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Does the Risk Outweigh the Benefits? Adolescent Responses to Completing Health Surveys

Self-reported experiences of adolescents in population-based samples when completing health-related surveys on topics with varying potential for evoking distres

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RT Prepare: a radiation therapist-delivered intervention reduces psychological distress in women with breast cancer referred for radiotherapy

The RT Prepare intervention was effective in reducing breast cancer patients’ psychological distress and preparing patients for treatment

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Self-harm: Prevalence estimates from the second Australian Child and Adolescent Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing

The demonstrated higher risks in young people for continued harm or possible death support the need for ongoing initiatives to reduce self-harm

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Introducing ‘Young Minds Matter’

This article describes the survey, the response rates achieved and the representativeness of the sample for the Young Minds Matter survey

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Patterns of multiple risk exposures for low receptive vocabulary growth 4-8 years in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children

Our results demonstrate a range of multiple risk profiles in a population-representative sample of Australian children and highlight the mix of risk factors faced by children

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Bipolar disorder in children and adolescents: diagnostic inpatient rates from 2000 to 2013 in Germany

The rate of Bipolar Disorder as a discharge diagnosis in German minors has increased significantly, consistently exceeding the general trend for a rise in rates for mental disorders

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Time spent in different types of childcare and children's development at school entry: an Australian longitudinal study

Compared with children who did not attend any type of childcare, children in centre-based care had higher parent-reported and teacher-reported externalising...

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Reactive aggression and peer victimization from pre-kindergarten to first grade: accounting for hyperactivity and teacher-child conflict

Teacher-child conflict in kindergarten predicted subsequent increases in victimization, reactive aggression, and hyperactivity

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Cancer and mental illness: Key issues in mental health

Over many years, it has been shown that cancer represents a significant proportion of excess mortality for people with mental illness.

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Distress and psychological morbidity do not reduce over time in carers of patients with high-grade glioma

his study aimed to determine how carer distress and psychological morbidity change over time following a patient's diagnosis of high-grade glioma