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Child care quality and children's cognitive and socio-emotional development: an Australian longitudinal studyThere is growing evidence that high-quality non-parental child care can contribute to children's learning, development and successful transition to school.
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Bullying behaviour following students’ transition to a secondary boarding school contextThis study investigated the prevalence and types of bullying behaviour that boarding students experienced during the transition to a secondary boarding school.
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If it’s about me, why do it without me? Genuine student engagement in school cyberbullying educationThis study reports on a three-year group randomized controlled trial, the Cyber Friendly Schools Project (CFSP), aimed to reduce cyberbullying among grade 8...
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Protocol for the Care-IS Trial: a randomised controlled trial of a supportive educational intervention for carers of patients with high-grade glioma (HGG).This paper outlines the objectives of a randomised control trial that will be conducted to investigate primary carers of those with high-grade glioma.
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Father mental health during the early parenting period: results of an Australian population based longitudinal studyThe primary objective of this study was to report on the occurrence of mental health difficulties for a large national sample of Australian fathers of children.
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Smoking cessation in pregnancy and the risk of child behavioural problems: a longitudinal prospective cohort studyThe 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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Maternal life events during pregnancy and offspring language ability in middle childhoodThere is accumulating evidence for a link between maternal stress during pregnancy and later behavioural and emotional problems in children.
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Nothing but fear itself: parental fear as a determinant of child physical activity and independent mobilityOver the past decade we have seen declining rates in child engagement in physical activity with escalating health problems ensuing.
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Preschool psychopathology reported by parents in 23 societies: testing the seven-syndrome model of the child behavior checklist for ages 1.5-5.To test the fit of a seven-syndrome model to ratings of preschoolers' problems by parents in very diverse societies.
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The potential impact of smoke-free facilities on smoking cessation in people with mental illnessThe aim of this paper was to estimate the degree to which smoke-free facilities may facilitate smoking cessation in smokers with mental illness by estimating...