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Monitoring the physical and mental health of Australian children and young people: a foundation for responsive and accountable actions

Pete Azzopardi PhD, FRACP, MEpi, MBBS, GDipBiostats, BMedSci Head, Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Head, Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Professor

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Awareness and impact of the ‘Bubblewrap’ advertising campaign among Aboriginal smokers in Western Australia

Antismoking mass media campaigns have been shown to reduce smoking prevalence in the mainstream community.

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We won't find what we don't look for: Identifying barriers and enablers of chronic wet cough in Aboriginal children

Key barriers to effective management of chronic wet cough are limited training in chronic wet cough management combined with competing complexities

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Parental Experiences of Supporting the Mental Health of Their LGBTQA+ Child

Young people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or questioning, asexual and other diverse genders and sexualities (LGBTQA+) are at greater risk of adverse mental health outcomes and suicide, with additional barriers to accessing safe and affirming physical and mental health services in comparison to the general population.

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Perth’s Aboriginal babies show first signs of ear disease at just eight weeks

The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have found close to 40 per cent of Aboriginal babies begin to develop middle ear infections between two and four months of age in a first of its kind study in metropolitan Perth.

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Mindful Self-Compassion for LGBTQ youth: a multi-site randomized controlled trial

Amy Penelope Yael Zoe Finlay-Jones Strauss Perry Waters BPsych(Hons), MPsych(Clinical), MHealthEcon, PhD (Clin Psych) BA, MPH, PhD BPsych (Hons)

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Senior researcher joins Embrace childhood trauma research group

Research Fellow Karen Lombardi recently joined Embrace @ The Kids Research Institute Australia

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A data infrastructure for improving Aboriginal life pathways: the influence of health, education, child protection and justice systems over time and across generations

Incarceration represents a source of ongoing socioeconomic and health inequity between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal populations, limiting life changes and opportunities.

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Relationships between Psychosocial Resilience and Physical Health Status of Western Australian Urban Aboriginal Youth

The aim of this study was to investigate the extent to which factors previously documented as buffering the impact of high-risk family environments on...

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Cumulative incidence of child protection system contacts among a cohort of Western Australian Aboriginal children born 2000 to 2013

Reducing the over-representation of Aboriginal children in the child protection system is a key target for the Australian government. We aimed to provide more recent evidence on the population-level cumulative incidence of contacts for Aboriginal children with child protective services in Western Australia.