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Early developmental risk for subsequent childhood mental disorders in an Australian population cohortWe examined associations between developmental vulnerability profiles determined at the age of 5 years and subsequent childhood mental illness between ages 6 and 13 years in an Australian population cohort.
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Gender gaps in cognitive and social-emotional skills in early primary grades: Evidence from rural IndonesiaThis paper examines the magnitude and source of gender gaps in cognitive and social-emotional skills in early primary grades in rural Indonesia. Relative to boys, girls score more than 0.17 SD higher in tests of language and mathematics (cognitive skills) and between 0.18 and 0.27 SD higher in measures of social competence and emotional maturity (social-emotional skills).
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Local Housing Characteristics Associated with Early Childhood Development Outcomes in Australian Disadvantaged CommunitiesAccess to safe, secure, and stable housing is a well-known social determinant of health
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Clustering of Wellbeing, Engagement and Academic Outcomes in Australian Primary SchoolsThe mental health and wellbeing of young people has important consequences for students and society. Schools are a logical environment for management and early intervention of wellbeing, mental health and engagement with school. Interventions aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing in education systems requires knowledge of how wellbeing is clustered at a school level. Cluster-randomised trials, and regression analyses of such data also require knowledge of clustering.
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Efficacy of infant simulator programmes to prevent teenage pregnancy: a school-based cluster randomised controlled trial in Western AustraliaThe infant simulator-based Virtual Infant Parenting programme did not achieve its aim of reducing teenage pregnancy
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Gender Gaps in Cognitive and Non Cognitive Skills in Early Primary Grades: Evidence from Rural IndonesiaThis paper examines gender gaps in cognitive and non-cognitive skills among a sample of more than 10,000 children between the ages of 6 and 9 in rural Indonesia
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International research utilizing the Early Development Instrument (EDI) as a measure of early child development: Introduction to the Special IssueThis opening paper presents the background to this Special Issue devoted to new international research using Early Development Instrument
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Late talkers and later language outcomes: Predicting the different language trajectoriesThe aim of the current study was to investigate the risk factors present at 2 years for children who showed language difficulties that persisted
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Validation of the Early Development Instrument in IndonesiaThis study finds that the Early Development Instrument shows moderate validity and reliability in poor communities in Indonesia
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Parenting practices at 24 to 47 months and IQ at age 8: Effect-measure modification by infant temperamentWe examined whether the associations between parental warmth, control and intelligence quotient (IQ) may be heightened among children in difficult temperament