Cohort study
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Prenatal alcohol exposure and child sleep problems: A family-based quasi-experimental study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “We examine whether associations between prenatal exposure to hazardous maternal alcohol consumption during the first trimester of pregnancy and sleep problems in young children represent a causal association”. Ingunn Olea Lund and Eivind Ystrom (pic)
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Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children’s emotional problems at 2 years
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Rates of help-seeking among fathers is low, possibly due to conceptualising their own difficulties as stress rather than problems with mood”. Fiona L. Challacombe (pic) et al.
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Long-term impact of a mental health literacy resource applied by regular classroom teachers in a Canadian school cohort
Paper from the CAMH journal – “Application of evidence-based mental health literacy (MHL) curriculum resources by classroom teachers has been demonstrated to significantly improve knowledge and decrease stigma in the short term.” Yifeng Wei et al.
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Transdiagnostic profiles of behaviour and communication relate to academic and socioemotional functioning and neural white matter organisation
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Behavioural and language difficulties co-occur in multiple neurodevelopmental conditions. Our understanding of these problems has arguably been slowed by an overreliance on study designs that compare diagnostic groups and fail to capture the overlap across different neurodevelopmental disorders and the heterogeneity within them”. Silvana Mareva (pic) et al.
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Developmental co-occurrence of psychopathology dimensions in childhood
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Here, we aim to determine whether and to what extent directional relationships between psychopathology dimensions within-person, and between individuals within families, play a role in comorbidity”. Andrea G. Allegrini (pic) et al
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Increased diagnosis of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder despite stable hyperactive/inattentive behaviours: evidence from two birth cohorts of Australian children
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “We directly compared ADHD diagnoses with ADHD-related behaviours and looked for changes across time among Australian children in a large, population-based prospective cohort study”. Luise Kazda (pic) et al.
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Preschool development, temperament and genetic liability as early markers of childhood ADHD: A cohort study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “The present study sets out to identify early markers and developmental characteristics during the first 30 months of life that are associated with ADHD 6 years later”. Esther Tobarra-Sanchez (pic) et al.,
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Tonic and phasic irritability in 6-year-old children: differential correlates and outcomes
Paper from the JCPP – “Irritability is a common and clinically important problem in children and adolescents and a risk factor for later psychopathology and impairment”. Jamilah Silver et al. (Authors include Gabrielle A. Carlson (pic))
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Bidirectional associations between sleep problems and behavioural difficulties and health-related quality of life in adolescents: Evidence from the SCAMP longitudinal cohort study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Sleep problems show associations with negative outcomes in both physical and mental health in adolescents, but the associations may be reciprocal”. Chen Shen (pic) et al.
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Prospective association between evening circadian preference and academic functioning in adolescents: the role of daytime sleepiness
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “There is growing evidence for the role of circadian factors in adolescents’ sleep and academic adjustment, with greater evening preference being linked to poorer academic functioning. However, studies have yet to evaluate this association prospectively in adolescence, nor have studies examined daytime sleepiness as a putative mechanism linking evening preference to poor academic functioning”. Joseph W. Fredrick (pic) et al.
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