationship between a study's risks and discomforts and payment should be.

Adolescent↗

PubMed2005

Vietnamese children and language-based processing tasks.

PURPOSE: Vietnamese children's performance on language-based processing tasks of fast-mapping (FM) word-learning and dynamic assessment (DA) word- and rule-learning tasks were investigated. METHOD: Twenty-one first- and second-generation Vietnamese preschool children participated in this study. All children were enrolled in 2 Head Start programs in a large city in the Midwest. All children had passed a developmental assessment and routine speech, language, and hearing screenings. All participants were taught 4 invented monosyllabic words in an FM word task, an invented monosyllabic suffix rule (-po) meaning "a part of" in a DA rule task, and 4 invented bisyllabic words in a DA word task. Potential relationships among task performances were investigated. Receptive task performances, expressive task performances, and task totals were added to create receptive total, expressive total, and accumulated performance total (APT) scores. Relationships among receptive total, expressive total, and APT scores were also investigated. RESULTS: Significant correlations were found between FM word, DA rule, and the receptive total. The expressive total correlated with all task total scores, APT, age, and modifiability scores. Modifiability scores correlated with the two DA tasks, expressive total, and the APT. Findings indicate that FM word and the expressive total were positively correlated with most of the other tasks, composite totals, and age. CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS: Performance on language-based processing tasks may provide valuable information for separating typically developing Vietnamese preschool children from their peers with language disorders. Practitioners should consider linguistic characteristics of target stimuli. Comparisons should include task, receptive, expressive, and APT.

Child Language↗

PubMed2005

Attitudes toward victims of rape: effects of gender, race, religion, and social class.

Although previous literature focusing on perceptions of victims of rape has examined how gender, race, and culture influence the attitudes one holds toward victims, these studies have yielded mixed results. This study compared perceptions of victims of rape across a wide range of ages, educational backgrounds, religions, and income levels, while focusing on gender and racial differences. Results indicate (N = 220) that victims of rape are generally viewed more sympathetically by females than by males and by Whites than by African Americans. However, the effect of race disappears when socioeconomic variables are controlled, suggesting a more complex relationship. Also, a hierarchical regression indicates that age, sex, education, and income are significant predictors of attitudes toward victims. This study builds on existing research that examines such attitudes from a cultural perspective and extends this literature by examining the interactive effects of several demographic variables within a community sample.

Adult↗