Alcohol related harms disproportionately affect Aboriginal people in Australia. Motives to drink have been identified as the most proximal factor to alcohol consumption.The aim of this study is to assess the validity of a culturally modified Drinking Motives Questionnaire-Revised (DMQ-R) (Cooper, 1994) with Aboriginal participants. The study was cross sectional, utilising data collected via face-to-face surveys with a sample of adult Aboriginal participants. ...

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• 2022
• September 2022

CDKL5 Deficiency Disorder (CDD) is a severe X-linked developmental and epileptic encephalopathy. Existing developmental outcome measures have floor effects and cannot capture incremental changes in symptoms. We modified the caregiver portion of a CDD clinical severity assessment (CCSA) and assessed content and response-process validity.  ...

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• 2023
• September 2023

Emma Glenn Martyn Adams Pearson Symons EA G MS BExSc, MPH BA (Education) PhD Candidate B.A. (Hons) PhD. Acting Research Officer -Playce, Research Assistant & PhD student Director of First Nations Strategy and Leadership Honorary Research Associate ...

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Clinicians who counsel prospective ART patients about birth defect risk should provide information about the overall risk of having a child with a birth defect ...

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• 2011
• September 2011

Indigenous Australians harbour rich and unique genomic diversity. However, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ancestries are historically under-represented in genomics research and almost completely missing from reference datasets. Addressing this representation gap is critical, both to advance our understanding of global human genomic diversity and as a prerequisite for ensuring equitable outcomes in genomic medicine. ...

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• 2023
• December 2023

We hope that through earlier diagnosis and treatment of muscle weakness during sleep, we can prevent future lung failure in children with neuromuscular disorders. ...

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Melissa O'Donnell M BPsych (Hons), MPsych, GradDip Ed, PhD Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Areas of research expertise: Child maltreatment and linked cross-jurisdictional data. Associate Professor Melissa O'Donnell holds an ...

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There is an urgent need to develop high-quality falls prevention services for older adults with intellectual disability ...

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• 2020
• May 2020

To investigate specific child and parental factors associated with increased vulnerability to substantiated child maltreatment. ...

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• 2010
• June 2010

The aim of this study was to devise an evidence-based missing data rule for the Quality of Life Inventory-Disability (QI-Disability) questionnaire specifying how many missing items are permissible for domain and total scores to be calculated using simple imputation. ...

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• 2022
• August 2022

The similarities in risk factors and in the adjusted rates of victimisation-related injury admission in both countries suggest that the VR cluster of ICD-10... ...

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• 2013
• July 2013

Andrew Desiree Gail Kandice Whitehouse Watch and listen to Andrew Silva Alvares Varcin AJ DS GA KJ PhD MBBS, FRACP, MPH, PhD PhD M.Psych (Clinical), PhD Angela Wright Bennett Professor of Autism Research at Telethon Kids and University of Western ...

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