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Exploring the mental health of circus artists: Circus factors, psychological resilience, and demographics predict disordered eating and exercise addictions

There are similarities in the performance demands of circus and other performance domains such as leanness sports and dance, yet little is known about the mental health of circus artists. We explored self-reported disordered eating and exercise addictions in a sample of 500 circus artists.

Anaemia of Pregnancy, Perinatal Outcomes and Children's Developmental Vulnerability: a Whole-of-Population Study

The aim of this study is to examine whether anaemia of pregnancy is associated with adverse perinatal outcomes and with children's developmental vulnerability.

New South Wales child development study (NSW-CDS): An Australian multiagency, multigenerational, longitudinal record linkage study

Identify risk and protective factors for later childhood-onset and adolescent-onset mental health problems, and other adverse social outcomes

Childhood Education and Development Services in Indonesia

Although children's later experiences can still have an effect, developments in early childhood have long-lasting effects on health, behaviour and learning...

Validity and Psychometric Properties of the Early Development Instrument in Canada, Australia, United States, and Jamaica

There is an increasing support from international organizations and the research community for stepping beyond infant or child mortality as the most common...

The AEDI: From Research to Policy

Here we summarise some recent research using the AEDI data and show how the Fraser Mustard Centre is using such research to help inform policy-makers.

Investigation of the Cross-National Equivalence of a Measurement of Early Child Development

This research paper reports on the results of investigating measurement invariance of the Early Development Instrument (EDI) in two South-Asian countries.

The development and pilot of the university student embeddedness (USE) scale for student retention within universities: validation with an Australian student sample

A significant number of university students are leaving their institutions before completing their degrees. The present research project applied embeddedness theory, from organizational research, to understand student retention in a tertiary student population, and develop a quantitative instrument that measured university student embeddedness.

Prevalence of electronic device use before bed among Australian children and adolescents: a cross-sectional population level study

To understand the prevalence of children and adolescents’ electronic device use (EDU) in the hour before bed and identify sociodemographic groups that are at increased risk of problematic use.

Jurisdictional, socioeconomic and gender inequalities in child health and development:

Early child development may have important consequences for inequalities in health and well-being. This paper explores population level patterns of child...