It is well established that children’s school readiness is associated with their later academic achievement, but less is known about whether school readiness is also associated with other measures of school success, such as students’ social and emotional wellbeing. While some previous research has shown a link between early social and emotional development and student wellbeing, results are mixed and the strength of these relationships vary depending on whether data is based on child, teachers or parents ratings and which specific student wellbeing outcomes are measured. ...

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• 2020
• August 2020

While the majority of young people who meet the criteria for being considered at increased risk of psychosis do not go on to develop a psychotic disorder, young people are currently being identified and treated in early intervention services. ...

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• 2021
• September 2021

Adolescents are heavily exposed to unhealthy outdoor food advertisements near schools, however, the marketing power of these advertisements among adolescents has not yet been explored. This study aimed to investigate the teen-directed marketing features present and quantify the overall marketing power of outdoor food advertisements located near schools to explore any differences by content (ie, alcohol, discretionary, core and miscellaneous foods) school type (ie, primary, secondary, K-12) and area-level socio-economic status (SES; ie, low vs high). ...

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• 2023
• April 2023

Our analysis shows that early and late intervention to support household income have equal importance with regards to significance of impact. ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

Experimental studies show a substantial contribution of early life environment to obesity risk through epigenetic processes. ...

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• 2017
• May 2017

This snapshot highlights that early education services are related to better levels of early child development, but coverage and access is not sufficient ...

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• 2016
• November 2016

The present study examined the psychometric properties of the domains of the 48-item EDI and the invariance of the measurement models of the domains of the... ...

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• 2014
• May 2014

This paper describes a teacher-completed measurement of child development status applied in seven communities in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, and in three... ...

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• 2014
• July 2014

The aim of this study is to examine whether anaemia of pregnancy is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes and with children's developmental vulnerability. ...

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• 2014
• September 2014

There is an increasing support from international organizations and the research community for stepping beyond infant or child mortality as the most common... ...

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• 2011
• April 2011

Alanna Sincovich AS BPsych(Hons), PhD Senior Research Officer 08 6375 6108 Alanna.sincovich@telethonkids.org.au Senior Research Officer @AlannaSincovich Alanna is a Senior Research Officer at the Telethon Kids Institute. Her research takes a ...

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This paper reports on a five-year project to measure student wellbeing across an education system using the Middle Years Development Instrument ...

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• 2019
• June 2019