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Bright Tomorrows Start Today (Parent App)The Bright Tomorrows app developed at The Kids Research Institute Australia aims to assist parents of children aged 0-5 years to support their child to develop the building blocks of several essential life skills.
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Combatting the Normalisation of Sports Gambling and Aggressive Marketing Tactics that Compromise the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Australian YouthSports gambling has become increasingly normalised among young people, with the proliferation of sponsorship deals and a 300% rise in the number of gambling advertisements in the past 7 years.
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Effectiveness of childcare centre interventions to increase young children’s physical activityThe aim of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of childcare centre based interventions to increase young children’s physical activity.
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Causal Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on the Mental Health of Australian ChildrenThis project investigates the prevalence, risk factors, and causal impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on mental health disorders, self-harm, and suicide among Australian children.
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Cancer-related mortality in people with mental illnessThere is a 30% higher case fatality rate from cancer in psychiatric patients even though their incidence of cancer is no greater than in the general population.
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Umbilical Cord Blood Testosterone and Childhood Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior: A Prospective StudyAntenatal testosterone exposure influences fetal neurodevelopment and gender-role behavior in postnatal life and may contribute to differences in...
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Reducing all-cause mortality among patients with psychiatric disorders: a population-based studyWe investigated whether compulsory community treatment, could reduce all-cause mortality among patients with psychiatric disorders.
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Intellectual disability and other neuropsychiatric outcomes in high-risk children of mothers with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and unipolar major depressionWe examined risk of intellectual disability and other neuropsychiatric outcomes in children of mothers with and without schizophrenia, bipolar or depression.
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Premature to conclude no genetic basis to the association between smoking and major depressive disorderWe analyzed two large-scale surveys, and found high rates of smoking in people with mood disorders and both with and without substance dependence disorders.
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Maternal life stress events in pregnancy link to children's school achievement at age 10 yearsTo test the hypothesis that maternal antenatal exposure to life stress events is associated with lower achievement in literacy and numeracy at age 10 years,...