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This study examines the associations between life events & changes in leisure-time physical activity after leaving high school in young people from rural...

Vigilant Attention (VA), defined as the ability to maintain attention to cognitively unchallenging activities over a prolonged period of time, is critical to support higher cognitive functions and many behaviours in our everyday life. Evidence has shown that VA rapidly improves throughout childhood and adolescence until young adulthood and tends to decline in older adulthood.

The purpose of this study is to examine the association between poverty and child mental disorders

The Parents, Young People and Alcohol campaign achieved high awareness and positively influenced parental outcomes

Liquor store availability in early adolescence may be a risk factor for alcohol intake in early and middle, but not late, adolescence

Self-reported experiences of adolescents in population-based samples when completing health-related surveys on topics with varying potential for evoking distres

We review the available empirical evidence on the cognitive, physical, and surgical implications of puberty suppression in gender-incongruent children and adolescents

Further research is required to identify the optimal age, content and length of mindfulness programs for adolescents in universal prevention settings.

Senior Research Officer from The Kids Research Institute Australia’s Human Development and Community Wellbeing team, Robyn Johnston, says now is actually a good time to start talking to them about alcohol - before they transition to the teenage years.

The Kids Research Institute Australia researchers who worked with young people to develop an app designed to help teenagers stay safe in the sun have been named joint winners of a new award for ‘Best Practice in Children’s Consultation’.