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More than 1 in 5 children experience neglect, exposing them to several adverse consequences. Children with intellectual disability experience additional neglect related challenges. Public perceptions significantly influence the identification, intervention, and prevention of child neglect.
As families increase their use of mobile touch screen devices (smartphones and tablet computers), there is potential for this use to influence parent-child interactions required to form a secure attachment during infancy, and thus future child developmental outcomes. Thirty families of infants (aged 9-15 months) were interviewed to explore how parents and infants use these devices, and how device use influenced parents' thoughts, feelings and behaviours towards their infant and other family interactions.
To investigate the burden of excess mortality among people with mental illness in developed countries, how it is distributed, and whether it has changed over...
To examine the association of fetal alcohol exposure during pregnancy with child and adolescent behavioural development.
To compare the nature & prevalence of mental health problems, prevalence of suicidal ideation & behaviour, & health-related quality of life of 13-17-year-olds..
The aim of this study was to describe current and daily smoking rates, and smoking cessation rates in adults with anxiety disorders
To determine whether there was an independent effect of breastfeeding on child and adolescent mental health
Using data on 2868 children born in the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study, we examined the association between changes in family...
Child behaviour following low to moderate maternal drinking in pregnancy
Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand consistently place near the top of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Index...