Playful Possibilities is a Mackay based service poroviding child and youth specialist mental health therapist. Providing a range of creative and expressive therapies to improve mental health and wellbeing.
Mackay BA, Shochet IM, Orr JA. A pilot randomised controlled trial of a school-based resilience intervention to prevent depressive symptoms for young adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a mixed methods analysis. J Autism Dev Disord. 2017;47(11):3458–78. Article Google Scholar Drmic IE...
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A randomised controlled trial is generally considered the optimal design to study the effectiveness of health interventions. National public health policies such as the implementation of smoke-free legislation are, however, generally not amendable to being implemented in a randomised fashion. In such sit...
Lee, J.-C., Chen, C.-M., Sun, C.-K., Tsai, I.-T., Cheng, Y.-S., Chiu, H.-J., Yu Wang, M., & Tang MacKay Memorial Hospital Kuo-Chuan Hung, Y.-H. (2024). The therapeutic effects of probiotics on core and associated behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorders: a ...
MacKayDepartment of International HealthMoragDepartment of International HealthVincentenDepartment of International HealthJoanneDepartment of International HealthEuropean Journal of Public HealthScholtes, B.; Schroder-Back, P.; Forster, K.; MacKay, M.; Vincenten, J.; Brand, H. Multi-sectoral action ...
King WJ, MacKay M, Sirnick A. Canadian shaken baby study group. Shaken baby syndrome in Canada: clinical characteristics and outcomes of hospital cases. Can Med Assoc J. 2003;168(2):155–9. Google Scholar Bennett S, Ward M, Moreau K, Fortin G, King J, et al. Head injury secondary...
but can also have significant societal costs through increased needs for health and medical services, unemployment and welfare services, social services, and criminal justice services [3,10,11]. With a high prevalence of problematic aggressive behaviors, up to 30% of children in low income and si...
Alexander, D., Rigby, M., Gissler, M., Köhler, L., & MacKay, M. (2015). The challenge of compiling data profiles to stimulate local preventive health action: A European case study from child safety. International Journal of Public Health, 60, 449–456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s000...
(Charmaz,2014; Lambert & Loiselle,2008; Mackay,2012; Prior,2018; Richards,2020). Participants reported positive experiences of participation and follow ups ormember checking(Creswell & Miller,2000) was utilised as a trustworthiness check, where the researcher shared the results with some ...