The RACP is advancing a three-tier strategy to build greater specialist capacity and sustain leadership in adolescent and young adult medicine ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2016
• August 2016

Environmental factors including excessive caloric intake lead to disordered lipid metabolism and fatty liver disease. ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2012
• September 2012

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

Young people (aged 12-25 years) with diverse sexuality, gender, or bodily characteristics, such as those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, or queer (LGBTIQ+), are at substantially greater risk of a range of mental, physical, and sexual health difficulties compared with their peers. Digital health interventions have been identified as a potential way to reduce these health disparities. ...

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• 2020
• December 2020

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by instability in interpersonal relationships. To date no reviews have scoped the extant research on peer relationship functioning for young people diagnosed with BPD or showing borderline personality features. The current review provides this scoping of studies on all facets of peer relationships, including friendship quality, peer victimization and bullying and peer aggression, and relevant studies of social–cognitive processes with relevance to peer relationships. From 282 studies identified up to August 2019, 39 studies were included for review. ...

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• 2020
• October 2020

Vigilant Attention (VA), defined as the ability to maintain attention to cognitively unchallenging activities over a prolonged period of time, is critical to support higher cognitive functions and many behaviours in our everyday life. Evidence has shown that VA rapidly improves throughout childhood and adolescence until young adulthood and tends to decline in older adulthood. ...

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• 2020
• August 2020

For hospital-based clinicians wishing to establish AYA services, how should they proceed and what might such services look like? ...

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• 2013
• December 2013

Methodological issues and implications for interventions to support young Aboriginal people's adaptation are discussed. ...

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• 2013
• October 2013

The objective of this study was to measure alcohol-related harms to the health of young people presenting to emergency... ...

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• 2011
• December 2011

Polyunsaturated fatty acid intake and blood pressure in adolescents, cross-sectional associations, BP and dietary intake of PUFAs, adolescents, aged 13-15 years ...

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• 2011
• February 2011

Improving the wellbeing of Australian children and youth: the importance of bridging the know-do gap ...

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• 2010
• January 2010

The Multidimensional Adolescent Functioning Scale (MAFS) is a 23-item, self-report questionnaire assessing psychosocial functioning in adolescents aged 12-17 years. It captures three domains of functioning: 'general functioning', 'family-related functioning', and 'peer-related functioning'. The original English version has good psychometric properties. The aim of the current paper was to translate the MAFS to Dutch and to investigate the psychometric properties of this translation. ...

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• 2020
• September 2020