Team
Health Promotion and Education Research projects
Resources
- The Critical Role of Parenting in Early Childhood Development
- Australasian Research Summaries
- Community governance and place-based initiatives
- How Australia can invest in children and return more
- Digital Technology & Young Children
- Policy Papers
- Risk and protective factors
- The impact of poverty
- Executive Function
- Western Australian Child Development Atlas
- Australian Declaration for Young Children
- Lived experience of poverty
- Brain development
- Early Childhood programs
Health Promotion and Education videos
Working together to improve Cyber Safety
Top ten tips for cyber safety
Beacon Cyber Safety App
How to respond if your child is being bullied
Why you shouldn’t let your child cross the road until they’re ten years of age
Reports and Findings
Topical versus systemic antibiotics for chronic suppurative otitis media
Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM), sometimes referred to as chronic otitis media (COM), is a chronic inflammation and often polymicrobial infection (involving more than one micro-organism) of the middle ear and mastoid cavity, characterised by ear discharge (otorrhoea) through a perforated tympanic membrane. The predominant symptoms of CSOM are ear discharge and hearing loss. Antibiotics are the most common treatment for CSOM, which act to kill or inhibit the growth of micro-organisms that may be responsible for the infection.
Published research Health Promotion & Education Ear Infections Ear Health Subsite: Wesfarmers Centre of Vaccines and Infectious DiseasesDietary pattern trajectories across adolescence and early adulthood and their associations with childhood and parental factors
Although adolescent dietary patterns tend to be of poor quality, it is unclear whether dietary patterns established in adolescence persist into adulthood. We examined trajectories across adolescence and early adulthood for 2 major dietary patterns and their associations with childhood and parental factors. Using data from the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine Study), intakes of 38 food groups were estimated at ages 14, 17, 20 and 22 y in 1414 participants using evaluated FFQs.
Published research Health Promotion & Education NutritionClinician-rated quality of video otoscopy recordings and still images for the asynchronous assessment of middle-ear disease
Video otoscopy plays an important role in improving access to ear health services. This study investigated the clinician-rated quality of video otoscopy recordings and still images, and compared their suitability for asynchronous diagnosis of middle-ear disease. Two hundred and eighty video otoscopy image-recording pairs were collected from 150 children (aged six months to 15 years) by an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialist, audiologists, and trained research assistants, and independently rated by an audiologist and ENT surgeon.
Published research Health Promotion & Education Ear Infections Early Childhood Development Ear Health Vaccine Trials GroupBorderline Personality Disorder and Peers: A Scoping Review of Friendship, Victimization and Aggression Studies
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is characterized by instability in interpersonal relationships. To date no reviews have scoped the extant research on peer relationship functioning for young people diagnosed with BPD or showing borderline personality features. The current review provides this scoping of studies on all facets of peer relationships, including friendship quality, peer victimization and bullying and peer aggression, and relevant studies of social–cognitive processes with relevance to peer relationships. From 282 studies identified up to August 2019, 39 studies were included for review.
Published research Health Promotion & Education Child Health, Development & Education Developmental Pathways & Social Policy Bullying Youth Health