Healthy diet may reduce high blood pressure risk after gestational diabetes
Sticking to a healthy diet in the years after pregnancy may reduce the risk of high blood pressure among women who had pregnancy-related (gestational) diabetes, according to a study by researchers at the National...
Harm from spanking confirmed by analysis of five decades of research
The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behaviour, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of...
Nurturing during preschool years boosts child’s brain growth
New research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis indicates children with supportive mothers during preschool experience a more significant increase in the volume of the hippocampus during the period from school...
Factors affecting father-to-infant attachment
Researchers from the Jean Hailes Research Unit (JHRU) at SPHPM have had their study on father-to-infant attachment at six months postpartum published in the Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology.
Research Fellow Dr Karen Wynter...
Keeping participants in community sport
Victoria’s grassroots sport clubs are not addressing high churn rates among members in key demographic groups, a Victoria University researcher has found.
Associate Professor Rochelle Eime studied data from the state’s most popular organised sports...
Managing drug risks at youth music festivals
Education and harm minimisation strategies such as pill testing should be considered as a means of reducing the most risky behaviour of illicit drug use at large music and youth festivals, a Flinders University...
60 per cent of bottle shops sell alcohol to teens without checking ID
Australia’s bottle shops are selling alcohol to teenagers without checking their age, a Deakin University study has found.
Researchers with Deakin’s Centre for Social and Early Emotional Development (SEED) monitored 350 bottle shops throughout the...
Raising men’s awareness of effects on children exposed to domestic violence
Far greater investment in training programs designed specifically to raise awareness of the harms experienced by children exposed to family violence is needed, according to new research.
A research team from the University of Tasmania's...
Childhood and the touchscreen revolution
Concerns that tablet computers may harm children’s development appear to be unfounded, early research by Swinburne scientists suggests.
Children began to play with tablet computers as soon as they came out in 2010, immediately generating...
Quality education for the youngest Australians
Early childhood is one of the most important but also most at-risk areas in Australian education, according to a new report by the Mitchell Institute at Victoria University.
The report, Quality Early Education for All finds that better access...
