Francis Steve Mitrou Zubrick FG SR BEc FASSA, FAAMHS, MSc AM PhD Program Head, Population Health, and Team Head, Human Development and Community Wellbeing Honorary Emeritus Research Fellow 08 6319 1499 08 6319 1409 francis.mitrou@telethonkids.org.au ...

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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

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

This study will assess the effect of adjunctive clindamycin on patient-centred outcomes in severe, toxin-mediated S. aureus infections ...

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• 2019
• June 2019

Our study suggests that vagus nerve stimulation is a generally safe and effective adjunct treatment for CDKL5-associated epilepsy ...

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• 2018
• July 2018

There remains uncertainty about the effect of exercise on oxidative stress in people with Down syndrome ...

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• 2018
• June 2018

Although abilities were markedly impaired for the majority with the CDKL5 disorder, some females and a few males had better functional abilities ...

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• 2016
• November 2016

Jenny Helen Downs Leonard JA HM BApplSci (physio) MSc PhD MBChB MPH Program Head, Development and Disability Principal Research Fellow 08 6319 1763 +61 419 956 946 Jenny.Downs@telethonkids.org.au helen.leonard@telethonkids.org.au Head, Child ...

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• 2017
• March 2017

We aimed to explore whether newborns in high-risk areas have pre-existing pneumococcal-specific cellular immune responses that effects early acquisition. ...

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• 2017
• March 2017

The burden of mental health problems among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children is a major public health problem in Australia. ...

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• 2012
• September 2012

Siblings of children with intellectual disability have unique family experiences, varying by type of disability. ...

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• 2023
• July 2023

MECP2 duplication syndrome (MDS) is a rare, X-linked, neurodevelopmental disorder resulting from the duplication of the methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 (MECP2) gene. The clinical features of MDS include severe intellectual disability, global developmental delay, seizures, recurrent respiratory infections, and gastrointestinal problems. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore how the parents of children with MDS manage their child's seizures, recurrent respiratory infections, and gastrointestinal symptoms, and the impact on them as parents. ...

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• 2023
• July 2023