Males are generally more susceptible to respiratory infections; however, there are few data on the physiological responses to such infections in males and... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2011
• March 2011

Tess Gregory TG BSc (Hons), PhD (Psychology) Senior Research Fellow +61 8 6375 6113 tess.gregory@telethonkids.org.au Senior Research Fellow Tess is a Senior Research Fellow at the Telethon Kids Institute with a background in Psychology and ...

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• Brain and Behaviour
• Population Health Program
• Early Years Systems Evidence

Growing up in a language-rich home environment is important for children's language development in the early years. The concept of "technoference" (technology-based interference) suggests that screen time may be interfering with opportunities for talk and interactions between parent and child; however, limited longitudinal evidence exists exploring this association.  ...

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• 2024
• March 2024

Telemedicine, particularly real time video-otoscopy in rural and remote Australia holds great potential in assessing and managing otology conditions. There is good evidence of store and forward images for assessment, however limited evidence exists for the use of real-time video-otoscopy. The objective of this study was to assess the validity of using real time video-otoscopy, compared to standard store and forward still image otoscopy, in a paediatric population. ...

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• 2024
• January 2024

Children with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) from different ethnic backgrounds are growing in proportion in clinical practice and tend to have a higher risk of poor health outcomes. The study aimed to investigate the perspectives of culturally and linguistically diverse families in the management of children with T1D in Western Australia. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• March 2023

Burn injuries are traumatic experiences that can detrimentally impact an individual’s psychological and emotional wellbeing. Despite this, some survivors adapt to psychosocial challenges better than others despite similar characteristics relating to the burn. ...

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• 2022
• February 2022

To describe trends, age, and sex-specific patterns of population hospital admissions with a diagnosis of craniosynostosis (CS) in Australia. Population data for hospital separations (in-patient) from public and private hospitals (July 1996-June 2018) were obtained from the publicly available Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) National Hospital Morbidity Database. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• February 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed health systems in both developed and developing nations alike. Africa has one of the weakest health systems globally, but there is limited evidence on how the region is prepared for, impacted by and responded to the pandemic. ...

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• 2021
• December 2021

Interventions to address alcohol use during pregnancy need to target underlying determinants of the behaviour. Using the theory of planned behaviour as a theoretical framework, the aim of this study was to identify behavioural, normative and control beliefs regarding alcohol use during pregnancy among a sample of women. ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• October 2021

This review focuses on smokers and nonsmokers and evaluates the most recent data regarding the potential health effects of e-cigarettes ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• May 2020

There are a multitude of ways that, with respect to early-life exposures and health, electronic nicotine delivery systems are a cause for concern ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• November 2019

Here, we present the abstracts and proceedings of our 8th annual conference, held in Detroit, Michigan in May 2019, themed "From Challenges, to Opportunities" ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2019
• November 2019