Limited research investigates early childhood education and care (ECEC) educators' involvement in promoting physical activity. The aim was to identify distinct profiles based on physical activity-related practices and psychosocial factors in ECEC educators and examine how they relate to the amount of time allocated to children's physical activity. A secondary analysis of educator-reported survey data from the Play Active study was undertaken. ...

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• 2024
• March 2024

Despite the substantial burden of lung disease throughout childhood in children who were born very preterm, there are no evidence-based interventions to improve lung health beyond the neonatal period. We tested the hypothesis that inhaled corticosteroid improves lung function in this population. ...

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• 2023
• August 2023

Investigating the impact of early childhood ventilation tube insertion (VTI) on long-term language outcomes.  ...

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• 2023
• November 2023

The formation of online communities instils a sense of connectedness which can ameliorate the mental health concerns that result from minority stressors for lesbian, gay, queer, intersex, asexual, and other diverse genders/sexualities (LGBTQIA+). The aim of this study was to explore how LGBTQIA + people communicate social and mental health concerns on TikTok. ...

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• 2023
• September 2023

Treatment with fluoxetine compared with placebo resulted in significantly lower scores for obsessive-compulsive behaviors at 16 weeks ...

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• 2019
• October 2019

We review the Group A Streptococcus Human infection studies and present the study protocol for a dose-ranging inpatient study in healthy adults ...

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• 2019
• June 2019

Pregnancy provides an opportunity to strengthen health system responses and address whole-of-life health for women with rheumatic heart disease ...

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• 2019
• December 2019

Although many toddlers with expressive vocabulary delay ("late talkers") present with age-appropriate language skills by the time they are of school age,... ...

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• 2011
• August 2011

We have conducted an association study in a novel sample derived from the Australian population to further investigate the role of dyslexia candidate genes. ...

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• 2011
• March 2011

Fetal androgens influence fetal growth as well as postnatal neurocognitive ability. ...

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• 2010
• March 2010

According to the Young Minds Matter study, mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression are experienced by approximately one in seven or 560,000 young people in Australia. These disorders can often have a significant impact on children’s learning and development and on family life. ...

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Adam Punam Susan Tolu Saddler Amratia Rumisha Okitika AS PA SR TO PhD PhD PhD (Biostatistics) BSc, MPH, PMP Research Officer Honorary Research Associate Honorary Research Associate Senior Program Manager; Deputy Theme Head, Brain and Behaviour ...

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