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Exploring the mental health of circus artists: Circus factors, psychological resilience, and demographics predict disordered eating and exercise addictionsThere are similarities in the performance demands of circus and other performance domains such as leanness sports and dance, yet little is known about the mental health of circus artists. We explored self-reported disordered eating and exercise addictions in a sample of 500 circus artists.
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Trainee therapist personality and the rating of cognitive behavioural and dynamic interpersonal therapy processesTherapist factors are generally thought to be important predictors of the capacity to understand and respond to clinical material. The current study aims to identify which features of personality and clinical symptomatology predict a trainee therapist's rating of cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic interpersonal processes in video recordings of these therapies.
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A review of Australian Government funding of parenting intervention researchParenting is central to children's optimal development and accounts for a substantial proportion of the variance in child outcomes, including up to 40% of child mental health. Parenting is also one of the most modifiable, proximal, and direct factors for preventing and treating a range of children's problems and enhancing wellbeing.
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Prevention of bacterial complications of scabies using mass drug administration: A population-based, before-after trial in Fiji, 2018–2020Scabies is an important predisposing factor of impetigo which can lead to serious bacterial complications. Ivermectin-based mass drug administration can substantially reduce scabies and impetigo prevalence in endemic settings, but the impact on serious bacterial complications is not known.
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Prevalence and risk factors of adverse birth outcomes in the Pacific Island region: A scoping reviewPrevalence and exposures of adverse birth outcomes is well studied in low-and-middle-income countries but not well-established for the Pacific Island region. Our study mapped the available evidence on low birth weight (LBW), preterm birth, and small for gestational age (SGA)'s prevalence and their corresponding risks in the region.
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Translating aboriginal genomics — four letters closing the gapEstablishing a genomic reference for Australian Aboriginal populations
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There is variability in the attainment of developmental milestones in the CDKL5 disorderIndividuals with the CDKL5 disorder have been described as having severely impaired development.
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Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in young adults from New CaledoniaThe prevalence of echocardiographically diagnosed RHD in adults in New Caledonia is estimated at 5.9 per 1000
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Cohort profile of the HealthNuts study: Population prevalence and environmental/genetic predictors of food allergyHealthNuts is a single-centre, multi-wave, population-based longitudinal study designed to assess prevalence, determinants, natural history and allergy...
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TagDust2: A generic method to extract reads from sequencing data.Arguably the most basic step in the analysis of next generation sequencing data (NGS) involves the extraction of mappable reads from the raw reads...