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Social Competence and Cognitive Strategy Use in Early School Years
Published 2018-07-14
Occupational performance at school requires that children engage in everyday social activities which involve learning and interacting with others. Social competence refers to how well children are able to evaluate social ...
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Understanding and treating anxiety disorders in children with asthma
Published 2017-10-13
The aim of this thesis was to provide research to understand and treat anxiety in children with asthma. Specifically, the aims were to: (1) investigate the parent and cognitive factors associated with anxiety in children ...
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Strategies to provide co-designed and community-led oral health promotion for Aboriginal children in rural and remote communities in New South Wales, Australia.
Published 2020-01-01
Background: Australian public policy prioritises the development of evidence-based and culturally appropriate oral health promotion to improve the oral health of Aboriginal people, including children. Aim: This thesis ...
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Emotional Sensibility and Early Childhood Education: Building Quality Relationships
Published 2019-01-01
In close alignment with the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) for Australia, the underlying premise of this thesis is that the early years, from birth to five years, are educationally, profoundly important. It follows, ...
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Women and drugs: health, hepatitis C, children and healthcare
Published 2019-01-01
Introduction: Women with substance use disorder (SUD), who are also mothers with hepatitis C (HCV), often have traumatic and difficult lives and experience a disproportionate burden of disease and disadvantage as a consequence ...
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Assessment of central arterial hemodynamics, arterial stiffness, and vascular structure in children and adolescents
Published 2020
Background Central arterial hemodynamics, arterial stiffness and arterial structure are predictive of cardiovascular events and outcomes in adulthood. The tools to measure these parameters have largely been developed and ...
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The long-term effects of shoe flexibility on a child’s foot development and gross motor skill performance
Published 2022
A barefoot childhood results in improved foot morphology, as well as superior gross motor skills, compared to a shod childhood. Acute effects of conventional shoes are detrimental to children’s foot and ankle biomechanics. ...
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Child's Pose: Children's Yoga and the Complexities of Normalisation
Published 2017-08-17
This thesis is an ethnographic study of children's yoga practices, focused particularly on the complex intermeshing of the normalising and liberating potential of these practices. It draws on focus groups, interviews and/or ...
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Influenza in Australian Children: burden of disease, advances in diagnosis, management and prevention through vaccination
Published 2017-10-23
Influenza is an almost universal respiratory viral infection which worldwide is reported to be responsible for 3 to 5 million cases of severe illness, and about 250,000 to 500,000 deaths per year. A systematic review I ...
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PROTECTING BROKEN HILL CHILDREN FROM LEAD IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Published 2017-07-21
This thesis uses a translational research approach and combines theoretical, empirical and experiential evidence to explore four key issues that provide further direction to current efforts to reduce lead exposure in Broken ...
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