Inclusion of early child development in the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda raises issues of how this goal should be monitored, particularly in low resource settings. The aim of this paper was to explore the validity of the early Human Capability Index (eHCI); a population measure designed to capture the holistic development of children aged 3-5 years. Convergent, divergent, discriminant and concurrent validity were examined by exploring the associations between eHCI domains and child (sex, age, stunting status, preschool attendance) and family (maternal education, home learning environment) characteristics. Analyses were repeated using data from seven low and middle income countries. ...

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Overall, temperament had small associations with cognitive and academic outcomes after accounting for parenting and confounders ...

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Growing up in a language-rich home environment is important for children's language development in the early years. The concept of "technoference" (technology-based interference) suggests that screen time may be interfering with opportunities for talk and interactions between parent and child; however, limited longitudinal evidence exists exploring this association.  ...

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Australia is the only developed country to consistently undertake a developmental census of its children nationwide. The repeated collection of the Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) has provided an unprecedented opportunity to examine the prevalence of developmental vulnerability across Australia's states and territories, the socio-economic distribution of developmental vulnerability across jurisdictions, and how these distributions might have changed over time. ...

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Alanna Mary Zara Honey Neida Tess Sincovich Brushe Boulton Rahmanian Sechague Monroy Gregory AS MB ZB HR NSM TG BPsych(Hons), PhD BPsych(Hons), PhD ( ...

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To understand the prevalence of children and adolescents’ electronic device use (EDU) in the hour before bed and identify sociodemographic groups that are at increased risk of problematic use. ...

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Alanna Mary Tess Yasmin Sincovich Brushe Gregory Harman-Smith AS MB TG YHS BPsych(Hons), PhD BPsych(Hons), PhD (Public Health) BSc (Hons), PhD ( ...

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Wellbeing and mental health are fundamental rights of children and adolescents essential for sustainable development. Understanding the epidemiology of child and adolescent wellbeing is essential to informing population health approaches to improving wellbeing and preventing mental illness. ...

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A team of researchers passionate about the social and emotional wellbeing of children have been refining a survey questionnaire. ...

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