Research areas
Intellectual Disability
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Rare Diseases
Movement Disorders
Family & Community
Measurement & Resources
Rett syndrome and related disorders
Measuring quality of life
Team
Reports and Findings
Who suffered most? Parental stress and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
This study examines gender and socioeconomic inequalities in parental psychological wellbeing (parenting stress and psychological distress) during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Background: The dramatic shift of childcare and schooling responsibility from formal institutions to private households during the pandemic has put families under enormous stress and raised concerns about caregivers’ health and wellbeing.
Published research Infectious Diseases Child Disability Gender Diversity COVID-19 Mental health Child carePsychometric Properties of the EQ-5D-Y-5L for Children With Intellectual Disability
The EQ-5D-Y-5L is a generic preference-based measure of health-related quality of life for children. This study aimed to describe the distributional properties, test-retest reliability, and convergent validity of the EQ-5D-Y-5L in children with intellectual disability (ID).
Published research Child Disability Early Neurodevelopment and Mental Health Child disabilityInvestigating the impact of developmental coordination difficulties across home, school, and community settings: Findings from the Australian Impact for DCD survey
To evaluate the participation difficulties experienced by children with developmental coordination disorder in home, school, and community environments.
Published research Child Disability Autism Research Subsite: CliniKids Developmental Coordination Disorder Kids Rehab Research WAOvulation induction and subfertile untreated conception groups offer improved options for interpreting risks associated with ART
To identify and characterise appropriate comparison groups for population studies of health outcomes in ART-conceived births: ovulation induction (OI), subfertile untreated and fertile natural conceptions. Our secondary objective was to examine whether known risks of pregnancy complications and adverse birth outcomes in ART births are elevated in comparison with subfertile (untreated and OI) conception groups.
Published research Child Disability Assisted Reproductive Technologies