Optimal mental health in the pre-conception, pregnancy and postpartum periods is important for both maternal and infant wellbeing. Few studies, however, have focused on Indigenous women and the specific risk and protective factors that may prompt vulnerability to perinatal mental disorders in this culturally diverse population. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• February 2020

This article highlights the requirements of the training programs for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in Australia and New Zealand ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• January 2020

Laryngeal and respiratory reflexes are vitally important defense mechanisms against foreign body aspiration, safeguarding airway patency, and ventilation ...

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• 2020
• March 2020

This study tested a new program for helping smokers with severe mental illness to reduce their tobacco use, together with determining the feasibility of such research in community mental health settings in Australia. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

Exposure to racial discrimination in Aboriginal children increased the risk for a spectrum of interrelated factors linked to negative mental health ...

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• 2019
• September 2019

Aspergillus species and P. aeruginosa are commonly present in the lower airways from infancy ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• September 2019

Based on population data from 5 countries, the heritability of ASD was estimated to be approximately 80% ...

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• 2019
• July 2019

The longitudinal analyses found no evidence of increased (or decreased) long-term risk of ear infections in subsequent waves associated with attending a child care centre ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• July 2019

In the first multinational study of birth seasonality of autism spectrum disorder, there was evidence supporting the presence of seasonal trends in Finland and Sweden ...

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• 2019
• August 2019

We aimed to investigate the risk factors for different wheezing phenotypes in Chinese young children and to explore the prognosis of recurrent wheezing ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• June 2019