The prevalence of domestic abuse is greater in times of humanitarian crisis, and the COVID-19 pandemic has been no different. Considerable evidence indicates that domestic abuse disproportionately impacts the mental health and wellbeing of racially Minor
Lacey Chetcuti & Mirko Uljarević Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA Paul R. Benson Telethon Kids Institute, WA, Nedlands, Australia Lacey Chetcuti Contributions K.H. and M.U. contributed to the study conception and design. Data were collected by C.C.G., J....
The mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced children and young people (i.e. foster care, kinship care, residential care) is poorer than non-care-experienced populations. The Care-experienced cHildren and young people’s Interventions to improve Mental health and wEll-being outcomes Systemati...
Mental health problems often involve clusters of symptoms that include subjective (conscious) experiences as well as behavioral and/or physiological responses. Because the bodily responses are readily measured objectively, these have come to be emphasized when developing treatments and assessing their effect...
Family and medical history and health risk-related characteristics were sought using the formats employed by the Australian Longitudinal Study of Women’s Health (ALSWH; see http://www.alswh.org.au/) and the Health in Men Study (HIMS, see http://www.wacha.org.au/hims.html), including ...
Child mental health diagnoses include five categories: (i) externalising symptoms (anti-social behaviour), (ii) internalising symptoms (stress, anxiety, depression), (iii) developmental delay (e.g. learning disability), (iv) other (e.g. eating disorder, personality disorders), and (v) any ...
An objective diagnosis of sedentary behaviour as well as of the physical activity and fitness levels in youth and to better understand how lifestyle is associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors and other phenotypes is of clinical and public health interest, and might be informative for deve...
Sick Kids Foundation2020). Other studies indicate that social interaction is key to the mental and physical development of young children, suggesting that inadequate social interaction experiences could lead to mental health-related problems such as anxiety and depression (Lacey et al.2014; Makinodan ...
In Perth, Western Australia (WA), a large Participatory Action Research project, led and guided by Aboriginal Elders, has been undertaken to improve the way mainstream mental health and drug and alcohol services are accessed by, and are responding to, Aboriginal people. The Looking Forward Moving...