Children around the world could have better access to education thanks to an early childhood development index created for UNESCO by Telethon Kids researcher, Prof Sally Brinkman. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2022
• March

Research on psychological flow is well established, although criticisms remain regarding conceptual and measurement issues associated with the construct. This scoping review maps flow-related research across scientific disciplines, examining the conceptualization, measurement instruments, and outcomes of flow between 2012 and 2019. Across 236 sources that met the review criteria, 108 different flow-related constructs were measured by 141 instruments, and 84 possible antecedents were identified. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• August 2021

Parents must rapidly adapt goals from various aspects of their lives to accommodate the demands of the early stages of parenthood. According to the self-concordance model, having autonomous goal motives (based on enjoyment or personal goal value) should foster effective self-regulation (e.g., coping strategies), better goal management, and increase the likelihood of goal attainment, compared to controlled motives (goals driven by demands/pressures). ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• February 2023

We investigated howautonomous and controlled motives for saving money contribute longitudinally to selfregulatory coping, goal progress, and psychological need satisfaction/frustration. We also investigated whether mental contrasting with implementation intentions (MCII) facilitates saving through interactions with controlled goal motives. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• November 2023

Policy Context Indicator Information View the Maps Child mortality refers to the number of deaths of children in any given year per 100,000 ...

• Western Australian Child Development Atlas
• CDA Indicators

Research teams led by Telethon Kids Institute have been awarded $3.75 million to support two innovative projects – one focused on pioneering a national ‘Food Atlas’ to map access to healthy and unhealthy food across the country, and the other on developing new ways to prevent Strep throat and rheuma ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• News & Events
• News & Events at Telethon Kids
• 2023
• December

The Chronobiology team works to understand the factors that contribute to poor lung and heart function in newborn infants and find ways to prevent heart and lung disease. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Early Environment
• Early Life & Life-Course Health

Being physically active is critical for healthy ageing, yet many older people do not meet physical activity guidelines. The aim of this study was to test the relative effectiveness of five previously identified campaign slogans designed to encourage older people to be more physically active: 'Be active 30-60 minutes a day to stay fit and well'; 'Move more, live longer'; 'Stay fit to stay functional'; 'This is your time - enjoy being strong and active'; and 'Use it or lose it'. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• September 2023

Online youth-focused health programs often include parent modules—that equip parents with skills to assist their child in improving their health—alongside youth-specific content. BRAVE Self-Help, an evidence-based program designed for children and teenagers with early signs of anxiety, is a popular Australian program that includes six parent modules. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• June 2022

HLA-DQ typing is not cost effective as a first-line screening test for CD in T1D patients because of over-representation of CD permissive HLA alleles in this group ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• August 2019