Using data on 2868 children born in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, we examined the association between changes in family... ...

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• 2010
• March 2010

The transition to parenthood is a high-risk period for many parents and is an important period for child development. Research has identified that parental mental health, reflective functioning (capacity to consider mental states of oneself and others) and coparenting (capacity to work together well as a parenting team) may be particularly significant predictors of later child outcomes, however these factors have seldom been considered together. ...

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• 2023
• May 2023

Children and adolescents spend more than one-third of their time sleeping. Yet, we know little about the causal impact of sleeping on their development. This paper is the first to exploit variation in local daily daylight duration measured on pre-determined diary dates across the same individuals through time as an instrument in an individual fixed effects regression model to draw causal estimates of sleep duration on a comprehensive set of child development indicators.  ...

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• 2024
• May 2024

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. ...

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• 2023
• August 2023

Cereal foods are consumed globally and are important sources of polyphenols with potential health benefits, yet dietary intakes are unclear. We aimed to calculate the dietary intakes of polyphenols from cereal foods in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study, and describe intakes by demographic and lifestyle factors. ...

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• 2023
• May 2023

Mental disorders should be a leading intervention point for suicide prevention both in the primary health sector and in the mental health sector specifically ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

The proportion of children and adolescents in Australia with mental disorders who used services for emotional and behavioural problems ...

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• 2016
• September 2016

Aussie Optimism Program with teacher training along with coaching may have the potential to positively impact on suicidality and pro-social behavior in the pre-adolescent years ...

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• 2018
• February 2018

This chapter describes a whole-school cyberbullying intervention developed and evaluated in Western Australia with secondary school students aged 13–18 years old ...

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• 2018
• January 2018

These results highlight the importance of working with both male and female caregivers when addressing children’s bullying behaviour. ...

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• 2017
• October 2017

evidence of the positive impact of well-connected neighborhoods and access to local parks of varying sizes on local residents’ recreational walking and health ...

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• 2017
• July 2017

The conduct of longitudinal research in early childhood is the focus of this chap­ter ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2016
• January 2016