Daycare Centers

There are a lot of scholarly papers published about daycare centers. A list of them is available on Google Scholar. This is a good tool to use when looking for serious information on studies done and for published works by professors.

“Acute respiratory tract infection in daycare centers for older persons” was published in 1995 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. It has been cited thirty three times. The study was designed as a prospective descriptive study, one done without intervention. The setting for the study was two senior daycare programs providing all-inclusive care for the older persons in Rochester, New York. The study participants were staff members and clients of the daycare centers.

The article entitled “Daycare centers and schools as sources of exposure to mites, cockroach, and endotoxins in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil” has been cited twenty three times. The methods that were used in this study were analytical. They analyzed dust from bedding, floors, chairs, and tables of daycare centers, preschools, kindergartens, and elementary schools.

The major allergens at the daycare centers and other schools were from mites, cockroaches, cats, and dogs were quantified by means of ELISA, and endotoxin content was determined by using the Limulus Amebocyte Lysate assay. The ELISA is a fundamental tool of clinical immunology, and is used as an initial screen for HIV detection. Based on the principle of antibody-antibody interaction, this test allows for easy visualization of results and can be completed without the additional concern of radioactive materials use.

An article in Child Abuse and Neglect from 1995 was entitled “Preschoolers' sexual behavior at daycare centers: an epidemiological study”. This article has been cited nineteen times. The study was done by the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Huddinge University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. The conclusion of the study was that the rarity of certain behaviors at daycare centers implies that their occurrence in an individual case may necessitate special clinical attention.