The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health or developmental outcome. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• June 2022

A recent systematic review of 5 randomized clinical trials, found that early egg introduction was associated with reduced egg allergy. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• May 2017

This is a rare examination of joblessness over 3 succeeding generations and its onward effects upon children, and is one of the few in the research literature. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2013
• January 2013

Studies on health insurance coverage often rely on measures self-reported by respondents, but the accuracy of such measures has not been thoroughly validated. This paper is the first to use linked Australian National Health Survey and administrative population tax data to explore the accuracy of self-reported private health insurance (PHI) coverage in survey data. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2023
• August 2023

This review examines evidence of the association between the neighborhood built environment, green spaces and outdoor home area, and early (0-7 years) child... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2015
• March 2015

Information and communication technology has allowed individuals to engage in aggressive behavior on multiple distinct platforms with different capabilities ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2016
• May 2016

This paper examines whether adolescents can be reliably categorized into subgroups based on their patterns of anxiety levels over time and whether low levels of social support from parents, peers, and their school, and high levels of peer victimization, predict a pattern of increasing anxiety. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• January 2022

The relationship between features of the neighbourhood built environment and early child development was investigated ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2017
• November 2017

The primary objectives of this study were to determine the prevalence of late language emergence (LLE) and to investigate the predictive status of maternal... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2007
• December 2007

The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between dust levels and health in Indigenous children in Western Australia ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• July 2019

We provide a narrative review of Motivational Interviewing and map its core features onto the extant literature on self‐reported motivations for bullying ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2018
• April 2018

This article identifies and examines a range of policy reform opportunities in Australia arising from COVID-19. The authors demonstrate how COVID-19 presents unique opportunities for rethinking and redesigning long-standing rules and regulations covering how people live and work in Australia. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2021
• June 2021