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Developing a smartphone application to support social connectedness and wellbeing in young people with cystic fibrosisThis study developed and tested a highly usable, and moderately acceptable, smartphone app to improve the psychosocial health of young people living with CF
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Heavy maternal alcohol consumption and cerebral palsy in the offspringThe aim of this study was to investigate the association between heavy maternal alcohol consumption and pre- peri- and postneonatally acquired cerebral palsy.
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Game Changers projectThe Game Changers project was about using the Kimberley passion and enthusiasm for sport to engage Kimberley kids who were in a disrupted environment, with negative impacts on behaviour and attendance at school, leaving them vulnerable and at-risk in the community.
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Maternal work hours in early to middle childhood link to later adolescent diet qualityPrevious studies on maternal work hours and child diet quality have reported conflicting findings possibly due to differences in study design, lack of a...
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Low-moderate prenatal alcohol exposure and risk to child behavioural development: a prospective cohort studyTo examine the association of fetal alcohol exposure during pregnancy with child and adolescent behavioural development.
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The Kids researchers finalists in Premier’s Science AwardsTwo highly respected The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers have been named as finalists in the 2018 Premier’s Science Awards.
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Maternal life stress events in pregnancy link to children's school achievement at age 10 yearsMaternal antenatal exposure to life stress events has differing effects on the school performance of male and female offspring.
An innovative The Kids program is helping to slash waiting times so children can have their ear problems checked within days.
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Mothers' and Fathers' Work Hours, Child Gender, and Behavior in Middle ChildhoodThis study examined the association between typical parental work hours (including nonemployed parents) and children's behavior in two-parent heterosexual...
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HipHop2SToP a community-led health promotion initiative empowering Aboriginal youth in the Kimberley region of Western Australia: a process evaluationFor millennia, Aboriginal people's ways of knowing, doing and being were shared through art, song, and dance. Colonisation silenced these ways, affecting loss of self-determination for Aboriginal people. Over the past decade in Australia, hip-hop projects have become culturally appropriate approaches for health promotion.