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To determine whether the prevalence of mental health problems among adolescents on court ordered remand in South Australia has changed since 1989

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To test the fit of a seven-syndrome model to ratings of preschoolers' problems by parents in very diverse societies.

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There is accumulating evidence for a link between maternal stress during pregnancy and later behavioural and emotional problems in children.

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The aim of this study was to examine the influence of smoking in pregnancy on child and adolescent behavioural development, in comparison with mothers who cease

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Over the past decade we have seen declining rates in child engagement in physical activity with escalating health problems ensuing.

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To examine whether maternal gestational hypertension and preeclampsia are associated with behavioral problems in offspring

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This study explores the differential impact of weather on time allocation to physical activity and sleep by children and their parents. We use nationally representative data with time use indicators objectively measured on multiple occasions for more than 1,100 child-parent pairs, coupled with daily meteorological data.

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Increased allostatic load is linked with racial discrimination exposure, providing a mechanism for the biological embedding of racism as a psychosocial stressor. We undertook an examination of how racial discrimination interacts with socioecological, environmental, and health conditions to affect multisystem dysregulation in a First Nations population.

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Benefits in teaching the Alert Program® to students in a region with high reported rates of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder and self-regulation impairment

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The effects of maternal alcohol-use disorder are experienced by the majority of exposed children rather than a vulnerable subgroup of this population