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Using data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, this study aimed to examine the longitudinal relationships between maternal protectiveness and...
There are strong socioeconomic and psychosocial gradients in both current smoking and smoking cessation.
This study assessed the potential bias present in a sample of actively consented students, and in the estimates of associations between variables obtained...
These data suggest that the link between maternal hypertensive diseases of pregnancy and child behavioral development begins in the first year of life.
Australia, Canada, and New Zealand are all developed nations that are home to Indigenous populations which have historically faced poorer outcomes than their...
Maternal antenatal exposure to life stress events has differing effects on the school performance of male and female offspring.
Students who expect and experience a positive transition to secondary school are generally well-supported by their peers, school, and family.
Exposure to elevated maternal pre-pregnancy BMI is associated with increased levels of internalizing and externalizing problems throughout childhood and...
There is an ongoing need for improvement in assessment tools and methods that investigate food sources of saturated fat and mortality to inform dietary...
This study examined the association between typical parental work hours (including nonemployed parents) and children's behavior in two-parent heterosexual...
Variation in receptive vocabulary ability is associated with variation in children's school achievement, and low receptive vocabulary ability is a risk...
Australian energy drink users tend to have heavier alcohol consumption patterns be a cigarette smoker and use illicit drugs relative to non-users.
Public health weight-loss interventions seem to be based on an outdated understanding of the science.
The field of the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) focuses on prenatal influences as a crucial point in development.
With more than one in four Australian children overweight or obese, and the significant risks this poses for health problems like asthma, depression,...
Evaluation of a group parenting programme in the Northern Territory of Australia showed significant differences in benefits for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal...
High consumption of refined carbohydrate, in particular sugar, has been identified as a possible contributory factor in greater risk of excess weight gain.
The current study investigated the extent to which low levels of joint attention in infancy and parent-child book reading across early childhood increase the...
Recent research suggests that fetal exposure to increased maternal body mass index (BMI) during pregnancy may be associated with psychopathology later in life.