As families increase their use of mobile touch screen devices (smartphones and tablet computers), there is potential for this use to influence parent-child interactions required to form a secure attachment during infancy, and thus future child developmental outcomes. Thirty families of infants (aged 9-15 months) were interviewed to explore how parents and infants use these devices, and how device use influenced parents' thoughts, feelings and behaviours towards their infant and other family interactions. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2023
• May 2023

Language diversity and the prevalence of language disorder associated with FASD among a representative sample of youth sentenced to detention in WA ...

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• 2018
• November 2018

The purpose of this study is to examine the association between poverty and child mental disorders ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• June 2019

It is well known that children of parents with mental illness are at greater risk of mental illness themselves. ...

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• 2013
• November 2013

It is well established that smoking rates in people with common mental disorders such as anxiety or depressive disorders are much higher than in people... ...

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• 2011
• April 2011

The aims of the present study were to (i) examine the relationship between children's degree of adiposity and psychosocial functioning; and (ii) compare patterns of clustering of psychosocial measures between healthy weight and overweight/obese children. ...

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• 2008
• February 2008

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

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

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 ...

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• 2019
• July 2019

Using a dataset of Australian children, we have the opportunity to not only investigate the transfer of educational resources across 3 generations in Australia. ...

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• 2018
• March 2018

Understanding variations in risk profiles among persistently non-attending children will inform the development of absence interventions. ...

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• 2018
• February 2018

Children of mothers with alcohol use disorders are at risk of not meeting minimum educational benchmarks in numeracy and literacy, with the risk highest among Indigenous children. ...

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• 2017
• May 2017