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Induced sputum to detect lung pathogens in young children with cystic fibrosis

Induced sputum to detect lung pathogens in young children with cystic fibrosis Summary. Introduction: Induced sputum sampling holds promise as a

The public health control of scabies: priorities for research and action

Scabies causes considerable morbidity and leads to severe bacterial infection and immune-mediated disease

Perceptions of Stepfathers’ Obligations to Financially Support Stepchildren

This study highlights the heterogeneity and complexity of attitudes around this issue and associated social policies

Bullying behaviour following students’ transition to a secondary boarding school context

This study investigated the prevalence and types of bullying behaviour that boarding students experienced during the transition to a secondary boarding school.

Truth-telling, truth-listening and opportunities for ensuring school cultural safety for Aboriginal students and Aboriginal educators in three primary schools in Western Australia

The Moombaki Research team developed a pilot Cultural Integrity Audit (CIA) that was co-designed with Aboriginal elders and educators as a tool for school leaders to measure the extent of culturally safe and responsive education at three test sites in Perth (Boorloo), Western Australia. This article analyses the political and social contexts and experiences of implementing the CIA as a tool – including the commitment, attitudes and values of school leaders.

Trajectories of interparental conflict and children's emotional-behavioural functioning at 10-11 years: an Australian population-based study

Interparental conflict (IPC) has the potential to adversely affect children's social, emotional, and behavioural functioning. The overall objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between both the severity and chronicity of IPC across early and middle childhood and children's emotional-behavioural functioning at 10-11 years. Specifically, we aimed to: (1) identify distinct trajectories of IPC spanning 10-11 years since birth of the study child as reported by mothers, and (2) examine the emotional-behavioural functioning of children exposed to the identified IPC trajectories.

Corynebacterium and Dolosigranulum: Future probiotic candidates for upper respiratory tract infections

We recently identified C. pseudodiphtheriticum and D. pigrum as the major nasopharyngeal species associated with resistance to recurrent ear infections

Silver Russel syndrome in an aboriginal patient from Australia

We report a 4-year-old Australian Aboriginal girl who was born at 32 weeks gestation with features strongly suggestive of Silver-Russell syndrome

“Arguments online, but in school we always act normal”: The embeddedness of early adolescent negative peer interactions within the whole of their offline and online peer interactions

Our aim was to study was to investigate how negative peer interactions on/offline are associated with each and with other daily interactions among adolescents.

Cyberbullying and the role of the law in Australian schools: Views of senior officials

Opinions of employees from the education and legal systems, regarding their perceptions of the role of the law and cyberbullying in Australian schools