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Healthcare SAVVI: Exploring health literacy and parents' experiences in supporting the health of children with intellectual disability

Research on the health literacy of parents with children with intellectual disability is limited. Understanding parents' healthcare skills and needs is essential for improving children's health and developing effective support. In this study we aimed to (1) explore the health literacy skills of parents that enabled them to support the health needs of their child with intellectual disability and the factors influencing these skills, and (2) identify opportunities to support parent health literacy.

Causal Impact of COVID-19 Lockdowns on the Mental Health of Australian Children

This project investigates the prevalence, risk factors, and causal impact of COVID-19 lockdowns on mental health disorders, self-harm, and suicide among Australian children.

The provision of alcohol and breastfeeding information by maternal health practitioners in the Australian setting

Despite the existence of a national alcohol guideline for breastfeeding women, maternal health practitioners are not incorporating this advice

Concurrent developmental course of sleep problems and emotional/behavioral problems in childhood and adolescence as reflected by the dysregulation profile

Findings provide evidence for a strong association in the development of sleep problems and difficulties of dysregulation with emotion, cognition, and aggression

Improving self-regulation and executive functioning skills in primary school children in a remote Australian Aboriginal community: A pilot study of the Alert Program®

This community partnered pilot research, evaluated a school-based program to reduce the behavioral impact of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder

Serotonin and aggressive behaviour in children and adolescents: a systematic review

Findings were mixed, with support both for negative and for positive associations of central nervous 5-HT function with aggression in children and adolescents

Friendly Schools Universal Bullying Prevention Intervention: Effectiveness with Secondary School Students

This study demonstrates the importance of considering the effectiveness of secondary school bullying prevention interventions and real-world implementation support

Tasmania’s child and family centres building parenting capability: a mixed methods study

This mixed methods study investigated the impact of Tasmania’s Child and Family Centres on parents’ confidence and competence

Designs on Narrative: A Design-Based Method to Elicit Young People’s Narratives About Electronic Image-Sharing Issues and Interventions

The narrative structure innate to the Design Thinking process offered a picture of electronic image-sharing problems and related solutions from young people’s perspectives

Impact of the Friendly Schools whole-school intervention on transition to secondary school and adolescent bullying behaviour

These findings demonstrate the immediate value of whole-school interventions to reduce bullying behaviour and associated harms among students