Melissa Fiona Helen Rebecca Peter O'Donnell Stanley Leonard Glauert Jacoby M FJ HM RA PJ BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD FAA FASSA MSc MD ...

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Previous research has established that adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) experience more anxiety symptoms than their healthy peers and are also more likely to develop an anxiety disorder. Research in cognitive psychology has found that selective attention favouring the processing of threatening information causally contributes to elevated levels of anxiety; however, this process has not been investigated in the context of T1D. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• August 2021

Enabling our researchers to collect, link and analyse samples and datasets to create new knowledge in the underlying mechanisms and risk factors ...

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We aim to identify health risk behaviours among adolescent refugees resettling in WA and assess the feasibility of using a standardised questionnaire. ...

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• 2018
• March 2018

Adaptations for scale-up are ubiquitous but are rarely described in detail. Adaptations may be a key reason for the "scale-up penalty" which is when there is a reduction in intervention effect size following scale-up. The Play Active intervention consists of a physical activity policy for early childhood education and care (ECEC) services, with accompanying implementation support strategies. ...

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• 2023
• Jun 2023

Interventions in the early years provide a sustainable solution by generating long-term labour productivity and social welfare benefits ...

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• 2019
• October 2019

This paper reports on Aboriginal parents’ perceptions about their involvement in a Western Australian pilot initiative called KindiLink. The program seeks to support parents as their child’s first teacher and thereby enhance Aboriginal children’s early-years development, while strengthening relationships between families and schools. A constructivist paradigm was used to inform the methodology which placed Aboriginal voices at the centre of the research. ...

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• 2021
• June 2021

The Food and Nutrition Research Team conducts innovative and multidisciplinary research to better understand how the environments within which children live, play and go to school influence the types of foods they eat and their risk of overweight and obesity. ...

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• Brain and Behaviour
• Healthy Behaviours and Environments Program

Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century and is affected not only by individual choice but also by societal and environmental influences. Childhood obesity is higher in children living in regional and remote compared with major cities, in one-parent families and for those with a disability. ...

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• 2021
• November 2021

Our results suggest that maternal prenatal use of vitamins and folic acid reduces the risk of both ALL and AML ...

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• 2014
• November 2014