Scoliosis is the most common orthopaedic complication of Rett syndrome. Parents of affected individuals are vital partners in the clinical management... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• Reports and Findings
• 2009
• June 2009

Sleep problems are thought to occur commonly in Rett syndrome, but there has been little research on prevalence or natural history. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2007
• November 2007

This study compared the behavior profile of cases in the Australian Rett Syndrome Database (ARSD) with those in a British study using the Rett Syndrome... ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2006
• March 2006

School bullying is a public health concern affecting the physical and mental health of children and young people. While school-based interventions to prevent bullying have been developed internationally, the effectiveness of many interventions has been mixed and modest. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2022
• October 2022

Insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) are one of the most widespread and impactful malaria interventions in Africa, yet a spatially-resolved time series of ITN coverage has never been published. Using data from multiple sources, we generate high-resolution maps of ITN access, use, and nets-per-capita annually from 2000 to 2020 across the 40 highest-burden African countries. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2021
• June 2021

Glenn Jonathan Michael Pat Tim Tobias Pearson Carapetis AM Serralha Holt Barnett Kollmann G JR MS PG TB TK BA (Education) PhD Candidate AM MBBS FRACP FAFPHM PhD FAHMS PhD, DSc, FRCPath, FRCPI, FAA PhD PhD, M.D., SFUW Director of First Nations ...

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Receiving vaccines at or close to their due date (vaccination timeliness) is a now key measure of program performance. However, studies comprehensively examining predictors of delayed infant vaccination are lacking. We aimed to identify predictors of short and longer-term delays in diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP) vaccination by dose number and ethnicity. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• August 2020

The PLAYCE Study instruments provide reliable measures of early childhood education and care physical activity environments ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2020
• April 2020

Increased risk of autism spectrum disorder with intellectual disability and cerebral palsy with intellectual disability for mothers of some foreign-born groups ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2019
• January 2019

AusVaxSafety surveillance demonstrated comparable and expected safety outcomes for the 2017 quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine brands used in Australia ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2018
• October 2018

We investigated the literature from 2002 to 2016 describing the risk of ASD, intellectual disability and ADHD in children of refugee and immigrant backgrounds. ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2018
• March 2018

This study investigated the capacity of three accelerometer-type devices to measure walking activity in Rett syndrome ...

• Telethon Kids Institute
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• 2014
• December 2014